Doctor pursuing mistaken transaction loses ₹1.5 lakh

Doctor pursuing mistaken transaction loses ₹1.5 lakh

Chaithanya.Swamy@timesofindia.com 

Bengaluru : In the latest cybercrime reported in the city, a 32-year-old doctor who raised a complaint with National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) about a mistaken transaction fell prey to cybercrooks and ended up losing Rs 1.5 lakh. According to police, this is a new type of cybercrime reported in the city in recent days. Dr Raksha (name changed) told Annapoorneshwarinagar police in her complaint that she wanted to send Rs 10,000 to someone known to her through a digital payment app on Aug 27. However, the Nagarabhavi resident ended up sending it to the wrong person. 

After realising that she had made a mistake, Dr Raksha visited the NPCI portal to register a complaint. NPCI is a payment and settlement infrastructure initiative of the Reserve Bank of India and Indian Banks’Association. She entered the details such as the type of transaction, the first six and last four digits of her debit card number, bank name and ac count number, mobile number, and her name, and raised a complaint. She received a call from two numbers on Aug 31. 

The callers introduced themselves as NPCI officials and on the pretext of helping her get her money back and close the complaint, they asked her to reveal her bank balance. After she shared the details they sought, the miscreants asked her to open her bank’s mobile app. As Dr Raksha had not installed the app, they asked her to download it and register. They made her keep the app open until they finished the “verification and refund”. According to her, the miscreants siphoned off Rs 1,49,777 from her account in multiple transactions. 

She noticed the amount debited from her account and told them about the same. However, they claimed it was due to technical glitches, and they would resolve the issue. She suspected that they were cheating her and complained to the cyber helpline. She lodged a  complaint with police on Sept 2. A senior officer said they are investigating how the cybercrooks accessed the details of her complaint to NPCI. A case has been registered under the Information Technology Act and the investigation is in progress.

Over a dozen snakelets found in restroom in govt college at Cheyyar

Over a dozen snakelets found in restroom in govt college at Cheyyar 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 5.9.2024 

Tiruvannamalai : Panic gripped students of Arignar Anna Govt Arts and Science college in Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district on Tuesday after a girl student spotted more than a dozen snakelets in the ladies’ restroom in the college and alerted students, teaching and non-teaching faculty members. 

A few students entered the restroom and took videos and photos of the snakelets inside. These were shared widely on social media. The college management locked the restroom complex, and pasted a notice alerting students of the presence of snakelets and requested them not to use it. 

The college management then sent at alert to the forest department, which sent a team that rescued more than half a dozen snakelets and launched a hunt for other reptiles on the campus. Students said they spotted a snake a few days ago near therestroom, but the reptile escaped even before a rescue team could reach the college. 

There are about 8,500 students, including girls, studying in the college, which functions in two shifts. Students complained that restrooms in the college were not maintained properly. Moreover, thick bushes and shrubs covered the restrooms, making it ideal for poisonous insects and reptiles. College principal S Kalaivani said the bush and shrub near the restroom grew fast after the recent rain and promised students to clear the vegetation and clean restrooms

PG medico kills himself over family issues

PG medico kills himself over family issues 

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 5.9.2024 

Chennai : A post-graduate medical student committed suicide by injecting a lethal dose into his body at the hostel of Madras Medical College around 7 am on Wednesday. Police said he took the extreme step due to a family issue. The deceased, Aravind, 24, a native of Ezhayiram Pannai in Virudhunagar, was pursuing his firstyear master's degree at the Madras Medical College and stayed at the hostel. 

On Wednesday, his batchmates suspected something was wrong as Aravind didn’t come out of his room. They informed the hostel warden who then broke open the door, only to find Aravind lying unconscious on his bed. Students got Aravind admitted to a hospital, where doctors examined and declared him dead on arrival. On information, a police team from Triplicane recovered his laptop, mobile phone and other documents from his room. Police found an empty syringe, and said the deceased had selfadministered an injection that killed him. 

Forensic officials have recovered the syringe for medical examination to confirm the chemical remains in it. Preliminary inquiries revealed that Aravind had an argument with his family as they denied him permission to marry his uncle’s daughter. Police suspect that Aravind may have taken the extreme step due to this issue. Triplicane police have registered a case, and further investigations are on.

 It may be recalled that a medical college student, Shirley, committed suicide on Sunday by leaping off the fifth floor of the hostel building at Meenakshi Medical College in Kancheepuram. In yet another incident at Virudhunagar, a second-year medical student, Vivega, took her life by hanging from the ceiling at her house after she failed twice in a subject in her first-year semester examinations.

(Assistance for those having suicidal thoughts is available on Tamil Nadu’s health helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline (044-24640050).

Questioned in city drugs case, student leaps to death Cops Arrested 11 Students After Raids In Potheri

Questioned in city drugs case, student leaps to death Cops Arrested 11 Students After Raids In Potheri 

Sindhu.Kannan@timesofindia.com  5.9.24 

Chennai : A 22-year-old private engineering college student jumped to his death from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Potheri near Maraimalai Nagar on Tuesday night, three days after he was taken with 23 others by police for inquiry over ganja use. On Saturday, 1,000 police personnel from Tambaram commissionerate raided several gated communities in Potheri, occupied mostly by engineering college students, and seized ganja, hookah machines, ganja oil, ganja chocolates and arrested 11 students. Police who identified the deceased as Konda Srinivasa Nikhil of Telangana, a fourth year B Tech (CSC) student, said hookah pipes had been seized from his room. 

After he was taken to the Maraimalai Nagar police station for questioning and his parents were informed, officers issued a warning, obtained a written apology and let him off. No case was registered. A preliminary probe revealed that the college management summoned him for an internal inquiry and his parents reprimanded him for getting into bad company.

 No suicide note, No suicide note left behind 

Some of the house owners in the building had already asked the students to vacate the place, police said. For three days after the raid, Nikhil confined himself to his room and did not attend college.  Tuesday night, he jumped from the fourth floor. A few fellow students rushed him to a private hospital in Potheri where he died early on Wednesday morning. Police sent the body for postmortem to Chengalpet Govt Medical College and Hospital and registered a case. 

He did not leave any suicide note behind. (Assistance for those having suicidal thoughts is available on TN’s health helpline 104 and Sneha’s suicide prevention helpline 044-24640050.)

Government hospital in Madurai bars free food for patients, NGO sees role of actor’s eatery

Government hospital in Madurai bars free food for patients, NGO sees role of actor’s eatery

"The hospital authorities claimed that our distribution was an obstacle and cited security reasons," said Managing Trustee of Star Friends Trust T Gurusamy.

Hospital authorities have issued the order citing security reasons 

Express News Service

Updated on:

03 Sep 2024, 10:08 am

MADURAI: Authorities at Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) have stopped free food distribution by an NGO to attendants of patients, citing security reasons. Currently, volunteers of the NGO distribute food packets near the GRH entrance.

Speaking to TNIE, Managing Trustee of Star Friends Trust T Gurusamy said, “Our mission is to provide essential support and resources to those in need. We distributed free food to visitors and attendees of the patients at the GRH for 173 days, as they were mostly from other districts. On the 174th day (Thursday), we were asked to stop the distribution.

"The hospital authorities claimed that our distribution was an obstacle and cited security reasons. This is not valid as our distribution lasts for just an hour every morning. We suspect the reason behind this is a private eatery owned by a Tamil actor located inside the premises and raised concern over this. However, we do not blame anyone but are worried that distributing food at the entrance will invite attention from outsiders and passers-by. We will be issuing tokens to attendees, said T Gurusamy.

Speaking to TNIE, GRH (Madurai) Dean (In-Charge) Dr G Selvarani said, “We are not against distributing food packets to patients, attenders or visitors. But it is inviting beggars and destitute from outside the premises. The food distribution vehicle is parked inside the narrow passage blocking the movement of patients, doctors and health workers. Hence, we asked the volunteers to distribute the packets outside the GRH near the entrance.”

Second-year Medical College student dies by suicide after failing exam

Second-year Medical College student dies by suicide after failing exam

On Monday evening, the results of the first-year semester examination were published and Vivega who reappeared for the first year's Physiology subject in which she had failed earlier, was saddened to know she had failed once again.

Express News Service

Updated on:

03 Sep 2024, 4:56 pm

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VIRUDHUNAGAR: A 20-year-old second-year Madurai medical college student, hailing from Virudhunagar, died by suicide at her house on Monday allegedly after failing in a subject in the first-year semester examination.

According to sources, Vivega's mother Kanagalatha is an office superintendent at the Virudhunagar Government Medical College Hospital, and her father Veeramani is an accountant at a private hospital.

Vivega, a 2022 batch student has been doing her medicine at the Madurai Medical College by staying in the college's hostel. Following the semester holidays, she has been staying at home.

On Monday evening, the results of the first-year semester examination were published. Vivega who has reappeared for the first year's Physiology subject in which she had failed earlier, was saddened to know that she had failed in the examination once again.

Vivega informed her parents that she was about to bathe and left for her room. Later, Vivega's parents received a call from her friend that Vivega's mobile had been switched off for a long time and told them to check on her. When her parents forcefully opened the locked room, they found Vivega had attempted suicide. She was then rushed to Government Medical College Hospital in Virudhunagar.

However, doctors declared that she was brought dead. A case was registered at the Virudhunagar Rural Police Station under 194 BNSS. "No suicide note was recovered. We have conducted a thorough search of her house," police sources said. Following the autopsy, the body of the deceased was handed over to the parents.

Two Madras university employees go on hunger strike

Two Madras university employees go on hunger strike

Two employees M Vijaykumar and Sivakumar are working as section officers. Vijaykumar alleged that the authorities have been delaying his promotion which is due from 2016.

Madras University

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Updated on:

04 Sep 2024, 1:20 pm

CHENNAI: Two non-teaching faculty at the University of Madras have been on a hunger strike since Monday to protest alleged delay in their promotions for many years.

The two employees M Vijaykumar and Sivakumar are working as section officers. Vijaykumar alleged that his promotion was due in 2016, but the authorities have been delaying, citing improper reasons.

“If I was given a promotion on time, I would have become assistant registrar by now. Despite 30 years of service, I am not getting my due,” he said, adding that the two resorted to this mode of protest since many of their complaints were ignored. He added that they intend to continue their protest until their demands are met.

Vijaykumar said the university was earlier delaying the promotion, citing a case pending in court. However, he has not been promoted despite the court ruling in his favour In 2018. Despite repeated attempts, varsity officials were not available for comment.