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Some students in West Bengal’s Durgapur have started using flavoured condoms to get high, as per a report by News 18. The news outlet reported that, in the past few days, sale of flavored condoms has drastically increased in various parts of Durgapur such as Durgapur City Center, Bidhannagar, Benachiti, and Muchipara, C Zone, A Zone. 

A medical shop owner told the news outlet: “Earlier 3 to 4 packets of condoms were sold per shop per day. And now a pack of condoms is disappearing from a store.”

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Explaining why flavoured condoms are being used for addiction, Dheeman Mandal, who works at Durgapur Divisional Hospital, said: “Condoms contain aromatic compounds. It breaks down to form alcohol. It is addictive. This aromatic compound is also found in dendrites glue. So many people use dendrite for addiction also.”

Speaking about the unusual fascination, Durgapur RE College Model School Chemistry teacher Nurul Haque said, “The long-term soaking of condoms in hot water causes intoxication due to the breakdown of large organic molecules into alcoholic compounds.”

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A family in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior was in for a rude shock recently when the electricity department sent a bill of Rs 3,419 crore for one month of electricity consumption. The bill was received by a consumer named Priyanka Gupta. Priyanka’s husband Sanjeev Kankane said that his father fell ill after seeing the huge figure for the consumption for July.

After the news came to light, the Madhya Pradesh government-run power company blamed ‘human error’ and issued a new bill of Rs 1,300, much to the relief of the worried Gupta family, who are residents of Shiv Vihar Colony in the city.

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MPMKVVC (Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company) general manager Nitin Manglik said it was a human error. He also informed that action had been taken against the employees concerned. Manglik said: “An employee entered the consumer number in place of the units consumed in the software, resulting in the bill with a higher amount. The corrected bill of ₹1,300 has been issued to the power consumer.”

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Pune police have arrested a Gujarat-based businessman for using his wife’s Aadhaar card to check into a hotel in Pune with his girlfriend. The police acted after a complaint by his wife. A police official informed that a case was registered against the businessman at Hinjewadi police station in Pune on Tuesday (February 1).

As per the police, the man’s wife who stays in Gujarat and is a director in his company, suspected her husband of having an affair. A police official said: “The wife had fitted a GPS tracker in her husband’s SUV. In November last year, when he told her about his business trip to Bengaluru, she checked his location and found that the car was at a Pune hotel.

When the wife contacted the hotel, the staff informed her that the man had checked in with his wife. On further enquiry, the real wife found out that her husband had checked into the hotel with another woman (posing as his wife), using the real wife’s Aadhaar card. The wife later lodged a complaint with the police.