The reference under way on Tuesday evening.
KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi on Tuesday evening held in its Josh Malihabadi Library an event to pay tribute to the renowned Indian literary critic, playwright and poet Prof Shamim Hanfi who passed away on May 6 this year.
Indian poet Ranjit Singh Chohan, who joined proceedings online, was the first speaker. He said Hanfi sahib’s death was his personal loss. He was the life of literary events. Chohan regretted the fact that in the second wave of the pandemic when the late scholar couldn’t make it to the Jashn-i-Adab [in India] he didn’t like it and stopped taking his calls for some time. Afterwards he himself and Hanfi sahib contracted coronavirus. The latter reached a stage where he needed the support of a ventilator.
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NOIDA: A 62-year-old man who was held hostage inside a car and robbed on Sunday morning has alleged he was also communally targeted by the assailants, who pulled his beard, took off his pyjamas and jabbed a screwdriver on his nose.
Kazim Ahmed, who had come to Noida from Delhi and was waiting for a bus to Aligarh around 8am, had boarded the car near Sector 37 bus stand after the driver offered to drop him but was allegedly overpowered by three men in the car as he soon as he got in.
Ahmed, who has a shop in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar, said they took away Rs 1,200 and some kitchen items he was carrying. He remembers the car was a white one. “I could not see the number. They gestured to me and asked me to sit. I asked how much I had to pay and they said I could give whatever the rate was. I said It’s Rs 170 and that is what I will give. When I sat inside the car, there were two of them in the front seat and two at the back. I immediately realised my mistake. I
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14th May, 2021 08:44 IST
Delhi Police Bust Int l Drug Racket, Seizes Over 50 Kgs Of Heroin Worth Rs 250 Cr; 5 Arrested
Delhi Police bust Int l drug racket, seizes over 50 kgs of heroin worth Rs 250 cr; 5 arrested
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) An international drug racket was bused by the Delhi Police with the arrest of five men and seizure of 54.2 kilograms of heroin worth around Rs 250 crores, officials said on Thursday.
The five arrested members have been identified as Altaf alias Mehrajuddin Darji, Abid Hussain Sultan, Hashmat Mohammadi, Tifal Nau Khez and Abdullah Najibullah, they said.
The Delhi Police s Special Cell also claimed to have unearthed a drug factory in Delhi s Batla House area, officials said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) P S Kushwah said, Our team received information about a Kashmir-based man named Altaf, who is part of the narco-module and used to frequently visit Delhi-NCR under the cover of carpet trade.
The seized drugs
NEW DELHI: Following leads emerging from the investigation of the blast outside the Israel embassy in January this year, Delhi Police’s Special Cell stumbled upon a huge Taliban-led drug cartel pumping in grade-A heroin into India. Contraband weighing 54kg and worth over Rs 275 crore in the international market has been recovered and five men have been arrested.
With the US forces on their way out of Afghanistan, apparently several new poppy-heroin processing modules have become operational. Gunny sacks and garments soaked in heroin are being sent to Delhi-NCR and seasoned chemical experts arrive on medical visas to execute the complex heroin reconstitution operations at scattered locations in the region.