India

Drug peddlers from Pakistan have increased their attempts to smuggle drugs taking advantage of the flooding around the Indo-Pak border.

A section of growers, mainly in Shimla and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, have long been pressing political parties to legalise and promote cannabis and poppy cultivation to supplement their income.

Cigarette butts are mostly made up of cellulose acetate - a type of plastic. It has filters that make smoking safer.

For the second time in a week, lawmakers then rejected Boris Johnson's request to try to break the deadlock through an early national election.

The 43-year-old does not want to return to Pakistan as, according to him, minorities are treated badly in the neighbouring country and 'Hindus and Sikhs are killed on a daily basis'.

The investigative agency moved the court weeks after the 87-year-old leader quit the governorship, a constitutional post which offered him immunity from the trial for conspiracy in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

The chief minister has also informed the legislative assembly that the districts along the India-Bangladesh border are the worst-affected ones.

The two persons, who were working in the building, got trapped under the debris after a portion of slab collapsed. They were then rushed to the hospital after being pulled out with the help of the fire brigade.

Officials said that the carcasses of the dogs were found strewn at various spots on Girda-Savaldabara Road in a forest area in the east Maharashtra district on Thursday evening.

Honorary Wildlife Warden Kaushik Barua observed that modern elephant management techniques need to be introduced to build an infallible bond between a mahout and his elephant.

Officials said that Ashok Kumar Sharma complained of breathing problem soon after SpiceJet flight SG-623, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, took off from Chennai and a medical emergency was declared.

In a memorandum to Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda in August, BJP MP from Ladakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, had said the region is a predominantly tribal area with tribals making up to 98 per cent of its population.

Dehli Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal conducted a surprise inspection at the spa centre in Madhu Vihar where they found that a sex racket was being operated in the garb of providing massages.

The victim told police that Dharmendra had raped her earlier in Lucknow where he had taken her along with him on the pretext of doing some paperwork relating to acquisition of Indian citizenship, police said.

The accused, Atish Dhage, allegedly barged into the house of the woman in Dutta Nagar locality and stabbed her, said a police official.

Ajay Dhingra, 43, is facing up to 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine if convicted and is set to appear in court on September 12. The bump stocks are the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts.