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Bantwal, Sept 9: A team of Dakshina Kannada District Crime Investigation Bureau (DCIB) seized nearly 40 kg marijuana from a house at Madda in Bantwal taluk and arrested a man. The value of the seized ganja is Rs 19,97,400. According to DK superintendent of police B M Laxmi Prasad, the arrested is Ahmed Sabit (39). His associate Mohammed Ansar fled the spot during the raid. The seized cannabis was

New Delhi, Sept 9: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deserves to get Bharat Ratna award, along with P V Narasimha Rao, veteran Congress leader M Veerappa Moily advocated on Wednesday. The Telangana Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer the country's highest civilian honour on Rao posthumously on the occasion of his ongoing birth centenary celebrations. Speaking to

Hyderabad, Sept 9: Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd on Wednesday announced the launch of Remdesivir, meant for the treatment of Covid-19 patients, under a brand name 'Redyx' in India. According to a press release from the drug maker, the launch is part of the licensing agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead) that grants Dr Reddys the right to register, manufacture and sell Remdesivir, a potential

Brasilia, Sept 9: Brazil's acting Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Tuesday that a Covid-19 vaccine would be rolled out for all Brazilians in January 2021. "We are closing contracts with vaccine manufacturers and the forecast is that a vaccine will arrive for us starting in January next year and we will start vaccinating everyone," Eduardo Pazuello said in a video posted to social media

Colombo, Sept 9: A murder convict, elected from Sri Lanka’s southern Ratnapura district, was escorted from prison to Parliament on Tuesday as he took the oath as MP amid opposition protests. Premalal Jayasekara - from the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP) - was convicted in July of murdering an opposition activist after opening fire at an election rally in 2015. But the 45-year-old's

Cairo, Sept 8: Lawyers for the family of Egypt's ex-president Mohamed Morsi said they obtained information showing his youngest son was killed by "a lethal substance" and not a heart attack as authorities earlier claimed. Abdullah Morsi, 25, died a year ago on September 4 in a hospital in Giza, southwest of the Egyptian capital Cairo. A government report at the time said Abdullah was driving his

Dubai, Sept 8: Indian women accounted for the most number of expat female employees in Oman's government sector, according to a report by the Middle Eastern country's National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI). The NCSI's 2020 Statistical Yearbook revealed that Indian females topped the list at 4,604, Gulf News reported. The data also said that Indian women comprised 37 per cent of the

Chamarajnagar, Sept 8: Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar on Tuesday said that the government has its suspicions that students of high-profile schools in the state are falling prey to a drug network which lures them through icecreams laced with drugs. "We have doubts that a drug network is operating outside high-profile schools to lure children by offering them ice

Mumbai, Sept 8: Actress Kangana Ranaut, who has managed to secure Y-Plus category from Modi govt, is likely to face probe in drug case in Maharashtra. Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday ordered a probe into Adhyayan Suman's alleged statements that Kangana Ranaut used to consume drugs. “In an interview, Adhyayan Suman, the son of Shekhar Suman, who had a relationship with her, had

Bengaluru, Sept 8: The high-profile drugs case involving actress Ragini Dwivedi resulted in heated exchange of words between the ruling BJP leaders and the opposition parties in Karnataka on Monday, with both accusing each other of patronising alleged drug cartels in the state. Reacting sharply to the Opposition parties' charges, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa asserted that his government will