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2 min read Last Updated : Dec 17 2023 | 8:35 PM IST
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Smugglers in Singapore have been approaching Indian migrant workers flying home via Changi Airport to act as 'gold mules' by carrying jewellery in exchange for a fee, according to a media report on Sunday.
Travellers who show an interest in being a gold mule are directed to a quiet spot in the airport, where a deal is struck. During negotiations, the courier is assured that a syndicate runner will retrieve the gold jewellery from him when he lands in India, The Straits Times reported.
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Tata Steel aims to complete expansion of its Kalinganagar project by December next year, a company official said.
The company had commenced the second phase of expansion of its Kalinganagar project in Odisha in November 2018 to reach the production capacity of 8 million tonnes per annum, from 3 MTPA, with an investment of Rs 23,500 crore.
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Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that in the next two years, Assam will make big gains in food self-sufficiency to ensure money spent on daily needs remains within the state.
"We want to end the practice of trucks entering the state carrying fish, flowers, food and exit carrying coal and minerals," Sarma said on Saturday while inaugurating the 8th Assam International Agri-Horti Show in Guwahati.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Surat Diamond Bourse, world's largest and modern centre for international diamond and jewellery business, is the symbol of strength and determination of the new India.
Modi inaugurated the Surat Diamond Bourse in Gujarat and the new integrated terminal of the city's international airport during his visit here.
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Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is travelling to Kuwait on Sunday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special envoy to pay condolences on the demise of Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on behalf of the government and people of India.
Puri will also deliver personal letters of condolences from President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Modi to Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the new Emir of Kuwait, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Sunday.
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A court here has dismissed former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain's plea seeking a stay on proceedings in a money laundering case against him till charges are framed in another case related to alleged conspiracy behind the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.
Twenty people, including Hussain and activists Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and Khalid Saifi, have been arraigned as accused in the case related to the larger conspiracy to incite the riots.
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The Congress has called a meeting of its working committee on December 21 to deliberate on the strategy for the 2024 general election and chalk out a plan to hit the ground running for its poll campaign to take on the BJP, sources said.
The meeting, which will take place at the All India Congress Committee headquarters, would come two days after the INDIA bloc meeting on December 19 and seat sharing and campaign is likely to be top of the agenda, they said.
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Nine people were killed in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday, police said.
The blast took place at 9 am in a cast booster unit of the Solar Industries in Bazaargaon area, a senior police official told PTI.
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India's diesel consumption in the first half of December recovered from the steep fall seen last month on transporters taking a Diwali break, but sales were still lower than last year, preliminary data of state-owned firms showed.
Diesel consumption at 3.15 million tonne during December 1 to 15 was 0.7 per cent higher than 3.13 million tonne demand in the first half of November. The demand was 8.1 per cent lower than 3.43 million tonne consumption in December 1-15, 2022.
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday hit out at the Centre over the rise in prices of essential commodities during the Modi government's tenure and wondered what kind of "developed India" is this.
In a post on X, Kharge shared a video montage comparing the 2014 prices of essential items such as milk, onion, tomatoes, and sugar with their current prices to highlight inflation.
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Around 10 fishermen from Tamil Nadu who were arrested earlier this month from near the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in the Indian Ocean, and tried and fined 60,000 Pounds Sterling, were on Sunday handed over to the Indian Coast Guard.
The fishermen had ventured into fishing areas in the deep sea, around 230 nautical miles near the BIOT -- an archipelago of 58 islands covering some 640,000 sq km of ocean, a defence statement said.
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Customs officials at the Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) have seized 286 gm of gold worth Rs 17.73 lakh from a passenger who arrived here from Dubai.
The passenger arrived here on December 14 by IndiGo flight 6E1163. He was detained based on advance passenger information system (APIS) data and profiling conducted by the officials, a Customs release said here on Sunday.
Upon closer inspection and scanning of the passenger's trousers, a dark image raised suspicions. A subsequent thorough examination revealed a concealed yellow-collared paste material within the layers of the trousers.
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Cydney Wallace, a Black Jewish community activist, never felt compelled to travel to Israel, though Next year in Jerusalem was a constant refrain at her Chicago synagogue.
The 39-year-old said she had plenty to focus on at home, where she frequently gives talks on addressing anti-Black sentiment in the American Jewish community and dismantling white supremacy in the U.S.
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A sub-inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and a constable injured in an encounter between security personnel and Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Sunday, police said.
The incident took place in the morning under Jagargunda police station area when a team of the CRPF's 165th battalion was out on an anti-Naxal operation, a police official said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving on a two-day visit in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Sunday during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 37 projects valued worth over Rs 19,000 crore for the development of the Varanasi and the Purvanchal region.
Modi, who will reach here on Sunday afternoon, will be welcomed by Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, after which he will spend about 25 hours in Varanasi, an official statement said here.
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Unanticipated drop in kinnow rates amid a bumper yield has left growers of the fruit in Punjab staring at very poor gains.
Farmers said they are getting Rs 6-10 per kg for their kinnow crop, a steep decline as compared to Rs 20-25 per kg they got last year.
They rued that at the current rate, they are not able to recover their input cost, and sought from the government to fix a minimum price for the fruit crop.
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Two mobile phone towers caught fire in Mumbra area of Maharashtra's Thane district on Sunday, civic officials said. No person was injured in the blaze, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.
The fire broke out at 4.12 am at a spot in a chawl (row tenements) where the two towers were installed, he said. The towers and their wiring were damaged in the blaze, he said.
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Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria has exhorted the legal community to ensure justice for the underprivileged.
He was speaking at the platinum jubilee celebration of Gauhati High Court Bar Association here on Saturday, an official statement said.
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The Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission (BPSSC) will be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered system to prevent cheating during the preliminary examination for 1,275 posts of Sub-Inspectors on Sunday.
Around 6.60 lakh aspirants are expected to appear in the preliminary examination on Sunday. The examination will be conducted in two shifts from 10 am to noon and from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm in all districts across the state.
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First Published: Dec 17 2023 | 8:27 AM IST
