The CBI has approached chief secretaries of 14 states for general consent to investigate cybercrime, amid concerns that case-by-case approvals delay probes and strain resources.
The fraud has prompted the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) to issue an advisory as investigators trace syndicates operating through mule bank accounts.
AIko, who has the face and voice of a young woman, appears wearing a blue police uniform and a police chief badge on Osaka Prefectural Police’s YouTube channel.
The accused, a self-described yoga guru from Delhi, was complainant's Instagram friend, who she had confided in upon discovering AI images of herself on social media.
A cyber fraud case & a PIL bring scrutiny on live-streaming & social apps accused of enabling obscenity, sextortion & organised cybercrime through virtual coin-and-gift economies.
India not only cog in global cybercrime ecosystem, but also partner in efforts to dismantle it. Illegal call centres a major concern, with many of them operating out of India, targeting victims abroad.
The data signals a worrying trend of cybercrime widening in scale, even though enforcement agencies manage to contain financial damage through real-time intervention.
Between January 2022 and May 2024, at least 29,466 Indians travelled to Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar & Vietnam on tourist visas & didn’t return, ThePrint has learnt.
From 2023 to 2024, there was an estimated increase of 200 per cent in financial fraud, with reported losses of over Rs 22,000 crore. But the concern for India is deeper.
Jawan, kisan, vigyan, knowledge, new thinking—each word spoken from Red Fort offered an idea of what India might become. Dimagi Naxal is not an addition to that rich vocabulary. It is a subtraction.
India’s space start-up ecosystem has blasted off from one venture in 2022 to more than 400 in 2026, as the satellite communications industry targets an 8% share of GDP by 2033.
This two-week exercise includes field training, combat discussions, lectures, and demonstrations, culminating in a final exercise to test the troops' skills.
Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman
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