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AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Indian officials said on Tuesday they had seized nearly three tonnes of heroin originating from Afghanistan worth an estimated 200 billion rupees ($2.72 billion) amid the chaos following last month's takeover of the country by the Taliban. Afghanistan is the world's biggest illicit opiate supplier https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/profits-poppy-afghanistans-illegal-drug-trade-boon-taliban-2021-08-16, but since taking power, the Islamist Taliban have said they plan to ban the drug trade, without giving details on how. Two people had been arrested in connection with the haul and investigations were ongoing, an official in Gujarat said, declining to be named as he was not authorised to speak publicly. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), India's top anti-smuggling agency, seized two containers at western Gujarat's Mundra Port on Sept. 15 after receiving intelligence they contained narcotics, the official said. The containers had been …

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Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday images of what appeared to be Border Patrol agents on horseback rounding up migrants trying to cross the southern border “horrified” him, but he stopped short of calling the new influx of migrants there a crisis. Mayorkas told CNN that “any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant is unacceptable” and added, “the pictures that I’ve observed troubled me profoundly.” But he wouldn’t explicitly say whether they reflected mistreatment or abuse, deferring instead to a promised investigation. “That defies all of the values that we seek to instill in our people,” Mayorkas said, adding that the department will address the situation "with full force” after the investigation is complete. The Office of Professional Responsibility is leading the investigation, and will have personnel on the ground full-time monitoring the situation in the border town of Del Rio, Texas which has seen an influx of thousands of Haitian …

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11 LA LAGUNA, Spain (AP) — Traffic jams pack the winding narrow roads of La Palma at dusk as curious residents and visitors flock to snap photos as the Spanish island's new volcano furiously ejects material into the air and glowing lava swallows villas, crops and warehouses on its downhill path to the sea. With the constant rumbling of the eruption as the soundtrack, punctuated by the thundering sound of the magma as it breaks into the surface, the scene is almost hypnotic. Yet emergency workers, banana farmers and grape growers in La Palma are less thrilled by one of nature's most astounding events unfolding so close to home. “This is no joke,” said Pedro José Alegría, 70, a farmer who had returned to La Laguna, a neighborhood bordering one of the evacuated areas, to feed his donkey. Speaking from an ash-covered pickup truck, he said he fears for several of the greenhouses he owns on a banana …

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A U.S. intelligence officer suffered symptoms linked to a series of suspected directed-energy attacks known as “ Havana syndrome” while traveling with CIA Director William Burns in India this month. Experts are in the process of verifying the officer's symptoms, which are consistent with the scores of other cases in recent years linked to Havana syndrome, according to James Giordano, a scientist briefed on the case and others. CNN first reported the incident. Defense and intelligence agencies have ramped up investigations of what appears to be a rising number of incidents in which personnel have suffered symptoms consistent with being exposed to directed energy. The symptoms are often referred to as Havana syndrome because of a well-known series of cases affecting personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba beginning in 2016. The U.S. has not publicly linked the incidents to an adversary. There are at least 200 cases under investigation, half of them involving …

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India's plan to tighten rules on its fast-growing e-commerce market has run into internal government dissent, memos reviewed by Reuters show, with the Ministry of Finance describing some proposals as "excessive" and "without economic rationale". The memos offer a rare glimpse of high-stakes policy-making governing a market already featuring global retail heavyweights from Amazon to Walmart, plus domestic players like Reliance Industries and Tata Group. The sector is forecast by Grant Thornton to be worth $188 billion by 2025. It's not clear how the objections from the finance ministry- a dozen in total - will ultimately be reflected in the proposed rule changes, first floated in June. But watchers of the influential government arm say its complaints won't fall on deaf ears in the upper echelons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration. "The ministry of finance raising such concerns would likely spur a rethink of the policy," said Suhaan Mukerji, managing partner at …

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Women Admission in NDA: حلف نامہ میں کہا گیا ہے کہ خواتین کو این ڈی اے کے ذریعہ فوج میں داخلہ دینے میں آنے والی دقتوں اور خواتین امیدوار کی بلا رخنہ تربیت کے لئے وسیع پیمانہ پر تیاریاں کی جارہی ہیں۔ UNI Last Updated: Sep 21, 2021 06:41 PM IST اگلے سال مئی سے شروع ہوجائے گا خواتین کا این ڈی اے میں داخلہ ، سرکار نے سپریم کورٹ کو بتایا ۔ علامتی تصویر ۔ Shutterstock نئی دہلی : نیشنل ڈیفنس اکیڈمی (این ڈی اے) کے ذریعہ فوج کی تینوں ونگس میں خواتین کے داخلہ پر غور کیا جائے گا اور اس کے لئے مئی 2022تک ضروری نظام تیار کرلیا جائے گا۔ وزارت دفاع نے سپریم کورٹ میں حلف نامہ دائر کرکے اپنا منصوبہ شیئر کیا ہے۔ وزارت دفاع کی طرف سے کپیٹن شانتنو شرما کے ذریعہ جج سنجے کشن کول کی صدارت والی بنچ کے سامنے دائر حلف نامہ میں کہا گیا ہے کہ حالانکہ این ڈی اے میں داخلہ کے لئے سال میں دو بار امتحان منعقد کیا جاتا ہے لیکن خواتین کے لئے ضروری نظام مئی 2022 تک تیار کیا جاسکے گا۔ حلف نامہ میں کہا گیا ہے کہ خواتین کو این ڈی اے کے ذریعہ فوج میں داخلہ دینے میں آنے والی دقتوں اور خواتین …

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محبوبہ مفتی نے کہا کہ دہلی میں بیٹھے ہوئے لوگوں نے جموں و کشمیر کو لیب بنا دیا ہے اور وہ یہاں پر مسلسل تجربے کررہے ہیں ۔ نہرو ، واجپئی جیسے لیڈروں کے پاس جموں و کشمیر کے لئے وزن تھا ، لیکن یہ سرکار صرف لوگوں کو ہندو اور مسلم میں تقسیم کررہی ہے ۔ سردار اب خالصتانی ہوگئے ہیں ، ہم لوگ پاکستانی ہیں اور صرف بی جے پی ہی ہندوستانی ہے ۔ News18 Urdu Last Updated: Sep 21, 2021 08:23 PM IST محبوبہ مفتی مرکز پر نشانہ ، سردار خالصتانی، ہم پاکستانی ، صرف بی جے پی والے ہندوستانی! ۔ فائل فوٹو ۔ نئی دہلی : جموں و کشمیر کی سابق وزیر اعلی اور پی ڈی پی لیڈر محبوبہ مفتی ایک مرتبہ پھر مرکزی حکومت پر جم کر برسی ہیں ۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ دہلی میں بیٹھے ہوئے لوگوں نے جموں و کشمیر کو لیب بنا دیا ہے اور وہ یہاں پر مسلسل تجربے کررہے ہیں ۔ نہرو ، واجپئی جیسے لیڈروں کے پاس جموں و کشمیر کے لئے وزن تھا ، لیکن یہ سرکار صرف لوگوں کو ہندو اور مسلم میں تقسیم کررہی ہے ۔ سردار اب خالصتانی ہوگئے ہیں ، ہم لوگ پاکستانی ہیں اور صرف بی جے پی ہی ہندوستانی ہے ۔ انہوں نے کہا کہ حد بندی کا عمل جلد بازی …

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Good evening. The Tuesday, September 21, 2021 edition of Today in Slovakia is ready with the main news of the day in less than five minutes. We wish you a pleasant read. Journalists no longer face charges Monika Tódová (Source: Archive of Sme) The Denník N daily's journalists Monika Tódová and Konštantín Čikovský no longer stand accused for revealing confidential information . Following the order of General Prosecutor Maroš Žilinka for the Bratislava regional prosecutor's office to examine the charges, the prosecutor decided to drop the charges, calling them "unlawful and unfounded, as well as arbitrary," ordering an authorised police officer to act and decide again. Earlier today, the editors-in-chief of the biggest Slovak dailies and radio stations condemned this attack against journalists. "We consider these charges another attempt to threaten journalists who have been revealing the missteps of those in …

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Thirty-eight people have been arrested after climate protesters from the Insulate Britain group attempted to block the M25 for a fifth time. Surrey Police said people had made in onto the clockwise and anticlockwise carriageways between junction 9 and 10 of the M25. Pictures show lorries and cars backed up as the protesters blocked their path. The protest was reported at around 8am, with officers arriving within three minutes. Both carriageways were blocked, but by 8.17am all the protesters had been removed and the roads were reopened. Advertisement Surrey Police said: "The protesters made their way onto both the anti-clockwise and clockwise carriageways of the motorway but by 8.15am, all protesters had cleared from the anti-clockwise carriageway and it had been fully reopened. "Within another two minutes (8.17am), the protesters had been removed from the clockwise carriageway, which was also subsequently reopened". More on Surrey UK …

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The Biden administration took aim Tuesday at the financial marketplace for criminal ransomware gangs, announcing sanctions against a Russia-based virtual currency brokerage that officials say has processed illicit transactions for attackers. The Treasury Department sanctions are aimed at disrupting the economic infrastructure of a ransomware threat that has surged over the last year and targeted vital corporations and critical infrastructure, including a major fuel pipeline. Ransomware payments reached more than $400 million in 2020, the costliest year on record. The goal of the action is to go after the “financial enablers” of ransomware gangs, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters in previewing the announcement. “Today’s action is a signal of our intention to expose and disrupt the illicit infrastructure using these attacks,” Adeyemo said. Through its Office of Foreign Assets Control, the Treasury Department has previously sanctioned ransomware …

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