Not the time to be neutral, time to pick a side: Journalist Rana Ayyub
New Delhi: Noted Journalist Rana Ayyub on Monday said India was going through a phase wherein people of the country need to pick a side and it was not a time to be neutral.
Taking to her Twitter account she called on the people of the country and said it was time to choose democracy over dictatorship.
“Hello India. This is not the time to be neutral. This is the time to pick a side. This is the time to chose democracy over dictatorship” (SIC) she wrote in the tweet.
Her tweet came on a day when Twitter India withheld several accounts that were reporting and commenting on farmer protest. The micro-blogging site added the accounts were withheld over "legal demand".
Hello India. This is not the time to be neutral. This is the time to pick a side. This is the time to chose democracy over dictatorship.
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 1, 2021
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Online fraud: Hotel chef from Udupi cheated of over Rs 1 lakh by WhatsApp contact
Udupi: Udupi City Police have registered a case of online fraud after a 62-year-old hotel chef was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.13 lakh by a woman who befriended him on WhatsApp, claiming to be based in London.
The victim, identified as Pandu Kariappa Poojary, a resident of Kuthpadi in Udupi, was working at a hotel in Mangaluru.
He reportedly came into contact with a woman identifying herself as Emilda William on WhatsApp. During their interactions, she told Poojary that she planned to start a cosmetics and hotel business in India and would meet him during a visit to Mangaluru.
On April 7, Emilda sent Poojary a flight ticket from London to Delhi via WhatsApp. The following day, Poojary received a phone call from a woman who informed him that Emilda had arrived at Delhi airport carrying a demand draft worth Rs 5 crore along with other items. The caller allegedly asked him to pay Rs 70,000.
Subsequently, Poojary also received a call from Emilda, who was reportedly crying and spoke about the situation. Believing the claims, he transferred a total of Rs 1,13,300 in phases using a scanner. He later realised that he had been cheated.
