Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday said it was the need of the hour to enhance the forest cover in the state. Chairing a meeting to review the forestation drive in the state here at his office, Mann said the state government has set a target of planting around 3 crore saplings for which a massive drive will be started …
A massive missile and drone attack destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others, officials said Thursday, part of a renewed Russian campaign targeting energy infrastructure. Speaking in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin cast the attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities as a response to Ukrainian strikes that targeted Russian oil refineries. At least 10 other strikes overnight damaged …
The police raided and dismantled a massive cocaine washing plant in the Drenthe village of Nijeveen last week. "This is the largest cocaine laboratory ever found in the Netherlands," Andre van Rijn of the police's dismantling facility LFO said. In such a cocaine washing plant, cocaine is extracted from carrier material, such as clothing, and converted into cocaine base. At …