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Sameer Wankhede; Aryan Khan NEW DELHI: Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sameer Wankhede, on Saturday declined to comment on the “Ba**ds of Bollywood”* series, offering only a cryptic response.Also Read | Ba***ds of Bollywood row: Ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede files defamation case against Shahrukh Khan production company Red Chillies Entertainment…

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party slammed Mamata Banerjee over a viral video of the ‘Kaaba in my heart’ song being sung at a Durga Pandal, and the West Bengal chief minister clapping to it and said that this is the limit of appeasement politics. A video, shared by BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya,…

Picture source: Spiti Wildlife Division NEW DELHI: UNESCO on Saturday designated India’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, located in the western Himalayas and spread over 7,770 sq km of windswept plateaus, glacial valleys, and high-altitude desert from Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh to Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh, as one of the biosphere…

NEW DELHI: India will have 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves with the UN body on Saturday designating the country’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve for that list. Twenty-six new sites have been added during the fifth World Congress of Biosphere Reserves (WCBR) in Hangzhou, China. This is India’s first high-altitude cold desert biosphere reserve and one of…