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KALYAN: The police have arrested one out of the two employees who stole Rs 45 lakh cash given by a jeweller to deposit in a bank in Kalyan. The main accused fled to Rajasthan from where police have arrested his associate involved in the crime, while the former is still at large. The arrested accused has been identified as Jagdish Devashi. The duo worked at the Shanklesha jwellery shop situated in Kalyan...

Apr 04, 2023, 05:43PM ISTSource: ET NowIndia's net direct tax collections surged by 17.63 per cent to Rs 16.61 lakh crore in the financial year 2022-23 (FY23), against Rs 14.12 lakh crore in the preceding financial year. The Budget Estimates (BE) for direct tax revenue in the Union Budget for FY23 were fixed at Rs 14.20 lakh crore which were revised and the Revised Estimates (RE) were fixed at Rs 16.50...

MUMBAI: The west region Cyber police is probing a case where an unidentified cyber fraudster used a 'man-in-the middle' (MITM) attack modus operandi, created a fake email ID, similar to a Portugal-based company's, and duped a Mumbai company of Rs 54 lakh.In the MITM attack, a cyber attacker generally impersonates one of the two parties interacting and sends a message to the other party that believes it...

NEW DELHI: A Nigerian national was arrested in Delhi for duping a Gurgaon woman of Rs 2 lakh on the pretext of custom clearance after they met on a matrimonial site, police said on Monday.The accused, identified as Ignatus Ngosine, was arrested from Delhi on Sunday night, they said. According to the complainant, she started talking to the accused, who posed as a project manager working with a Turkish...

NEW DELHI: WhatsApp banned a record over 45 lakh bad accounts in India in February, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company said on Saturday.Between February 1 and February 28, "4,597,400 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 1,298,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users", WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report.WhatsApp received another record 2,804...

KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has taken up a major plantation drive to create green verges across the city to combat pollution. The drive, which was launched last year before the monsoon, has gained momentum in the past six months while the civic body wants to plant over one lakh saplings in the next six months. The KMC parks department has tied up with the civic body's solid waste...

CHENNAI: Customs officers at Chennai airport foiled a bid to smuggle foreign currencies worth Rs 55.8 lakh by two passengers. Based on intelligence, two men who were about to board a flight to Singapore were intercepted. A search led to the seizure of foreign currencies from them. They had hidden currencies in the false bottom of a bag, said customs sleuths. The two passengers were booked. Further...

THANE: A 34-year-old woman in Maharashtra's Thane district was defrauded of Rs 5.6 lakh by a social media friend who claimed to have sent her a gift from abroad, police said on Tuesday. According to a police officer, a woman residing in the Dombivali area was a victim of cyber fraud last month. The woman became aware of the deception and subsequently reported the incident to the police.From February 5...

THANE: A 70-year-old woman in Maharashtra's Thane district lost Rs 8.30 lakh in a case of cyber fraud, a police official said on Monday. The Mira Road resident had purchased six towels online and Rs 19,005 was debited from her account instead of Rs 1,169, after which she called her bank, the official said. "Soon, a man called her up claiming to be from the bank and asked her to download an app for the...