New York, May 5 (IANS) Two Indian journalists have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for an art reporting project exposing cybercrime in India.Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, along with Natalie Obiko Pearson, were announced as the winners on Monday in the Illustrated Reporting and Commentary category for the report they produced for Bloomberg.Another Indian journalist, Devjyot Ghoshal, was a finalist in the same category for an expose of cybercrime and trafficking in Southeast Asia, in which crimi…
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Kochi, April 28 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a charge sheet against 5 accused, including a company, in connection with a ‘Digital Arrest’ case, an agency statement said on Tuesday.The people accused, in the charge sheet filed on Saturday, are C.S.Saleeshkumar, Blessin Jacob Abraham, Mohammed Junaid Hussain, and Mohammad Mushtaque, while the company is JCSS Capital International Pvt Ltd.Three of the charge-sheeted accused are currently in judicial custody.This ca…
Patna, April 27 (IANS) Bihar Special Task Force (STF) Deputy Inspector General of Police Sanjay Kumar Singh, accompanied by DIG Niraj Kumar, on Monday stated that a series of coordinated operations carried out between January 1 and April 22 have significantly weakened criminal and Naxalite networks across the state.Addressing a press conference at the Police Headquarters in Patna, Singh revealed that the STF conducted 10 encounters during the period, resulting in the deaths of three criminals an…
Hyderabad, April 26 (IANS) The Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) conducted ‘Operation Crackdown 2.0’ across the state to monitor cyber offenders who were arrested in the past to prevent repeat offences and continued involvement in illegal activities, a senior official said on Sunday.The TGCSB, in coordination with law & order police, launched the crackdown on Saturday.During 2024–2025, a total of 3,567 cybercrime accused were arrested across Telangana. From this pool of 614 accus…
Jaipur, April 25 (IANS) The Chief Justice of India (CJI), Surya Kant, will address a one-day seminar titled ‘The Bench Beyond Retirement’ in Jaipur on Saturday, focussing on the role of retired judges.Rajasthan Chief Minister, Bhajanlal Sharma, is also scheduled to attend the event.Coinciding with the CJI’s visit, an unprecedented judicial arrangement will see 39 judges, including Acting Chief Justice S.P. Sharma, sit together at the Rajasthan High Court’s Jaipur Bench.Legal observers say th…
Washington, April 25 (IANS) US Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Jonathan Burke has told lawmakers that sanctions remain a central tool to cut off adversaries from the American financial system and disrupt illicit activity.“Sanctions can be useful to isolate those sanctions targets and make sure they don’t have access to the US financial system,” Burke told lawmakers.Testifying before a House subcommittee, Burke said sanctions serve both as a direct enforcement tool and …
Hyderabad, April 23 (IANS) Hyderabad Police Commissioner V. S. Sajjanar on Thursday asked the banks to focus on preventing cyber frauds by ensuring zero mule accounts.The Hyderabad police chief recommended the introduction of a twin-challenge framework to reorient bank branch priorities away from account-opening targets and towards citizen safety and institutional integrity.He strongly advocated that both these challenges should be embedded as formal Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at the bran…
Hyderabad, April 21 (IANS) In a move to combat cybercrime, Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar has suggested critical changes to the banking system, stating that such reforms are imperative to dismantle organised syndicates operating across the country. In a detailed letter addressed to Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Tuesday, the Commissioner highlighted how ‘mule accounts’ created in the names of innocent individuals have become the focal point of cyber fraud.These reve…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday stressed the urgent need for a transition towards real-time enforcement mechanisms to effectively combat the rapidly evolving threat of cybercrime in the country.Delivering the 22nd D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture at Bharat Mandapam, the CJI said that traditional enforcement approaches are proving increasingly inadequate in the face of cyber offences that are “transnational, fast-paced and anonymous” in nature.The lectu…
Guwahati, April 20 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation has intensified its nationwide crackdown on cybercrime infrastructure under Operation Chakra-V, arresting a key conspirator in Guwahati for his role in a large-scale SIM card fraud racket.The accused, identified as Ubaid Ullah, was apprehended in the early hours of April 19 after remaining absconding since August 2025, an official statement said on Monday. He is alleged to have played a pivotal role in procuring and distributing illeg…