Delhi: 6kg gold seized

NEW DELHI: A man trying to smuggle gold worth Rs 1.73 crore into the capital was arrested from IGI Airport on Monday. The accused is from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, and was coming from Dubai. Six gold bars weighing one kg each were recovered from him.

He had hidden the gold bars in a cotton belt which he wrapped around his waist beneath the trousers, said a custom official. He was caught while being frisked.

The recovery of smuggled gold comes at a time when the Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence has sounded an alert to all international airports and other transit points within the country to intensify measures, including minutely scanning of suspect passengers and commercial consignments, to check smuggling of gold. This alert follows recent structural changes in import duty of gold by the finance ministry.

Delhi gang-rape case: Death sentence for all four convicts

NEW DELHI: Four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape-cum-murder case were on Friday awarded death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.

"Death to all," additional sessions judge Yogesh Khanna said while delivering the verdict in theDelhi gang-rape case that had evoked nationwide outrage and led the government to bring in a stringent anti-rape law.

"Besides discussing others offences, I straightaway come to section 302 (murder) of IPC. This falls under inhuman nature of the convicts and the gravity of offence they committed cannot be tolerated. Death sentence is given to all the four convicts," he said.

Delhi world's second most populous mega-city

MUMBAI: The urban agglomerations of Mumbai and Delhi, which barely matched up to global cities in size in 1950, are now counted among the seven most populous mega-cities in the world, reveals the 2013 World Population Data Sheet released by the US's Population Reference Bureau on Thursday.

Mumbai, in terms of its Mumbai Metropolitan Region (including Navi Mumbai, Thane and Vasai-Virar among other satellite belts), houses around 19.7 million persons and ranks seventh in the world. It was ranked 17th in 1950, the earliest year for which data is available.