RIO DE JANEIRO — The latest scheme works like this: Brazilian paramilitary groups buy boxes of cigarettes in neighboring Paraguay for 14 cents a pack and then smuggle them back home, where prices and taxes are much higher, and sell them for up to $2.15. The cigarettes offer […]
ADEN, Yemen — They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch. Land mines scattered by Yemen’s Houthi rebels are largely unmapped and will remain a threat even if the latest push […]
Mumbai, Dec 24: Four men were charred to death in a fire that gutted a cloth godown in suburban Kandivli here Sunday, a civic official said Monday. The city also witnessed two more incidents of fire in suburban Khar and Mahim Sunday in which two persons were critically injured. […]
New Delhi, Dec 24: The Goods and Services Tax has had a “negative” effect on tourism in Jammu and Kashmir, a parliamentary panel has noted, adding the Centre should reconsider the indirect tax regime on tourism-related activities in the northern state. The Committee on Development of Tourism in Jammu […]
Jaipur, Dec 24: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Monday blamed the NDA-led Centre for the “urea crisis” in the state, alleging that urea racks meant for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were diverted to Haryana. He said an “artificial crisis” was created in the states where the Congress government was […]
New Delhi, Dec 24: Power is like oxygen for “some people” with restlessness setting in if they are out of it for even “two or five years”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday while taking a jibe at the opposition but without naming anybody or any party. Releasing […]
WASHINGTON — The sooner-than-expected departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis shifts the focus to President Donald Trump’s appointment of an acting Pentagon chief and plans for a permanent replacement. It also signals an acrimonious end to a tense relationship between Trump and Mattis that had eroded in recent […]
PRETORIA — 2018 has been called the “year for cannabis” in South Africa. But there are still hurdles before a legal marijuana industry can flourish in an African economic power deemed ideal for large-scale cultivation. Advocates rejoiced at a Constitutional Court decision in September that upheld the legalization […]
open view web desk DODA : On the occasion of Kisan Divas Director Agriculture Jammu, Hari Krishan Razdan accompanied by Deputy Director Agriculture (Central) Jammu Jagmohan Bhat interacted with farmers at Bhalra village of Pranoo Sub-division in Doda District. Director Agriculture stressed for doubling the farm income through […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force’s most powerful GPS satellite ever built. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday, hoisting the satellite into orbit. The satellite was supposed to soar Tuesday but rocket concerns and then weather delayed […]
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