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TopicCattle smuggling

Topic: cattle smuggling

‘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.

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Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.