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Tuesday, June 10, 2025
TopicGold import tax

Topic: Gold import tax

Watch CutTheClutter: Kannada actor Ranya Rao’s arrest & India’s growing gold smuggling crisis

In Episode 1618, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains how government policies and gold smuggling are connected, and why the smuggling curse is back.

How govt bet on gold bonds, got hit by 930% spike in liabilities & is now furiously backtracking

Sovereign Gold Bond scheme was meant to reduce physical gold imports & provide govt a cheaper borrowing option. But gold imports haven’t gone down while govt liability has surged.

How a provision in trade deal with UAE has led to a surge in India’s gold imports

New Delhi: Indians are once again flocking to gold — both physical and digital — in a bid to hedge against economic uncertainty, high...

Fished out of wigs & body parts, customs seized 833 kg gold in ’21-22, but 99% got away with it

According to DRI data, 150-200 tonnes of gold are smuggled into India annually. If this year's seizures are anything to go by, most of it sails past customs.

Our take on Zubair’s SC hearing, service tax, Boris Johnson’s exit — in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

On Camera

From Brutus to hero—How former Sikkim CM Dorjee’s image changed in state’s history

Biraj Adhikari blames the MEA for treating the Chogyal’s 1956 visit as a ‘state visit’ and playing the Sikkim anthem. His book captures his generation’s dilemmas — are Sikkimese truly Indian, especially under Article 371F?

Operation Sindoor: How Rafales, Pakistani J-10s & lots of propaganda moved global defence markets

New Delhi: The impact of Operation Sindoor extended far beyond the battlefield as aerial battles continued in the stock markets. After India carried out...

Quantum startup QuBeats wins Rs 25 crore govt grant to build GPS-free navigation for Indian Navy

GPS denial a real and growing threat, especially in contested zones, but the Earth itself offers a solution, says Mallikarjun Karra, one of the founders.

Op Sindoor is the first battle in India’s two-front war. A vicious pawn in a King’s Gambit

The Chinese use Pakistan as a cheap instrument to triangulate India between them. It is safer to presume that the Chinese now see Pakistan as an extension of their Western Theatre Command.