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NASSCOM step to prevent data theft Bangalore: NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies) has decided to collect the data and personal details of the software professionals working in the BPO sector to prevent data theft. NASSCOM President Kiran Karnik has said that the procedure would not only help the employers, but the employees as well, since most of them go in for job changes, and in such a scenario, employees will now no longer have to provide background details all the time. "In fact it is for the help of employees because today when a person changes job, the new employee again goes through and pays an effort in going through the full background check. Toda more and more people are insisting and completing the background check before a person joins. With this type of database you don't have to do that. The basic data, basic non-changing and non-dynamic data would be at one place and different employees with the permission of the employer can access the data base," said Karnik, President NASSCOM It's understood that this is being done in the wake of recent transaction frauds in the BPO and ITES sectors, including call centres. NASSCOM
has also roped in National Security Depository Ltd (NSDL) for this.
The database will have the background of employees, their academic qualifications,
experience, domain expertise, career switch and personal identification.
The project will be undertaken in multiple cities and it will cover
the entire country in the next 12-18 months. To avoid the recurrence
of e- theft, an expert committee has also been constituted to give the
recommendations amending the IT act of 1999. Cyber privacy and security
environment has also submitted its report and waiting for the government's
response. The bill on this would be introduced in the Parliament soon,
he said. "The recommendations have been made and now we would go through
the process of Parliamentary approval, before it becomes a law. I hope
this happens very soon. This is a non-political non-partisan issue,
it would help the country and IT industries, so we hope that it would
happen very soon," Karnik addd. The recent BPO fraud had put the BPO
sector in a tight spot, but now it is hoped that the decision of the
NASSCOM to take few measures would reassure and win the confidence of
the clients again. Illegal arms manufacturers do brisk business (Go to Top) Kanpur
(Uttar Pradesh): Illegal arms manufacturers are doing booming business
in Indias politically crucial Uttar Pradesh state, known for gangster
politics, as more than 50,000 villages hold their council elections.
Police in Kanpur have seized several country-made revolvers from an
illegal gun-manufacturing unit. Gun makers said the demand has gone
up drastically and their guns were selling at a premium. "We are approached
by politicians of several parties. They ask for these pistols as this
is election time," Ghanshyam Das, a gun maker, said. Uttar Pradesh,
which contributes the maximum number of lawmakers to the parliament,
is the country's most politically sensitive. Local mafia often use unlicensed
weapons to threaten voters and rig elections. Some 66,000 village heads
are to be elected in the four-phased village council polls. Over 500,000
members of village councils are also to be elected for a five-year term.
Gun makers said the price of illegal weapons have multiplied during
the time of local polls. "The prices of these pistols which were 300
rupees (seven dollars) are now being sold at 1500 rupees (35 dollars).
The police also come and ask for money," said Ram Singh, another gun
maker. Illegal arms manufacturing is particularly thriving in Uttar
Pradesh, which has gained the epithet of the crime capital of the country.
These weapons are sold to criminal gangs operating from New Delhi and
nearby towns.
Anitque idols seized at Chennai airport (Go
to Top) Chennai:
Twenty-five antique idols belonging to the 18th and 19th centuries
and studded with semi-precious stones, and some coins of Asoka and Mughal
period, were seized by customs officials at the International airport
in Chennai on Saturday. The idols, being smuggled to France, were packed
in three different courier parcels and were booked by a French national
. It was claimed that the idols were bought from a city-based cottage
emporium for a sum of Rs.24,000 through a credit card. But when verified
with the emporium, it was found that the idols and figurines were purchased
from elsewhere what was purchased from the shops and those seized were
different . Even the invoices were manipulated. These antiques had been
illegally procured from the north-eastern parts of the country and some
of them were from Karnataka. Some of the items were made of Bronze and
Ivory, said C. Rajan, Chennai Customs Commissioner. The idols and figurines
are that of Venugopala, Vishnu, Hanuman, Garuda, Annapoorna, Shiva,
Ganesha, Kubera and Dhyana Buddha. "We got suspicious about three consignments.
These consignments were booked by a French national addressed to France
which are located in the same street but at three different addresses.
On the basis of suspicion, our officers opened the consignments and
found that some idols. The documents indicated only brass items. However,
we referred these items to Archaeological Survey of India(ASI), who
have the competence to assess whether these are antique or normal items,"
said C.Ransjan, Custom Commissioner, Chennai Airport. The actual value
of the idols is being ascertained and but is believed to be worth lakhs. Nigerian arrested for printing fake dollars (Go to Top)
Pune (Maharashtra): Police in Pune
have arrested a Nigerian national who they say was printing fake dollar
currencies. The arrest was made after a tip off. Police said Raffeel
Adim Aneki was apprehended red handed after a source struck a deal with
him in his residence. Aneki confirmed to the source that he could print
dollars and invited him over to his house. Police said Aneki was living
with a fake visa and passport in India. "Investigations are on. We also
got to know that his visa and passport were fake.The arrival stamp is
also fake. We are conducting more enquiry into the case," said Satish
Govekar, Assistant police inspector. Police said they had received several
complaints of fraud against Aneki but couldn't arrest him earlier because
of lack of evidence. Police have also seized a fake visa and arrival
stamp, chemicals and fake dollars worth over 1.6 million rupees from
Aneki's posh residence in the city. Govekar said four more people are
involved in the case, who are absconding. Police said there are many
foreign nationals, particularly from African countries involved in printing
of dollars and smuggling of narcotics in the city and are launching
a massive drive to arrest them. Anger brews in Patna over kidnapping (Go to Top) Patna:
People in Patna are angry over the increasing number of kidnappings
and the inability of police to book the culprits. Employees of Bajaj
Allianz insurance company on Thursday staged a demonstration against
last week's abduction of two of their colleagues. Rakesh Shankar and
Prem Prakash, both managers of Bajaj Allianz, went missing on their
way to meet a client on August 12. The protestors marched on the streets
of Patna, shouting slogans against the state administration and demanded
immediate action against the abductors. "This has become beyond our
tolerance. It has become eight days since my brother was kidnapped and
there is no trace of him. The police are clueless. It is getting beyond
our tolerance. Now action should be taken and my brother must come back,"
said Rajnish Shankar, brother of abducted Rakesh Shanker. The police
however, said they have made three arrests early this week and were
doing their best to ensure the safe return of the hostages. "In this
matter, based on the clues we had, we have arrested three persons. Two
people were arrested from Muzzafarapur with the mobile of the one of
the victims. Till we do not ensure the safe returning of the kidnapped
persons, we do not want say much. Police is doing its work," said Rakesh
Rathi, the city Superintendent of Police. Chandigarh 'fake' lawyers' licences suspended (Go to Top) Chandigarh:
The Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana has suspended the legal licenses
of 27 lawyers who were practicing by submitting forged law degrees.
The Bar Council has launched a drive against fake legal degrees which
are used by these so called lawyers to dupe gullible people in different
courts in Punjab and Haryana. The licenses of the lawyers under scanner
were sent for scrutiny to their respective universities, where they
were found to be fakes. Bar Council member B K Goyal said that the decision
is an exercise aimed at boosting the dignity and credibility of the
council. "We have received lots of complaints that many lawyers have
got license through fake degrees. After investigation we found that
most of the degrees passed from Magadh University of Kanpur and Bundelkhand
University. We have cancelled those licence which were passed from these
Universities and lodged a FIR in Chandigarh in this regard," said B.K.
Goyal, President, District Bar Association, Ludhiana. The decision has
been widely welcomed in the legal fraternity of the state. In an earlier
decision, the Bar Council of Punajb and Haryana had decided to verify
the legal degrees of its advocates who obtained licenses after 1st of
January 1996. The council is also inspecting the law degrees of more
than 400 lawyers, many of whom are suspected to have procured their
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