Dist admin to collect things for Kerala rehab centres
Udupi, August 17: The district administration in association with Rotary Club Manipal Hills, MIT Rotaract Club and Prasanna School of Public Health Mahe Manipal is collecting the necessary things like food grains, medicines and others to send them to the rehabilitation centres in Kerala. After collection, the collected things would be sent to Kerala through Indian Coast Guard flights next week.
Interested donors could donate their things at Disaster Management Centre at Rotary Hall in Mannapalla of Manipal and KMC office staff room near Tiger Circle at Manipal Bus Stand on August 18 to 20 from 9am to 7pm.
Details of things required
Bed sheets, sleeping mats, blankets, daily use dress materials, children clothes, under wears, school bags, note books, pencils, pens, food items like rusk, biscuits, 20 litre water cans, rice, sugar, salt, tea/coffee powder, lentils, packed provisions, ORS packs, electrolytes, chlorine tablets to purify water, dettols, mosquito creams, nets, antiseptic lotions, antifungal powder, bleaching powder, lime powders, baby diapers, adult diapers, sanitary napkins, tooth paste, tooth brushes, toilet soaps, bath soaps, detergents, candles, match boxes and others. Used things or material or cloths would not be accepted and no cash would be accepted.
Interested could call Prof Maddodi (9448229591), Umesh Salian 99844627000), Rudra (9546783129), Ida D’Souza (7760093803), Lena Ashok (9448984732) Shruthi (9400048735) and Ashish (8197639736).
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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.
