Online frauds continue unabated: 60-year-old duped of ₹99k for refund of ₹640 in app wallet

Online frauds continue unabated: 60-year-old duped of ₹99k for refund of ₹640 in app wallet

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Bhopal:28.10.2021

A 60-year-old man searching for a customer care number for an online payment on the internet, however, fell in the trap of online fraudsters. The accused allegedly siphoned Rs 99,000 from his bank account on the pretext of refunding just Rs 640 that were deducted from his online wallet. The accused sent the victim a link asking him to download a remote access over his smartphone, hacked his mobile phone and siphoned money from his bank account. The victim reported the matter to the cyber-crime branch where a zero FIR was registered and the case was transferred to Habibganj police.

Investigation officer SI Vivek Sharma said that complainant Sanjay Gadkari, a resident of Sarita Complex in Shivaji Nagar, wanted to get refund of Rs 640 in his online payment wallet. He received a call from an unidentified man who asked him to download an app on his phone and asked him for the OTP. As soon as Sanjay told him the OTP, Rs 98,897 were deducted from his bank account. Subsequently, he reported the matter to police.

In another online fraud case registered at Misrod police station on Tuesday, complainant Vanshika Jaiswal, 21, a resident of Jatkhedi, who wanted to sell her bicycle online, received a call from the accused who sent Re 1 online to her after taking her account details and then siphoned Rs 20,049 from her bank account.

Medical edu principal secy asked to appear before court

Medical edu principal secy asked to appear before court

Bengaluru:28.10.2021

The high court has directed the principal secretary of the medical education department to appear before it regarding the delay in operationalising the Institute of Gastroenterology and Organ Transplant on Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute premises.

The division bench called the delay “deliberate” and gave the direction while hearing a contempt petition by MN Umesh, a Bengaluru advocate. During the hearing, the court was told that although the institute was made functional on July 5, 2021, it cannot be made operational unless a sanitisation exercise is done that requires at least two months.

“We fail to appreciate as to why the institute was not sanitised till date and why they are waiting for the court to allow them time to sanitise the institute. The conduct of the authorities concerned is highly deprecated,” the bench said. TNN

3% DA hike for state govt staff, pensioners

3% DA hike for state govt staff, pensioners

28.10.2021

The Karnataka government on Wednesday announced it has increased the dearness allowance of its employees and pensioners from 21.5% to 24.5% with effect from July 1 this year. TNN

Court notice over medico’s papers

Court notice over medico’s papers

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Ahmedabad:28.10.2021

A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued notice to the state government over an appeal filed by an MBBS student and his father seeking directions to GMERS, Himmatnagar to supply documents including the internship certificate.

Petitioners – Rajesh Patel and his son Neil – have filed the appeal after they were not satisfied with the single-judge bench’s order, by which the HC had ordered the college management to return the original documents including mark sheets, which were retained by the college on the ground that Neil had not paid Rs 2 lakh bond or served in rural areas.

On the other hand, the petitioners have been claiming that the student had never submitted the bond and he was not bound to discharge any obligation to this effect.

While ordering the college management to return all original documents to the student, the single-judge bench also paved way for the college to recover the bond amount of Rs 2 lakh from the student, who is eager to get the internship certificate so that he could pursue further studies in the US.

As the issue involves payment of bond amount to which the petitioners show resistance, the bench of Chief Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Mauna Bhatt made it clear, “You are a doctor who has studied in a government medical college through a quota seat.

This court has consistently taken the view that MBBS doctor, who got admitted to the said courses are bound by duty to serve in rural areas.” The court refused to grant any interim relief and posted further hearing beyond Diwali vacation, but permitted the petitioners to approach the court during the vacation if they feel it is necessary.

27 PG dental seats empty

27 PG dental seats empty

Ahmedabad:28.10.2021

The Admission Committee for Professional Post-Graduate Medical Education Courses conducted the mop-up round for 188 seats lying vacant for post-graduate dental courses, and filled all but 27.

“On Wednesday there were 27 empty seats with the others were taken in the mopup round,” said sources close to the development.

The admission committee this year carried out two rounds of admission. Now, it has decided to give the task of filling these seats to the institutes, sources added. TNN

Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

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Trichy:28.10.2021

P Arun Kumar, a government school student from a hamlet near Manapparai in Trichy who had cleared JEE (advanced), has secured a seat in Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H). Son of labourers, he was allotted BTech Chemical Engineering at the online counselling held on Wednesday.

“I am extremely happy to have been allotted chemical engineering. Getting into IIT was my dream and it has come true. NIT Trichy students guided me during the counselling,”

Arun Kumar told TOI. He secured the IIT-H seat under OBCNCL category in which he secured a rank of 2,503. Sounding confident that he can manage campus life without facing any language barriers, Arun Kumar, a student of Sevalpatty government higher secondary school, said he was keen to enrol in IIT-Madras. “If there are unallotted seats in IITMadras and If I get a chance, I will opt for the institute irrespective of the course available,” he said.

Amid odds, the boy underwent coaching from 2019 under IGNITTE, the teaching club of NIT-Trichy that helps economically backward and government school students. While the club has helped rural students get into NITs, this is the first time a government school student coached by it secured IIT admission. After TOI reported his achievement on October 23, many reached out to him including the district administration and management of SASTRA University, Thanjavur.

Air fares to Singapore, Malaysia remain pricey

Air fares to Singapore, Malaysia remain pricey

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Chennai:28.10.2021

Air fares from Chennai to Singapore and Malaysia are several-fold higher than pre-Covid rates at a time when the travel sector is inching back to normalcy.

The two countries relaxed norms recently so that people who have permanent residency permits, workers and others can start travelling.

One-way fare on direct flights is ₹25,000 to ₹27,000 to Singapore while it is ₹26,000 to Kuala Lumpur for travel in November. The fare is higher for travelling via Colombo or Dubai but many are not travelling via transit hubs because of ever-changing restrictions.

The fare is high because the government is yet to permit more flights on the route and continues to run 'air bubble' flights operated by Air India Express or Air India.

Airport sources said that foreign carriers, which used to have one or two flights per day from Chennai in the pre-Covid-19 days, are unlikely to resume flights till end of December unless the government fully allows scheduled services.

Fewer flights and high fares have troubled those who are flying on business, jobs and on permanent residency visas and those who have a second home.

Travel and tour operators are hoping that Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand will soon permit leisure travellers. Singapore has allowed transit passengers but people are not able to use it because there is only one flight from Chennai.

S Baskar from Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) said fares would reduce only if commercial flights resume operations.

Some travel agents expect southeast Asian countries to allow leisure travellers by next month.

Basheer Ahmed of Chennai Metro Travels said, “There are only limited seats but people who are citizens, those with permits and those who need to return have begun buying tickets. There used to be around five to six flights per day to Singapore and three flights to Kuala Lumpur in the pre-Covid-19 days. Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand were the most popular leisure destinations. There is hope that leisure travellers will be allowed by mid-November.”