After the robbery, French officials said the Louvre would introduce extra security, including anti-intrusion devices and anti-vehicle ramming barriers on nearby roads, by the end of the year.
It only took seven minutes to bring the world’s largest museum to its knees. The thieves had set up a truck on the periphery of the museum. It went unnoticed because trucks and their appendages are common sights in Paris.
According to Le Parisien, the suspects, in their 30s and originally from the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of Paris capital, were arrested just as one of them was about to fly out of the country.
The brand even threw in a reference to hit Hindi heist film Dhoom 2, a Hrithik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan-starrer that also depicted a slick jewellery theft from a museum.
Amid rising frustration that no senior official has taken responsibility, French interior minister acknowledged the security failures & culture minister launched an administrative inquiry.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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