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KOLKATA: Two more persons have been arrested by Kolkata Police for running a fake call centre at Chowringhee and duping elderly Australians.Produced in a city court, one of those arrested was granted bail on medical grounds; the other was remanded in police custody till October 13 for further probe.The fresh arrests came after over 40 people were arrested in a recent raid at this illegal call centre...

NEW DELHI: The government is looking to create more dedicated parking space around Kartavya Path and the upcoming Common Central Secretariat (CCS) buildings to meet the requirement of visitors and office goers. TOI has learnt that the necessity for this was felt primarily because creating huge parking spaces in basements of upcoming CCS buildings is taking more time and impacting the timelines of these...

KOLKATA: The detective department recently raided a fake call centre that was spread over three floors at Chowringhee - in the heart of the city - which targeted senior citizens from Australia. A total of 40 employees, five of them women, have been arrested by the Anti-Rowdy Section. Fifty desktops, six hard disks, 12 mobile phones, three routers, two servers and 50 IP phones have been seized from the...

NEW DELHI: Delhi environment minister, Gopal Rai, has called upon the Central government to convene a review meeting with the states neighbouring the national capital in light of the commencement of crop stubble burning, known as "parali" burning. In letters addressed to Union minister of environment Bhupender Yadav and Union agriculture minister Narendra Tomar, Rai stressed that efforts to mitigate...

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court expressing its inability to release 5,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu from the Cauvery reservoirs in the state.It has also urged the centre’s intervention in the matter and has sought for immediate intervention of the union government to construct the Mekedatu balancing reservoir.On late Tuesday evening, through the...

NEW DELHI: The US has assured India of a quick investigation into the death of Andhra Pradesh student Jaahnavi Kandula, who was struck by a speeding police patrol car in Seattle in January this year.India had "strongly" taken up the case with the Biden administration after a recently released bodycam video showed an American cop "joking and laughing" about the Indian student's death.'She had limited...

KOLKATA: A group of youths from Kolkata who used to scam Canadian nationals from a fake call centre in Lucknow were arrested on Tuesday during simultaneous raids in Lucknow and Kolkata by officers of Kolkata Police’s cyber-crime department acting on Interpol alerts sent from Canada through the National Central Bureau (NCB), India.Kolkata Police had registered a suo motu case based on enquiry into a...

KOLKATA: The drive against retreaded tyres and manipulated fitness certificates of buses and minibuses in the past seven days showed the biggest violators were buses to and from Howrah, all of them touching the city centre - Esplanade, BBD Bag and Sealdah -revealed Lalbazar on Saturday.At the very Mayo Road-Dufferin Road crossing in Esplanade, where a minibus had keeled over a week ago, killing two...

CHENNAI: Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday announced that all three blocks in Tamil Nadu, proposed to be auctioned for coal mining, would be exempted.Pralhad Joshi, who took to twitter, said the decision to exempt Tamil Nadu was taken for the welfare of the people of Tamil Nadu. "BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai rushed to call upon me in Bengaluru with a request to exclude three lignite...

CHENNAI: On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to arrive in Chennai, Union coal minister Pralhad Joshi on Saturday announced that all three blocks in Tamil Nadu, proposed to be auctioned for coal mining, would be exempted.Pralhad Joshi, on Twitter, said the decision to exempt Tamil Nadu was taken based on the welfare of the people of Tamil Nadu. "BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai rushed...