Kannur, Aug 11 (IANS) The Kerala Police’s cyber crime unit arrested two men from Chennai in connection with a sophisticated online trading fraud that defrauded a doctor in Kannur of Rs 4.43 crore, officials said on Monday. The accused, identified as Mehbubasha Farooq and Rijaz, were arrested by the Kannur City Cyber Crime Police from Chennai on Sunday evening, said an officer at the Kannur Cyber Police Station.Farooq is a resident of Chennai, while Rijaz hails from Perumbavoor in Ernakulam dis…

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 p.m. on Monday amid relentless sloganeering and disruptions by Opposition members, marking the fourteenth consecutive day of stalled proceedings in the ongoing monsoon session. Speaker Om Birla, visibly perturbed by the continued disorder, rebuked the protesting MPs, stating, “This is the fourteenth day you are disrupting the House in a planned manner. The commoners have voted for you to raise public issues, but you are wasting public…

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was all set to introduce revised Income Tax Bill 2025 in the Lok Sabha on Monday.The updated Income Tax Bill 2025 incorporates 285 suggestions from the Parliamentary Select Committee. The new legislation aims to simplify tax processes and address previous shortcomings, potentially reshaping the income tax landscape in the country.Last week, the Income Tax Bill, 2025, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on February 13 to replace…

Chennai, Aug 11 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will be on an extensive tour of Udumalpet and Pollachi in Coimbatore district on Monday, during which he will participate in a series of official programmes, unveil statues of prominent leaders, and inaugurate new development projects. According to official sources, the Chief Minister’s day will begin in Udumalpet, where he is scheduled to address a public meeting at the Netaji Grounds. At the event, he will distribute welfare assist…

New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) A major landslide occurred on the route from Uttarkashi to Gangnani, severely disrupting vehicular movement near Netala, said officials on Monday. The landslide, which struck in the morning, has rendered the road completely impassable, cutting off access to the Gangnani area.According to officials, debris and mud from the hill collapsed onto the road, blocking the stretch entirely. Heavy machinery, including JCBs, has been deployed to remove the debris and restore traffi…

Srinagar, Aug 11 (IANS) Two J&K Police officers were killed and another injured in an overnight road accident in Srinagar district, said officials on Monday.The officials said that two sub-inspectors of J&K Police were killed and another was injured in the accident in the Nowgam area of the district.“During the night intervening August 10 and 11, a speeding vehicle bearing registration number JK21H-1919 hit a road divider on the bypass road near Nowgam area after it went out of the dri…

Mumbai, Aug 11 (IANS) Shiv Sena(UBT) on Monday raised questions over the functioning of the Election Commission of India (ECI) against the backdrop of Rahul Gandhi’s vote theft and poll rigging allegations, and sought a thorough probe. The Uddhav Thackeray camp in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ claimed that the ECI has been working under the BJP’s influence. “BJP has come to power at the Centre and in Maharashtra through a poll scam and cheating of voters,” it said.The editorial raised doubts over…

Uttarkashi, Aug 11 (IANS) The Indian Army, in coordination with the civil administration, has completed the construction of a Bailey bridge in Limchigad, restoring connectivity after the original bridge was washed away in the August 5 cloudburst in Uttarkashi’s Dharali.Following the destruction of the Limchigad bridge, transportation in the region came to a standstill, prompting urgent restoration efforts.Teams from the police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), engineers, and other rescue un…

Bengaluru, Aug 11 (IANS) The Monsoon Assembly session will commence on Monday, with the opposition BJP and JD(S) preparing to target the Congress-led government over various issues, including the stampede tragedy, urea shortage, and alleged misuse of SC/ST funds.Before attending the sessions in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, the BJP and JD(S) have decided to stage a protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the premises of the Vidhana Soudha. The protest will highlight …

Chennai, Aug 11 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M.K. Stalin has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of converting the Election Commission of India (ECI) into a “poll-rigging machinery” and alleged that large-scale voter fraud had been committed in Karnataka’s Mahadevapura constituency. CM Stalin said on Monday that the incident was not an administrative lapse but a “calculated conspiracy” to subvert the people’s mandate.He pointed to evidence presented by Cong…