BENGALURU: A 29-year-old IT professional working in a private firm in Electronics City was extorted Rs 8.1 lakh after booking an escort service on an online portal.Gautham (name changed), a resident of Electronics City, got the number of a call girl, Amrutha Gill, on massagerepublic.com. He called her who introduced herself as Roopa, aka Kushi,…
KOLKATA: Sixty-three Iskcon monks, all Bangladeshis with valid travel documents, were prevented from crossing over to India on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, several Bangladeshi media outlets and Iskcon Kolkata reported on Sunday.These 63 people were stopped at the Benapole land port, the Bangladesh side of the international border, by Bangladeshi authorities for “suspicious activities“,…
KOLKATA: Sixty-three Iskcon monks, all Bangladeshis with valid travel documents, were prevented from crossing over to India on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, several Bangladeshi media outlets and Iskcon Kolkata reported on Sunday.These 63 people were stopped at the Benapole land port, the Bangladesh side of the international border, by Bangladeshi authorities for “suspicious activities“,…
On Nov 30, US President-elect Donald Trump issued this threat on his social media TruthSocial: “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we standby and watch is OVER. We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency, nor back any…
DHAKA: Bangladesh high court on Sunday acquitted all the accused in the Aug 21, 2004, grenade attack cases, including BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar. The ruling has sparked renewed hope among BNP supporters for Rahman’s return from London after overcoming remaining legal issues. Rahman is former PM Khaleda Zia‘s…
NEW DELHI: Goods and services tax (GST) collection rose 8.5% to Rs 1,82,269 crore in Nov, the fourth highest since the new regime kicked in over seven years ago.The growth in Nov, based on transactions in Oct, was driven by domestic consumption, rising 9.4% to just under Rs 1.4 lakh crore, while imports saw a…
DEHRADUN: A man who claimed to have reunited with two different families in Dehradun and Ghaziabad as their ‘long-lost’ son is now being investigated by police who are trying to ascertain how he accessed personal details of both families. The revelation that it was the same man in both cases emerged after TOI verified photographs…
NEW DELHI: The city recorded its best air quality since Oct 29, but hold on to that deep breath of satisfaction because Delhi’s AQI was still ‘poor’.Several stations continued to suffer very poor air quality. None recorded severe levels.The slight relief after 32 days was due to a number of reasons, including consistent westerly winds…
NEW DELHI: Even as Delhi Police‘s crime branch initiated a financial investigation into the criminal empire of UK-based gangster Kapil Sangwan, it claimed that probe had revealed that arrested AAP MLA Naresh Balyan and Sangwan were “frequently in touch” and reportedly exchanged around 40 calls last year.When questioned in custody, Balyan claimed all these calls…
PETRAPOLE: After getting her documents checked at the immigration counter of Petrapole border check-post in North 24 Parganas, 45-year-old schoolteacher Sudharani Mondal hurriedly walked towards Bangladesh on Sunday.“I am hearing that houses, shops and temples are being ransacked. The Hindus are being brutally attacked and injured. I don’t know what will happen to me. But…
