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Surat: A 67-year-old retired woman has been cheated of Rs. 30.50 lakhs in a digital arrest case. A fake police sub-inspector from Colaba police station of Mumbai had called her and told that he bank account was involved in Rs. 2.5 cr money laundering and there were 20 complaints against the account. Accused also sent her fake letters of RBI, Supreme Court, ED, Mumbai Crime branch, Nirmala Sitaraman and forced her to transfer the money. Surat cybercrime police have booked an FIR and started investigation.According to details, on Aug 22, victim got a call from Mohammad Jishan Ahmed who claimed…

A total of 12,344 degrees are slated to be conferred Vadodara: Girls are set to outnumber boys once again at Maharaja Sayajirao University’s (MSU) 75th convocation, with President Droupadi Murmu scheduled to attend the ceremony as chief guest on Sep 23 during her visit to Vadodara and Padra.According to MSU’s provisional list, a total of 12,344 degrees are slated to be conferred, including 6,710 to female students and 5,634 to male students. Female students thus account for nearly 54% of the degrees listed for the convocation, continuing the trend of forming a larger share of MSU’s graduating cohort.Commerce has the…

Varanasi: Overflowing Ganga and its tributary Varuna compelled around 3,400 people from almost 740 families to shift to safe places or shelter homes here by Thursday afternoon.Flooded by Ganga its tributary river Varuna had flooded low lying localities of 16 wards in the city area. Ganga marooned 16 villages and around 1,296 members of 256 families shifted to safe places while 2,065 members of 481 families took shelter in relief camps. Number of farmers, whose crops had been submerged, reached 682 in the district.At a time when Ganga was heading to danger mark of 71.26 meters after crossing the mark…

A political row erupted over the removal of Prime Minister Modi’s photograph by MNS workers. KALYAN: The political row over the removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph at a college in Pune by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers has now spilled into the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), with the BJP’s local leadership leaving the final decision on whether to quit the Mahayuti alliance in the civic body to state BJP president Ravindra Chavan.The BJP’s core committee held a meeting in Kalyan on Wednesday against the backdrop of the party’s warning that it would withdraw from the alliance and sit…

T’puram: An open platform for direct interaction between the mayor and citizens on the development and future urban planning of Thiruvananthapuram will be held on Saturday. The dialogue will be held at Trivandrum Chamber of Commerce and Industry hall in Kowdiar.The special citizen interaction is titled ‘Mayor Cares’.Mayor V V Rajesh will share insights from his recent visit to United States, where he closely observed governance systems and development models in different cities.The main focus will be on how lessons from American cities—such as urban transport, public space development, cleanliness and civic amenities, infrastructure growth, and city planning—can be adapted…

Kolkata: Police have registered an FIR against Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra under non-bailable sections for allegedly inciting communal discord and summoned her to appear before the Diamond Harbour Cyber Crime Police Station at 11:00 am on Saturday.The FIR was lodged following a complaint by a local, Sonu Bera. Cops invoked sections 196, 197, 299, and 353 of the BNS Sanhita (BNS), which address promoting enmity between groups, acts prejudicial to national integration, deliberate acts outraging religious feelings, and statements causing public mischief.The action follows Moitra’s Sept 1 post on X, where she alleged that Muslim IAS and IPS officers were…

Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle and Lena Dunham remember feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist activist, author and journalist who became one of the most influential voices of the US women’s movement, has passed away at the age of 92. Following news of her death, tributes poured in from Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, Meghan Markle, Lena Dunham, Roxane Gay, Rachel Cargle, Harvey Fierstein and several others who remembered her as a fearless trailblazer and a transformative force for gender equality.Steinem died peacefully on Wednesday at her home in New York City, surrounded by loved ones, according to a…

Indian Redditor shares feelings of being denied Canadian PR At a time when the waiting line for a US Green Card is only getting longer, the situation in Canada is not very different either as a Redditor’s post on coming back to India has gone viral. The Redditor came to Canada in 2023 and has been working in a managerial position in IT, but announced the decision to return to India on not getting Permanent Residency in Canada. The Redditor explained that they did everything by the book and really hoped to settle in Canada but offered the realization: Canada…

A blanket of toxic haze is enveloping parts of Indonesia and spreading into Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, as weeks-long wildfires continue to burn.Millions of people across large swathes of South East Asia have been exposed to the smog, which in some areas has fuelled “acutely unhealthy” pollution more than 15 times the World Health Organization’s recommended level.Many of the ongoing fires have been burning across Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo since mid-July – underpinned by a so-called Super El Niño that is exacerbating drought conditions.Between July and August, Indonesia’s Health Ministry recorded over 50,000 cases of respiratory infections linked to…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has confirmed he wants to stand in the by-election brought about by Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation as an MP. Polanski, who is currently a London Assembly member but not a member of Parliament, said he was “so excited by the prospect” of being the first Green MP for Holborn and St Pancras. The Greens are targeting the seat, until now a Labour stronghold, after coming second to Labour in the area in local elections earlier this year.Sir Keir announced on Tuesday that he was quitting as MP for the London constituency, two months after he…