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The Narcotics Control Bureau ( NCB) is an law enforcement and intelligence agency. Its jurisdiction is under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The agency is tasked with fighting drug trafficking and the use of illegal substances under the provisions of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. It was established in 1986. It is responsible for coordination with the Indian state governments and other central departments, implementation of India's international obligations with regard to drug trafficking, and helping international and foreign drug law enforcement agencies. Organisation. The Narcotics Control Bureau's national headquarters is located in Delhi, the national capital. Its field units and offices are located in Mumbai, Indore, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Jodhpur, Chandigarh, Jammu, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Guwahati and Patna. The Director General of NCB is mostly an officer from the Indian Police Service (IPS) or the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). Apart from the direct feeder grade, officers in this organisation are also drawn from Indian Revenue Service, Indian Police Service and other Paramilitary forces. NCB is affiliated to Home Ministry. It was made responsible for administering The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The NCB is outside the ambit of the Right to information Act under Section 24(1) of the RTI act 2005. Functions. The main purpose of the Narcotics Control Bureau is to fight drug trafficking on an all-India level. It works in close cooperation with the Customs and Central Excise/GST, State Police Department, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) and other Indian intelligence and law enforcement agencies both at the national and states level. The NCB also provides resources and training to people who work for India's Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in fighting drug trafficking. The NCB also watches India's borders to find places where smuggling activities take place with foreign traffickers.
The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a central civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British rule. The IPS is one of the All India Services along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Forest Service (IFS) Its officers are employed by both the Union Government and the individual states. The service commands and provides leadership to State police forces and Union territories' police forces. They are also employed in Central Armed Police Forces (BSF, SSB, CRPF, CISF, and ITBP), the National Security Guards (NSG), National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&amp;AW), Special Protection Group (SPG), National Investigative Agency (NIA) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The Press Information Bureau, commonly abbreviated as PIB, is a nodal agency of the Government of India. Its parent agency is under Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Their headquaters is in National Media Centre, New Delhi. Press Information Bureau distribute information to print, electronic and web media on government plans, policies, programme initiatives and achievements. The head of PIB is also the Official Spokesperson of the Government of India and holds the rank of Principal Director General (or Special Secretary). History. The Press Information Bureau was established in June 1919, Simla, as a small cell of the Home Ministry under the British government. Its main task was to prepare a report on India to be placed before the British Parliament.  The first head of the publicity cell was Dr. L.F. Rushbrook Williams of Allahabad University who was designated as Officer on Special Duty. Prof. Williams had earlier worked with Sir Stanley Reed on the Central Publicity Board. In 1941, J. Natrajan became the first Indian to be head the Bureau as Principal Information Officer. The organisation's name was changed to the Press Information Bureau in 1946. The Bureau has been reconstituted many times since the independence of India in 1947.
Lowell Thomas Jr. (October 6, 1923 – October 1, 2016) was an American politician and film producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan state senator in the early 1970s, and later the third lieutenant governor of Alaska (1974–1978). In the 1980s, he owned and operated Talkeetna Air Taxi, an Alaska bush flying service.
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa (born Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa; 29 June 1936 – 16 October 2016) was the last ruling King (Mwami) of Rwanda, from 28 July 1959 until the end of the UN-mandate with Belgian administration and the declaration of an independent Republic of Rwanda 1 July 1962. On 25 September 1961, a referendum voted for the abolition of the Rwandan monarchy following the Rwandan revolution.
Sofie Dokter (born 19 December 2002) is a Dutch track and field athlete who is specialized in the heptathlon. Dokter is from Groningen. Dokter represents Netherlands at international competitions. She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships. As of 2022 she became three times national champion.  After becoming 2022 Dutch national champion, she was selected to represent the Netherlands at the 2022 European Athletics Championships where she competed in the heptathlon event. Of the three Dutch women who started, she was the only woman who finished the heptathlon event.  Her sister Julia Dokter is also a track and field athlete.
Bo Ummels (born 24 August 1993) is a Dutch long distance runner. She is a national champion in many fields, including 5000 metres, half-marathon, marathon and cross. Ummels represents Netherlands at international competitions.  She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the marathon event.
Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician. He was the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton from 1993 until his death in 1996. Before, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 1989 to 1993. He was the first African American to be both Secretary of Commerce and DNC Chair.  Brown was killed in a plane crash on April 3, 1996 near Dubrovnik, Croatia at the age of 54. At the time of his death, he was being investigated for corruption.
Ruth van der Meijden (born 15 August 1984) is a Dutch long distance runner. van der Meijden represents Netherlands at international competitions.  Van der Meijden tried to run the qualifying time for the 2020 Summer Olympics at an abandoned airport. She was not able to do so. She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the marathon event.
Robert Adam Mosbacher Sr. (March 11, 1927 – January 24, 2010) was an American businessman, yacht racer, and a Republican politician. Mosbacher was the United States Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992 during the George H. W. Bush administration. Mosbacher died of pancreatic cancer at a hospital in Houston, Texas on January 24, 2010 at the age of 82.
Philip Morris Klutznick (July 9, 1907 – August 14, 1999) was an American politician. He was the United States Secretary of Commerce from January 9, 1980 to January 19, 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. Klutznick died on August 14, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease at the age of 92.
Alida van Daalen (born 15 August 1984) is a Dutch track and field athlete who is specialized in the discus throw and shot put. Van Daalen represents Netherlands at international competitions.  Van Daalen competed as a junior at the 2018 Youth Olympics. At the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships she won the silver medal in the shot put and discus throw. She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the discus throw event, but was not able to reach the final.  Her mother is discus thrower Jacqueline Goormachtigh.
Clara Juanita Morris Kreps (January 11, 1921July 5, 2010) was an American economist, educator and businesswoman. She was the 24th United States Secretary of Commerce under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. She was a Democrat and was the first female U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Kreps died on July 5, 2010 in Durham, North Carolina from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease at the age of 89.
Ted V. Mikels (born Theodore Vincent Mikacevich; April 29, 1929 – October 16, 2016) was an American independent filmmaker primarily of the horror cult film genre. Movies that he both produced and directed include "Girl in Gold Boots" (1968), "The Astro-Zombies" (1968), and "The Doll Squad" (1973).
Lyudmila Ivanovna Ivanova (Russian: Людмила Ивановна Иванова; 22 June 1933 – 7 October 2016) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). She was awarded the Order of Honour and the Order of Friendship. She composed many songs for the guitar.
Pierre Tcherniakowski (29 January 1928 – 8 October 2016), better known as Pierre Tchernia, was a French cinema and television producer, screenwriter, presenter, animator and actor. In France he was known as "Magic" "Tchernia" and "Monsieur Cinema".
Sven Roosen (born 27 July 2001) is a Dutch track and field athlete who is specialized in the decathlon. Roosen represents the Netherlands at international competitions.  At the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships he won the silver medal in the decathlon. Roosen became national champion in 2022. He competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the decathlon event.
Dries Van Nieuwenhove (born 9 April 1998) is a Belgian track and field athlete who is specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. Van Nieuwenhove represents Belgium at international competitions.  After winning the bronze medal at the 2020 national championships and silver at the 2021 national championships, he became Belgian national champion in 2022. He competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the 400 metres hurdles event.
Djoao Lobles (born 14 January 2001) is a Dutch track and field athlete who is specalized in the 800 metres. Lobles represents Netherlands at international competitions. He became national champion at the 2020 Dutch Athletics Championships and 2020 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships. He repeated both and is as of 2022 two times national indoor champion and two times national outdoor champion. He competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the 800 metres event.
Xavier González Unciti (Pamplona, 10 December 2004) is a handball player playing for Balonmano Anaitasuna and international with Spanish Handball Federation. Biography. Xavier was born in 2004.
The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is the diplomatic and civil service. It is under the jurisdiction Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. The Foreign Secretary is the head of the service. The service, consisting of civil servants is entrusted with handling the foreign relations of India. It provides consular services and to mark India's presence in international organizations. It is the body of career diplomats serving in more than 180 Indian diplomatic missions and international organizations around the world.  In addition, they serve at the President's Secretariat, the Prime Minister's Office and at the headquarters of MEA in New Delhi. They also head Regional Passport Offices throughout the country and hold positions in several ministries on deputation. Post-retirement, Indian Foreign Service officers have held high offices including that of President, Vice President, Governors of States, Speaker of Lok Sabha and Cabinet ministers.
The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India. The other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act, 1951. The service implements the National Forest Policy in order to ensure the ecological stability of the country through the protection and participatory sustainable management of natural resources. Positions in state forest department, such as District/Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), Conservator of Forests, Chief Conservator of Forests and Principal Chief Conservator of Forests etc., are held, at times, by Indian Forest Service officers. The highest-ranking Forest Service official in each state is the Head of Forest Forces.  History. Earlier, the British Government in India had constituted the Imperial Forest Service in 1867 which functioned under the Federal Government until the Government of India Act 1935 was passed and responsibility was transferred to the provinces. The Imperial Forestry Service was organised subordinate to the Imperial Forest Department in 1867. The modern Indian Forest Service was established in 1966, after independence, under the All India Services Act 1951. The first Inspector General of Forests, Hari Singh, was instrumental in the development of the Forest Service. India has an area of 635,400 km2 designated as forests, about 19.32% of the country. India's forest policy was created in 1894 and revised in 1952 and again in the year 1988. Recruitment. Officers are recruited through an open competitive examination conducted by the UPSC. They are eligible for State and Central deputations as their counterpart IAS and IPS officers. Deputation of Forest Service officers to the Central Government includes appointments in Central Ministries at the position of Deputy Secretary, Director, Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary etc.
The Neutral Confederacy (also Neutral Nation, Neutral people, or Attawandaron by neighbouring tribes) were a Native American people. They spoke the Neutral Huron Language. This language is part of the Iroquois language family. They lived in present-day southwestern and south-central Ontario in Canada, North America. The Neutral people were related to other Iroquois Natives. Neighbors were the Huron people, the Petun, the Wenro to the east, Erie people, the Susquehannock and the Iroquois Confederacy. The Iroquois Confederacy was east of the Neutral people. The Iroquois eventually destroyed the Neutral Confederacy. Name. The Neutrals called themselves Chonnonton, or 'people of the deer'. The French called these people neutral, because they were not in many wars. For instance, the Neutral people did not fight in the wars between the Iroquois and the Huron in the 17th century. History. Jesuits had contact with the Neutrals and made records of the people. The Neutral allied with the Wenrohronon to defend against the Iroquois Confederacy. However, the Iroquois attacked the Neutral people around 1650. The Iroquois had also destroyed the Huron, Petun and Erie Nations. The Neutral Confederacy fell apart after the 1650s. They fled or joined other Iroquois nations. Many Natives also died from diseases. Culture and Society. The Neutral people lived in longhouses. They did hunting, fishing and farming. Main crops were the Three Sisters (corn, squash and beans). Meats included deer, raccoon, wolves, wild cats, squirrels, beavers and turkeys. Apples and chestnuts were also part of the diet. Feast of the Dead was an important ceremony. In this feast, they placed the bones of the dead in a common grave. Tsouharissen or Souharissen ("Child of the Sun") was chief of several villages of the Neutral people. The Neutrals used stones to make spearheads and arrowheads. They traded maize, tobacco, and black
Phyllodytes is a genus of frogs. They are called heart-tongued frogs in English. These frogs live in eastern Brazil. Taxonomy. In 2009, scientists DNA from all the frogs in this group. They decided to split "Phyllodytes" into "Phyllodytes" and another group, "Phytotriades". This article shows the frog species that are still in "Phyllodytes". Some scientists think that some of these frogs should be in other groups instead. Description.  These are small frogs. They live in trees. These frogs lay eggs in water in the leaves of bromeliad plants. These plants are epiphytes: they grow on trees instead of putting their roots in the ground. For example, a bromeliad might grow on a branch high in the forest canopy. Water falls into the bromeliad leaves and forms a little pool near the plant's axil. Many female frogs lay their eggs on the leaves so that the tadpoles fall into the water when they hatch. The tadpoles swim and grow inside the bromeliad plant without ever going to a river, stream, pond, or the ground. The frogs have large fangs called odontoids. Male "Phyllodytes" do vocalize, in contrast to "Phytotriades". Species. This genus has 14 species in it: AmphibiaWeb says "Phytotriades auratus" is in this genus, but other scientific works do not.
Überlingen is an German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance ("Bodensee") in Baden-Württemberg, near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a central point for the outlying communities. Since 1 January 1993, Überlingen has been a large district city ("Große Kreisstadt"). History. The Alemannic Überlingen was first mentioned in 770 as "Iburinga". It was granted city rights in 1211. In July 2002, a Tupolev Tu-154 crashed with a Boeing 757 nearby. 71 people were killed.
"You Better Wait" is a 1994 song by Steve Perry and is the leading single from his album For the Love of Strange Medicine. It went to number 1 in Canada and number 29 in the United States. Track listing. Maxi Single
Gowanda is a village in western New York, United States. It is partly in Erie County and partly in Cattaraugus County. 2,513 people lived there at the 2020 census. The name comes from the Seneca language. It means "almost surrounded by hills" or "a valley among the hills". The Cattaraugus Reservation is next to the village. The natives here are mainly Seneca people.  Native Americans of the Iroquois Confederacy used to live in the larger area of western New York. The Erie tribe and the Wenrohronon lived the closest to present-day area around Gowanda.
Luther Wright Mott (November 30, 1874 – July 10, 1923) was a United States Representative from New York. Life. Mott was born in Oswego, New York. He attended public schools in Oswego and graduated from Harvard University in 1896. Mott started his career at the First National Bank of Oswego, which was owned by his family, and he became the bank's cashier and vice president. Mott was a founder of the Oswego Chamber of Commerce, which was started by merging two other organizations, and he was the president. Mott was elected as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives on March 4, 1911 and he was a member until his death in 1923. Mott supported women's suffrage and prohibition. During World War I Mott started the 9th Division of the New York Naval Militia in Oswego. He also helped start a division in Fulton. Mott died in Oswego on July 10, 1923. He was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Oswego.
Gian Luigi Rondi (10 December 1921 – 22 September 2016) was an Italian film critic. He was a member of the jury at the 12th and 15th Moscow International Film Festival. He was also a member of the jury at the 11th and 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced Jamaican contemporary music, especially reggae and ska artists.
Maurice William Elias (December 23, 1936 – September 9, 2016), known professionally as James Stacy, was an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for starring in the late 1960s TV western Lancer. In 1973, Stacy was hit by a drunk driver while driving his motorcycle, resulting in the amputation of his left leg and arm and the death of his girlfriend. He returned to acting in 1975 before retiring in 1992.
Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (Russian: Фази́ль Абду́лович Исканде́р; Abkhazian: Фазиль Абдул-иҧа Искандер; 6 March 1929 – 31 July 2016) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet in the former Soviet Union. He wrote about life in the Caucasus. He wrote various stories, most famously "Zashita Chika", which features a crafty and likable young boy named "Chik." His most popular books are the picaresque novel "Sandro of Chegem" and its sequel "The Gospel According to Chegem".
Eva-Maria Hagen (; ; 19 October 1934 – 16 August 2022) was a German actress and singer. She was born in Költschen, Nazi Germany. Her career began in 1957. Her best known roles were in "Don't Forget My Little Traudel", "Goods for Catalonia" and "Meine Freundin Sybille". From 1954 to 1959, she was married to Hans Oliva-Hagen. They had one daughter, singer Nina Hagen. Hagen died on 16 August 2022 in Hamburg, Germany at the age of 87.
Herbert William Mullin (April 18, 1947 – August 18, 2022) was an American serial killer. He killed 13 people in California in the early 1970s. He said he killed these people to stop earthquakes from happening.  In 1973, after a trial to see if he was insane or culpable, he was convicted of two first-degree murders and nine second-degree murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was denied parole eight times. Mullin died on August 18, 2022 at a medical prison in Stockton, California at the age of 75.
Northwood is an area in northwest London, England. It is in the London Borough of Hillingdon on the border with Hertfordshire and from Charing Cross.  At the 2011 census, the population of Northwood was 10,949.
Tekla Juniewicz (born as Tekla Dadak; 10 June 1906 – 19 August 2022) is the oldest Polish person ever titleholder. She is also the oldest validated person ever from Eastern Europe. She become the oldest living person in Poland after the death of Jadwiga Szubartowicz on 20 July 2017. In 2019, she met Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki. On 23 February 2022, Juniewicz surpassed Dina Manfredini’s final age to become the oldest validated emigrant ever. Until her death at the age of 116 years and 70 days, she was the second oldest living person in the world behind Lucile Randon for 4 months, upon the death of Kane Tanaka. Tekla's record of the oldest validated emigrant ever was surpassed less than a year after her death by Maria Branyas Morera.
The athletics competitions at the 1934 Women's World Games in London were held from 9 to 11 August 1934 at the White City Stadium.  The track and field athletes competed in 12 events: running (60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres, 800 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay and hurdling 80 metres), high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin, shot put and pentathlon (100 metres, high jump, long jump, javelin and shot put). It was the first time the Women’s World Games included the women's pentathlon. This was in stead of the triathlon event of 1930.
The 810s was a decade that started on 1 January 810 and ended on 31 December 819. It is distinct from the decade known as the 82th "decade" which began on January 1, 811. and ended on December 31, 820.
Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a German-Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012.
Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French comics artist/writer and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, L'Écho des savanes and Fluide Glacial, he was a key figure in the switch in French-language comics from their children's entertainment roots to an adult tone and readership. His series include Rubrique-à-Brac, Gai-Luron, and Superdupont.