Mumbai: An IITian and the operations manager of a private bank are among six individuals arrested by the cyber police in connection with a Rs 1.12 crore digital arrest scam. According to investigators, all six accused were tied to the financial trail, which involved receiving illicit funds, managing mule accounts, supplying active SIM cards, and…
Bengaluru: A local court in the city Wednesday handed one of the key operators of the fake drug racket, Veeresh Kumar Jain, to seven-day police custody.Proprietor of Krupa Health Care at Minerva Circle, Jain was arrested last week after special investigation team sleuths raided his unit. He was in judicial custody at Bengaluru Central Prison.“We…
Chief minister C Joseph Vijay termed Periyar his party’s guiding light, but said it did not share the leader’s views on atheism Periyar E V Ramasamy never contested an election. Yet, five decades after his death, his name surfaces in the context of every election in Tamil Nadu. Parties across the state’s political spectrum, parties…
The accused, Satinder Singh alias Kanti, was arrested by a CIA-I team on Tuesday. KURUKSHETRA: Kurukshetra Police have arrested a snatching accused who allegedly escaped from LNJP Civil Hospital on September 5, nearly a day after being admitted there from the district jail following an alleged suicide attempt.The accused, identified as Satinder Singh alias Kanti,…
Nandigram/Behrampore/Kolkata: Election Commission (EC) has called the two Trinamool Congress factions for a hearing on Thursday. This is the third EC date for the rival blocs since the dispute over ownership of the party’s name, symbol and assets reached the poll body on July 6.The deadline for submitting additional documents ended at 3 pm on…
Silchar: A 38-year-old man was killed and two others injured after lightning struck a betel nut plantation in Assam’s Hailakandi district on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Taiyabur Rahman Choudhury of Kuchila-Bashdahar village. The injured were identified as Alim Uddin Laskar (25) and Ainul Haque Laskar (32).The three were working at Choudhury’s plantation around 11…
The National Investigation Agency has arrested a contractual driver in Saharanpur (Representative image) LUCKNOW: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a contractual driver of Punjab National Bank’s currency chest in Saharanpur for his alleged role in the conspiracy involving counterfeit Indian currency notes worth Rs 17.29 crore found inside the bank’s currency chest.The arrested…
Election Commission of India NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has scheduled a hearing with a five-member delegation led by Ritabrata Banerjee on September 17 in connection with representations received by the poll panel concerning the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).In a letter dated September 16, the Commission said the hearing will be…
About 5,000 gallons of diesel spilled from an Equinix data centre into Anderson Creek in Secaucus. (Photo: Bill Sheehan/Hackensack Riverkeeper) Cleanup crews are working in New Jersey’s Meadowlands after roughly 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a storage tank at a data centre in Secaucus and entered Anderson Creek.The New Jersey Department of Environmental…
100% tariff on India? Russia sanctions bill clears key hurdle, final House vote next US President Donald Trump’s tariff ambitions could soon get a legal pathway to hit India with tariffs as high as 100 per cent if a proposed Russia sanctions bill clears the US House of Representatives and becomes law.The House is scheduled…
