Cybercriminals tricked former Army Captain Rakesh Kumar out of Rs 85,000 in a complex employment scam by posing as recruiters for a security services firm. Living in Una, Himachal Pradesh, Captain Kumar answered a job posting in the newspaper that offered retired junior commissioned officers (JCOs) chances. The ad, placed three to four months ago, […]
The government of Bangladesh has introduced an entire ban on several major social media apps and communication channels. Starting this Friday, August 2, the ban restricts access to some popular sites such as WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, among others. This move comes after Turkey took the same stance earlier in the day, announcing a […]
On Friday, for the first time ever, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched the Union Territory of Ladakh as part of an investigation into money laundering related to a scammers’ network in cryptocurrency. According to this probe itself, over Rs 7 crore had already been taken from over 2500 people. Six sites in Sonipat, Haryana, Jammu […]
The enormous Rs 32,403 crore GST notice that the Karnataka GST authorities had sent to the IT behemoth Infosys has been rescinded, which is a noteworthy step. The notification said that Infosys owed this sum for services obtained from its foreign operations between July 2017 and March 2022. It had generated a great deal of […]
The road connecting Chandigarh and Manali is partially open again after the Mandi-Pandoh area experienced heavy rain and mudslides. Up until recently, the travelers were advised not to travel this way. On Friday evening, the road was stopped due to landslips at multiple locations, including the 5-mile, 6-mile, and 9-mile marks. It took emergency crews […]
The Chandigarh deputy commissioner’s office sent a notification about suspected violations of arms licensing regulations to M. S. Sandhu, a retired chief engineer who passed away in 2011. This was an unexpected and upsetting development. The notification that threatened to take action for not renewing Sandhu’s weapons license stunned his family. In 2004, the son of […]
As per a study done by the auditor, in 2022-2023, the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CCPCR) was found to have embezzled money meant for research. This leads to very serious doubts about the aims and responsibilities of the body. Despite receiving Rs. 19 lakh for research, the commission didn’t carry out any research […]
On Friday morning, a corpse was found in the washroom of the Greater Mohali Region Development Authority (GMADA) in phase 8. This was a heartbreaking tragedy. Mohan Lal, who lived in Sector 22 Chandigarh and was in the later stages of the sixties, has been identified as deceased. The GMADA office was visited by Lal […]
Vijay, 82, a man from Mohali, had died tragically and his three family members were injured in a road accident in Chandigarh. They were driving their automobile on the wrong side when they collided head-on with an SUV at the Sports Complex in Sector 51. The family was returning home after visiting PGIMER, Chandigarh, where […]