Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lauded the customs officials of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International (CSMI) Airport for their vigilance and successful seizure of over 2 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 1.48 crore.
On examination, 24 oval-shaped balls of gold dust in wax form, weighing 12.5 kg and valued at Rs 9.95 crore, were recovered, they said, adding that the gold was seized under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962.
In a significant demonstration of vigilance, personnel from the Border Security Force (BSF) 115 Battalion successfully executed a seizure of 12 gold biscuits and a motorcycle within the operational area of Border Outpost Boyraghat.
The Chinese General Administration of Customs posted on Sina Weibo that its Fuzhou branch had confiscated three books imported from Taiwan, claiming they contained "problematic maps" that depicted Taiwan as a separate country and did not acknowledge Beijing's territorial claims in the South
The victims have staged a protest against the Pakistan Coast Guard at the Kaldan Cross near the Gubad border and blocked the Makran Coastal Highway after ongoing harassment and seizure of local vehicles in Gwadar city of Balochistan.
In a major drug haul, Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with Manipur Police, recovered 578 grams of heroin worth around Rs 2.31 crore in the international market on Sunday in Manipur's Senapati district.
According to the Deputy Director General of the Narcotics Control Bureau, Neeraj Kumar Gupta, this seizure was a result of a concerted effort made by the team NCB on the leads developed during a previous seizure in March 2024 and August 2024. After working on the leads generated in these cas
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Kolkata arrested a notorious drug trafficker with a history of gold smuggling wanted in a seizure of a huge quantity of bottles of Codeine Based Cough Syrups (CBCS), officials said on Saturday.
Since taking charge, CBI has accelerated its probe, conducting fresh searches across 92 locations in five states. These searches have led to the seizure of 24 mobile phones,18 desktops, 7 hard drives, and 11 laptops.
Amid China's economic struggles, police are increasingly seizing assets from private businesses, demanding payments in exchange for releasing frozen funds. Business owners report widespread extortion, with the practice of "offshore fishing" growing as a source of revenue for local government
Punjab Police arrested 153 drug traffickers and seized property valued at Rs 208 crore, linked to heroin seizures of over 2 kg each in 2024, a senior police official said.
Following the seizure of Rs 5 crore in cash from a car by Pune rural police, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray expressed concerns about transparency, saying that if the Election Commission (EC) is neutral, it will be known to whom the money belongs.