Customs
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Delhi airport: Air India passenger caught smuggling gold worth Rs 20 lakh hidden under bottle cap
India | Oct 26, 2025, 02:14 PM ISTCustoms officials at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport arrested an Air India passenger arriving from Dubai for smuggling 170 grams of gold worth around Rs 20 lakh.
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US issues fresh warning for international travellers, asks to declare 'meat, fruits, animals, soil'
World | Jul 27, 2025, 04:40 PM ISTIn a post on X, the CBP showed a detection dog inspecting a cooked pig’s head wrapped in foil along with bottles of what looked like other food items.
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Kerala shocker: Three severely decomposed bodies found in Customs quarters in Kochi
India | Feb 21, 2025, 07:49 AM ISTThe deceased is suspected to be a senior customs officer, his sister and mother who are speculated to have died by suicide. The police said that the severely decomposed state of the bodies made identification difficult.
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Gold worth Rs 19 Crore seized at Mumbai airport, two foreign nationals arrested
Maharashtra | Jun 10, 2024, 03:51 PM ISTTwo women passengers of foreign nationality were arrested by the customs along with the gold. The gold was found concealed in the bags and undergarments of both the passengers.
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Modi government reduces import duty on mobile phone parts to 10 per cent ahead of Budget 2024
Business | Jan 31, 2024, 01:46 PM ISTThe revised rate will be applicable to critical components used in mobile phone assembly, including battery covers, main lenses, back covers, and other mechanical items made of plastic and metal.
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Delhi: IGI customs seizes 4kg silver-coated gold jewellery worth Rs 2.06 crore
Delhi | Aug 29, 2023, 10:25 AM ISTThe accused were intercepted by Customs officials at the Green Channel while they were trying to leave the airport without declaring the jewellery.
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Delhi: Gold valued over Rs 94 lakh seized at IGI airport, two people held
India | Nov 27, 2022, 11:16 PM ISTThe gold was seized under Section 110 of Customs Act. Both the passengers were placed under arrest in terms of violation of Section 104 of the Customs Act.
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Maharashtra: Around 61 kg gold worth Rs 32 crore seized at Mumbai airport; 4 held
India | Nov 13, 2022, 05:19 PM ISTMaharashtra: According to customs officials, a special type of cavity was made in belts and shirts of the accused people for them to bring back the materials. The police further said that the accused had no previous criminal records.
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Bangkok passenger arrested at Chennai airport for carrying 15 live king snakes
India | Aug 13, 2022, 10:07 PM ISTChennai airport customs department said a DeBrazza monkey, 15 King snakes, 5 ball pythons and two Aldabra tortoises were recovered.
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CBIC abolishes licence renewal requirement for customs brokers, authorised carriers
Business | Jul 25, 2021, 09:18 AM ISTThe CBIC has amended the Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations, 2018 and Sea Cargo Manifest and Transhipment Regulations, 2018, to state that all such existing licenses/registration would have a lifetime validity.
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Customs seizes ecstasy pills worth Rs 50 lakh at Chennai airport; 2 arrested
India | Jul 18, 2021, 09:00 PM ISTActing on inputs, the personnel of the department opened a cardboard box and found in it 994 “Pink Punisher” methylene-dioxy-meth-amphetamine (MDMA) also known as ecstasy pills worth Rs 50 lakh.
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Customs intercepts China-bound shipments of raw material for masks
India | May 13, 2020, 11:41 PM ISTCustoms officials on Wednesday intercepted China-bound consignments of raw material for masks, misdeclared as packing materials for pouches, in large quantities, a senior official said.
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India to post customs intelligence officers in London, Hong Kong
India | Dec 02, 2019, 02:06 PM ISTThe Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the lead agency to check customs frauds and smuggling, has started the process of selecting customs overseas intelligence network (COIN) officers for these places, Officials said.
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Government asks Customs to check smuggling of 'love hormone'
India | Apr 10, 2018, 08:16 PM ISTOxytocin is used, among other purposes, to stimulate lactation in nursing mothers and also to induce labour during childbirth.
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People are sending demonetised notes abroad by courier. Read why
India | Apr 09, 2017, 10:44 AM ISTCustoms officials have registered a few cases, where demonetised banknotes were sent abroad by courier, and seized over Rs 1 lakh in such notes.
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Bill to make excise, customs Acts compliant with GST passed by Lok Sabha
Apr 06, 2017, 07:14 PM ISTA bill seeking to ensure continuance of levy of excise on petroleum products and abolition of cess on some other items following GST rollout was passed by the Lok Sabha today.
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US customs officials recover idol worth Rs 6 crore looted from India
World | Jul 02, 2015, 10:53 AM ISTNew York: US customs officials have recovered a bronze religious statue from the 11th or 12th century that they say was looted from a temple in India.The New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Customs crackdown on gold: Declare all jewellery at IGI
India | Mar 22, 2014, 10:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: The customs authorities are cracking down on Indians bringing gold into the country as the department has made it mandatory for all flyers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to declare their
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Trophy With Mumbai Customs Is Promotional Cup: CBEC
Cricket | Apr 04, 2011, 07:34 PM ISTNew Delhi, Apr 4: The Customs today said that the ICC Trophy in the custody of Mumbai Airport Customs is a promotional cup which will be taken to the ICC Headquarters in Dubai and has