{"id":10226,"date":"2020-12-11T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2020-12-11T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T16:05:30","slug":"india-foils-bid-to-smuggle-gold-using-fishing-boat-in-gulf-of-mannar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/india-foils-bid-to-smuggle-gold-using-fishing-boat-in-gulf-of-mannar\/","title":{"rendered":"India foils bid to smuggle gold using fishing boat in Gulf of Mannar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle over 9 kg of gold in a fishing boat near the Gulf of Mannar in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian Coast Guard ship C432 seized 9.7 Kg of gold from a fishing boat Sailor of Manali tivu at Gulf of Mannar, the New Indian Express reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Indian Coast Guard had conducted the midnight joint operation with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation was launched at 10 am yesterday with the DRI team onboard the Coast Guard ship and the movement was closely monitored till the boat was apprehended red handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five men have been detained and joint investigation is in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, in a joint operation, the Indian Coast Guard had stumbled across a major drug consignment from Pakistan in a Sri Lankan boat in the high seas south of Thoothukudi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 99 packets of heroin, 20 small boxes of synthetic drugs, five 9mm pistols and a Thuraya satellite phone set were found in the empty fuel tank on the boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle over 9 kg of gold in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}