Day: February 18, 2021

Man arrested in Tripura for suspected involvement in arms racket

9:30 pm February 18, 2021

Agartala: A 20-year-old man from Bihar has been arrested in Tripura in connection with suspected arms smuggling, a police officer said. Acting on a tip-off, police raided Goalabasti here on Tuesday and chased some persons, suspected to be involved in arms smuggling racket. While fleeing from the scene, they dropped an empty magazine and four […]

Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89

8:55 pm February 18, 2021

New York: Genevieve Young was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. She entered the business in the early 1950s, when there were few female editors and even fewer Asians. She worked with authors ranging from Herman Wouk to Betty Rollin and played a key role in the writing of Erich Segal’s “Love Story,” the novelisation of the Oscar-winning movie of […]

Three held for cyber fraud in UP’s Shahjahanpur

8:42 pm February 18, 2021

Shahjahanpur: Police here on Thursday arrested three people for allegedly duping a man of Rs 77,000 in a cyber fraud, an official said. ”Shah Faiz, Yash Kumar of Delhi and Shubham Kumar of Meerut have been arrested for withdrawing Rs 77,000 from the account of one Javed, a resident of Sadar Bazar, on February 13 by procuring an OTP from him while he was […]

EU commission condemns Slovenia PM for insulting journalists

8:36 pm February 18, 2021

Brussels : The European Union’s executive arm on Thursday condemned Slovenia’s right-wing prime minister for a series of aggressive comments about journalists. The EU comment comes as Reporters Without Borders has for months raised concerns about Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whom it says has waged a “hate campaign” against critical journalists as he seeks to tighten […]

France to boost cyberdefence after hospital malware attacks

8:33 pm February 18, 2021

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a plan to better arm public facilities and private companies against cyber criminals following ransomware attacks at two hospitals this month and an upsurge of similar cyber assaults in France. The attacks at the hospitals in Dax and Villefranche-sur-Saône prompted the transfer of some patients to other […]