The city cyber police have busted a fraudulent call centre that targeted credit card users by offering to increase their card limits and then stealing their financial information to make online purchases. Gurgaon: Five people, including a woman, were arrested from Delhi for allegedly operating a fraudulent call centre that targeted credit card users by…
Bagnan: Two people were arrested on Saturday after a group of miscreants burnt down a local BJP worker’s cyber cafe in the Nuntia Crossing area under the Bagnan police station. Following the arson, locals, including Howrah BJP secretary and advocate Omprakash Singh, staged a protest demanding the arrest of the culprits. A Trinamool party office…
Houses in New Hindon Vihar encroach on the floodplain zone Ghaziabad: Days after the UP govt informed the National Green Tribunal that 258 unauthorised colonies in Ghaziabad were discharging untreated sewage daily into the Hindon, district magistrate Ravindra Kumar Mandar on Friday directed officials to launch a coordinated drive to identify and remove encroachments along…
Mock gram sabha in Goa Screenshot Panaji: From drunkards to farmers and from trans persons to housewives, an eclectic mix of people took part in a gram sabha in Goa recently, debating and discussing protection of land, stopping of mega projects and even generating revenue for the panchayat.Only that it was a mock gram sabha…
Ahmedabad: With admissions to technical courses underway, half of Gujarat’s government-run engineering colleges are operating without full-time principals. Eight of the state’s 16 government engineering colleges do not have regular principals, while all three UG pharmacy colleges run by the state government are also without full-time principals, industry sources said.The leadership gaps come amid a…
Ludhiana: Days after a former private bank employee was booked for allegedly duping a woman, police have received several more complaints against him from the Jagraon area.Lovepreet Singh of New Ramuwala, earlier posted at a bank branch in Jagraon, had been booked by the Ludhiana rural cybercrime police on a complaint by Parminder Kaur for…
Batala: One more youth injured in the shooting incident near Simbal Chowk in Batala, Gurdaspur, died late Friday night while undergoing treatment in Amritsar. The deceased was identified as Kanwaljit Singh, owner of a gun house in Batala while his brother, Jagjit Singh is in critical condition and is being treated at a hospital in…
Unchecked scrapyards around MIDC areas raise safety issues Pune: Hundreds of privately operated scrap yards spread across industrial pockets and villages surrounding Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) areas in Pune district are emerging as a major public safety hazard, with recurring fire incidents exposing glaring gaps in regulation, fire safety compliance and official oversight.Operating on…
CCTV grab shows three masked men unlocking the shutter Times News Network CCTV grab shows three masked men unlocking the shutter Surat: The detection of crime branch (DCB) arrested three persons, including a minor, in connection with the robbery of Rs 8 lakh belonging to a cosmetics firm in Godadara.Among those arrested is a former…
Imphal: More than 700 internally displaced persons (IDPs), who were taking shelter in relief camps and pre-fabricated housing across Manipur, have died since the outbreak of violence in May 2023, according to information disclosed by the state home department under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.The information was furnished to RTI appellant Hareshwar Goshwami, writer…
