20KG Gold Hidden In Jackets, Caught At Kochi Airport

Kochi: In the biggest gold haul at an Indian airport, 20 gold bars valued at Rs 5.8 crore were seized early on Thursday from two women passengers from Dubai. On the basis of specific information, a team of officers of the Customs Preventive unit effected the seizure, a customs release said.

The women, hailing from Thrissur and Kozhikode, had arrived here early on Thursday by an Emirates flight. They had departed from Kochi to Dubai six days ago.

The bars, weighing 20kg, were found concealed in specially stitched jackets with pouches worn by the burqa-clad women. The extent of customs duty sought to be evaded worked out to Rs 60 lakh, the release said. The seizure is the largest in the recent history of gold smuggling cases detected in the country, the release said. Prior to this seizure, a total quantity of 23kg of gold bars worth about Rs six crore had been seized by customs in the last few months.

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, September 20, 2013

Sunny Leone - Overwhelmed, Happy and Focused

Sunny Leone never thought that there would be a warm welcome for her in India considering her background and the movies that she had been doing or has done till the recent past. But she is happy that the audience is looking her as a different person and considers her a completely different personality which makes her leave her US life back and focus on Bollywood!

Sunny Leone said: “I am excited to be here! I know it’s a little late but it does not matter! I hope you guys watch Jism 2 and I hope you guys love the movie!” 

Sunny Leone revealed that she will start promoting the film from Monday morning and said: “You guys are going to get lots and lots of interviews”! Sunny is happy with the way Jism 2 has come together! 

Sunny Leone was back to India this Saturday with her husband, Daniel Weber. 

"I did not think that people will like me because of my background, like what I do for my living in America. I was not sure if this thing would be accepted. But I am very much happy with the welcome and response I have got here," Sunny told reporters.

"What I found was so interesting that in India they did a complete separation like this is Sunny Leone from `Bigg Boss` and `Jism 2` and this is Sunny Leone the girl from the US, they are two completely different people," she said.

"I think they just took me in one movie. I think a whole new world has opened up?I think the young generation of people are ready to see someone like me on TV otherwise I would not be here, sitting like this. 

I think lot of backlash already happened when I was in `Bigg Boss` show. A lot of noise already happened about when I was there on TV. But after spending few weeks in the house, I felt something good might be going outside to the world as I was not kicked out soon,"" when media asked her if the audience was cool about an adult star being a lead lady in movies. 

She was still talking about Bigg Boss house as it there the 31-year old actress was offered the role for Jism 2 by Producer Mahesh Bhatt, "The show opened doors....Opened a new world for me

something that I would have never imagined. Bhatt saheb came in the house and talked about doing a movie. This idea never crossed my mind, I thought I will exit the house and never come back to India... But a complete opposite thing happened," she said.

She also said that she was overwhelmed by the response that she received here, "People wanted to click pictures with me. They asked to pose with their six-month old baby for a photo. It was surprising," she said. 

The movie releases on August 3 and stars Arunodhay Singh and Randeep Hooda in lead roles.

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- Unknown Updated at: Monday, July 30, 2012

Shahrukh detained 2 hours at NY - Again?

This event had made a stir in 2009 (at Newark) but it has unfortunately repeated itself in 2012 as the 'Khan' tag seems to be going uneasy with the airport officials. The Bollywood superstar, Shah Rukh Khan was detained at the New York airport this Thursday, where he was set to attend Yale University's Chubb Fellows, one of the Ivy League institution's highest honours, on April 12 for promoting human ideals through art. He was accompanied by Nita Ambani.

King Khan was cool at the moment and responded "I was detained at the airport as always happens,", unlike the 2009 incident which was extremely rash and humiliating for the actor. In 2009, when the questioning continued after the 2 hours session, the Indian mission intervened and secured his release. He had then responded "I was really hassled at the American Airport because of my name being Khan...It was absolutely was uncalled for...I felt angry and humiliated," said Shah Rukh, who was then heading towards Chicago to participate in an Independence Day celebration.

"It is a Muslim name and I think the name is common on their checklist," he had then said. 

At the moment, the star was cool about it and seems to have got a better treatment than what he experienced over 2009. This time the Yale University officials had intervened to get him cleared off the further questioning events. Shah Rukh Khan is considered one of the powerful media artists of the generation who, through his films and philanthropy has been promoting human ideals and aspirations, noted the Chubb Fellowship. Chubb Fellowship roster has included heads of states, Nobel Prize winners, and leaders from every area of human endeavour who have inspired Yale students to see service to the public good as the highest calling to which a global citizen can aspire.

Former Chubb Fellows include Presidents George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter; authors Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes and Toni Morrison; filmmaker Sofia Coppola; architect Frank Gehry; choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov; and journalist Walter Cronkite.  

The world wide publicity and the heart grabbing performances of the actor has always made him special to his countrymen and foreign alike and it is this factor which did contribute in having SRK into the Chubb Fellow list.

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, April 13, 2012