With its presence in India spanning more than 100 years, Oxford University Press has embarked on a slew of new initiatives for the Indian audience like print on demand, a digital platform for writers and local publishing and adaptations of its global medicine programme. According to Tim Barton, Managing Director of Global Academic Publishing at…
A Mumbai student’s air ticket to Chennai was allegedly cancelled without his knowledge. Abhishek Aaron, an engineering student, said he received a message from travel portal MakeMyTrip on January 14, saying the request to cancel his ticket had been processed.
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A naval dock employee from Worli was defrauded of Rs 89,000 by a man claiming to be the manager of State Bank of India where he had an account. The first fraudulent transaction happened on December 3 after which the dock employee’s son changed his ATM pin but efforts to get his card blocked through…
A woman from Nepal was raped and murdered, and her body was dumped in a field at a village on the Rohtak-Hisar highway in Haryana, police said. On February 1, the mentally challenged Nepalese woman living with her sister at Chinyot Colony in Rohtak had gone missing; and on February 4, her mutilated body was…
Yet again public figures’ privacy has been breached. Bollywood starlet Radhika Apte’s private nude pictures are floating on the social media platform as well as on messaging application WhatsApp.
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The Hyderabad cyber crime detection police on Sunday said that they have shared the pictures of the rapists initially uploaded by activist Sunitha Krishnan with all other states so that they find help in identifying the accused. The cops are also checking Facebook to identify the culprits.
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The police have booked two men for allegedly sending vulgar messages to city-based girls. In the first case, the complainant alleged that an unidentified man had been sending obscene messages containing derogatory language to her email address. The police said they were verifying the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the accused to identify him. Read…
Britain’s Prince Charles will intervene in the case of a jailed Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes and urge Saudi Arabia’s new king to halt the punishment, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Charles embarked on a six-day tour of the Middle East this weekend beginning in Jordan and is expected to also visit Saudi…
The cyber crime police has registered eight cases of fraud against TV programmes like Pehchaan Kaun and Chehra Pehchano (Identify the celebrity) in January alone. Over 25 cases were registered in 2014, with most of the victims coming from the old city, officials said. These contests, which are usually broadcast on Hindi channels, ask viewers…
In the years to come, every crime will be committed with the help of a computer. Criminals will no longer need to be present at the scene of crime or use a physical weapon. They won’t even have to go to a bank to rob it. This is how D Sivanandhan, former director general of…