Three Mexicans, including a woman, and a Venezuelan were arrested by the UAE police at Dubai airport after the four were found in possession of diamonds worth Rs 6.6 crores that had been stolen from a Mumbai exhibition. The four had swallowed the diamonds instead of stashing them in their baggage, and had to be given laxatives to get the stones out of their system.

The CEO of Balaji Bullion Manoj Punamiya, who is alleged to be the frontman of former chief minister of Jharkhand Madhu Koda in his multi-crore scam was arrested from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Internati

The bitter turf war between two premier counter-terror agencies — the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) — has now assumed a totally novel dimension. The state government has just sanctioned Rs 50 crores to the ATS to ensure that it upstages the Intelligence Bureau in cracking the Pune German Bakery blasts case.

Five Indians kidnapped by Somali pirates from a cargo ship have been released unharmed after more than five months in captivity, an official of the Directorate General of Shipping said on Monday.

City-based bookies are expecting to make huge profits in the upcoming Football World Cup and have estimated business to reach Rs 400 to 500 crores. According to the bookies, the reason for the business is the match timings, which will be conducive for Indian viewers.

Mumbai’s bookies expect to make huge profits in the FIFA World Cup which begins this weekend, estimating that business might touch Rs 400-500 crores.
A bonus, they feel, is that the match timings will help Indian viewers.

A week after the arrest of Abdul Samad Bhatkal from Mangalore, the Anti-Terrorism Squad has not managed to find any substantial evidence against him to nail him in the Pune blast case. Ironically, when he was arrested, he was touted as a “prize catch” in the Pune blast, but on Tuesday, the ATS in its remand application filed in court

A day after a red alert was issued for Gadchiroli, Naxals shot dead two policemen on Thursday. The two constables were following a lead and trying to track the Naxals’ hideouts when they were killed.

The police say seeking opportunity in a tragedy was the plan of Abdul Samad Bhatkal, the prime suspect in the Pune bakery blast arrested from Mangalore airport on Monday. Anti-Terrorism Squad officers said that Bhatkal decided to take a flight from Dubai, a day after the crash to hoodwink the airport police who were occupied

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