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                                  Human crisis may                                   cyBer criminals are
                                  explode any moment                                 on tHe prowl
                                  in pakistan                                        Tough tasks ahead for
                                  There are apprehension                             cyber safety authorities
                                  of massive influx of                               as smart and intelligent
                                  starving people from                               criminals come up
                                  across the border due                              with innovative ways
                                  to crisis aggravated                               to cheat and fudge their
                                  by the near economic                               victims online, writes
                                  collapse in the                                    Sunny Sharma
                                  neighbouring Pakistan,
                                  reports Gopal Misra



      economic meltdown: are                              Bjp takes control of
      we waitinG for it to turn                           Bdcs in kasHmir
      into a catastropHe?                                 Mainstream parties
      The confirmation of the                             such as National
      economic deceleration in                            Conference, PDP and
      the wake of downward                                Congress boycotted the
      revision of GDP forecast                            Block Development
      to 6.1% from the earlier                            Council polls, reports                                                           EPF                The EPF corruption controversy has taken a political colour
      6.9% raises red flag for                            Riyaz Wani                                                                                          as a deeper impartial probe would unearth truth behind
      an impending economic
                                                                                                                           scam is                                    he Uttar Pradesh government has once again embroiled itself in a
      predicament, reports                                                                                                                                    scam, writes mudit mathur
      Komal Amit Gera
                                                                                                                                                                      raging political storm and this time, it is the EPF corruption scam
                                                                                                                                                                      that has hit hard the party in power.
                                                                                                                                                                         The government suffered humiliation when Power Minister
                                   BHarat ratna for                                    did Gujarat police                        now a                        T Shrikant Sharma together with top officials from Uttar Pradesh
                                   savarkar: to Be or not                              outsmart up cops in                                                    Power Corporation Limited, unlawfully invested  4122.70 crore provident
                                                                                                                                                              fund of power employees in Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd
                                   to Be is tHe question                               crackinG kamlesH                                                       (DHFCL), a Mumbai based private housing finance company, against all
                                   Fresh controversy                                   tiwari murder case?                                                    prescribed norms.
                                   erupts as BJP tries                                 Preliminary questioning        political                                 The already scam-hit firm, DHFCL, which received unauthorised invest-
                                   to push for the                                     of the two men by the                                                  ment of  4122.70 combining General Provident Fund and Contributory
                                   country’s top honour                                Anti-Terrorism Squad                                                   Provident Fund Trusts of power employees has now become defaulter in
                                   for the formulator                                  revealed that they                                                     the share market due to unprecedented liquidity crisis. However, the power
                                                                                                                                                              corporation has been repaid  1854.80 by DHFCL but it is yet to recover the
                                   of the Hindutva                                     committed the crime ‘in                    chess                       remaining  2267.90 under fixed deposit scheme. Whicch means, around 65
                                   philosophy, reports                                 retribution to purported                                               per cent of the fund still remains deposited with the  defaulter company.
                                   Charanjit Ahuja                                     statements by the                                                        Recently, DHFCL was in headlines due to its alleged connection with the
                                                                                       deceased’, reports                                                     company of gangster Iqbal Mirchi, also a former aide of Dawood Ibrahim, as
                                                                                       Mudit Mathur                                game                       the DHFCL promoters were grilled by the Enforcement Directorate. This led
                                                                                                                                                              the UP government to promptly refer the case to the CBI after gauging its
                                                                                                                                                              wider ramifications.
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