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Farmer sold a kidney to repay Rs 1 lakh debt that ballooned to Rs 74 lakh, but still ended up a bonded labourerA Maharashtra farmer, driven to sell his kidney due to exorbitant debt, was subsequently trapped in bonded labour in Laos. Rescued through ...
18 Dec, 2025, 03.11 PM IST
On KYC compliance front, payment aggregators may be second to someAs fintech startups try to onboard merchants faster than competition, they’re mostly conducting only the basic checks prescribed by the RBI...
01 Mar, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
How scamsters in India are sending thousands of crores of rupees back to ChinaChinese scammers have suddenly mushroomed after the pandemic, which led to a widespread use of various kinds of apps and other digital tech...
28 Apr, 2023, 05.09 PM IST
Chhattisgarh Coal levy 'scam': ED attaches assets of CM's deputy secy, IAS officer, othersThe frozen assets include 65 properties belonging to coal trader and "main kingpin" in the case Suryakant Tiwari, 21 properties of Chaurasi...
10 Dec, 2022, 04.39 PM IST
Chinese loan app racket busted in Gurugram, four heldAccording to the police, the culprits were running call centres in Gurugram and Noida. Four persons have been arrested in connection with t...
10 Sep, 2022, 11.52 PM IST
UP Police unearths Rs 4,200 cr fraud with links to Chinese operatorsEarlier this year, the police found a link with China-based operators and were cheating people out of crores of rupees across India. This w...
09 Sep, 2022, 08.19 PM IST
Fake loan App racket: Mumbai Police take 3 accused on remandMallik was arrested by EOW, Odisha, on July 2, while Sushant and Rakhit, were arrested on June 10. The accused ran illegal shell companies ...
07 Aug, 2022, 08.18 PM IST
Cash, crime & the city: The growing challenge of economic crimes in India's Tier-II cities and how to deal with itWhile Delhi and Mumbai log the highest number of economic offences, the recent crime data show that cities such as Jaipur, Lucknow & Patna ...
03 Oct, 2021, 03.18 PM IST
Data, kidnappedWe take a closer look at ransomware attacks that has grown from a cottage industry for crooks into a multi-billion-dollar racket and global...
12 Jun, 2021, 12.19 PM IST
Loan app racket: Telangana cops pick one more Chinese from ThaneTelangana police on Wednesday arrested Chinese national He Jian and an Indian associate from Thane in the ongoing illegal instant loan app ...
14 Jan, 2021, 09.27 AM IST
Loan apps pushing people into debt traps, suicidesThe tap-and-get-a-loan “solution” is pushing a large number of people into a trap far deeper than the financial condition they are in.
23 Dec, 2020, 02.49 PM IST
How a Bengaluru case turned the Income-Tax Department's gaze on India's salaried classSalaried employees so far had bothered little about income tax department closing in on the evaders. But not any longer. The scenario has c...
20 Apr, 2018, 10.42 AM IST