CR services disrupted

Central Railway local services were disrupted for some time on the harbour line when a CST-bound local train was forced to halt near King Circle station at 3 pm on Thursday after developing a technical snag.

Railway officials informed that the ``sleeper packing'' of one of the coaches had broken down at Rawli Camp. They, however, maintained that the other trains were not really delayed as the snag was repaired within one hour.

Gold seized

Officials of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs collectorate today intercepted a woman passenger and siezed twenty two gold bars, a pair of gold bangles and a pendant weighing 2.797 kilograms, valued at Rs 13.34 lakh, at the Sahar international airport here.

The woman, who arrived from Dubai along with her son had wrapped the gold ornaments in a black cloth belt worn around her waist to deceive the customs officials. Dutiable goods including electronic items worth Rs 1.12 lakh were also recovered from her. Reportedly, the lady (whose identity is still not known), was trying to hoodwink the customs sleuths by passing through the green channel and was also seen moving in a suspicious manner.

This aroused the suspicion of the officials who intercepted and checked her baggage. While the gold was revealed in the waist belt, the dutiable goods were found in the baggage.

Function put off

A function to honour Indian Airlines officers retiring from service scheduled for Friday has been postponed to Sunday due to unavoidable circumstances. The function will now be held at 6.30 pm at the Indian Airlines Sports Club, Kalina. The civil aviation minister, C M Ibrahim who will be the chief guest of the function will present momentoes to the officers. He will also release a souvenir brought out by the Indian Airlines Officers' Association published on the occasion. P C Sen, chairman and managing director, Indian Airlines will preside over the function.

Kamat's demand

Former Member of Parliament Gurudas Kamat has demanded the resignation of the entire Maharashtra government for its failure to implement the Rs 5000 crore Mumbai Urban Transport project that has eventually compelled the World Bank to drop its plans of funding the project.

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