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Thursday, May 21, 2026
TopicKerala gold smuggling

Topic: Kerala gold smuggling

‘Genius gone rogue’: Rise and fall of Kerala IAS officer M. Sivasankar, arrested for 3rd time

This month, ED arrested Sivasankar, the powerful ex-principal secretary of CM Pinarayi Vijayan, for his alleged role in a housing scam linked to infamous gold smuggling case.

Pinarayi Vijayan remains immune to graft charges but new book says his family sought favours

Sharjah ruler’s wife was supposedly put off by the haste with which Kamala Vijayan, CM Pinarayi Vijayan’s wife, brought up the business proposal.

In Kerala, gods and mortals take centre stage as Left looks to keep power & ‘create history’

While pre-poll surveys have given LDF an edge, it is facing two storms apart from the gold smuggling case — deep sea trawling pact & 'love jihad' allegations by Syro-Malabar church.

‘Shady deals, money laundering, impropriety’ — what Kerala gold smuggling case has unearthed

The alleged racket that spans India & the UAE has exposed a network of facilitators, financiers, black gold traders & former employees of UAE consulate.

Aarogya Setu app gets ‘bullied’ for govt’s lack of data, & if Covid was a politician

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These are top 5 Indian airports where the most amount of smuggled gold was seized in 2019-20

According to government data, gold smuggling fell marginally in 2019-20 compared to the previous fiscal.

ED questions Kerala ex-minister Kodiyeri’s son over ‘links’ to gold smuggling, drugs cases

Bineesh Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPI(M) state secretary and former minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, is also being probed by Bengaluru Crime Branch in a drug racket case. 

Kerala minister Jaleel faces Customs probe for receiving food & Quran copies from UAE

Jaleel allegedly violated the FCRA, though he distributed the gifts. His link to gold smuggling scam accused Swapna Suresh is also under scanner.

NIA, ED probe ‘link’ between Kerala gold smuggling racket and PFI, anti-CAA protests

PFI was accused of pumping in money to fund protests after CAA was passed in December 2019. The organisation had, however, denied the allegations.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.