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06 Aug

FICCI-CASCADE Holds a Program on Prevention of Counterfeiting and Smuggling

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Despite various anti-counterfeiting strategies such as raids, use of multiple packaging technologies, consumer education and consultations with government agencies the menace of smuggling and counterfeiting is on the rise. In pursuance of its mandate, FICCI-CASCADE held a program on ‘Prevention of Counterfeiting and Smuggling’ (Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy). The key recommendations of the program included, capacity building in terms of skill, infrastructure and technology amongst the law enforcement agencies in improving the detection and investigation of crimes. The capacity building program saw participation of several officers of West Bengal Police from Bankura, Islampur, Jagipur, Uttar…

05 Aug

1 dead, 11 people injured as Naxals blow up SUV in Dantewada

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One person killed and 11 others injured after Naxals blew up a SUV in which they were travelling using an improvised explosive device in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Dantewada district on Thursday. The district's Superintendent of Police, Abhishek Pallava, told PTI, the incident took place around 7.30 am near Ghotiya village under Malewadhi police station limits, located 400 km from Raipur, on an under-construction route that connects Narayanpur to Dantewada. The official said they suspect the rebels might have planned to target security forces, but mistakenly attacked the civilian vehicle. Police never use a four-wheeler while moving on that route. The official…

05 Aug

Pegasus row: SC pulls up lawyer, says no notice for Modi, Shah

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The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up advocate M.L. Sharma for making Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah as respondents in his petition seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Pegasus snooping issue. A bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Surya Kant said: “You have included certain individuals (Prime Minister and Home Minister as respondents in the petition). We can’t issue notice like this. Don’t try to take advantage of things, you have a defective memo of parties”. Sharma had argued that the government is fabricating material in the computer through this software.

05 Aug

NIA raids 5 places in J&K, Karnataka, arrests 4 for raising funds for IS

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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at five locations in Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka in the ISIS Kerala module case and arrested four persons, involved in raising funds and radicalising and motivating more people to join the banned terror organisation. An NIA spokesperson here said that agency personnel, along with state police units, conducted simultaneous searches at five locations — three in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Mangaluru and Bengaluru in Karnataka. The official said that searches were conducted at the premises of the accused, who were continuously in touch with arrested accused…

27 Jul

Odisha police busts newborn trafficking racket, 7 arrested

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Five women are among seven people arrested from Odisha’s steel city Rourkela as police cracked a newborn babies trafficking racket flourishing across interstate borders, officials said on Tuesday. The officials of Plant Site police station in Sundergarh district cracked the racket, following a complaint filed by one Seema Khuntia who alleged that her one and a half year-old granddaughter was abducted. Rourkela Additional SP, Bikram Keshari Bhoi said, “Eight out of seven involved in the crime have been arrested and their mobile phones have been seized. We found a lot of pictures of new born babies in their mobile phones,…

26 Jul

West Bengal: Health worker was arrested for organizing fake COVID-19 vaccination camp.

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Staff Reporter: A health worker from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district was arrested on Saturday on suspicions of running illegal Covid-19 vaccination camps in the state, according to a police officer. The arrest came a month after a person was arrested for allegedly faking an IAS officer and organising a vaccination camp in Kolkata's Kasba area, where actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty also had her vaccination. Ms Chakraborty, who was invited to the camp, said she became suspicious about the vaccination process after not getting the standard SMS issued to everyone after they are given a shot,…

24 Jul

West Bengal: In Nadia, a fake SSKM doctor is caught by police

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On Friday afternoon, a fake doctor was arrested from a private chamber near Kalyani station in Nadia for allegedly posing as a professor at SSKM Hospital. Albert Russell Faruki, a resident of Kalyani, has worked as consultant gastroenterology there for the past ten years. “Following information from the West Bengal Doctors' Forum, we have arrested the accused who was allegedly practicing medicine without an MBBS degree,” a police officer said. He didn't have a doctor's registration number. The fraudulent doctor and his collaborators will face legal consequences.” According to sources, Faruki's prescription raised concerns among some physicians, who wrote a…

23 Jul

Former CBI Chief Alok Verma added to Pegasus list after being sacked

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The Pegasus leaked list contains numbers of former CBI Director Alok Verma and his family, and of Rakesh Asthana, against whom the CBI had filed a case, The Wire reported. Eight of those phones were forensically confirmed by Amnesty International’s tech lab to have been successfully compromised by the military-grade spyware that its Israeli vendor, NSO Group, says it sells only to “vetted governments”. Two other phones showed signs of targeting. Along with Verma, the personal telephone numbers of his wife, daughter and son-in-law would eventually get placed on the list too, making it a total of 8 numbers from…

23 Jul

2 terrorists killed in Sopore encounter

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Two terrorists have been killed in an ongoing encounter between terrorists and security at Warpora area of Sopore in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, officials said on Friday. “One more terrorist killed (Total 2) in Sopore encounter. Incriminating materials including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on,” police said. Earlier the firefight between terrorists and security forces took place on Thursday evening after a joint team of the police and the army cordoned off the area and launched a search operation on the basis of specific information about presence of terrorists. As the security forces zeroed in on the spot where…

19 Jul

Two ministers, three opposition leaders, journalists, industrialists, bureaucrats .everyone is trapped by Pegasus

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Modi government has two ministers. Three important leaders of the opposition camp. A person holding a constitutional position. More than forty journalists. A group of businessmen and industrialists. Current and former heads of security agencies. In addition, social workers, government bureaucrats, lawyers. All of them allege that their phones were eavesdropped on by Pegasus spyware made by the Israeli NSO. An investigation report called 'Pegasus Project' claims that the Modi government tried to eavesdrop on more than 300 phones in India before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Media representatives from 16 countries, including India, conducted the investigation. However, the government claims that allegations of government surveillance against certain individuals…