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Three persons, including a woman, have been arrested in connection with this case.The woman arrested has been identified as Farhana Khan, a resident of Eliot Lane near Park Street in central Kolkata. The two others arrested in this connection were Shadab Hossain Mullik and Muhammad Firoze.The arrest was made as the Kolkata Police personnel started an investigation based on a request from the Ireland Police about a complaint from an elderly woman there of being cheated online.Kolkata Police sources said that the Irish woman was asked to download an app in her laptop for receipt of some money and she…

In his podcast series ‘Speaking for India’, the Chief Minister alleged that the government led by Narendra Modi is made of five ‘Cs’ — communalism, corruption, corporate capitalism, cheating and character assassination.He said, “This is a rule of five Cs and it’s a befitting description. The BJP has managed to hide it through propaganda and advertisements until now. However, the newly-formed INDIA coalition and its leaders are shedding light on this. It is tearing apart the BJP’s facade. Prime Minister Modi’s pomp and show are also being exposed.”Stalin further said that the opposition parties are raising key issues and the…

The court ruled that a husband cannot be liable for non-consensual “unnatural sex” with his wife, observing that the relationship between the husband and wife cannot be confined to their sexual relationship only for the purpose of procreation.The court said that Section 375, which defines “rape” under the IPC excludes marital sexual relations from its purview.The further stated that a husband cannot be held liable under Section 377 of IPC for non-consensual “unnatural” since Indian law presently does not recognise marital rape.Congress MLA Singhar had filed a petition under Section 482 of CrPC for quashing the FIR registered on the…

An official statement mentioned that under the scheme, financial aid will be given to 2 lakh youth for creating a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem.This scheme aims at facilitating self-employment among educated youth, creating an entrepreneur-oriented ecosystem in the state, generating employment via new ventures, financial assistance to individuals to set up or expand existing enterprises, increasing focus on the rural economy etc.Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that the scheme has been designed to create self-employment avenues in the state to enable the youth to fuel development of the state.He also said that the latest initiative has…

According to the complaint lodged by Mahila Congress President Mira Barthakur Goswami at the Dispur police station, Sarma allegedly challenged former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath to set fire to 10 Janpath in Delhi, just as Lord Hanuman did to Lanka in the Ramayana.10 Janpath happens to be the official residence of former Congress Presiden Sonia Gandhi.Addressing a Jan Ashirwad rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidhisha district on September 19, Sarma had said that members of the opposition INDIA bloc made statements comparing the Hindu religion (Sanatan Dharma) to malaria.“I want to challenge Kamal Nath who…

A senior CBI officer said that the agency received a complaint from Shipra Tiwari, General Manager of IDBI Bank in Mumbai, against the Bhopal-based firm and its officials, namely Hemangi Bharat Patel (guarantor and independent director), Smita Bharati Patel (director), and Noopur Bharat Patel, Bharat Surendra Patel, Bharati Surendra Patel and Deepak Jagdish Chandra Shah (all promoter directors).The complaint alleged that all the accused, along with others, conspired to cheat IDBI Bank and, in furtherance of this conspiracy, misappropriated sanctioned credit facilities through cheating, breach of trust, fund diversion, circular transactions between related sister concerns, and misrepresentation of income and…

Hailing from District East Midnapore, the West Bengalian girl had a huge day on Saturday as her three goals gave India a victory and three points to round out the season. Sulanjana, though, made it apparent she was not strolling in the sunshine shortly after the game was finished.India’s campaign so far has been defined by two heavy losses to oppositions far ahead in their development cycle and ranked higher than the Young Tigresses. What the scorelines did not reflect, though, was the psychological brunt of those defeats.It’s often noted that what separates the elite from the rest is their…

TMP supremo Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman said that the party will continue to fight for its core demand of ‘Greater Tipraland’ for the tribals, who according to him are deprived of basic facilities in education, health and other areas.He said that the dawn-to-dusk strike in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) areas has been called to convey a clear message to the Central government that the patience of the indigenous people is exhausting, and they are in urgent need to resolve their constitutional demands and concerns.Deb Barman appealed to all individuals who believe that justice has not…

Delivering the Laxmanrao Inamdar Memorial Lecture organised by the University of Mumbai and Sahakar Bharti, Shah focused on the cooperative sector Amul, and said that inspired by the model, over 3.60 million women are now engaged in milk-related businesses across India worth Rs 60,000 crore by just investing around Rs 100 each.After the cooperative movement started in India in 1904, in no time it spread to Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and central India, he said.Post-Independence, cooperatives, which were in “everyone’s interest” made a good effort to strike a balance between the socialist and capitalist models, which envisaged…

The torrential rains accompanied by thunder and lightning, poured over the city and surroundings, and many areas woke up to between one and four feet of waterlogging.Thousands of citizens were left stranded in their homes or buildings, unable to step out as waters flooded the ground floors of housing complexes and in large areas power was switched off as a precaution, hitting even water supply.A 70-year-old woman identified as Mirabai Pillay is among three who have died in flood-related incidents and over 400 people in different parts were evacuated to safer locations, even as more than 10,000 homes were inundated…