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Ahmedabad: A Ghatlodiaresident recently got a call toverify if his debit card wasused to make purchase at acity mall. Alarmed, hechecked his card and it wasvery much with him. He in-formed the caller that he hadnot made the said transac-tion. To block the transac-tion, the caller asked him forthe card number and it’sCVV (three-digit code onback of the card) for verifica-
tion.The caller also asked him
for the verification code sentto his mobile phone. The ca-se registered with city poli-ce’s cyber cell says that thesame information was usedto withdraw more than Rs50,000 from the man’s bankaccount.
As the world observed Sa-fer Internet Day on Tuesday,cyber cell officials said thatover the years the tricksused by online fraudsters ha-ve changed significantly.
Even the infamous ‘Nige-rian scam’ has undergone atransformation.
Deepan Bhadran, DCP(crime), said that the past ye-ar has seen cyber crime ca-
ses both at personal and in-stitutional level. The cybercell had busted the multi-crore call centre scam and
had also nabbed Nigeriannationals trying to blackma-il a woman on a matrimonialwebsite.
The fraudsters keep up-dating their modus operandias knowledge remains thebest defence against suchfrauds,” he said.
Rajdeepsinh Zala, ACP(crime), said the complaintsreceived in the last year in-cluded frauds where gulliblevictims were asked to buy se-eds or chemicals by callersbased abroad, promising go-od returns.
“A major area of concernis financial frauds. As thethrust is now on digital pay-ments, we are trying to edu-cate citizens on how to rema-in safe. Check the mobileapplication properties befo-re download and use onlytrusted payment gateways,”he said.
“The current challengesinclude various forms ofphishing and malware at-tacks.
Cyber Cell OfficialsUrge Caution WhileDownloading Apps
‘Online crooks updating their tricks’
GETTING SAFER➤ Keep checking changes in security settings of social media, avoid adding unknown persons
➤ Nothing in digital form – including files in cloud storage – is safe. Avoid sending/clicking photos or videos which could create trouble afterwards
➤ First try to understand the functioning of mobile wallets or online payment options transferring funds. Always check for ‘https’ in the address bar for a secure gateway
➤ Report any online abuse or crime, it may stop more persons from falling prey
➤ Try not to use public wifi connections for financial transactions
➤ Do not reveal personal or account information if you get a call from a person claiming to be a bank representative
➤ Avoid changing your correspondence number/ email registered with banks often
➤ Avoid clicking on suspicioulinks received in emails, visitindubious websites
➤ Kids/teens can be susceptito exposure to objectionable content. Apply relevant controto block such content
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THE FATE OF A DRUNKARD TOI
Amirgadh police station near Shymalaji checkpost recently put up a hoarding to warn drunkards of ‘Datto’their local pie-dog. The local police inspector had taken a picture of Datto urinating on a drunkard whohad passed out near the state highway. The PI thought it fit to warn tipplers who take the highway toreach Ratanpur village for a drink about the hazards of public intoxication there
Ahmedabad: Accident pat-terns in the city have notchanged much with the perip-hery of the city still more lik-ely to report more accidents.An analysis by National CrimeRecords Bureau (NCRB)shows that city police have re-ported most fatal accidents inand around residential areas.
The category reportedthree times more accidentsthan the second category, in-dustrial areas. The reporthighlighted plight of pedestri-ans as 40 persons died while inthe pedestrian zone, crossingthe road at a crossroads or on azebra crossing. Likewise, thevicinity of educational institu-tes reported the same numberof fatal accidents.
“Each area of a city has ve-ry different characteristics —residential,industrial, bu-siness district— or a mix ofdifferent fac-tors. Road ac-cidents takeplace due tohuman, tech-nical or in-frastructuralissues. While there is no sure-shot remedy for preventingcrashes, the only way out is tounderstand traffic composi-tion and plan the flow accor-
dingly,” said a city-based roadsafety expert.
According to the recentEMRI study, road stretches
such as Panjra-pol to Vastra-pur, Underpassto PakwanCrossroads onSG Road, Ash-ram Road, Sub-hash Chowk toGurukul andAmbedkarBridge to Paldi
bus stand were found to be re-porting a high rate of acci-dents.
The same report mentio-ned that two-wheelers were the
most affected class with invol-vement in 101 accidents follo-wed by cars (87), trucks (65), bu-ses (57) and auto rickshaws (41).
“On the basis of the acci-dents in previous years, a num-ber of places in the city such asSola Flyover have been decla-red accident-prone zones. Spe-ed limits have also been deci-ded on the basis of traffic flowand road infrastructure. Coor-dination meetings with vario-us authorities have two majoragenda — reducing chances ofaccident and de-congesting ro-ads. Not allowing a right turnat a few crossroads was part ofthe same drive,” said a seniorcity traffic branch official.
Living dangerouslyStudy ShowsResidentialAreas Most
WHERETHEYCRASH
Sites of fatal accidents in Ahmedabad cityPlace Male Female Total
Residential areas 112 28 140
Industrial areas 39 5 44
Educational institutes 32 8 40
Pedestrian zone 31 9 40
Religious places 16 4 20
Recreational places 8 2 10
Other 78 14 92
Total 316 70 386Source: Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2015, NCRB
Ahmedabad: MahatmaGandhi’s mission to cham-pion khadi has inspired half-a-dozen associations of tea-chers and school-admini-stration staff who have deci-ded to wear khadi every Tu-esday. Effectively, 3 lakhteachers and administrativestaff of schools across thestate will wear khadi on thedesignated day. The decisionwas taken on Tuesday in ameeting of education asso-ciations chaired by educa-tion minister Bhupendra-sinh Chudasama in Gandhi-nagar. Chudasama has alsocommitted to wearing khadionce a week.
The state education de-partment had issued a GR as-king teachers and admini-strative staff of schools towear khadi once a week to
support the the khadi in-dustry and to promote Gand-hian thought on Gandhiji’sdeath anniversary, observedas Martyr’s Day on January30. The aim is to support thenational movement of “Kha-di for Nation, Khadi for Fas-hion”. The Madhya Pradeshgovernment had issued a cir-cular on December 30 to allits officers and employees towear khadi once a week.
The movement is suppor-ted by the Gujarat State Pri-mary Teachers’ Associa-tion, Gujarat State HigherSecondary Teachers’ Asso-ciation, Gujarat State Prin-cipals’ Association, GujaratState Administrative StaffAssociation among others.Pankaj Patel, the presidentof the Gujarat State HigherSecondary Teachers’ Asso-ciation, said: “We are happyto join this mission becauseit will ensure regular liveli-hood to many khadi wor-kers.” The chairman of theKhadi and Village Industri-es Commission, V K Saxena,has lauded the state govern-ment’s endeavour to supportthe khadi movement. In hisfirst Mann ki Baat addressin 2016, Modi had said thatkhadi had the power to pro-vide employment to croresof people.
Over 3 lakh schoolteachers, staffto wear khadi on Tuesdays
Ahmedabad: The Gujarathigh court issued a notice onTuesday to the Border Securi-ty Force’s recruitment board,its director general, and theofficer-in-charge ofrecruitment in re-sponse to a petitionchallenging the deci-sion to scrap the re-cruitment process for561 constables (tra-desmen). Eighteencandidates from Gujarat,who qualified by clearing alltests last year, have filed thepetition.
After completing the pro-cess of recruitment for 561constables from across the co-untry, including for 28 postsfrom Gujarat, a decision toscrap the process was takenby authorities on the groundsthat irregularities had been
noticed. On January 2, theBSF issued notices to all can-didates intimating them thattheir selection and possibleappointments had been can-celled.
Challenging the notices,the petitionersfrom Gujarat ha-ve submitted befo-re the court thatthe authoritiesought not to havescrapped the se-lection process
without conducting a properinquiry. They have also argu-ed that since they had clearedall the tests, they were eligib-le candidates for the job, andquashing the recruitmentprocess would be injustice tothem. The high court has toldthe authorities to file their re-plies by February 21, whenfurther hearing on this mat-ter is scheduled.
HC notice to BSF forscrapping recruitment
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Ahmedabad: The city shive-red as the minimum tempe-rature dipped below 10 degre-es celsius on Tuesday. Ah-medabad recorded a nighttemperature of 9.6°C, whichwas 3.6 degrees below nor-mal, while the day tempera-ture was 29.6°C.
Naliya in Kutch was thecoldest place in Gujarat asmercury dipped sharply to4.6°C, as cold wave condi-tions prevailed in the region.
State capital Gandhina-
gar was also very chilly atnight, with the minimumtemperature dipping to8.5°C.
Weather officials said thestate is experiencing colderweather due to the westerndisturbance lying over cen-tral Pakistan and west Ra-
jasthan.“Northerly to north-eas-
terly winds are prevailing atlower levels over the region.While the cold wave warninghas been suspended, the we-ather is expected to remainchilly for the next two orthree days,” said Jayanta
Sarkar, director of India Me-teorological Department(IMD) Gujarat.
Sarkar said this is the lastcold leg of the winter.
People, however madethe most of the sudden dropin the weather before winterdeparts.
“We had a barbeque par-ty on our terrace to warm upthe chilly night. Winters inthe state are generally warmwe decided to make the mostof the cold weather,” saidKrutika Patel, a businesswo-man in Satellite. Meanwhile,many fell victim to suddenchange in weather comingdown with viral fevers, coldsand coughs. “The sudden dipin mercury left me with sinu-sitis and fever,” said TejasBhatt, a saleman in Naran-pura.
City shivers as mercury slips below 10°CNight
Temperature At9.6°C; Naliya
Coldest At 4.8°C
MARK YOURDIARY
Coin exhibition; ‘COINEX 2017’;today; 10am; at Sardar Patel Sewa Samajnear Mithakhali, Navrangpura
Photography exhibition; ‘Mahatma and Railways’; today; 12pm; at Satya Art Gallery, Navjivan Trust, behind Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ashram Road
EXHIBITION
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Uni-versity (GU) will not file a poli-ce complaint against a BComstudent who wrote expletivesin his semester 1 statistics ex-am answersheet. GU authori-ties said that the case will rat-her be put before its examina-tion reform committee (ERC).
Earlier, GU had declaredthat students involved in ille-gal or unethical activity in theexams will be liable for sternlegal action with a policecomplaint. However, sourcesin GU said that the case of theBCom student will also be ta-ken before the ERC. “A policecomplaint may prove harm-ful to the future of the stu-dent, so we will hear his caseat ERC and further actionswill be decided after he appe-ars before the committee,” sa-id a source.
Sources in GU said a simi-lar case was reported at theuniversity three years ago,when a student wrote expleti-ves in the answersheet andsubmitted it. The results forall subjects were cancelled foran entire semester in that ca-se, said a source. TNN
No FIR againststudent who
wrote abuse inanswersheet
Ahmedabad: The state go-vernment has finally givenits approval for Sabarmatiriverfront volumetric (vo-lume-based) General Deve-lopment Control Regula-tions (GDCR), with whichvolumetric developmentwill now be available fordevelopers on the river-front. The Sabarmati Ri-verfront Development Li-mited (SRFDCL) is likelyto auction two building fo-otprints, one each on eit-her bank in April-May.
“We are waiting for thereal estate market to jumpback to stability before we
announce the dates. Wehad postponed the deci-sion in December becauseof demonetization. Thisyear we expect the real es-tate markets to improve byApril and May,” said a se-nior SRFDCL board mem-ber. Four buildings of the42 proposed on the river-front will be 101metres tall.
In simple words, the ‘fo-otprint’ will be the landarea on which the propo-sed building can be builtwhile the ‘volume envelo-pe’ will define the heightup to which it can be const-ructed. The rider is that no-ne of the footprints will besold to developers.
Riverfront volumetricplan gets govt nod
Ahmedabad: In a studypublished in Scientific Re-ports, a journal by Nature,titled “Deep Breathing Prac-tice Facilitates Retention ofNewly Learned MotorSkills”, Goldy Yadav, a PhDstudent, and IIT-Gandhina-gar assistant professor Pra-tik Mutha show that a 30-mi-nute session of deep, alter-native-nostril meditativebreathing, also known as‘paced deep breathing,’ im-
proves capacity to retainnewly learned motor skills.
The finding might be use-ful for artists, sportsper-sons, and disabled people,researchers said. Rhythmicbreathing is part of a num-ber of international well-
nomenon,” Mutha said.“But for the first time, a stu-dy has found the facilitatoryeffect of deep meditativebreathing techniques onskill retention, not just im-
mediately af-ter the breat-hing exerci-se, but also upto 24 hours la-ter.” More re-
search is required to under-stand various facets of thephenomenon and its appli-cations, he said.
The study says that theresults open up the possibili-ty of incorporating breat-hing exercises in neuro-re-habilitation paradigms.Such regimens provide mo-tor re-training and reten-tion of movements lost dueto neurological injuries.
ness practices such as yoga.“We had two groups of yo-ung volunteers practise tra-cing a narrow path withintwo concentric circles on atablet in two seconds,” saidMutha.
“After thepractice session,students in onegroup were madeto do the breat-hing exercise for 30 minutes,while the students in theother group were asked to re-lax.”‘
When students were toldto trace the lines again afterthe break, the researchersfound that the group that didthe breathing exercise per-formed strikingly betterthan the other group.
“We are yet to determinethe exact reason for the phe-
MeditativeBreathing AidsLearned Muscle
Ahmedabad:City-based rhe-umatologist Dr Vishnu Shar-ma, at a press meet on Tues-day, spoke about an alarmingincrease in incidence of arth-ritis in people, especially yo-unger people, and how a lackof awareness is causing he-alth problems and deformiti-es.
“There are as many as ahundred types of arthritis, ofwhich more than 90% are cu-rable if diagnosed on time. So-me 80% to 90% of patients re-spond positively to treatment.We want to improve these re-sults and hence want to raiseawareness about rheumatolo-gy,” Dr Sharma said.
Dr Sharma then shed mo-re light on ‘inflammatoryarthritis’, the type more pre-valent among young andmiddle-aged people. Accor-ding to Dr Sharma, inflamma-tory arthritis has two causes,the first is a genetic tendencyand the second is environ-mental factors like simple vi-ral infections or physical andmental stress.
About the influence of li-festyle on arthritis, Dr Shar-ma said: “Experts have foundsignificant correlation betwe-en smoking and arthritis.Arthritis, conventionally aproblem for old people andwomen, is increasing in malepatients and the severity isgreater in men who are frequ-ent smokers.” Dr Sharma sa-id that as part of healthy lifes-tyle, the patient should haveminimal stress levels, a high-protein diet and should enga-ge in exercise and yoga. TNN
‘Lifestyle isimportant in
treatingarthritis’
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Ahmedabad:City crimebranch on Tuesday held aseminar on cyber security atSchool of Computer Studies,Ahmedabad University, tomark Safer Internet Day.
J K Bhatt, JCP (crime),Manan Thakkar, acity-based lawyerspecializing in cyber lawsand Sahil Shah, a cybersecurity expert, deliveredlectures on thesubject.Thakkar informedstudents about lawspertaining to cyber crimesand their remedies. He alsoanswered questions relatedto data security, especiallyfor researchers andstudents. Shah spoke aboutthe current scenario ofcyber security and
equally important factor. Hespoke about threats andvarious modi operandi.
challenges. He said that onlytools cannot prevent cybercrimes, awareness is an
‘Tools can’t make internet safer, awareness can’
A seminar on cyber security was held at School of ComputerStudies, Ahmedabad University
SAFER INTERNET DAYOBSERVED
Gandhinagar: AhmedPatel, political secretaryto All India Congress pre-sident Sonia Gandhi andRajya Sabha MP, while spe-aking in the Rajya Sabhaduring the thanksgivingmotion to the President’saddress raised the is-sues of Gujarat’s far-mers, dalits and dis-abled persons.
Patel said, “Afterconsecutive dro-ughts, some good ra-in came and just asfarmers began making bigpreparations for rabi so-wing, you took away all thecash. A report by NITI Aa-yog itself says farmers’earnings went negative
for November and Decem-ber. Vegetable farmers, flo-wer farmers had to throwtheir produce on the roadsof Gujarat. Yeh hai apkabadlav? When farmers we-re finally about to get a go-od crop of wheat and pul-ses, you began to importthese for much cheaper
prices and distor-ted the market. Be-fore the 2014 elec-tions, you said youwould give farmers50% profit. Thenyou said you willdouble their inco-
mes by 2020. In fact, theyhave fallen due to demone-tization.”
Patel also raised the is-sue of atrocities on Unadalits.
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IIT-GANDHINAGARSTUDY
About the nature ofapplications received by
cyber cell, officials saidpersonal issues still top thechart where most victims arewomen or girls. It is followedby financial frauds, wherevictims are lured withpromises of jobs, marriage orgood profits. Many times,such victims are contactedthrough bulk mails or SMSes.The cell has also receivedcomplaints of data theft andfrauds at ATMs. The cellrecently busted a new modusoperandi of a two-man con,where they exploit a glitch towithdraw money from theprevious ATM users’ account.
Most victims are women
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PERILOUS PATHS
