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Chandrapur: The forest department captured tigress T-2, which killed four women in a single strike while they were collecting tendu leaves in the Gunjewahi forest under Sindewahi range of Chandrapur district on Friday, bringing some relief to the region grappling with rising human-wildlife conflict.The 14-year-old tigress from Tadoba was tranquilised around 7pm on Saturday near a pond in the Pawanpar area of the range by sharpshooter Ajay Marathe of Tadoba Rapid Response Team (RRT). It was shifted to a cage before relocation to the transit treatment centre in Chandrapur.A massive search operation is under way to trace the tigress’ three…

Dumka: Jamtara police arrested five members of a cyber fraud gang in simultaneous raids across villages in the district, police said on Sunday. The operation was conducted by a special team of the Cyber Crime police station after receiving a tip-off.Jamtara SP Shambhu Kumar Singh said the team, led by cyber police station officer-in-charge Rajesh Mandal, carried out raids in Mattand village under the Karmatanr police station area and Lokania village under Narayanpur police station limits.Those arrested were identified as Vishnu Mandal, Sachin Mandal, Sagar Nayak, Kishore Das and Biswajit Das. Police said the accused were involved in cyber fraud…

Surat: A 21-year-old salesman from Limbayat has allegedly been cheated of Rs 14.60 lakh in an online investment scam involving fake share market and IPO returns, police said. Surat cybercrime police registered an FIR on Sunday against an unknown accused and launched an investigation.According to the complaint, the victim, who works with a Saroli-based firm, came across an investment advertisement on social media in Dec 2025. After clicking on it, he was added to a WhatsApp group where members shared screenshots of alleged profits and discussed investment tips.On Dec 22, he received a message from a woman identifying herself as…

Rai’s Wife Accuses BJP Of Political VendettaRajeev.DikshitVaranasi: Two more FIRs were registered against UP Congress chief Ajay Rai for his alleged derogatory remarks against PM Narendra Modi.The FIRs were lodged by Varanasi residents, Sunita Soni and Aryan Pandya, at the Chowk police station in the city on Saturday night. Rai was booked under Section 352 (intentional insults intended to provoke a breach of the peace) of BNS. The women alleged that Rai has hurt public sentiment by insulting and abusing PM Modi who holds a constitutional position and is the most popular leader of current times. .Earlier on Saturday, BJP…

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…