Month: June 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union finance ministry, along with Reserve Bank of India and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), has rolled out several crucial measures to secure digital financial transactions and combat fraud, official sources said, rejecting allegations that frauds have soared.The ministry of home affairs had set up Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) in Jan 2020 as the national agency for a coordinated response to all cybercrimes. The total number of digital payment frauds was 63,315, as reported by commercial banks and all India financial institutions under the specific category 'card/internet and digital payments' (for amounts involving Rs 1 lakh and above) between 2014-15 and Dec 2024 (covering a period of nearly 10 years), the sources said citing official data.The total extent of financial loss attributed specifically to these digital payment frauds during this period amounted to Rs […]

[ad_1] DHAKA: Bangladesh foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain Tuesday accused India of declaring "people" foreigners and "pushing" them into his country without following the process of deportation. Dhaka will send a diplomatic note to New Delhi on the issue, he said.The deportation of illegal Bangladeshis by India started following a nationwide verification drive after the April 22 Pahalgam attack and picked up pace since Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7.Under the deportation process, each case is being reviewed individually and only verified citizens will be repatriated, but "India is resorting to cross-border push ins", Hossain said. "We will send a new, substantive letter," he stated, adding. "We see that push-ins are still happening. But it is not something we can physically stop."India has provided Bangladesh with a list of individuals it claims are Bangladeshi nationals. Dhaka has accepted […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has quashed rape charges against a man who had a consensual physical relationship with a 30-year-old woman but later backed out of marrying her after observing her "aggressive sexual behaviour, obsessive nature, and manipulative & vindictive tendencies."Allowing the man's plea to quash FIRs lodged by Cyberabad police in 2022 on the woman's complaints of rape on the pretext of marriage, a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said, "The facts on record clearly establish the vindictive and manipulative tendencies of the complainant and these aspects have a great bearing on the controversy."Writing the judgment, Justice Mehta said allowing the man's prosecution would amount to a gross abuse of legal process. He noted that the complaints were "nothing but a bundle of lies full of fabricated and malicious unsubstantiated allegations levelled by the complainant […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: SC has ruled that a married woman cannot accuse a man of rape on promise of marriage while her own marriage is still subsisting, and quashed a rape case filed by her against a man.The case involved a Muslim woman, mother of a four-year-old, residing at her parents' home in Maharashtra's Satara. She developed a relationship with her 23-year-old neighbour, a BSc student.In her police complaint alleging rape on the promise of marriage, she claimed that the man maintained a physical relationship with her from June 8, 2022, to July 8, 2023, assuring her repeatedly that he would marry her after her divorce. She obtained a 'khulanama' (divorce) from herdhananjay.mahapatra husband only on Dec 29, 2022.After FIRs were lodged, the man approached HC for quashing the case, but failed. He moved SC, where a bench of Justices […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pakistan said India conducted strikes at seven more locations than the targets officially acknowledged by Indian armed forces between May 7 and 10 during Operation Sindoor.A Pakistan govt document on its Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos (Iron Wall) and India's "unprovoked aggression", shared with its media, lists out Indian drone strikes at Attock, Bahawalnagar, Gujrat and Jhang (Punjab province), Peshawar (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province), and Chhor and Hyderabad (Sindh province), which it claimed killed many civilians.None of these places were mentioned in the detailed briefings conducted by Indian foreign and military establishments. "We had disclosed the targets we hit in the briefings. This Pakistani document could be a propaganda attempt to show that India also targeted civilian sites," an Indian defence official said.After Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians, India on May 7 hit 4 terror hubs in Pakistan and […]

[ad_1] GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Monday demolished latest Pakistani scaremongering after India decisively stepped away from Indus Waters Treaty - what if China cuts off Brahmaputra's water supply to India? He called it a myth & cited hard data to prove the river slicing through Assam is a rain-fed watercourse that grows in India, not shrinks."Let's dismantle this myth - not with fear, but with facts and national clarity," Sarma posted on X, adding: "Brahmaputra is not a river India depends on upstream - it is a rain-fed Indian river system, strengthened after entering Indian territory."According to Sarma, China's contribution to the river's flow is minimal, only 30-35%, mostly from glacial melt and limited Tibetan rainfall. The rest 65-70% is generated inside India by torrential monsoon rainfall across Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland, and Meghalaya.Sarma further listed major Indian […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Maulana Abdul Aziz Esar, a top Jaish-e-Muhammed commander and a fierce proponent of the doctrine of Ghazwa-e-Hind, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Pakistan's Bahawalpur on June 2.His burial was held at the markaz of JeM headquarters in Bahawalpur, indicating the place he held in the terror outfit. The markazi was among the hardest hit targets during Operation Sindoor. Over a dozen significant terror strikes in India, including 2019 Pulwama attack, were planned here.The messages floated by the Jaish cadre on Telegram claimed Abdul suffered a sudden heart attack. However, there was no official word on the cause of death from Pakistan police.A resident of Ashrafwala in Pakistan's Punjab province, Abdul frequently threatened to break India into pieces and spewed venom against 'kafirs'. Just last month at a rally, he had threatened to snatch Kashmir from […]