New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a conference of Superintendents of Police (SPs) from border districts in New Delhi on Thursday, where key issues including infiltration, illegal immigration, demographic changes, border security, drone threats and narcotics trafficking are expected to be discussed.The meeting assumes significance amid the Centre’s intensified campaign against illegal immigration, which it has described as part of an organised attempt to alter the …
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Saint Petersburg, July 1 (IANS) Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Wednesday that it had seized about 500 kg of cocaine concealed inside frozen tuna imported from Ecuador at the port of St. Petersburg. The cocaine was discovered in a cargo container carrying legally imported frozen whole tuna at a container terminal in the port, said the FSB.It said the shipment route is part of a trafficking net used to smuggle large quantities of cocaine from Latin America into Russia for distributio…
Agartala/Aizawl, June 27 (IANS) The Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with the Customs Department, seized a large consignment of highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 5 crore in Tripura on Saturday, marking another major success in the fight against narcotics trafficking in the Northeast. A defence spokesman said that the operation was carried out in the Mungiakami area of Khowai district based on specific intelligence inputs. During the operation, the joint team intercepte…
Aizawl, June 24 (IANS) The Assam Rifles, in joint operations with other law enforcement agencies, seized heroin valued at more than Rs 1.34 crore in Mizoram and arrested three alleged drug peddlers in separate operations, officials said on Wednesday.A defence spokesman said that, acting on specific intelligence inputs, Assam Rifles personnel, in association with the Mizoram Police, carried out a targeted operation in the Zote area of Champhai district.During the operation, the joint team interce…
Jaipur, June 19 (IANS) Intensifying its crackdown on narcotics trafficking and organised crime, the Barmer police on Friday demolished an allegedly illegal house belonging to a key accused in an MD (Mephedrone) drug manufacturing case.The action was carried out jointly by the police, district administration and revenue department as part of the ongoing ‘Operation Clean’.The operation was conducted under the directions of Rajasthan Director General of Police (DGP) Rajiv Kumar Sharma and the Inspe…
Dushanbe, June 13 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh, on Friday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) International Conference, reiterated that providing a haven and using terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism go against the basic principles of humanity and international relations. “We reiterate that providing safe haven, using terrorist proxies for cross-border terrorism, terror financing, arms and drugs trafficking, dissemination of a radi…
Gandhinagar, June 8 (IANS) Newly appointed Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) Gyanender Singh Malik formally assumed charge on Monday and outlined an agenda centred on technology-driven policing, expanded CCTV surveillance, stronger action against narcotics networks, cybercrime prevention and faster resolution of public grievances.Malik, a 1993-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who was serving as Ahmedabad Police Commissioner before his elevation, took charge at Police Bhavan in Ga…
Mumbai, May 22 (IANS) The Mumbai Police Crime Branch’s Anti-Narcotics Cell on Friday arrested a suspected drug supplier near Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and seized 3.886 kilograms of charas from his possession. According to officials, the seized narcotics are valued at approximately Rs 3.89 crore in the international market. A case has been registered against the accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, and he has been taken into custody for further investigation.Of…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said enforcement agencies have made India’s first-ever seizure of Captagon, a banned synthetic stimulant, commonly referred to as the “Jihadi Drug”, valued at Rs 182 crore.In a post on X, Shah said the seizure was made under “Operation Ragepill” and described it as a major step in the Centre’s anti-narcotics campaign.He said the consignment was destined for the Middle East and confirmed that a foreign national had been ar…
Athens, May 2 (IANS) Pakistan’s visa fraud, begging rackets, smuggling cases, and terror-linked prosecutions abroad expose deep-rooted domestic failures, from weak document control and exploitation of poverty to entrenched criminal networks and militant ecosystems at home, a report has detailed. “Pakistan often presents its diaspora as a pillar of national strength: a source of remittances, manpower, and international prestige. Yet a more uncomfortable reality keeps surfacing. Repeated cases i…