It was a narrow escape for Sanjoy Dutta, a Range Officer of Baikunthapur forest in Jalpaiguri, after a python he rescued from a village almost strangled him to death while he was posing for selfies with locals.
Police claim that previously, the men had sent two consignments (6kg and 14 kg) of opium to Canada.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday appointed Punjab MLA Gurkirat Singh Kotli as AICC Secretary for Himachal Pradesh, a party release said.
More than a year after an Amritsar court directed the Centre and the state government to award a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each to 40 Sikhs confined in a Jodhpur jail, the Union of India has countered the allegations of poor facilities in prison
Navjot Singh Sidhu called the site a living example of Punjab's rich heritage which had remained neglected during the previous Akali Dal-BJP regime.
If everything Midas touched turned to gold, in the case of the 60-something Desmond Nazareth, everything he touches, including, agave, sugarcane and now mahua, seems to transform into distilled alcohol.