2023

MUMBAI: A 37-year-old woman from Mumbai was duped of Rs 1.37 lakh by a cyber fraudster in the guise of helping her pay electricity bill online, police said on Monday. The incident came to light when the woman, who stays with her mother, a senior citizen, in suburban Andheri (West), approached the Versova police station with a complaint, said an official. According to the complainant, her mother received...

SINGPORE: Singapore's election authority has lodged a police report against an Indian-origin suspended lawyer and a local activist of Chinese origin for publishing multiple posts on social media during the cooling-off period ahead of the country's presidential election, according to a media report on Monday. The Elections Department of Singapore (ELD) filed the police report against Ravi Madasamy and...

NEW DELHI: Khalistan supporters on Monday staged a protest outside the Indian High Commission in London.The pro-Khalistan protesters who were restricted to the opposite side of the High Commission waved anti-India placards and chanted slogans in presence of British security forces.The protest was organised to draw attention to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations of alleged Indian...

THANE: A man who allegedly abducted his live-in partner after a dispute was arrested in Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Monday.The 34-year-old accused stopped the victim, who works in a bar, when she was returning home on Sunday but her screams alerted police, he said. "The woman was rescued. The victim's mother and sister have also been booked. Further probe is under...

BHUBANESWAR: Similipal Tiger Reserve authorities said with joint squad of forest and police personnel keeping a strict vigil on use of weapons by poachers, some instances of dogs being used by villagers to hunt animals has come to the fore.Use of hunting dogs for poaching is a traditional method and it has been found to be in practice in several sanctuaries in Odisha. In Similipal also, dogs were being...

CHENNAI: Power supply will be suspended in and around Injambakkam, Adyar and Avadi on Wednesday from 9 am to 2 pm for maintenance work, according to Tangedco.Injambakkam: Akkarai Village, Allikulam, Anna Enclave, Bethel Nagar North and South, Copper Beach Road, ECR, Kakkan Street, Kasthurba Nagar, Neelankarai Kuppam, Panaiyur Kuppam, Rajiv Avenue, Thiruvallur Salai, TVS Avenue and VOC Street.Adyar:...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government's control center to monitor air pollution and redress complaints — 'Green War Room' — will start functioning round-the-clock from October 3.Officials said on Monday that launched in 2020, the Green War Room has state-of-the-art air quality monitoring equipment and a team of experts, including scientists and data analysts, which keeps an eye on all sources contributing...

KALYAN: Hearing a PIL filed by an activist on ongoing illegal construction on government and private lands in Kalyan, the Bombay High Court has directed Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to demolish the unauthorised construction in Kalyan especially on Kalyan-Haji Malang road and also directed KDMC commissioner to personally look into it.The HC has also asked KDMC to initiate disciplinary...

Ask any Golgappa lover and they would not know its rich history. According to a legend, when Draupadi came home after getting married to the five Pandavas, her mother-in-law Kunti, assigned her a task. As the Pandavas were in exile at that time, they had to live their lives with less and scarce resources. Therefore, Kunti wanted to test them and see whether her new daughter-in-law would be able to live...

JAIPUR: Several trains, including Vande Bharat express trains were cleaned in just 14 minutes under the 'Swachhta Hi Seva campaign', on Sunday.The North Western Railway (NWR) started the ‘14 Minute Miracle Scheme’.Among the trains cleaned in just 14 minutes include Udaipur-Jaipur, Bilaspur - Nagpur, Secunderabad-Tirupati, Puri-Rourkela and Gandhinagar-Mumbai Central.For cleaning the Udaipur-Jaipur...