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UK says it will open new sponsorship routes for eligible refugeesBritain is set to introduce safe, legal pathways for refugees, allowing community groups and employers to sponsor arrivals. Simultaneously,...
Scientists just trained AI to spot hidden seahorses, shark fins, and sea cucumbers in airport X-ray scans, and the 86% to 96% detection rates could give customs officers a new way to catch marine wildlife smugglersWildlife traffickers hide marine species in luggage. Australian scientists created an AI system using 3D X-ray scans to find seahorses, sha...
EU lawmakers to approve migrant detention and deportation boostEuropean lawmakers are set to approve stricter migration rules. These new regulations grant authorities more power to detain irregular arri...
J&K LG says admin will confiscate property, revoke passports, Aadhar cards and freeze accounts of drug smugglersJammu and Kashmir administration will take stringent action against drug smugglers. Properties will be seized, and licenses, passports, and...
EU police launches centre to step up illegal migration fightThe EU police agency Europol on Tuesday launched a new centre to step up the fight against criminal networks illegally smuggling migrants a...
Haryana teen dies on ‘dunki’ route to US after being held hostage by smugglersA young man from Haryana died in Guatemala. He was trying to reach the US via an illegal route. Human smugglers killed him. His family paid...
TikTok becomes a tool of choice in cat-and-mouse game between migrant smugglers and authoritiesAt a time when legal pathways to the US have been slashed and criminal groups are raking in money from migrant smuggling, social media apps...
BSF beefs up security along Indo-Bangla border, launches crackdown on smugglersBSF Tripura Frontier Inspector General (IG) Patel Piyush Purushottam Das said that during recent talks in Shillong with Bangladesh Border G...
Pakistan: Human smuggler arrested in Lahore; fake passports, IDs seizedOne individual was arrested in Lahore on charges of smuggling people out of the country, as reported by ARY News. The Federal Investigation...
BSF firing at Tripura border: Bangladeshi smuggler killed, another injured; 3 Myanmar nationals arrestedThe BSF also apprehended three Myanmar nationals in Agartala railway station on Sunday after the foreign citizens came to Tripura from Hyde...
"Cocaine Sharks" documentary explores possible drug consumption by Florida's coastal sharksThe documentary "Cocaine Sharks" explores the possibility that Florida coast sharks are ingesting the drugs that smugglers dump into the At...
Over 300 Pakistanis feared dead in Greece boat tragedy; 12 human trafficking suspects arrestedAt least 400 Pakistanis, 200 Egyptians and 150 Syrians, including around two dozen Syrian women and young children were on the packed boat ...
Couple in Gujarat leaves govt job, spends Rs 1 crore to settle US illegally, held at airportThis was not the first time when the couple tried to go the US. In 2018, they tried to reach US illegally on fake passport, but were deport...
Ludhiana blast accused may have links with Khalistanis, terror groups: DGPThe man, former police official Gagandeep Singh, was dismissed from his services and was arrested by a special task force in 2019 in a drug...
1,600 migrants lost at sea in Mediterranean this yearThe death toll is higher than last year, but by no means unique. The International Organization of Migration estimates that 23,000 people h...
Migrant smugglers see boost from US pandemic border policyU.S. President Donald Trump's administration in March announced that it would begin to quickly expel nearly all migrants caught at the bord...
BSF alerts units along Bangladesh border against spurt in human trafficking during COVID-19The Border Security Force (BSF) has sounded an alert all along the 4,096 km long India-Bangladesh front to check cross-border human traffic...
After Modi's statement, will police act against gau rakshaks?One can only hope that PM's harsh words for cow vigilantes sends a warning not only to anti-socials, but also signals police forces to act ...
Centre seeks report from Andhra Pradesh government on killing of 20 peopleN Chandrababu Naidu has briefed Home Minister Rajnath Singh about the incident and the action taken by the state government in this regard.
Import Duty triggers rise in crimeThe 10 per cent import duty on gold spurs unprecedented smuggling. Smugglers are skipping the traditional routes and tapping into fake curr...