A New Crime 'Cyber Extortion' Makes Hyd Cops On Toes!

By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE

Hackers are worming their way into databases and demanding money to give back access. When a managing director of a popular ice cream manufacturing company in the city opened his computer recently to access his company's database, he saw a message that startled him. “Pay $1,000 to get your data back and do the payment in Bitcoins."

The perplexed MD tried to refresh and restart the machine, but the message kept repeating. Most of the company data had been encrypted cutting off his access to it.

Criminal Tribes Caged In Kanpur: How Criminals Are Fighting To Recover Their Due-Loans?

By ROHIT GHOSH | INNLIVE

Ramesh Kumar Bhantu is in his sixties. He looks like the archetypal school teacher - he wears thick glasses and talks deliberately and didactically.

But he was never a school teacher. For decades, he worked at Kanpur's ordnance factory, which made parachutes for the Indian military.

Bhantu's personality and professional background defies his address. He was born, grew up and still lives in the Criminal Tribe Settlement, or CTS Basti, a colony meant for criminals, in the Kalyanpur neighbourhood of Kanpur.

Special Report: Another Meat Debate - Poor Pakistani's Are being Sold 'Horse And Donkey' Flesh?

By RABIA BASRI | INNLIVE

In a country where class mobility is inaccessible to most, questionable approximations of all sorts burgeon. The Pakistani love affair with meat has been a long and enduring one. In decades past, every neighbourhood, rich or poor, featured a butcher shop, whose front prominently featured a fresh carcass swinging from a hook. Housewives would debate quality with the butcher or argue over the price or the freshness or the cut.

The Lost Tribe: The 'Sentinelese' Of Indian Ocean Islands

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By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

From the sky it appears to be an idyllic island with amazing beaches and a dense forest, but tourists or fishermen don’t dare to step foot on this outcrop in the Indian Ocean due to its inhabitants’ fearsome reputation.

Visitors who venture onto or too close to North Sentinel Island risk being attacked by members of a mysterious tribe who have rejected modern civilisation and prefer to have zero contact with the outside world.

Special Report: Land Pooling Strategy For The New Andhra Capital Could Become A Model For India's Smart Cities

By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE

Andhra Pradesh's experiment with voluntary land pooling could provide an alternative to forcible land acquisition.

Tallayapalem is a village like many others in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur district. It has lush green fields, and its prosperity is evident from the concrete houses scattered along its central thoroughfare. Somewhat incongruously, one field off the main road houses a canvas tent under which a small group of policemen has been doing 24-hour duty since June 6, 2015.

Mysterious Disappearance Of Porn Sites From Internet Without Govt Ban: What Happened To Personal Liberty?

The mysterious disappearance of popular Internet porn websites in India over the last couple of days is similar to the white van abductions of people in Sri Lanka at the height of the island’s civil war — people inconvenient to the government went missing, while the government claimed it didn’t know a thing.

In India, what now greets surfers instead of these sites — that apparently had a cult following in the country — is white space. There is no message from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that the sites have been blocked under orders from the government (as happens in countries where online porn is illegal).

The Shameful 'Stinking Reality' Behind 'Swachh Bharat': Despite Carrying A Jail Term Manual Scavenging Is Still A Lucrative Trade In Poverty- Driven And Caste-Riven India

WEEKEND EXCLUSIVE: The life stories of these workers betray an entrenched caste-based discrimination that shamefully persists in the Capital even now, preventing them from applying for any other job. 

The practice attracts imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of Rs 2,000 on individuals or organisations who hire such labour under the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993.

Twenty-three-year-old Ranjit’s job can land his employer behind bars. But that doesn’t dissuade people from entering his line of work, thanks to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year. 

Are Travel Philanthropists Doing More Harm Than Good?

Tourists seeking to make voluntary work part of their holidays have helped build a sizeable industry which is now open to sharp criticism.

It seems like the best of both worlds. People using their hard-earned vacation time to give something back to those worse off than themselves. At its finest, travel philanthropy is seen as a form of direct development assistance – a benign initiative flowing from the travel industry and travellers into conservation initiatives, community projects and philanthropic organisations.

Yaqub Memon's Death Brought India 'Closer To Life'?

What were Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon's thoughts as the hangman’s noose was lowered around his neck in a Nagpur prison, a little before 7 am on July 30?

Did Yakub die a stronger man? Did he die as a man who listened to his conscience 21 years ago and returned to his country to face trial? Or as a man who repented his role in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts that killed 257 innocent people? Or did he breathe his last as a man who felt betrayed by the investigating officials who had promised him leniency in exchange for his surrender?

News Analysis: Did 'Yaqub Memon' Make A 'Big Mistake' By Trusting Indian Investigators And Government?

The unfortunate Mumbai blast convict Yaqub Memon finally got rejection for his all pleas to live in this world and ordered to get hanged on his 'birthday' when he turns 53 years, the gnawing question that will continue to stare us in the face is not if he ever participated in the conspiracy and its execution, but if the Indian investigating agencies betrayed him and used his own evidence to hang him.

The moot point is certainly not about law, but about ethics. If the evidence, even voluntarily submitted by him, proves his criminality, he deserves punishment. But if he was duped into a sense of safety, it was unethical because it would have made him complacent and thereby denied himself a fair shot at the legal avenues.

Special Report: How An Indian Tradition Is Destroying The Lives Of Young Girls In The Name Of Marriage?

“I was married at 12, I didn’t know much back then. A lot of my time was spent doing what my mother and father said I should, and after my marriage, what my husband expected of me. It was so scary. 

For a whole year after my marriage, I was always in pain, falling sick all the time. But that was a different time, and now you girls have seen more world than us. You will make better choices.” Little did my grandmother know that what she suffered nearly 65 years ago is the dogged fate of nearly one third of the young girls in our country even today.

'Bin Roye' Film: Pakistan Throws A Challenge To Bollywood

A new Pakistani film could finally revive the country’s long-dormant industry. Bin Roye—a romantic drama adapted from the Pakistani novel, Bin Roye Aansoo—is one of the country’s first films to release worldwide on the same day.

In addition, it is one of the country’s most expensive films—made on a budget of 35 million Pakistani rupees ($345,541). It also received a West End premiere on July 19, something unheard of in a movie industry that was until recently in deep water. West End is London’s glamorous centre for red carpet movie premieres, generally packed with Hollywood stars.

The Kota System: Rs.600 Crore 'Coaching Industry' In MP

Snazzy packaging, ironclad teacher contracts and study-on-the-go apps revive the city’s famed Rs 600 crore coaching industry in Mashya Pradesh.

Carrying a 420-page Mathematic textbook, Satvat Jagwani rushed to catch the Shipra Express, the start of a 15-hour journey from his home in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, to his coaching class (also known as ‘cram schools’) in Kota, Rajasthan. He had just finished school for the week and would now be spending the weekend taking mock exams. It was raining when he arrived at Bansal Classes in Kota, the pioneer of the coaching industry in the city. Having secured seats at different Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) for over 16,000 students so far, Bansal is highly coveted by aspirants.

Hyderabad Court: How long To Disqualify Rebel MLAs?

By Newscop in Hyderabad

Its Constitutional, legal crime committed in the name of Democracy by Politicians in this country. How can people elected on some other party which has its own agenda be allowed to be jumped over to another party and be allowed to be come Minsters, Members and what not? 

Does that not amount to cheating people who have voted a person from a party ? How can a speaker not find time to decide for more than 6 months ? This process of Speaker, Governor & President should be changed.

An Open Letter: Why Indian Male 'Masturbate' In Public?

By Sarah Williams

A FOREIGNER'S VERSION: A few days ago I was sitting in a bus stop in Mumbai, India. The local guy that I had paid no particular attention to moved closer. From the corner of my eye, to my horror, I realised that he had pulled out his penis and was masturbating, staring intently at me. I felt sick.

As much as I hate to admit it, this isn’t the first time it’s happened to me. In fact, chances are, if you’ve ever been to India, you’ll have bumped into at least one traveller who has experienced this sort of behaviour, or heard of someone else who it has happened to. I’ve spent countless hours with other travellers picking apart why men do it; why they seem to think it’s okay, why dignity seems to disappear when there’s foreign female flesh on show.

The Most Dangerous 'Vyapam Scam': Is CM Chouhan's Sudden Request For CBI Probe Is A Stunt?

By Sunder Singh in Bhopal

Is Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Chouhan’s plan to request the High Court to order a CBI probe into the Vyapam scam a tactical retreat or plain capitulation?

Madhya Pradesh government filed a request with the Madhya Pradesh High Court Jablpur for a CBI inquiry into the Vyapam. The state advocate general P Kaurav said "Yes we have filed a request in the court of the Chief Justice, AM Khanwilkar, for the CBI probe into the alleged Vyapam scam. The HC might hear our plea tomorrow."

This was just a couple of hours after Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made the announcement bowing to the mounting public pressure.

Crime Fighters: CBI Officials Turn Into 'Bhakts' To Nab Fraudster BLiving As 'Sadhu Badrinath'

By Alok Kumar

Interestingly the accused was located by the probe agency after it learnt about a suspected Facebook profile by the name Swami Durgesh Mahraj, which was believed to be run by the accused himself.

A man living as a sadhu at an ashram located right opposite to the historical Badrinath Temple of Uttarakhand, was finally arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation after absconding for over 12 years.

Interestingly the accused was located by the probe agency after it learnt about a suspected Facebook profile by the name Swami Durgesh Mahraj, which was believed to be run by the accused himself.

Focus: Why J&K Police Want This FB Image To Be Blocked?

By Likha Veer - Group Executive Editor

EXCLUSIVE: This photo of 11 young men, with their faces clearly visible, is proof that militant groups are winning new recruits. The Jammu and Kashmir police asked a local court to block all Facebook pages that had uploaded this image of 11 uniformed boys.  The picture was clicked over the last month, the authorities believe. The boy in the centre of the second row is 19-year-old Burhan Muzaffar Wani. He is the face of the new militancy movement in the Valley. 

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Special Report: After 'Cashgate And Tapgate', A Full-Blown War Unveil 'Andhra Vs Telangana' Over 'Hyderabad'

By Likha Veer 
Group Executive Editor

Naidu has upped the ante by demanding that Hyderabad’s law and order be taken over by the Governor, pushing Telanagana back into a familiar agitational mode. And KCR is firm on his intentions to make the war for state with independent rights.

Things have not been the same for the Telugu Desam Party ever since its legislator from Telangana, Revant Reddy, was caught "red-handed", allegedly trying to give a bribe of Rs 50 lakh to Elvis Stephenson, an Anglo-Indian nominated MLA, to influence his vote in the Legislative Council elections.

Subsequently, an audio tape in which a voice, allegedly of Naidu, assured Stephenson of backing all promises made by Reddy, was aired on vernacular news channel.