New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan called for building a coordinated national strategy to address the evolving challenges posed by online crimes against women and children in the digital environment, an official said on Friday.Inaugurating the ‘National Dialogue on Online Crimes Against Women and Children (OCWC)’, Govind Mohan highlighted the growing challenges posed by online crimes and emphasised the need for strengthening institutional capacities at the State and…
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Thiruvananthapuram, March 11 (IANS) In a significant relief to Malayalam actor Shwetha Menon, the Kerala High Court on Wednesday quashed all criminal proceedings initiated against her over allegations that she acted in films and advertisements containing obscene and vulgar visuals.Justice C.S. Dias allowed Menon’s plea seeking to quash the First Information Report (FIR) and the private complaint filed against her, observing that the allegations, even if accepted at face value, did not constitu…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The government on Wednesday asked messaging platform Telegram to remove pirated content from its platform after complaints from several OTT platforms about large-scale sharing of copyrighted movies and web series.The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a notice to Telegram under the Information Technology Act, 2000, directing the platform to take action against piracy and remove illegal content.The move comes after complaints were filed by OTT platfor…
Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 11 (IANS) The Cyber Crime Police in Mangaluru have arrested two persons for allegedly collecting bank accounts from members of the public under the pretext of using them for a trading business and later using those accounts for cyber fraud linked to foreign operators.During the operation, the police seized four mobile phones, 18 debit cards, 17 bank passbooks, six cheque books, 1,479.31 units of USDT cryptocurrency and a Maruti car from the accused.The arrested accus…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Ayush Varshney, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Darwin Labs Private Limited, in connection with the multi-thousand crore GainBitcoin cryptocurrency fraud case.The case pertains to an alleged Ponzi scheme floated by Variabletech Pte. Ltd., in which investors were lured with promises of exceptionally high returns from cryptocurrency investments. The funds collected from investors were allegedly misappropri…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the anticipatory bail plea of folk singer Neha Singh Rathore in connection with an FIR lodged in Uttar Pradesh over her allegedly objectionable social media posts about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Pahalgam terror attack.A bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar made absolute its earlier interim order and directed that Rathore be released on anticipatory bail in the event of her arrest, noting that she had…
Srinagar, March 6 (IANS) The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Shopian district on Friday rejected the bail application of five HDFC bank officials allegedly involved in a major financial fraud case.Officials said on Friday that in a significant development in a large-scale financial fraud case, the Court of CJM Shopian has rejected the bail applications of five officials of HDFC Bank who were arrested in connection with an alleged fraud at the Shopian branch.The…
Kochi, Feb 27 (IANS) The Kerala government on Friday moved the Kerala High Court challenging the recent verdict of the Ernakulam Principal District and Sessions Court that acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the 2017 actress abduction and sexual assault case, while convicting six other accused.In December 2025, Sessions Court Judge Honey M. Varghese acquitted Dileep of all charges but found six men guilty.The court sentenced them to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, the minimum punishment presc…
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) A fresh turn of events into the gang rape case reported in Bengaluru by a 19-year-old college student, now one of the accused has filed an FIR against the woman and a journalist in the city, police said on Monday. Based on a complaint filed by 34-year-old Nikhil H.D., who has been named as one of the accused in the case, the Malleshwaram police have registered an FIR, police added.Nikhil approached the police before the victim. The FIR based on Nikhil’s complaint was fil…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Congress, on Thursday, accused the Union government of ordering the removal of nine AI-generated satirical videos from the party’s social media accounts. Accusing the Centre of hypocrisy and double standards, Congress Spokesperson and Chairperson of its social media and digital platforms, Supriya Shrinate, termed it an irony that the government “was resorting to gross abuse of power by misusing the provisions of the Information Technology Act and censoring the AI con…