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T’puram: Authorities seized 261 cooking gas cylinders and equipment from a godown at Pattala near Attingal for allegedly siphoning LPG from public sector oil company cylinders and refilling private company cylinders for black-market sale at inflated prices.The irregularities were detected during a raid conducted at the Super Gas godown in Pattala, following a tip-off about illegal LPG transfer and sale.Officials said LPG was allegedly leaked from cylinders and illegally transferred to other cylinders under unsafe conditions before being sold at higher prices in the black market. Cylinders belonging to various public and private oil companies, along with equipment used for…
Jalpaiguri: Nine years after the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and Global Tiger Forum (GTF) proposed relocating tigers to Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR), the talks of the plan have been revived by Centre.Speaking at an event in New Delhi on Saturday, Union minister of environment Bhupender Yadav announced a tiger-reintroduction plan. “Buxa hasn’t had a tiger population for a long time. We will, very shortly, take up the matter with Bengal govt and start work to reintroduce tigers in the forest,” he said.Officials say the project has been stalled for years despite forest department efforts, citing political unwillingness and non-compliance…
‘Large cache of explosives seized’ Idrees Bukhtiyar Srinagar, May 24: Jammu & Kashmir Police on Sunday said that security forces busted a terrorist hideout in Nilsar Kandi area of Chandoosa village in north Kashmir’s Baramulla and recovered a huge cache of explosives and war-like stores during a joint counter-terror operation. According to police, the operation was launched on the basis of specific intelligence inputs generated by J&K Police. The joint operation was carried out by police along with 52 Rashtriya Rifles (RR), CRPF’s 53 Battalion and SSB’s 2 Battalion. During the search operation, the security forces unearthed a concealed terrorist…
NEW DELHI: ED has come across a case where the prime targets of a scam were Muslims following sharia law, which prohibits earning interest on investments. The perpetrators targeted unsuspecting persons with a promise of profits of up to 36% per annum on their investment, and within a few years collected over Rs 6,000 crore.The scam was masterminded by a woman, Nowhera Shaik, based out of Hyderabad. She was arrested last week at a hotel in Gurgaon, after being on the run for more than a month after Supreme Court cancelled her bail and asked her to surrender.The con woman…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has granted Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the housing project intended for sanitation workers, which is being developed under the ‘Aashray’ scheme at Cochin Street, Fort. BJP corporator Makarand Narwekar has urged BMC to expedite the implementation of this project, emphasising that it is aimed at ensuring dignified housing for sanitation workers in a timely manner.The BMC submitted a proposal to the MCZMA for the redevelopment of Municipal Staff Colony No. 3, situated at Cochin Street and Kalikat Street in Fort. The proposal entails the construction of a ground-plus-nine-storey building on this…
New Delhi: Barely hours after US secretary of state Marco Rubio landed in Delhi on Saturday, the capital’s IGI Airport again became the target of GPS spoofing.About 10 to 12 aircraft nearing the airport on Saturday evening and night reported the menace, seen on this scale after a few months. Govt agencies are probing the sudden recurrence of GPS spoofing — a cyberattack where counterfeit radio signals are transmitted to override genuine satellite signals — and that too at the time of a VVIP visit.Air traffic control immediately increased the spacing between incoming aircraft to allow more time for guiding…
Hyderabad: A routine attempt to clear paddy stubble ended in tragedy in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district after an elderly farmer was burnt alive when the fire spread across farmland on Saturday.The incident took place at Repakapalli village in Regonda mandal when Sagarla Chandramouli (62) and his wife Bhagyamma (58) went to their fields along with their son Bhaskar to burn leftover paddy stubble. According to police, the flames soon spread to a neighbouring field.Due to the intense heat, Bhagyamma took ill and the duo made her sit under a tree. While Bhaskar left to fetch drinking water from home, Chandramouli went…
Karwar: Ten members of a family drowned after being swept away by strong currents while collecting clams off Alvekodi Beach in Bhatkal taluk of Uttara Kannada district on Sunday. One person is still missing while three have been hospitalised. Fourteen members of the extended family from Shirali village had entered the backwaters around 10 am to collect clams, a seasonal activity commonly practised by local communities along riverbanks and coastal areas during low tide. “They had moved deeper into the water when the current suddenly intensified. A couple of women were dragged into the deeper end, following which several others…
Chennai: The relief for residents of North Chennai’s Old Washermenpet over Chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s order to close Tasmac outlets within 500metres of educational institutions has been short lived. An outlet in the neighbourhood located near three schools and a college still hasn’t been closed.This two-decade-old liquor shop and bar in Mint Suburayulu Naidu street, right next to the busy Thiruvottiyur High road, stands 200metres from the popular Sir Theagaraya College, 250metres from a GCC girls high school, 270metres from a GCC middle school, and about 150metres from a private co-ed school.Residents complain that drunk men sleeping on the…
Ahmedabad: A 48-year-old Shahpur resident was allegedly defrauded of Rs 3.3 lakh by cyber criminals posing as Punjab National Bank officials who enticed him with promises of enhanced credit card benefits and higher spending limits.According to a complaint lodged with Shahpur police, the complainant Yash Shah (48) received a call on April 16 from a man claiming to be a bank representative. The caller allegedly informed him about a “special offer” on his credit cards and asked him to keep photographs of the cards saved in his mobile gallery for verification purposes.Later in the evening, the caller again contacted the…