New York, Aug 7 (AP) Houston Astros left-hander Kent Emanuel has been banned 80 games without pay by Major League Baseball for violating the league's drug prevention and treatment plan.

Emanuel has pitched at Triple-A the past three seasons but never in the majors. He is on Houston's 40-man roster and was among the team's pool of players available to use during the pandemic-shortened 60-game season.

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Emanuel tested positive for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT), a performance-enhancing substance. He denied intentionally taking the substance in a statement released by the union Thursday.

"I do not know how 7 picograms of the long-term metabolite of DHCMT got into my system," he said.

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"But I know I have never knowingly or intentionally taken oral turinabol."

The 28-year-old Emanuel has been a starter and a reliever in recent seasons. He was 8-2 with a 3.90 ERA in 28 games — seven starts — with Triple-A Round Rock in 2019.

Emanuel's suspension was announced by the commissioner's office. (AP) ATK ATK 08071000 NNNNrmation after presiding over a review meeting with the senior officers of revenue department, urban local bodies department, and town and country planning department regarding creating online system of land registries.

He directed the officers that the departments concerned with the registry of land should coordinate among themselves and create an online system so that there is no theft of revenue and people are not duped.    

He directed them to check the authenticity of the buyer, seller and witness at the time of registry so that no one other than the actual owner of the land can sell the land.        A week ago, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had placed under suspension six revenue officials of Gurgaon with immediate effect for allegedly registering land deeds in violation of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act.

An official release had earlier said that the Gurugram divisional commissioner had also been directed to submit a detailed inquiry report regarding the officials who have allegedly changed the entries of land from agricultural to non-agricultural with "malafide intent" so as to facilitate the registration of deeds in violation of the act.    

Last month, Haryana had temporarily stopped the registration of land transfer deeds in the state to weed out various malpractices in the government's key revenue generation process.

The registration of transfer deeds of various categories of land had been stopped for varying periods between July 22 and August 15, an official release had said earlier.

"The state government has given serious consideration to the complaints of malpractices that exist in the current mechanism for registration of deeds for the transfer of land. Therefore, it has been decided to temporarily halt the registration of transfer deeds," the release had said.

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