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Hyderabad: From bank account details to QR Codes, and now even power bills, cunning fraudsters are turning everything they can into fodder to swindle people of their money. Recent cases in the city show that fraudsters are contacting customers posing as employees of the Electricity Board and duping them on the pretext of clearing pending […]
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Khammam: With torrential rains in upper catchment area and releasing of water from upstream projects water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in Kothagudem district has been rising steadily. Central Water Commission lower Godavari division has released an advisory forecast stating that the water in the river might reach the first warning level of 43 […]
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Hyderabad: A woman and her child died when a sidewall of their house collapsed on them at Padmanagar in Nalgonda and life was thrown out of gear at many places following heavy rains across the State on Friday. More is in store as the Met department forecast says heavy to very heavy rains are likely […]
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Peddapalli: In a bid to ensure cleanliness of the town, civic authorities have come up with an innovative idea and launched a programme named “Photo Kottu Gift Pattu” (capture photo and win a gift). The authorities have promised to give Rs 500 reward to civilians, who would capture the photos of the people who dump […]
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Hyderabad: A man, who allegedly harassed his cousin by sending abusive and derogatory comments on WhatsApp, was arrested by the Rachakonda Cybercrime police here on Wednesday. The arrested person was V Chandra Shekar (28), a construction worker from Yacharam in Ranga Reddy district. Police said Chandra Shekar, who has a habit of watching sexually explicit […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad City Police on Tuesday arrested 14 persons allegedly involved in different cyber fraud cases in the city. In the first case, the police caught 11 persons, including four women, who allegedly duped people on the pretext of redeeming reward points of the credit card of a bank. Gang members had called up […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a feature that will give iOS users the ability to hide their online status from everyone. According to WABetaInfo, this feature will come in a future update as it is under development so it cannot be released to beta testers since it is not ready. As of now, users […]
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New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of May in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in April. The company also received 528 grievance reports in May within the country, […]
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Idukki: A 434 metre long letter weighing 5 kilograms was how a Kerala woman placated her younger brother for forgetting to wish him on International Brothers Day this year after he stopped taking her calls and even blocked her on Whatsapp. Realising how hurt her younger sibling, a fourth year engineering student, must have been […]
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Hyderabad: Taking impersonation to a new level, suspected Nigerian fraudsters used a photograph of the Telangana Director General of Police M Mahender Reddy on popular messaging platform WhatsApp and sent messages to a few persons asking them to transfer money for an emergency. The Hyderabad Cybercrime police, after receiving information on this from some persons, […]
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Hyderabad: Apollo Dental, a subsidiary of the Apollo Hospitals Group, launched its 110th dental clinic at Jubilee Hills on Sunday. Providing all oral healthcare services under one roof including facilities for tooth or gum trouble, braces, dentures, aligners as well as more complex treatments like dental implants, emergency maxillofacial surgeries etc, was inaugurated by Home […]
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Hyderabad: The arrest of Avula Subba Rao, the prime suspect in the Secunderabad Railway Station violence case was recorded along with that of three of his associates by the Government Railway Police on Friday night. Subba Rao is the owner of Sai Defence Academy with its head office located in Narsaraopet of Guntur in Andhra […]
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Hyderabad: Forty six persons were arrested by the Government Railway Police, Secunderabad, in connection with Friday’s violence at Secunderabad railway station even as the police expanded the probe looking into the role played by coaching institutions in instigating and provoking the army job aspirants.| Government Railway Police Superintendent (Secunderabad), B Anuradha at a media conference […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new options to your privacy control settings to further protect users’ privacy online. On the microblogging site, the company wrote that now users can select who from their contact list can see Profile Photo, About, and Last Seen status. “The safety and security of you […]
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New Delhi: A woman has shared ‘creepy’ messages like “miss you lot,” etc from a Swiggy agent who delivered grocery at her doorstep. After the delivery employee began texting her on WhatsApp, Prapthi, as per her Twitter handle, claimed that she had filed a complaint with Swiggy’s support team. Among other things, the delivery agent […]
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Washington: The latest WhatsApp beta update also includes an admin approval feature that allows WhatsApp group admins to accept or deny requests from people wanting to join via hyperlink when enabled. The information comes from WABetaInfo, and it indicates that the feature, which is now only available to beta users, will soon be available for […]
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Hyderabad: Were the violence and arson at the Secunderabad Railway Station on Friday planned in advance? If not the violence, the protest at least was planned, with messaging platform WhatsApp having played a crucial connecting role, police sources say. At least 5,000 Army aspirants from Telangana who were awaiting the announcement of dates for written […]
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Hyderabad: A woman advocate lost Rs 55 lakh to fraudsters who lured her with high profits in cryptocurrency trading. The victim, a resident of Secunderabad had found nearly a month ago that a woman Ammie added her to a WhatsApp group where regular updates about crypto business were posted. For a few days, she followed […]
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Hyderabad: The immensely popular WhatsApp messaging app is turning out to be quite helpful for women wanting to approach the Cyberabad She Teams. Out of 166 complaints the Cyberabad She Teams received between March and May, 128 complaints were lodged through WhatsApp. Out of the 38 remaining complaints, 18 were received directly, 6 complaints came […]
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Adilabad: Security has been beefed up to prevent untoward incidents in the district headquarters in the wake of clashes between sections over a social media post, here on Sunday. About 200 armed forces were deployed in different parts of the town to avert untoward incidents following the incident. They were drawn from Telangana State Special […]
