Use plastic with responsibility: Parrikar
Panaji, June 25 : Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday asked the people to be responsible with the use of plastic.
"Now that the new market has been inaugurated, I want to underline that it is our responsibility to keep it clean. We should stop throwing plastic bags everywhere," Parrikar said in a video, a day after a new fish market was opened in south Goa's Margao area.
The Chief Minister, who has returned from a three-month stint in the US where he was undergoing advanced treatment for pancreatic cancer, has been using videos to communicate with the people of the state.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
