Mumbai businessman loses Rs 58 crore in digital arrest scam
A 72-year-old businessman in Mumbai has allegedly been duped of a staggering Rs 58 crore in a ‘digital arrest’ scam orchestrated by fraudsters posing as ED and CBI officials, police said on Thursday. The Rs 58 crore loss could be one of the largest reported in a ‘digital arrest’ cyber...
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Inside story of Bhupathi’s surrender: Police negotiate peace, not gunfight
A month of tense, back-channel negotiations led to the surrender of Mallojula Venugopal Rao alias ‘Bhupathi,’ a shadowy figure and key strategist who, as a founding member of the banned People’s War Group, helped spread the Maoist movement across the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border for decades. With a massive Rs 6 crore bounty...
Naxal End Begins: FADNAVIS
The surrender of senior Naxalite Bhupathi and 60 other cadres is the “beginning of the end of the Naxal movement” in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday. In the coming days, the entire “red corridor” in Chhattisgarh, Telangana will be free of Naxalism, Fadnavis said, adding he was...
Naxalism restricted to 3 districts: MHA
In a giant stride towards Modi Government’s vision of building a Naxal-free Bharat, the number of districts most affected by Naxalism have been brought down to 3 from 6. Now only Bijapur, Sukma and Narayanpur in Chhattisgarh are the most affected districts by Left Wing Extremism (LWE), ministry of home...
77 Naxals surrender en masse
In a major blow to the Naxal network, as many as 77 Maoists, including 42 women cadres and at least two members of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee, surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma and Kanker districts on Wednesday, officials said. This development follows Tuesday’s mass surrender by senior Naxalite Mallojul a Venugopal Rao...
MVA seeks postponement of Maharashtra local body polls over voter list discrepancies
Stepping up its protest against the massive discrepancies in the voters’ lists on the second day, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday asked the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and the State Election Commissioner (SEC) not to go ahead with the local body elections in Maharashtra till irregularities in...
Prashant Kishor not to contest polls, sets 150 seats target
In a significant development, Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced that he will not contest the Bihar assembly polls, a decision, he claimed, was taken by the party for its greater good. In an exclusive interview with PTI, the former political strategist also said a “tally of less...
Himanta meets Singapore envoy
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday met Acting High Commissioner of Singapore, Alice Cheng, in New Delhiand urged her to extend full cooperation to the State police to take forward the investigations into the death of Zubeen Garg in the island nation. ‘Today in New Delhi, I met...
