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Custom officers in Hong Kong have seized synthetic drugs valued at $22.5 million in the international market.

According to officials, this was one of the largest drug rackets ever cracked in the country.

As per reports, the officials have detained 5 suspects aged between 25 and 60.

All of them will be charged with manufacturing hazardous drug or trafficking in a dangerous drug and will appear at Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts on Saturday.

The steel scion- Vedanta group has launched its 300 crore Industrial township project in Orissa Industrial over a spread of 80 acres, scalable to 150 acres.

Designed to accommodate Vedanta's management and its workforce, the township consists of bungalows, 2500+ apartments, studio apartments, hostel accommodation and various facilities including shopping, a health club, school and health care centre.

Mumbai, July 17 : She is one of the youngest producers in Bollywood, an industry that has few active women producers. Sure enough, 23-year-old Rhea Kapoor says she found the job of making "Aisha" challenging and learnt that one has to swallow one's ego to run a project smoothly in the film industry.

"The most difficult part is that you have to take responsibility for everything. If anything goes wrong, it's your fault. You have to swallow your ego a lot of times to balance things and get the work done," Rhea told IANS.

According to researchers, infants those who take birth outside normal working hours are more prone to risk of dying owing to the absence of senior clinic staff in the wards.

They examined one million births over 20 years and discovered that those born outside the normal nine to five Monday to Friday working hours were 70% more likely to expire and the main reason behind the casualty was lack of oxygen that can be because of the absence of senior clinical staff to spot the trouble and react speedily.

Indian currency on Friday declined by 16 paise to end the week at 46.77 versus the US currency, as compared to its last previous closure at 46.61 on account of continued demand from bankers.

Traders at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (FOREX) made this announcement.

The Indian unit lost nine paise during the opening trade following a mixed trend in Asian currencies.

However, benefits in domestic equity stocks prevented its sharp decline, they added.

Union Minister for Corporate Affairs Salman Kurshid stated that it is important for the common man to be acquainted with the plus points of making investments in the capital market through investor education programmes.