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 ...
The Property He Sold in Delhi — And the TDS Surprise Waiting for Him in Toronto Arjun Mehta had not lived in Delhi for almost nine years. Toronto had become home. His work, his family, his bank accounts and most of his investments were now in Canada. The Delhi apartment, meanwhil...
18% Gone Before It Even Arrived: How Hidden Fees Quietly Ate Into an NRI's Remittance It was supposed to be a straightforward transfer. Arjun, an NRI living in Dubai, had been planning to send money to his family in India for several months. He had recently sold an overseas investment ...
The Family Office That Was Paying Tax in Three Countries — For the Same Rupee The Bansal family had never thought of itself as having a tax problem. They had something much more complicated: a global wealth structure that had grown faster than the family's oversight of it. Over...
Detained at the Checkpost: How One Missed Field Cost a Transporter His Entire Shipment It was around 6:30 in the morning when Rajesh received the call every transporter hopes never comes. “Sir, truck checkpost par rok diya hai.” The truck had left Ahmedabad the previous evening and was ...
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 ...
