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Intruder suspicious vessel, which was found to be registered in Panama, had 8 crew members, no cargo In one of the  Biggest Drugs Haul , an Indian Coast Guard (ICG) ship seized 1,500 kgs of heroin valued at about Rs 3,500 crore from a merchant vessel off the Gujarat coast, a defence spokesperson said today. Merchant vessel 'Henry' was intercepted and detained off the Gulf of Khambat along the Gujarat coast by ICG ship 'Samudra Pavak,' the coast guard said in a release today. Latest Current Affairs  : The vessel was intercepted at around 12:00 hrs yesterday. "During the initial inspection by the Coast Guard, approximately 1,500 kg of narcotics worth Rs 3,500 crore have been found onboard (ship 'Henry'). This is the biggest catch of narcotics in the present times," it said. The intruder suspicious vessel, which was found to be registered in Panama, had eight crew members onboard and no cargo. It said it was headed to Bhavnagar for break

Laer, Modi will flag off 'Kalam Sandesh Vahini', an exhibition bus that would run across states Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate  APJ Abdul Kalam 's memorial in Rameshwaram in Tamil Nadu and attend several other programmes on Thursday, the second death anniversary of the former president. Today Current Affairs  : The prime minister will hoist the national flag at the memorial designed and built by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in Pei Karumbu, the PMO had said in a statement here yesterday. He will unveil a statue of Kalam and offer floral tributes besides interacting with his family members. Later, the PM would flag off 'Kalam Sandesh Vahini', an exhibition bus which would travel across various states of the country and reach Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 15, the birth anniversary of the former President, the statement said. Modi will then proceed to Mandapam for a public meeting. He will distribute sanc

Ram Nath Kovind has a distinct advantage over his rival Meira Kumar Politics News  : Counting of the votes cast to decide who will be India's new President will begin on Thursday from 11 am. The result will decide the fate of the two contenders — the ruling NDA's candidate  Ram Nath Kovind , who has a clear edge, and the combined Opposition nominee  Meira Kumar . The candidate who secures at least one vote more than 50 per cent of the total votes will become India's 14th President and enter the  Rashtrapati Bhavan . The final result of the  presidential election 2017  is expected to be out by 5 pm today. Officials said that all preparations have been made for the vote count and that all ballot boxes had already reached Parliament House by Tuesday evening amid tight security. Also Read :   Presidential election 2017 India: Kovind or Meira Kumar, who will be the next Rashtrapati? They said the counting would begin at 11 am simultaneously across four tables

He said women can also show face in cases involving law related things such as aadhaar or pan card Following Indian cricketer  Irfan Pathan Wife  post on social media, where he is seen with his wife, the all-rounder has received massive backlash especially from religious leaders, who claim what he did was against Islamic law. Calling it 'un-Islamic', Maulana Sajid Rashidi said that Irfan Pathan's background is very religious as his father was a muezzin, and so posting his wife's picture on social media is a shameful act. Latest Current Affairs  : "A woman can show her face only to her husband and in cases involving law related things such as aadhaar or pan card, only then can she show her face," he added. He also said that it is due to his religious background that people started "reminding" him about his religion, and that this was not a troll. Calling the act shameful, Sajid Rashidi said, "His wife isn't an actor that she

The BSP supremo was speaking about the Saharanpur anti-Dalit violence in the Upper House Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader  Mayawati News  on Tuesday said she will resign from the Rajya Sabha after being asked to wrap up her impromptu speech on the Saharanpur anti-Dalit violence in the Upper House of the Parliament. "I will resign right away. I will come back and give my resignation," she said and walked out of the House. Politics News  : The Congress walked out of the Rajya Sabha after Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had got a mandate to rule, as BSP supremo Mayawati vociferously spoke against atrocities on Dalits and minorities in Uttar Pradesh and demanded a discussion on the issue. Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad took objection to Naqvi's remarks, saying the BJP had got a mandate to protect the poor, farmers, minorities, and Dalits. "When Mayawati tried to talk, she was told that we have got the m

President election: The MPs will vote on Green ballots and the MLAs will vote on pink ballots The elected representative of the Parliament and various state assemblies on Monday will vote to elect India's next President. There are two candidates in the fray for the coveted post- National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Ram Nath Kovind and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Meira Kumar. President Pranab Mukherjee's term is expiring on July 25. In the last  presidential elections 2017  in 2012, Pranab Mukherjee had defeated P A Sangma and got over 69 per cent votes. Ram Nath Kovind, former Governor of Bihar, was announced as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA's candidate for the post of President of India by BJP president Amit Shah on June 19, 2017. Kovind is a leader and a politician from the BJP. Kovind filed his nomination for the election on June 23, 2017. Also Read :  Presidential elections 2017: Kovind likely to sail through as nu

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi once again urged Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to sack Tejashwi RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister  Tejashwi Yadav  on Wednesday said the allegations of corruption against him were lies and a conspiracy by the BJP, led by Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after attending his first Cabinet meeting since the CBI raids against him. Latest Current Affairs  : Tejashwi, the younger son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, argued that the allegations being levelled against him were related to events which occurred in 2004, when he was a 14-year-old minor. Tejashwi has made it clear that he will not resign despite alliance partner and Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, calling upon him to come clean. Tejashwi has been named as an accused in a CBI case in connection with benami property. ALSO READ:  Congress reaches out to Nitish Kumar as questions linger over Bihar grand alliance Instead, Yadav said he would go to the people to explain how a

12 others, including policeman injured; attack follows J&K police bust of LeT module Terrorists on Monday killed seven  Amarnath Terror Attack  pilgrims, including six women, and injured 19 others as they struck at a bus in Kashmir's Anantnag district, in the worst attack on the annual pilgrimage since the year 2001. The bus bearing the registration number GJ09Z 9976 was attacked around 08.20 pm near Khanabal when it was on its way to from Srinagar Jammu, police said. Current Affairs  : Five of those killed were from Gujarat and two from Maharashtra. The deceased from Gujarat were identified as Hasuben Ratila Patal, Surakha Ben and Lakshimiben S Patal from Valsad, Ratan Zeena Bhai Patal of Daman and Prajapati Champaben of Navsari, a Jammu and Kashmir police spokesperson said. Those from Maharashtra were Nirmala Ben Thakor, a resident of Palghar, and Usha Mohanla Sonkar of Danu. Police said 19 pilgrims were injured in the attack and their condition is stable.

Wani was killed in an encounter with Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on July 8, 2016 The Birmingham City Council has been forced to withdraw permission granted to the organisers of a rally titled " Burhan Wani   Day" to mark the first death anniversary of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant/terrorist Burhan Wani here after India lodged a strong protest over the same. Current Affairs   : Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter with Indian security forces in the Tral region of Jammu and Kashmir on July 8, 2016. The United Kingdom has a long memory of terror attacks. For more than 30 years from the early 1970s, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a paramilitary group, carried out multiple attacks across the UK. The deadliest were the Birmingham pub bombings of 1974, when 21 were killed. In 1996, the IRA detonated a massive 1500-kilogram (3300-pound) bomb in a Manchester shopping center that injured more than 200 and was not far from this year's terror a