Operation Echosteep: How a single stolen iPhone helped UK police bust a $200 million phone smuggling ringA single tracked iPhone helped UK police dismantle the largest mobile phone theft ring in history, uncovering 40,000 stolen devices bound f...
07 Oct, 2025, 10.46 AM IST
How a psychiatrist became mobile supplier for Lashkar terrorists in Bengaluru jail: Inside Rs 1 crore racket busted by NIAA psychiatrist, Dr. Nagaraj, has been arrested for smuggling mobile phones to terrorists and criminals inside Bengaluru Central Prison. The...
10 Jul, 2025, 01.16 PM IST
How did a normal mom use drones to smuggle millions into prisons? Discover the shocking double life of Lucy AdcockDrones were used by Lucy Adcock, an apparently normal single mother, to covertly oversee a criminal operation smuggling contraband into UK ...
20 Aug, 2024, 02.45 AM IST
Budget 2024: Imported phones may become cheaper on 5% customs duty cutThe cost of imported high-end smartphones will come down by 5.0-5.5% if brands pass on the benefit of the reduced customs duty to consumers...
24 Jul, 2024, 12.02 PM IST
Centre to roll out pan-India mobile tracking system to aid finding lost devicesThe Indian government is planning the pan-India rollout of a tracking system for lost and stolen mobile phones. The Centre for Department o...
14 May, 2023, 12.12 PM IST
iPhone smuggling case: NBW issued against 'kingpin'These sources added that the probe has found that iPhones were allegedly concealed in the import consignments of two importing firms M/s Sa...
21 Jun, 2022, 10.08 AM IST
DRI busts an iPhone 13 smuggling racket, seizes over 3,600 phones“After developing precise intelligence, officers of DRI inspected two consignments on Friday. These consignments had arrived from Hong Kong...
28 Nov, 2021, 07.57 PM IST
Kerala gold smuggling case: Court allows Customs plea seeking 7 day extension of custody of SivasankarIn its plea, the Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate on Monday claimed that key accused Swapna Suresh, during her custodial interrogation,...
01 Dec, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
Premium phone cos seek Rs 4,000 cap on customs dutyThe basic custom duty of 20% is instead causing an annual loss of Rs 2,500 crore to the exchequer due to rampant smuggling of these devices...
05 Dec, 2019, 08.04 AM IST
Smuggled mobile phones ringing in trouble at Tihar JailTotal 330 mobile phones have been recovered in the last one month in Tihar jail.
24 Aug, 2019, 12.22 PM IST
Cigarette, tobacco smuggling incidents jump 136% in 2yrs: ReportMaximum revenue loss to the exchequer came from illicit trade of tobacco products, mobile phones, alcoholic beverages, it said.
27 Mar, 2018, 01.38 PM IST
Customs authorities on their toes as smuggling of gold getting harder to catchSmugglers are trying to keep one step ahead of officials by secreting gold in unlikely hiding places or camouflaging it in surprising new f...
07 Sep, 2015, 06.36 AM IST
Airport duty-free shop being used for smuggling goldSmugglers are using the duty-free shop at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here to sneak gold into the country, forcing customs auth...
30 Aug, 2015, 01.06 PM IST
China grants license for iPhone 6 sales after weeks of delayThe Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said that it has granted a network access license to iPhone 6.
30 Sep, 2014, 12.17 PM IST
- Government loses Rs 26K crore in taxes to smuggling, counterfeiting: FICCI
Smuggling and counterfeiting is estimated to cost the government a whopping Rs 26,190 crore in tax losses annually, a study conducted by in...
20 Dec, 2012, 09.14 PM IST
- Cops have no system for tracking lost phones
In reply to the Right to information plea, the police claimed that in the past two years 56,841 people have lost their phones.
06 Apr, 2010, 10.58 AM IST
- Apple's iPhone launch in China no easy task: Experts
Several mobiles running on Google's Android and China Mobile's oPhone OS are also soon due to hit the market.
06 Sep, 2009, 03.56 PM IST