NEW DELHI: Captagon, widely known as the ‘jihadi drug’ for its rampant use by extremist networks active in the conflict zones across the Middle East/West Asia, enables its users to remain awake for extended periods, suppress fear and exhaustion, increase aggression and risk-taking behaviour, thus sustaining prolonged combat-like activity under stressful conditions.According to sources in…
Members of the Surat Yarn Dyeing Manufacturing Association Surat: Members of the Surat Yarn Dyeing Manufacturing Association (SYDMA) have unanimously decided to increase prices of various dyed yarn products, citing a sharp rise in production and input costs.The association said the overall cost of production has increased by nearly Rs 11 per kg due to…
How do you measure a trillion dollars? Start with the zeroes. A trillion is written as $1,000,000,000,000 — a one followed by 12 zeroes. Yet even that barely captures its scale. As SpaceX’s market debut pushes Elon Musk towards what could become the world’s first trillion-dollar personal fortune, the number is so large that it…
Siddaramaiah is greeted by DK Shivakumar during a breakfast meeting in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Barely an hour after handing in his resignation as chief minister at Lok Bhavan Thursday, Siddaramaiah insisted that his political career is far from over, a signal that could impact political equations and weigh heavily on his successor.Invoking his socialist roots and…
Royal Challengers Bengaluru players (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) NEW DELHI: Just two years back, it felt as if the dream would never come true when Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) crashed out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eliminator against Rajasthan Royals (RR). Their fans left the stadium in tears. Many left the stadium in…
Jaipur: A 71-year-old retired colonel was held hostage and robbed of Rs 2.20 lakh by a masked intruder at his residence in Bagru area Sunday afternoon, police said.According to police, the incident took place around 1.30pm when the victim was alone at home watching television.Officials said the suspect entered the house through the gate, wearing…
Each zodiac sign has its own set of traits that define personalities and set them apart. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know what the universe has planned for you at the start of the day? Read on to discover what today holds for your love life. ARIES Aries, today you may crave attention, affection, and…
Around 100 enumerators were sent warning notices after they skipped a training session on Sunday. Ghaziabad: The district administration is engaging staff from around 50 private schools into the Census 2027 exercise, citing inadequate manpower to carry out the large-scale house listing operation.At present, around 9,445 staff have been designated to conduct the enumeration in…
The Jeffrey Epstein saga has once again reached the highest levels of American politics, with former President George W. Bush becoming linked to questions surrounding the pedophile’s controversial treatment by the justice system.A new report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, published in the Miami Herald, suggests that senior officials within Bush’s Department of…
The development took place following the Panjab and Haryana high court’s directions on public interest litigation Panchkula: The path is finally clear for residents of Morni, Haryana’s only hill region, to get rightful ownership of their land after decades of dispute.The forest department has constituted a joint team of forest, revenue and administrative officials to…
