Government collected Rs 10,463 crore in customs duty on precious metal imports. Gold imports generated Rs 10,040 crore, while silver and pl...

Customs officials in Kerala seized eight kilograms of gold worth over eleven crore rupees during recent enforcement actions. Last week's co...

The recent spike in import duties in India has inadvertently fueled a rise in gold smuggling activities. Traders are noting a marked increa...

Revenue intelligence and customs officials are preparing to tighten surveillance across airports, seaports and land borders after India rai...

Refiners, who import impure or dore bars for refining, alleged that there has been a significant rise in smuggled gold in the Indian market...

Arms smuggling took a hit with the decline in insurgency after 2013-14, the DRI report said. “But as the routes and the network of carriers...

Gold in India touched a record high of 39,885 rupees ($563) per 10 grams in early September.

Import restrictions on gold led to a rise in its smuggling and the various ways adopted to illicitly bring in the precious metal in the cou...

Gold smuggling through airports increased in three years to 2014-15 and the government seized Rs 429.84 crore precious metal till mid-Novem...

With demand for gold increasing in the country, majority of gold from Dubai and Singapore are being smuggled into India due to the price di...

Chennithala today said there has been an increase in gold smuggling through the three International airports in the state and there is a ra...

An alert has been issued by DRI, the lead agency to check smuggling and customs duty evasion, to all international transit points across th...

As many as 40 cases of gold smuggling were registered in 2012-13. The value of gold seized in these cases was about Rs 44.80 crore, accordi...

Sources said the value of gold actually smuggled could be over 10-20 times this amount. Some estimates put seizures at 1-2% of actual smugg...

The Finance Ministry has said incidence of gold smuggling has increased due to hike in import duty and fluctuation in global prices.

With a rise in customs duty on gold imports, smugglers have been resorting to extreme measures to sneak in small amounts of the precious me...