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Drone-Assisted Drug Trafficking: Drone-assisted cross-border drug smuggling surges since 2021, Punjab worst hit: Government | India News | ACTPnews
Cross-border drug trafficking has risen exponentially since 2021, with Punjab being the most affected state (representative image) NEW DELHI: The home ministry on Wednesday said drone-assisted, cross-border drug trafficking has risen exponentially since 2021, with Punjab being the most affected state, accounting for 298 of the 305 countrywide drone-related drug trafficking incidents last year.Replying to…
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CWG 2026: Swimming full schedule, date and time in IST, medal sessions, Indians in action | ACTPnews
India will be looking to record its first medal in swimming at the Commonwealth Games since 2010 when the latest edition of the Games begins on July 23. Para-swimmer Prasanta Karmakar won the bronze medal in 2010 in the 50 metre freestyle category, which is India’s previous and only medal so far in swimming. A…
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Bengal constitutes 7th Pay Commission, Atanu Chakraborty named chair | India News | ACTPnews
The West Bengal government on Wednesday constituted a four-member Seventh Pay Commission of the state, headed by former Union economic affairs secretary Atanu Chakraborty, a day after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari announced his intention to implement the panel’s recommendations within the current fiscal. Acting on its pre-poll promise, the BJP Cabinet had approved…
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Iran’s judiciary warns against ‘infiltrators’, announces new executions | US-Israel war on Iran News | ACTPnews
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s judiciary has announced several executions this week linked to unrest over recent months, as part of a campaign against those accused of trying to “create divisions” during the war with the United States. The judiciary’s official news outlet on Wednesday announced the execution of Mehdi Khanaki, who was identified as an…
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EAM Jaishankar, Rubio discuss India-US trade deal, tariffs in Manila | India News | ACTPnews
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Manila to discuss the proposed India-US trade deal, tariffs and other key bilateral issues. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Quad foreign ministers’ meetings, came hours after US…
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New county report warns of looming ‘realities’ as financial gulfs widen | ACTPnews
The gulf between the “haves” and “have-nots” in county cricket is wider than ever before, and is set to grow further still in the wake of last year’s Hundred equity sale, according a new report into the domestic game’s finances. The Leonard Curtis Cricket Finance Report 2026, which was published at Edgbaston on Wednesday, found…
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Modi says citizen welfare should be at heart of governance reforms | India News | ACTPnews
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the objective of reforms is not merely to improve the functioning of the government but to accelerate India’s journey towards becoming a developed nation, emphasising that citizen welfare should be at the heart of all such measures. Chairing a high-level meeting of secretaries to review…
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Elon and the Other Gaza | Donald Trump | ACTPnews
How the world’s richest man helped trigger an HIV crisis in one of the world’s poorest countries. When Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was made head of Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency, he took a knife to foreign aid spending. He claimed billions were being lost to corruption within USAID and wasted…
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Pandian asked to appear in Odisha CMO missing files investigation | India News | ACTPnews
The Commissionerate Police on Wednesday issued a summons to V K Pandian, former bureaucrat and close confidant of Naveen Patnaik, former chief minister and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president, in connection with the disappearance of two sensitive inquiry reports from the Odisha Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) in 2024. The police asked him…
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Zim vs Ind – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi stays confident amid ‘several ups and downs’ | ACTPnews
India batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has acknowledged that he has endured “several ups and downs” in the past four months but his confidence remains intact heading into the T20I series against Zimbabwe, beginning in Harare on Thursday. Riding on his IPL heroics, the 15-year-old made it to India’s T20I tours of Ireland and England. Although he…
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