NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday advised states to start registering e-Zero FIRs in cyber crime cases so that victims who have lost their money are spared the harassment of running from pillar to post. Noting that only nine states have this system in place, Modi directed PMO officials to take this up with…
Kolkata: In a cyber fraud case involving artificial intelligence (AI), an 81-year-old senior citizen from north Kolkata was swindled of Rs 17.8 lakh. The fraud was triggered after the elderly resident clicked on a link embedded in a YouTube video that featured a fake, AI-generated likeness of union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman promoting an investment…
File pic of Kanjurmarg dumping ground Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday noted that odour levels have reduced in the vicinity of the Kanjurmarg landfill treatment facility, but sought strict compliance from the BMC and the operator of the municipal waste processing centre for violations flagged by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).A division…
New Delhi: A Delhi court dismissed a man’s appeal to preserve his wife’s call detail records and upheld her right to privacy. It said that “talking to any person even at odd hours of the day cannot by itself put a question mark on the character of the woman.”“Indian society no longer remains a primitive…
Sutapa Choudhary, British deputy high commissioner for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala, and K N Radhakrishnan, director and CEO, TVS Motor Company, at the Norton Atlas rollout in Hosur Chennai: TVS Motor Company has shifted the production of Norton Motorcycles’ Atlas adventure motorcycles to India, with the first unit rolling off its Hosur production line,…
Patna: The body of a 25-year-old man was found hanging from a tree with mutilated private parts near a pond in the Benipatti police station area of Madhubani district on Wednesday morning. The family alleged he was killed and his body was then hanged by the girl’s family over a love affair.Villagers spotted the body…
Rajesh Kumar Pandey| TNNDumka: A long-standing ancestral land dispute turned deadly in Jairam Danga village under Rajmahal police station limits of Sahibganj district on Wednesday, leaving a 70-year-old man dead and two others critically injured.The deceased, Rudal Yadav, was allegedly attacked while trying to intervene in a violent clash between two factions of his family….
Vishvendu Jaipuriar| TNNHazaribag: Two persons have been arrested for stabbing two youths late on Tuesday during a Muharram procession under Lohsinghna police station limits in Hazaribag district, police said on Wednesday.The injured, Bittu Kumar and Rohit Kumar, residents of Okni mohalla and aged 24, after preliminary treatment, were referred to Rims, Ranchi.The incident occurred when…
UBT MPs meet Birla, question rebels’ Shinde Sena merger NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: In a meeting with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday, Shiv Sena (UBT) said two-thirds of its MPs cannot join or merge with another party on their own, without the initiative of their original party, and urged him to uphold provisions of the…
Kolkata: The state school education department will assess how many schools have rooftop solar systems and identify gap areas. A meeting was held with the central govt regarding the installation of rooftop solar power on Tuesday. A meeting was held for implementing ‘PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana in Govt Schools’, where representatives from the…
