New Delhi, June 26: Airline major Jet Airways on Tuesday started its second flight service between New Delhi and Dhaka.

This new flight service would operate four days in a week -- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday --, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.

"This new service, which commenced operations today (on Tuesday) will complement the existing daily operations between the two cities, providing guests more flight choices between Bangladesh and India," it said, adding that within India, the new flight would offer "easy onward connections" to Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, and Pune.

Gaurang Shetty, Wholetime Director, Jet Airways said: "There was a need and potential to develop the operations between the capitals of India and Bangladesh. As economic activities develop along with the ties between the two countries, it provides opportunities for citizens of Bangladesh to be a part of the growth story."

 

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Bengaluru (PTI): A 29 year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing cash along gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 1 crore from the house of a US couple here, police said on Wednesday.

He was employed as a domestic worker at their house. 

Police managed to nab the accused identified as Chandan Roul, a native of West Bengal, they said. The entire stolen property was also recovered intact, police said.

The matter came to light on January 21 when the residents of the villa at Kodihalli, a husband-wife duo who originally hail from Texas, US and are working in Bengaluru filed a complaint at J B Nagar police station, they added. 

According to police, the complainant alleged that when they returned home in the evening after work, they found that the gold and diamond jewellery kept in the locker of the bedroom cupboard had been stolen.

In the complaint, they also expressed suspicion about the domestic help who had been working in their house for the past six months.

"During the probe, our team examined the case from various angles and, within a few hours of the incident, we detained the domestic help near the villa where the complainant resides. During interrogation, the accused confessed to having committed the theft," a senior police officer said.

The accused further stated that he had kept the stolen gold and diamond jewellery at his residence in Sudhamanagar, he said. 

Based on the information provided by him, on the same day, the police team seized 176 grams of gold and diamond jewellery and Rs 39,000 in cash from his residence. The total value of the seized property is Rs one crore, he added.