NEW DELHI: In a major step, government wants to curb the “unfettered” powers of Waqf Boards to declare any property a ‘waqf asset’ and take control of it.Sources said the Cabinet on Friday evening discussed 40-odd amendments in the Wakf Act (known as Waqf Act before 2013), including ones to check the jurisdiction, considered arbitrary…
NEW DELHI: In the wake of Supreme Court recommending stricter procedures for verifying candidate identities for examinations, a recent case has come to light where an alert technical organisation under central govt averted a dozen possible impersonators from joining after they had been selected by a government recruitment agency.In some cases, major discrepancies were detected…
PUNE: The Airport police are investigating a 28-year-old IT professional‘s complaint that some unidentified callers, posing as courier firm representatives and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials, duped her of Rs13.94 lakh in a drug parcel fraud between Nov 30 last year and April this year. “The victim, a resident of Lohegaon, told us that the…
