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Topic: Smuggling

Top Kerala IAS officer removed for links with woman behind UAE gold ‘smuggling ring’

Vinod Mathew -
M. Sivasankar was allegedly close to Swapna Suresh, the key figure in smuggling 30 kg of gold bars in a diplomatic bag bound for the UAE Consulate.

DRI busts exotic birds trafficking syndicate, arrests 2 for smuggling 22 macaws from Bangladesh

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The birds were seized under provisions of the Customs Act and Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. Offences under these Acts are punishable with a sentence of up to 7 years in prison.

US charges 5 men for smuggling equipment to help Pakistan’s nuclear programme

ThePrint Team -
The accused smuggled US goods to entities that are threats to US security for their ties to Pakistan’s weapons programmes, said the US Department of Justice.

J&K wants Modi govt to amend Indian Forest Act to book timber smugglers under stringent PSA

Azaan Javaid -
J&K, where timber smuggling is a major threat, used to be governed by a law with provision of Public Safety Act. But it got scrapped after the govt’s Article 370 move.

Pakistani couple beheaded in Saudi Arabia for smuggling heroin

Simrin Sirur -
Drug trafficking is an offence considered grave enough by Sharia law to warrant the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.

India-Pakistan trade war expected to push smuggling & business through Dubai

Nayanima Basu -
India’s withdrawal of MFN status and hike in import duties could increase smuggling & informal trade through Dubai may also jump.

Ban on Hafiz Saeed’s JuD not renewed by Imran Khan government, court told

Aastha Singh -
Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan eyes first space mission in 2022 with China’s help; two Pakistan universities in list of Asia’s ‘top 100’.

Donald Trump lashes out at Google, and Xi Jinping unleashes charm offensive on BRI

ThePrint Team -
Greece cracks down on aid workers 'smuggling migrants', and journalists in Bosnia protest after attack on reporter.

Under PM Modi, India got back more stolen antiquities in 3 years than the UPA government in 10 years

Sanya Dhingra -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits abroad often have a return gift. He has brought back more than a dozen historical artifacts from the United States, Australia,...
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Family man, confident investor & eternal India optimist — farewell, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who made more money on the stock market than almost anyone else, was sure 2 decades ago that India & its stock market were going to boom.
Sir Ganga Ram hospital Consultants, Residents and DNB students hold placards during a protest in New Delhi, on 30 December 2021 | PTI

Distrust of Indian doctors isn’t new. Class-caste bias always ruled medical profession

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Revadi jibe shows Modi govt letting its insecurities do the talking, not economics

Economy

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Good news from the farm as India’s FY22 foodgrain production estimated at record 316 mn tonnes

Sayantan Bera -
Wheat production estimate sees marginal upward revision to 106.8 million tons, though current rate lowest in 3 years.

Defence

Representational image. A file photo of an Indian Air Force Cheetah helicopter. | Photo: Commons

IAF operation underway to rescue Italian mountaineer stranded on Mount Nun in Ladakh

Amogh Rohmetra -
The IAF deployed its ‘Cheetah’ helicopter to rescue mountaineer Federico Nicoli. Mount Nun is the second highest peak in the Zanskar Valley of Ladakh.

National Interest

Remember a convicted ‘non-guilty’ IAS officer, HC Gupta, when fretting over stalled economic reforms

Shekhar Gupta -
The 2010-13 season of scandal-mongering still casts a shadow on Indian politics, and the victims are those at the lowest end of the decision-making chain.

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