Man downloads app to cancel online order, loses ₹70k

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Man downloads app to cancel online order, loses ₹70k

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Bengaluru:20.08.2020

A 37-year-old private company employee recently lost Rs 70,000 to online fraudsters after he asked a delivery boy to cancel his order for a headphone set over a payment dispute.

Raman (name changed) from Koramangala came across an advertisement about sale of headphones on social media. He placed an order and paid Rs 1,600 digitally. “A delivery boy identifying himself as Raj visited my house. He asked me to pay the amount but I told him I had already paid online. I showed him a screenshot of the payment but he was not convinced. So I asked him to cancel the order. Raj called another person who identified himself as Sandeep to inform him about my decision. Sandeep asked me to download an app. I did so and provided information, including my bank account details. Soon after the delivery boy left, I realised Rs 70,000 had been deducted from my account,” Raman said.

Raman approached Central CEN Crime police on Monday to lodge the complaint.

Man agrees to enhance credit limit, duped of ₹1L

A 43-year-old private firm staffer lost over Rs 1 lakh after he agreed to enhance his credit limit to Rs 1.5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh and shared details of his credit card.

Salman from Rajendranagar near Koramangala told police he had received a call from an unknown number and the caller had introduced herself as Ankita, representative of the bank from which he had availed the card.

“She enquired about quality of the service and later told Salman the bank was ready to increase his credit limit to Rs 1.5 lakh. She collected his card details. After a few days, he got to know that some miscreants had siphoned off Rs 1,03,525 from his card,” a police officer said. Central CEN Crime police have taken up the case.

ஆப்பக்கூடலில் நிலுவைத் தொகை வழங்கக் கோரி கரும்பு விவசாயிகள் காத்திருப்பு போராட்டம்

ஆப்பக்கூடலில் நிலுவைத் தொகை வழங்கக் கோரி கரும்பு விவசாயிகள் காத்திருப்பு போராட்டம்

20.08.2020

பவானி: பவானி அடுத்த ஆப்பக்கூடல் சக்தி சர்க்கரை ஆலையில் 6 மாத கால கரும்பு நிலுவைத் தொகை ரூ.70 கோடியை உடனடியாக வழங்கக்கோரி கரும்பு விவசாயிகள் காத்திருக்கும் போராட்டத்தில் புதன்கிழமை ஈடுபட்டு வருகின்றனர்.

ஆலையின் பிரதான நுழைவாயில் முன்பாக நடைபோன்ற இப்போராட்டத்துக்கு சக்தி சர்க்கரை ஆலை கரும்பு விவசாயிகள் சங்கத் தலைவர் டி.பி.கோபிநாத் தலைமை வகித்தார். நிர்வாகிகள் வி.பி.கார்த்திகேயன், ஆர்.கணேசமூர்த்தி, பி.வெங்கடசாமி, கே.எம்.முத்துசாமி ஆகியோர் முன்னிலை வகித்தனர். கோரிக்கையை விளக்கி தமிழ்நாடு கரும்பு விவசாயிகள் சங்கத்தின் மாநிலப் பொதுச் செயலாளர் டி.ரவீந்திரன், தமிழ்நாடு விவசாயிகள் சங்கத்தின் மாவட்ட செயலாளர் ஏ.எம்.முனுசாமி ஆகியோர் பேசினர்.

சக்தி சர்க்கரை ஆலை நிர்வாகம் அரவை செய்த கரும்புக்கு 6 மாத காலமாக பணம் வழங்கவில்லை. ஆலைக்கு பதிவு செய்து கரும்பு அனுப்பும் விவசாயிகளுக்கு கரும்பு கட்டுப்பாடு சட்டத்தின் கீழ் 14 நாள்களில் பணம் தர வேண்டும். ஆனால், விவசாயிகளுக்கு பணம் தராமல் இதுவரையில் ரூ.70 கோடி நிலுவைத் தொகை உள்ளது. இதனை உடனடியாக வழங்க வேண்டும்.

வங்கிகளில் பெற்ற கரும்பு பயிர்க்கடன் தொகையை விவசாயிகளிடம் 5 ஆண்டுகளாக ஆலை நிர்வாகம் பிடித்தம் செய்து கொண்டு, வங்கிக்கு பணத்தை செலுத்தாமல் உள்ளது. இதனால், விவசாயிகள் நகைக்கடன் கூட வாங்க முடியாத நிலை உள்ளது. எனவே, வங்கிக்கு செலுத்த வேண்டிய தொகையை உடனடியாக செலுத்த வேண்டும்.

9.5 பிழி திறன் உள்ள கரும்புக்கு டன் ரூ.4,500 என விலை வழங்க வேண்டும். கரும்புக்கு மாநில அரசு ஊக்கத் தொகை ரூ.400-ஆக உயர்த்தி வழங்க வேண்டுவது உள்ளிட்ட கோரிக்கைகள் போராட்டத்தில் வலியுறுத்தப்பட்டன.

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Safety protocol finalised for JEE & NEET aspirants

Safety protocol finalised for JEE & NEET aspirants

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:20.08.2020

No frisking, staggered time-slots for reporting and contact-less verification of documents like admit cards will be part of the safety protocol for engineering and medical admission tests — JEE (Main) and NEET — to be held by the National Testing Agency between September 1-13 for nearly 25 lakh aspirants.

Candidates will be required to carry a self-declaration regarding their Covid-free health status on the day of the test and those with body temperature higher than the recommended will be allowed to take the test in isolated rooms.

As per the standard operating procedures finalised by NTA and a copy of which has been accessed by TOI, threetier measures are being put in place — pre-examination, conduct of exam and post exam phases. As part of pre-exam measures, all centres would keep gloves, masks, hand sanitisers, sponges/ cloth, disinfectant liquid with 1% sodium hypochlorite, disinfectant backpack spray machines for sanitising floors and walls, thermo guns and individual water bottles for staff and candidates.

All floors, walls and gates of the exam centre will be sanitised with disinfectants before the exam starts and those on exam duty will wear masks and gloves after staff verification. At the entry, body temperature of the candidates will be recorded and if it is found to be more than 99.4°Fahrenheit, the candidate will be taken to an isolation room. The process of frisking and document verification for such candidates will be done after 15 to 20 minutes. Candidates will be allowed in batches of 15 girls and 15 boys in two different registration rooms. Inside the exam hall, candidates will be allowed to carry face mask, gloves, a personal transparent water bottle, a small hand sanitiser and documents like admit card and identity card.

Full report on www.toi.in

Only 1/3rd of kids adjusting well to e-classes: Survey

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:

Nearly onethird of the students from CBSE-affiliated schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya are adjusting well to online education but an equal number are struggling, while overall 80% are using mobile phones as a learning tool, a survey has revealed.

With the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent disruption of classroom education since March 16, 2020, around 16% are using laptops and computers besides phones, data collected from students, teachers, school principals and parents on the present teaching-learning scenario by the National Council of Educational Research and Training has revealed.

Overall, the survey revealed about 60-70% of all stake holder participants reported being “very satisfied or satisfied”. About 20-30% stakeholders shared they had a difficult experience and about 10-20% said it was burdensome. Less number of teachers (16%) are finding online teaching difficult as compared to 32.6% of students.

The two major contributors for students who found the online learning “joyful” or very satisfactory is convenience (46.8%) and teachers having planned interesting activities (46.4%) in response to separate queries. As per NCERT’s report, the major hindrance has been poor internet connectivity and difficulty in sharing and use of contents for online classes through mobile phones. The survey was conducted among 34,598 students, parents, teachers and school principals across the country.

Full report on www.toi.in

SC reserves verdict on states’ power to cancel final exams

SC reserves verdict on states’ power to cancel final exams

Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:19.08.2020

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the question whether state governments had power under the Disaster Management Act to cancel final examinations for award of degrees to college students even though the University Grants Commission has asked universities to conduct final examinations by September 30.

Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Delhi said the UGC could not have taken a unilateral decision to hold final examinations, turning a blind eye to the Covid-19 pandemic which is accounting for over 50,000 new infections daily.

Though there had been a push to empower students with laptops for years, the common refrain of these four states was that most students were from rural areas and did not have access to laptops. Giving examinations with mobile phones would be extremely difficult and connectivity and internet speed were perennial issues that could raise the level of anxiety among students and deprive them of doing well in the examinations, the states said.

Senior advocates and advocates general of these states argued that when no public transport was available and when state governments had been empowered under the Disaster Management Act to take strict containment action during the pandemic, holding final examinations would be endangering the lives of many. They said past examination performance sheets of each student, along with internal assessments, were available with colleges and it would be easy to evaluate them on that basis and promote them without final examinations.

However, a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R S Reddy and M R Shah said when UGC guidelines, as shown by solicitor general Tushar Mehta, were binding on universities, the commission’s decision not to recognise degrees without passing final examinations would also be binding. Before reserving its order, the SC said the only question was whether state governments, in a pandemic situation, had power under the DM Act to decide when to hold final examinations, especially when they pleaded that many colleges had been converted into Covid-19 testing centres.

The bench refused to interfere in the ongoing final examinations in Delhi University colleges. Mehta said the UGC guidelines had given three options — online, offline or hybrid system of examinations for final year students. He said around 300 universities had already conducted final examinations and another 400 were in the process of doing so. Mehta said the UGC had made a provision that if any student, for a genuine reason, could not appear in the final examination held before September 30, then she would be given one more chance.

Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Delhi said the UGC could not have taken a unilateral decision to hold final examinations, turning a blind eye to the Covid pandemic

GU exams in 2 phases in Sep

GU exams in 2 phases in Sep

Ahmedabad:19.08.2020

Gujarat University (GU) will hold exams for arts, commerce, science and law students in two phases from September 3 and September 12. About 70,000 students in various GU-affiliated colleges are expected to take this offline (pen and paper) format exams that are to end on September 20.

Students who have applied for online exams, the university will hold exams for them separately, the dates of which are yet to be announced. As many as 12,000 students have so far registered for online exams that will be held after September 30, said sources in GU.

On Tuesday, GU announced the dates for holding exams as per which postgraduate courses including MA fourth semester, LLB (2,4,6 semester), LLM (1, 3 semester) and MCom fourth semester students, will have to take the exams in the first phase starting September 3. Candidates pursuing their undergraduate studies like BCom, BA, BSc, BBA, BCA, will participate in the second round of offline exams starting September 12. TNN

Maid uses dead man’s ATM card to siphon ₹35 lakh during lockdown Got PIN From Deceased’s Mobile Phone

Maid uses dead man’s ATM card to siphon ₹35 lakh during lockdown

Got PIN From Deceased’s Mobile Phone

Dwaipayan.Ghosh@timesgroup.com

Kolkata:19.08.2020

The detective department has arrested a maid servant — employed at a house on Anwar Shah Road for last seven years — and her two accomplices for allegedly stealing the ATM card of her employer, who had passed away during the initial lockdown days, and withdrawing Rs 35 lakh from his account over the next two months.

The cops have arrested main accused Rita Roy (45), a resident of Nakashipara in Nadia, her son-in-law Ranjit Mullick (31), a resident of Karimpur in Nadia, and Mullick’s brother-in-law Soumitra Sarkar (45) of Guptipara in Hooghly. Police have recovered Rs 27 lakh from the accused so far.

According to joint CP (crime) Murlidhar Sharma, Anurag Agarwal, a resident of City High on Prince Anwar Shah Road, had alleged that someone had stolen the ATM card of his father Satyanarayan Agarwal, who had died during the first week of lockdown. Using the card, the accused had withdrawn Rs 34,90,000 from different ATM counters between March 30 and May 30. A case was registered at Jadavpur police station.

“Since it was a full lockdown phase and no one was going to banks, no one had an inkling that money was being withdrawn. The son stayed in another flat. The mobile phone that belonged to Satyanarayan was switched off, so the SMS alerts never reached his family members. The deceased’s son had SMSed the PIN of the card to his father since Satyanarayan used to forget it often. The maid got the PIN from the mobile,” said an investigating officer. It was when Anurag went to the bank to take stock of his father’s accounts on June 1 that he realized about the theft.

During investigation, cops collected the transaction details and CCTV footage of the ATM counters from where money was withdrawn. It was found that two persons had withdrawn the cash wearing masks and caps. They also chose ATM counters of different banks at Karimpur, Krishnagore and Ranaghat in Nadia and Guptipara in Hooghly. “With no other lead, CCTV footage were shown to local sources and a ground survey was carried out around the ATMs. Finally, we identified both Mullick and Sarkar and they were arrested on August 13 from their respective residences,” said Sharma.

The accused were interrogated and it was found that they were brothers-in-law and that they had got the ATM card from Mullick’s motherin-law, the maid servant of the complainant’s father. Roy, the maid servant, was arrested from Kolkata where she continued to work.

“Searches were carried out at their respective residences. While Rs 16 lakh was recovered from Mullick, Rs 2 lakh and the ATM card was seized from Sarkar and another Rs 9 lakh was recovered from Roy,” said Sharma. The cops have taken custody of the accused till August 25.