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Pyramid of cyber criminals & stolen data at heart of digital arrest scam. They know everything about you

In Part 2 of this two-part series, ThePrint spoke to Pao Pao, a recruiter who said those hired for ‘digital arrest’ scams submit passports and are only allowed to leave compound thrice a week.

Beatings, forced labour, starvation—Haryana rehab centres are torture chambers

Drug rehabilitation has become a new sunrise sector in Haryana. Private centres are a money-making machine, while many families see them as a way to offload their struggling loved ones.

New Noida isn’t repeating Noida, Greater Noida mistakes. It’s Yogi’s biggest bet

Dubbed as an investment circuit, New Noida is Yogi’s answer to Mayawati’s Noida and may look to challenge Gurugram’s IT dominance, say officials.

Vanuatu, the land of golden passports—where fugitives like Lalit Modi can buy citizenship for a crore

In 2020, revenue from its ‘golden passport’ scheme was Vanuatu’s single-largest source of income. Revocation of Lalit Modi’s citizenship has brought country of islands into spotlight.

A digital arrest kingpin tells all: Chinese syndicates, Cambodian scam farms & the perfect trap

In Part 1 of this two-part series, ThePrint looks at an Alwar man who got involved with Chinese-run ‘digital arrest’ scam farms in Cambodia and ended up recruiting for them in India.

Hunt for Vibhishan in Gujarat Congress. Why Rahul Gandhi must stop blaming colleagues

It's easier to blame the system but Rahul Gandhi needs to do a lot more. Modi and Shah, don’t blame workers and leaders or question their loyalty and integrity.

Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian parties are holding the country to ransom. India needs a 3-language policy

The DMK’s opposition to three-language policy is a classic case of party over nation. Perhaps it is time for the party to take pride in Kathak as we north Indians do in Bharatanatyam.

This Bengaluru startup’s leading India’s nuclear fusion research—to light up a billion homes

Once mastered, nuclear fusion technology has the potential to change how humanity lives by providing a limitless, sustainable and clean energy source.

Trump to Biden–many US Presidents were mentally ill. It’s the elite who deal with the problem

A third of US Presidents between 1776 to 1974 demonstrated symptoms of clinically significant depression, bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse while they were in office.

The Great Indian Passport Scam: Labyrinth of fictional identities, expert forgers & pliant system

New Delhi: Last year, a double murder case related to gang rivalry stumped the Delhi Police after the main accused, Harsh alias Chintu, vanished...

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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.