Fake cheques, demand drafts: Mumbai businessman loses Rs 5.24 crore in Dubai investment scam; 4 arrested in Chennai | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: Four men were arrested by the cyber police for an investment fraud where, perhaps for the first time, a victim was summoned overseas by scammers to assure him of the safety of his investments. The victim, a 62-year-old suburban businessman, gradually figured out that something wasn’t right, but it was too late. He had…

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4 AMU proctorial staff members quit over charges of misbehaviour | India News

AGRA: Four members of the proctorial staff at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) resigned following allegations of misbehaviour with students staging demonstrations against the university’s fee hike, an official said Saturday, reports Mohammad Dilshad.AMU VC Prof Naima Khatoon has accepted the resignations. The development comes amid protests over the “steep fee hike and delay in holding…

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NCERT module blames Jinnah, Congress for Partition, triggers row | India News

NEW DELHI: NCERT’s newly released Partition Horrors Remembrance Day modules have triggered a political storm by explicitly naming Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Congress and then Viceroy Lord Mountbatten as “culprits” behind India’s division in 1947.The supplementary modules – separate versions for classes VI-VIII and IX-XII – are not part of regular textbooks but designed for discussions,…

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SC’s interference in Prez-guv powers will destabilise power balance: Govt | India News

NEW DELHI: In a blazing response to Supreme Court‘s judgment fixing deadlines for President and governors in granting or withholding assent to bills passed by assemblies, Centre on Saturday warned impermissible invasion of constitutionally conferred high plenary zone on the top constitutional post holders by SC in the garb of judicial review powers would destabilise…

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