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GURGAON: The arrests of 42 bank employees in cybercrime cases over the past year have helped the city cops map out the multiple ways in which fraudsters find their targets and manage to evade scrutiny.Police said bank staffers involved in the scam often leaked data of their customers, alerted fraudsters if cops came looking, and…

BHUBANESWAR: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said opposition parties will be persuaded to participate in the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining three bills that propose the automatic removal of the Prime Minister, Union ministers, CMs and state/UT ministers, if detained for 30 consecutive days on serious criminal charges.Addressing a news conference in Bhubaneswar,…

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has suspended the sentence of controversial preacher of Satlok Ashram Barwala, Rampal, who has been behind bars for more than 10 years after being convicted of the murder of a female follower inside the ashram in 2014.A division bench comprising Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill and Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa…

NEW DELHI: There are no permanent friends or enemies in international relations, only permanent interests, defence minister Rajnath Singh stressed on Saturday, amid the tariff tension with US and the thaw in India-China relations.India will “never compromise with its fundamental interests and principles”, and will remain steadfast on its policies and self-reliance drive to preserve…

PRAYAGRAJ: Holding that a Hindu marriage does not become invalid merely because it is not registered, the Allahabad high court has clarified that a family court cannot insist on the production of marriage registration certificate in a petition filed for divorce on mutual consent. “It is settled that the registration certificate of a marriage is…

NEW DELHI: India’s peak outbound travel month of June saw a decline in the number of Indian visitors to the US in 2025 over the previous year for the first time this millennium, barring the Covid period.With 2.1 lakh Indians headed to America in June, the number was 8% lower than 2.3 lakh in same…

BENGALURU: In another interesting twist to the ongoing probe into the alleged mass burial case at Dharmasthala, special investigation team (SIT) personnel arrived in Bengaluru with ‘mask-man’ Chinnaiah to inspect three places he had visited earlier this year to plan his action.One such place is the rented house of T Jayanth, a close associate of…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi landed in Tianjin Saturday evening for what is his first visit to China in 7 years, amid global trade disruptions and shifting alliances. The visit follows an almost year-long effort by both sides to narrow down their differences on the contentious border issue and normalise the relationship in the form…

NEW DELHI: Indian Army fired as many as 30,000 artillery and mortar shells as well as over3 lakh rounds of small arms across the Line of Control in response to Pakistan’s ceasefire violations during the May 7-10 hostilities, Northern Command chief Lt-General Pratik Sharma said on Saturday.“For every round fired by Pakistan (after IAF and…

NEW DELHI: A Belgian court is learnt to have rejected the bail plea of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi ahead of his extradition hearing there. Choksi, who was arrested in Belgium in April this year, had applied for bail on medical grounds last month. Indian law enforcement agencies argued that Choksi was a habitual absconder and…