A passenger, who arrived from Colombo, was intercepted at Chennai airport on Monday for carrying gold weighing 697 grams valued at Rs 35.81 lakh, Chennai customs said.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said that Rs 23.28 crore has been sanctioned to Uttarakhand under the Agriculture Development Scheme and Rs 34.66 crore as a financial incentive under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by the Central Government.
In a joint operation police and Assam Rifles on Friday seized 276 grams of Brown Sugar worth Rs 55 lakh and apprehended a drug peddler in Assam's Karimganj district.
Around 250 kilo grammes of processed sea cucumbers were seized by Mandapam Police during a joint search operation from Vedalai next to Ramanathapuram District Mandapam.
During the examination of the said passenger, 4 capsules of gold in a compound form totally weighing 1063 grams concealed inside his body were recovered and seized.
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) arrested 2 members of ECPL, an outsourced company engaged in construction and development activities at Delhi airport, and 2 international passengers arriving from Riyadh with 4 gold bars weighing 100 grams each today at IGI Airport in Delhi.
Continuing her rich vein of form, Lovlina (75kg) added a third World Championships medal to her tally with an emphatic 5-0 win against last year's World Championships bronze medallist Rady Gramane of Mozambique.
The carcass of the woman identified as Sanmati Barik of Jalmadei village of Sesong Gram Panchayat within Sunabeda Wildlife Sanctuary in Nuapada was recovered by the forest officials on Monday morning.
A dozen vehicles engaged in road construction work in the Kanker district were set ablaze by a group of Naxals on the intervening night of March 19-20, informed police.