Ranchi: All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Monday appointed Mahagama MLA Dipika Pandey Singh as one of the members of the screening committee which will select candidates to contest in the upcoming assembly election in Assam. A notification by AICC general secretary K C Venugopal stated that the committee will be headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.
Later in the evening, AICC also appointed observers for Bengal polls. Deepika is the poll observer for Birbhum while health minister and Jamshedpur West MLA Banna Gupta has been made so for Purulia. Bermo MLA Anup Singh will be West Burdwan’s observer while party leader Mani Shankar is observer for Bankura
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MUMBAI: A 23-year-old man, who posed as a girl and made a south Mumbai businessman conduct a sexual act on video and later blackmailed him with it, was arrested by the city police on Thursday.
Accused Anup Singh, from Agra, chatted with the businessman as a ‘girl’, recorded the act, and threatened to make the video public if he did not pay up. Singh, an authorized agent of a bank’s customer service centre in Agra, demanded Rs 50,000, said the police. Singh allegedly agreed to take the money in instalmens of Rs 5,000. Officials said they have never heard of a case in the state where extortion is paid in instalments.
Agra man held for posing as girl on social media, extorting money from victim in Mumbai
Agra man held for posing as girl on social media, extorting money from victim in Mumbai
A man from Agra has been booked for posing as a girl on social media and extorting money from a Mumbai man.
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UPDATED: February 20, 2021 16:11 IST
The accused recorded an obscene video of the victim and threatened to make it public. (Representative photo)
A 23-year old man was arrested from Agra for posing as a girl on a social media site and extorting money from a businessman in Mumbai. Accused Anup Singh would chat with the businessman over a social media site as a girl and recorded an obscene video of him over a video call. The accused then threatened to make the video public if the victim did not pay. According to the police, the accused demanded 50,000 but agreed to take money in installments.
Security stepped up ahead of rail roko by farmers ANI | Updated: Feb 18, 2021 12:15 IST
Palwal (Haryana) [India], February 18 (ANI): Ahead of rail roko , the blockade of trains as part of protests against farm laws, security has been tightened at railway stations across the country with special focus on Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
State Police, Government Railway Police (GRP), Railway Police Force are on high alert across the country in view of the protest which is announced to begin at 12 pm and go on till 4 pm.
Railways has deployed 20 additional companies of the Railway Protection Special Force. Security forces have been deployed so as to prevent any chances of harm to railway property, said Bhim Singh, Incharge GRP Palwal Railway station Haryana.
Gobindram Watumull and his wife Ellen. | A clipping from St Louis Post Dispatch, October 19, 1947.
In 1865, German botanist William Hillebrand travelled to India with the intention of finding “East Indian” labour for the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where he lived and worked. Instead, he returned with plants and birds of breath-taking variety: crows, finches, the Chinese quail, Mongolian pheasants, the Indian sparrow and common mynah. By 1879, the mynah was a familiar species in Honolulu and soon in the other south-eastern islands of Hawaii.
For the first South Asians who set foot on the Hawaiian Islands around the early 1880s, the birds must have been a comforting sight. They had sailed over 11,000 km from Calcutta to Honolulu, a stopover that was still thousands of kilometres from their destination of mainland US and Canada, where the west coast offered attractive work opportunities. If nothing else, the soundscape in Hawaii must have been resonant to the