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56% Indians have fallen for discount scams during online holiday shopping: McAfee

With Christmas around the corner, cybersecurity firm McAfee on Tuesday revealed that 56.1% Indians have fallen victim to discount scams by clicking on malicious links during holiday shopping online. The year-end festivities present a variety of threats to consumers shopping online, with more than

Andhra man dies of cardiac arrest while standing in queue to buy subsidized onions

In a tragic incident, highlighting the onion crisis in Andhra Pradesh, a 65-year-old man waiting in the queue to purchase subsidized onions at the rythu bazaar collapsed and died allegedly due to cardiac arrest. The incident took place on Monday in Gudiwada town of Krishna district. The victim wa

Citizenship Amendment Bill introduced in LS

New Delhi: The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan facing religious persecution there, was introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. According to the proposed legisla

Woman goes missing in Warangal, police station registers Telangana’s first ‘zero FIR’

For the first time in the state, a zero FIR was registered at the Subedari police station in Warangal. The zero FIR is a document that can be registered by any police station for a cognizable offence, without bothering about whether the case is in their jurisdiction or not. The FIR was registered

Factory had no fire clearance, say officials after blaze at Delhi's Anaj Mandi killed 43; Property owner held

New Delhi: In one of the worst fire accidents in the city, 43 people were killed after a massive blaze ripped through a four-storey building housing illegal manufacturing units in north Delhi's Anaj Mandi area on Sunday morning. The incident is the second most severe fire in the national capital

Centre spent Rs 193 crore to renovate, repair bungalows of MPs in last four years

New Delhi: The government has spent Rs 193 crore to renovate and repair bungalows of MPs in the past four years. In a written response to a question, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Lok Sabha saying that there is no expenditure limit prescribed for such renov

All 4 accused in Hyderabad vet gangrape case shot dead in encounter, say cops

In a sudden development in the gangrape and murder case of a vet in Hyderabad, the four accused in the case – Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu – have been shot dead by the Telangana police in a reported encounter. Police said that the accused, who were taken to the scene of the crime for a r

Ideological discord within Shiv Sena begins to haunt Maharashtra govt, 400 workers jump ship to BJP in Dharavi

Dharavi: The Shiv Sena is grappling with a miffed Bharatiya Janata Party following the Maharashtra political staccato after the former scrapped its ‘Mahayuti’ alliance with the ruling party at the Centre and formed a coalition ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government with the Nationalist Congress Party and Co

P Chidambaram to walk out of Tihar jail, gets bail from Supreme Court after 105 days

P Chidambaram, arrested from his Jor Bagh house in central Delhi in August, was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Wednesday in the money laundering case linked to the INX Media case. Economic offences fall under the category of grave offences but bail should not be denied in all economic offen

4 soldiers trapped in avalanches near LoC in Kashmir’s Kupwara, Bandipora

At least four soldiers were trapped in two separate incidents of snow avalanches near the Line of Control in north Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. A snow avalanche hit an Army post in Tangdhar area of Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon where at least two soldiers were trapped. Search

Odisha: Woman raped by policeman, aide in Puri

Puri: A woman was allegedly gang raped by two persons including a policeman inside a police quarter in Odisha's temple town of Puri on Monday. Police said the woman lodged a complaint saying a man, who identified himself as a police personnel, offered her a lift in his car while she was waiting at a

Couldn’t speak against BJP in MP, asked Cong to raise issues: Sumitra Mahajan

Indore: In a candid admission, former Lok Sabha speaker and ex-Indore BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan said she took the help of Congress leaders for issues concerning the development of her constituency in order to mount pressure on the then Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state. She went on to cl

17 dead as three houses collapse in Mettupalayam near Coimbatore

Seventeen people were killed in Nadur village, Mettupalayam, on Sunday night after three tile roofed houses collapsed when a compound wall fell on them, triggered by rains. The Fire and Rescue services personnel with the assistance of locals and police retrieved the bodies from the debris and the

Soldier kills wife, shoots himself in front of kids in running car in Patna: Cops

An army trooper who was home on leave allegedly killed his wife and sister-in-law before shooting himself in front of their two children in a moving car in Saidabad area near Patna on Sunday, police said. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Paliganj, Manoj Kumar Pandey, said the soldier

Govt appoints Soma Roy Burman as new Controller General of Accounts

The government on Sunday said it has appointed Soma Roy Burman, a 1986-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service Officer, as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA). Ms. Burman is the 24th CGA and is the seventh woman to hold this position. “The government appointed Burman, as the Controller Ge

Kerala to receive heavy showers in the next 48 hrs, yellow warning in 3 districts

Kerala is likely to receive heavy rains in the next 48 hours. According to data from the Meteorological department, a low-pressure area that is forming in the equatorial Indian Ocean and Southwest Arabian Sea will cause the rains. The low pressure is likely to result in squally weather with wind

Protests break out in Telangana over gangrape and murder of 26-year-old vet

Protests broke out across Hyderabad and Telangana on Saturday in the wake of the brutal gangrape and murder of a 26-year-old vet on the outskirts of the city earlier this week. Four men have been arrested for the crime, police said on Friday. In Shamshabad, where the murder and rape occurred, a m

1 Litre milk for 81 kids? Just add a bucket of water. Another mid-day meal scam in UP after salt-roti

Sonebhadra (Uttar Pradesh): In yet another shocker from Uttar Pradesh, children at a government primary school were found be served highly diluted milk. One litre of milk was diluted with a bucket of water and served to 81 children. Gram Panchayat ward member Dev Patia made the allegations of poo