KOLKATA: A missed call scam involving an international pay-per-call number, that has been in existence since 2018, seems to have reared its head again in the country with a couple of netizens receiving such calls.However, even as no police complaint has been filed, cyber experts in the city have warned users to be wary about responding to calls from odd numbers.It's known as Madagascar scam, where calls...
SALEM/ CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said chief minister M K Stalin's attempts to scuttle the growth of his party through false cases would fail and the opposition party would bounce back to power.Addressing the party cadres on Sunday at Attur in Salem, on his maiden visit to hometown Salem after being elected as the party general secretary, EPS said that there was a high...
NEW DELHI: For the second consecutive day, Delhi recorded more than 400 cases of Covid-19. On Sunday, the national capital registered 429 new cases and another fatality owing to the virus. As per the daily health bulletin, the positivity rate was 16.09%, a jump of around 2% from Saturday.Sunday's figure came from 2,667 samples. According to the state government, the primary cause of the death was "not...
MUMBAI: In a major shot in the arm for the city's security agencies, China has given its green signal to extradite Prasad Pujari - one of the last few gangsters operating from foreign shores and wanted in several cases of extortion, threat to life and murder- and has asked the Government of India to send its extradition request in Mandarin.The Chinese authorities gave its approval to the Ministry of...
NEW DELHI: Though BJP executed an interesting social-engineering move by rejigging the caste quotas while making forays into the Vokkaliga constituency of JDS in the old Mysuru region, it continues to view the numerically preponderant Lingayats as its core constituency.Evidently, that is the reason when Lingayat community veteran B S Yediyurappa quit as chief minister, he was replaced by Basavaraj...
THANE: An alert constable caught a dummy candidate who was to appear for a police recruitment exam. He was padded up with gadgets, the police said. The accused has been arrested and a case has been registered against him at Rabodi police station.The exams were scheduled at the Saraswati school on Sunday. As the candidates were going inside the exam centre, a constable Ishwar Gholwad was frisking...
PILIBHIT: Security agency sleuths, who arrived in Pilibhit from Lucknow on Sunday to collect more information on the absconding Waris Punjab De leader Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh, found that CCTV footage up to the evening of March 25 at Mohanapur gurdwara "had gone missing", reports Keshav Agarwal. Joga Singh, a kar-sevak at the gurdwara, was arrested on March 30 after the recovery of...
KOLKATA: Bengal is taking a legal "diversion" to allow juvenile offenders charged with non-heinous offences be with parents while serving out their rehabilitation programme, instead of the typical practice of keeping young delinquents at a detention centre.The state started on Sunday "a multi-stakeholder consultation" with Unicef and West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights (WBCPCR) to...
India logged over 3,800 new Covid cases on Saturday, the highest daily tally in six months, as infections in the past seven days surged at the fastest rate since the third wave in January 2022. India recorded over 18,450 fresh cases in the past week (March 26-April 1), a 2.1x rise over the previous seven days’ tally of 8,781. The doubling time of cases has reduced to less than seven days. The last...
NEW DELHI: Delhi on Sunday recorded 429 fresh Covid cases, the highest in more than seven months, with the positivity rate rising to 16.09 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. One Covid-related death was reported in the city. The health bulletin, however, said the primary cause of death was not Covid.The death toll due to the infection stands at 26,530. Delhi saw 416 fresh...
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