JAMMU: Jammu’s Samba district police have unearthed a criminal network involved in illegal arms trade, with the arrest of a youth from Bihar studying in the Central University of Jammu, located in Raya-Suchani.According to police, based on information received from reliable sources, a team from Vijaypur police station on Friday arrested Kaif Ahmad, a native…
Security forces in Manipur have launched an intensified investigation into a transnational arms smuggling racket, following the arrest of a senior leader from a Valley-based insurgent group. The operation exposed a wider network suspected of trafficking weapons from Myanmar and distributing them across India using forged documents and registered gun houses.The case came to light…
Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) Former Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan has shared a personal story from the early days of his career in his autobiography, revealing details of a relationship he developed during the 2006 India A tour to Australia. In the book, Dhawan recounted how he secretly brought his girlfriend into the…
A Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher, Kseniia Petrova, was released from federal custody on Thursday after being charged with smuggling frog embryos into the US. The 30-year-old expressed deep gratitude to her supporters following her release outside a federal building in Boston. “Just want to thank everybody,” Petrova, who was wearing a “Hakuna Matata”…
Several Indo-Canadians were arrested by Canada’s Peel Regional Police (PRP) on June 6 in connection with the seizure of 479 kg of cocaine worth CAD $50 million (approximately Rs 299.3 crore). A total of nine people, which included several individuals of Indian descent, were arrested while they were trying to smuggle cocaine into the Greater…
A Chinese national and Ph.D. student from Wuhan has been arrested and charged in the US for allegedly smuggling biological material related to parasitic roundworms and providing false information to federal authorities about the shipments. Chengxuan Han, a researcher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, was taken into custody by the FBI…
NEW DELHI: Actress Ranya Rao and Tarun Raju on Tuesday were granted default bail by a Bengaluru court in connection with a gold smuggling case, but with strict conditions attached. The case surfaced on March 3, when Ranya, also known as Harshavardhani Ranya, was arrested at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru with 14.8 kilograms of…
The Trump administration announced criminal smuggling charges on Wednesday against Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist who was detained three months ago after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her luggage. In a hearing in federal district court earlier in the day, a government lawyer told a federal judge that the Trump administration…
Police recovered 5 kg of heroin, a currency counting machine, and several other items (Image credits: PTI) AMRITSAR: Punjab Police‘s counter-intelligence unit in Amritsar uncovered a drug smuggling network with links to Pakistan-based smugglers on Thursday. During a recent raid, police recovered 5 kg of heroin, a currency counting machine, and several other items.According to…
The Spanish police say they rescued 19 exotic felines from a home on the island of Majorca that were bound for sale on the growing illegal world market for big cats, and they arrested the Russian couple who owned them. With demand for large felines like lions and tigers high in some quarters — some…