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Three held for trying to smuggle tortoises weighing 40 quintals
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03-Jul-2008 4 related
        

New Delhi News.Net Thursday 3rd July, 2008 (IANS) Busting an international racket involved in the smuggling of tortoises, Uttar Pradesh police have arrested three people in Sultanpur district. Live tortoises weighing over 40 quintals in all were seized, the police said Thursday. 'Those arrested were planning to smuggle the tortoises to Bangladesh. The seized tortoises cost over Rs.50 lakh (Rs.5 million) in the international market,' Sultanpur Superintendent of Police D.C. Mishra told IANS. 'We are still interrogating the smugglers to ascertain the place from which the tortoises were brought,' he added. The smugglers were held from Jagdishpur in Sultanpur, about 140 km from the state capital here,... [read full story]                    

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‘Genes, Brain. Behaviour’ (2009-10-09)

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The 5th Annual Meeting of the Section of Neuroimaging on ‘Genes, Brain. Behaviour’ will take place on the 9th and 10th of April 2009 at the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh, UK. Registration opens on...

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