Indonesia Earthquake: Death Toll Rises to 54 as Rescuers Race to Reach Devastated Flores Communities Rescuers were digging through collapsed buildings and clearing landslide-blocked roads on Monday, August 17, 2026, as Indonesia's death toll from a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rose to at least 5...
Indian Marble Waste Dump Becomes Unlikely Tourist Attraction A vast expanse of white marble waste in Kishangarh, Rajasthan, is drawing tourists, photographers, and filmmakers to a landscape that oddly resembles a snow-covered valley, despite being little more t...
Iran Says It Has Reached an Agreement With Oman on Hormuz Even as Oil Prices Rise The Middle East war entered another tense day on Monday, August 17, 2026, with efforts to resolve the US-Iran standoff showing little sign of a real breakthrough, even as the crisis around the Strait ...
Gold Appraiser Arrested Over Alleged Fake Pledge Loan Fraud at Kochi Cooperative Society Police in Kerala's Kochi have arrested a 44-year-old gold appraiser in connection with an alleged loan fraud at a cooperative society. The accused allegedly misused his official position to create rec...
Fake L&T Manager Offers Cheap Diesel, Churu Man Falls Into Cyber Fraud Trap A 29-year-old man in Rajasthan's Churu district was allegedly cheated of ₹1.73 lakh after a cyber fraudster posed as an L&T manager and promised to provide diesel at a price lower than the market rate...
Fake Gas Bill Fraud Becomes Rising Cyber Concern After 30 Ghaziabad Consumers Duped A new method of cyber fraud involving gas connections and bill updates has emerged in Ghaziabad, where around 30 consumers with piped natural gas (PNG) connections have allegedly fallen victim to cybe...
Railway TTE Shared OTPs for 'Loan Waiver', Then Found ₹52.29 Lakh Debt: A Warning for Every Borrower A railway Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) has allegedly been cheated of ₹52.29 lakh on the promise of getting his home loan waived, in a case that has surfaced in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Police hav...
Dating App Trap in Lucknow: Railway Aspirant Allegedly Drugged, Assaulted and Extorted Bazaar Khala police in Lucknow have busted a suspected gang allegedly targeting people arriving in the city from outside, using dating apps to lure, blackmail, and extort them. Eight people have been ...
US Moves to Let Private Firms Hack Foreign Cybercriminal Networks The United States is preparing to allow selected private companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign cybercriminal groups, under a new policy that would permit government-approved ...
Meerut Sub-Inspector Suspended Over Social Media Video, Cyber Cell Begins Probe A woman sub-inspector posted at the Meerut police lines has been suspended after an allegedly objectionable video shared on social media raised concerns over compliance with the Uttar Pradesh Police's...
CBI Probes ₹7 Crore Bonus Claim in South Central Railway Bribery Case The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a senior section engineer of South Central Railway in Vijayawada while he was allegedly accepting a ₹15 lakh bribe from a contractor. A private individ...
Gujarat Police Uncover Fake Pilgrimage Booking Network Affecting Nearly 22,000 People Gujarat Police have uncovered an alleged online pilgrimage booking fraud in which 21,985 people across the country were targeted through deceptive websites posing as official accommodation booking pla...
