EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson traveled to Islamabad over the weekend to spearhead efforts to end, due to security concerns, unchecked migration to the EU.
The Customs officials at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi arrested a passenger with gold worth Rs. 69 lakh concealed in a mixer on Thursday.
The Customs air intelligence unit at Chennai airport on Wednesday foiled another smuggling attempt by smugglers and apprehended two passengers who arrived from Muscat, Oman.
Local farmers in the Parwan province of Afghanistan called on the government to ban the smuggling of poultry in the country as they complained of damage to business due to malpractice.
A Special Court of Delhi on Monday declared Vinay Mishra, former Trinamool Congress youth wing leader, 'a proclaimed Offender' in the West Vengal Cattle smuggling case linked to money laundering.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Enforcement Directorate questioned his daughter Sukanya Mondal for nearly nine hours in connection with the cattle smuggling scam.
A team of Delhi Police Special Cell Thursday apprehended 3 main members, including a Nigerian national, of an international drug syndicate in the national capital and seized contraband drugs of over Rs 17 crore, officials said.
Mondal reached the Enforcement Directorate headquarters here around 10 am following summons of the federal agency to face questioning and left around 7 pm.