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Online ‘Special 26’: Scammers dupe high profile victims while posing as law enforcement officers to extort money

OpIndia Staff - 14 April, 2024

These recurrent cases of Cybercrime have brought to the spotlight a growing trend in which scammers have adopted this modus operandi that resembles the online version of the plot shown in the old Bollywood film, ‘Special 26’.

News Reports

Rameshwaram cafe blast mastermind Abdul and bomber Mussavir used fake Hindu identities while on the run, were planning the next attack

Paurush Gupta - 13 April, 2024

NIA officials intend to interrogate Tahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib regarding the 'colonel's' identity, the frequency of their meetings with him, methods of payment for terrorist activities, and their future intentions.

Government and Policy

Bengaluru water crisis: ₹20 lakh fine collected from over 400 families for using potable water in activities like washing vehicles and gardening

OpIndia Staff - 11 April, 2024

Since 10th March, there is a fine of Rs 5000 in Bengaluru city for using potable water for vehicle washing, gardening, swimming pool, construction etc

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Bengaluru: Rehan, who converted to Islam in his teens, stabs his girlfriend Farida Khatoon 15 times for rejecting his marriage proposal

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2024

32-year-old Rehan stabbed Farida Khatoon fifteen times and left her to die after she had rejected her marriage proposal.

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Bengaluru: BJP leaders and Hindu advocacy groups stage protest after a shopowner was assaulted for playing Hanuman Chalisa

OpIndia Staff - 19 March, 2024

A Hindu shop owner by a group of youth for playing Hanuman Chalisa and other Hindu devotional songs in his shop, located in the vicinity of a mosque.

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‘Was playing Bhajans softly as it was time for our evening puja; they came and beat him up’: father of Bengaluru Hindu shop owner...

OpIndia Staff - 18 March, 2024

The father of Mukesh, the Hindu shop owner in Bengaluru, said his son was playing the Hanuman Bhajans softly inside the shop since it was time for their evening puja, yet he was thrashed by the Muslim youths.

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Bengaluru: Reports claim Hindu shop-owner attacked for playing Hanuman Chalisa near mosque, police ‘reluctantly’ file FIR after locals protest, communal angle denied

OpIndia Staff - 18 March, 2024

The Hindu victim submitted a complaint at Halasuru Gate Police Station and demanded that an FIR be registered in the matter. However, Mukesh claimed that the police seemed reluctant to register an FIR

News Reports

Bengaluru: IT employees’ union protests before labour commission against unfair mass layoffs, demotions by IT companies exempt from labour laws

OpIndia Staff - 18 March, 2024

Meeting the labour commissioner, KITU president VJK Nair and general secretary Sooraj Nidiyanga submitted a memorandum stating their demands.

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Karnataka: NCPCR team busts illegal orphanage run by Salma and Shameer in Bengaluru, was used to traffick young girls to Kuwait

OpIndia Staff - 15 March, 2024

NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo on Friday posted a tweet informing that his team had busted an illegal orphanage being run in Bengaluru.

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Bengaluru Rameshwaram Cafe blast: NIA arrests key suspect Shabbir from Ballari

OpIndia Staff - 13 March, 2024

The development comes after the NIA on 8th March arrested four suspects in the Rameshwaram cafe blast case who were also arrested in the ISIS Ballari module

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