Mangaluru, Feb 26: Customs officials at Mangalore International Airport on Wednesday arrested a man for trying to smuggle gold worth over Rs 26 lakh by concealing it in his rectum.
The accused has been identified as Moideen Arzan, a resident of Uppala, Kasaragod.
According to police, he arrived from Dubai by an Air India flight and was attempting to smuggle the gold which he had converted in the form of paste and concealed in rubber capsules inside his rectum.
Kannur, Mar 29: A non-resident Keralite (NRK)
under home quarantine here since he returned from Sharjah recently died on Sunday, officials said.
According to health authorities, Abdul Khader (65), a resident of Kannariparamba, was kept under home quarantine after he returned from abroad on March 21.
Police said the man had no symptoms of coronavirus but was under isolation as per Covid-19 protocol for persons returning from abroad and other states.
"The relatives of the deceased took him to hospital after seeing him unconscious in his room. However he died before reaching the hospital," police said.
Quoting medical college authorities, the Mayyil police said he died of cardiac arrest.
However, the health officials said they will test his blood sample to ascertain whether he was affected with novel coronavirus.
The body has been kept at the Kannur medical college and will be handed over to his kin only if the result of his blood test is negative, sources said.
Mangaluru, Apr 4: Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner (DC) Sindhu B Rupesh in an official reminder has ordered milk unions to disburse about 5,000 litres of milk to residents of notified and non-notified slums, construction labourers and migrant labourers and their families in shelters in the district.
A decision regarding the free distribution of milk to such needy families was taken in a meeting by the chief minister on April 1.
The DC has ordered cooperative milk unions in the district to distribute milk to such families from April 4 till April 14.
Bengaluru, Apr 18: The Indian Council of Medical Research has approved 16 laboratories, comprising 11 government and five private laboratories in Karnataka, for testing the samples of COVID-19 suspected cases, the state government said on Saturday.
Meetings and negotiations were held with some private laboratories for conducting COVID-19 sample testing, additional chief secretary (health and family welfare) Jawaid Akhtar said in a circular.
"Based on the negotiations, the cost per test has been fixed at Rs 2,250," the circular read.
These private labs have to abide by the conditions laid down by the state and union governments, it added.
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"Get rich quick and by any means syndrome"
Those Economy Saboteurs/ Smugglers are very Desperate People whose means of livelihood depends Solely on their Criminal Activities.
WHAT is driving these people so crazily into CRIMINALITY?!
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