Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya resigns
Dehradun(PTI): Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya resigned on Wednesday two years before completing her tenure amid speculation that she may be given some active role in politics.
She tendered her resignation to the President of India, a Raj Bhawan official said. She has resigned for personal reasons, he said. Speculation, however, is rife in the media that her resignation will pave the way for her to play a more active role in politics.
It is also being linked with her recent meeting with Amit Shah in Delhi on September 5.
Sixty-five-year-old Maurya who has long been associated with the BJP was sworn in as the Uttarakhand governor on August 26, 2018, taking over from Krishna Kant Paul at the end of his five-year tenure.
She had completed three years in office as the Uttarakhand governor last month. She has the distinction of being the first woman mayor of Agra from 1995 to 2000.
She had also been a member of the National Commission for Women from 2002-2005.
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7 held for running fake call centre in South Kolkata
Kolkata (PTI): Seven people were arrested from the Parnashree area in the southern part of the city for allegedly running a fake call centre, a police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided a house on Netaji Subhas Road on Friday night and found the fake call centre operating from the ground floor, he said.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused had set up a bogus company using forged documents and posed as employees of an antivirus firm to call citizens in the US, the officer said.
"The callers would gain the trust of victims and then use remote access to take control of their phones or other digital devices. The accused allegedly siphoned off large sums of money, running into millions of dollars, from victims' accounts," he said.
Five laptops, two WiFi routers, six mobile phones and four headsets were seized from the accused, he said, adding that the seven are being questioned to ascertain the full extent of the racket and to identify others involved.
