fight against covid continues
Prayagraj: Out of the total 11.35 lakh samples collected in Sangam city, roughly 2.58 per cent of the samples tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the infection rate reported in March so far has been 0.15 per cent of the samples collected in the past fortnight this month. This is a positive trend, given the recent spike in Covid-19 cases in different parts of the country in March.
After analysing the records, officials of the health department on Tuesday claimed to have collected a total of 11,35,335 samples for testing and 29,394 of them tested positive for Covid-19 infection in the past one year.
Prayagraj: The sleuths of UP Police’s cybercrime cell are tightening the noose around a West UP-based gang of cyber fraudsters that has been blackmailing and extorting money from businessmen, professionals and students by using their images in deepfake porn videos and threatening to post them on social media. The cybercrime cell has been flooded with complaints where the fraudsters collected details about victims from their social media accounts and then contacted them by using pre-recorded videos of females to engage them in conversation.
The fraudsters then used these frozen frames of the male victims and superimposed them on porn clips using deepfake technology. The fraudsters created fake profiles of females on social media networks.
Prayagraj: A case of alleged kidnapping of a class XIth student outside a city-based school in the Civil Lines area on Tuesday foxed the city police for close to two hours. The police claimed to have rescued the boy near the Damupur Kareli area from the clutches of the kidnappers.
SP (City) Dinesh Kumar Singh told reporters, initial investigations revealed that a group of four persons, including a classmate of the student, allegedly kidnapped a 17-year-old student outside the school campus located at Civil Lines area under the limits of Civil Lines police station on Tuesday afternoon”.
He further added, As the police received information regarding the kidnapping of a class XIth student, police of Kareli, Dhoomanganj and Civil Lines swung into action and the alleged kidnappers left the student near Damupur Kareli road and escaped”. Three out of four kidnappers were residents of the Kareli area.
PRAYAGRAJ: The sleuths of UP Police’s cybercrime cell are tightening the noose around a West UP-based gang of cyber fraudsters that has been blackmailing and extorting money from businessmen, professionals and students by using their images in deepfake porn videos and threatening to post them on social media.
The cybercrime cell has been flooded with complaints where the fraudsters collected details about victims from their social media accounts and then contacted them by using pre-recorded videos of females to engage them in conversation.
The fraudsters then used these frozen frames of the male victims and superimposed them on porn clips using deepfake technology.
Prayagraj: A joint team of police and administration on Tuesday clarified that the mysterious death of four persons in a remote village in Saidabad and Handia blocks in the trans-Ganga area in the past 48 hours cannot be attributed to spurious liquor.
SP (Trans Ganga) Dhawal Jaiswal told TOI that three out of four persons had died due to illness\diseases and that the bodies have been sent for post mortem to ascertain the cause of death.
SP, meanwhile, said that a man identified as Ajay Lal Gupta died of a gastro problem as he had not consumed meals for the past five days. Similarly, another person named Kabir alias Ramji of Sangram Patti village, suffering from paralysis had died after consuming spirit in the Allahapur area of the city. Besides, another person identified as Chote Lal Kanojia of Beenda village died after consuming an excessive amount of spurious liquor.