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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicCattle smuggling

Topic: cattle smuggling

Diplomatic row over killing of 3 Bangladeshi nationals in Tripura. Dhaka condemns, New Delhi rebuts

3 Bangladeshi nationals were beaten to death by residents of Bidyabil, a border village in Tripura’s Khowai. Dhaka sought an 'immediate, impartial and transparent investigation'.

‘Money laundered via lottery tickets’ — ED chargesheet against TMC’s Anubrata Mondal in ‘cattle smuggling scam’

In chargesheet filed Thursday, ED details how TMC's Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal, his daughter Sukanya and others allegedly laundered proceeds of the racket.

BSF is not trigger-happy, strife at Bangladesh border due to aggressive cattle smugglers

Deaths of smugglers sour relations between India and Bangladesh, the solution is legalisation of cattle trade not avoiding confrontation.

‘Extortion, skyrocketing income, ties to cattle kingpin’ — CBI charge sheet against TMC’s Mondal

Anubrata Mondal was ‘extorting money using political clout’ & entered into ‘criminal conspiracy’ with kingpin of cattle smuggling racket. About Rs 18 cr kept in fixed deposits.

Ailing, dying cattle at the borders ‘hampering’ our work, BSF chief tells parliamentary panel

BSF chief Pankaj Kumar Singh is learnt to have pointed to missive from Centre advocating that BSF take measures for ‘gau raksha’, as well as pressure from animal rights groups.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.