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NEW DELHI: It has the makings of another educational scam, almost like the one involving deemed universities. The only difference is that it relates to teacher education.

Whistleblowers are facing tough times: Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has just  escaped an arrest on the charge of rape. Fact-seekers under the Right to Information Act are threatened, and, in some cases, like IIM graduate Manjunath who exposed petrol adulteration racket, murdered for exposing the rot in the system.

MUMBAI: Mumbai Police are increasingly coming across cases of swindlers using 'social engineering' to siphon out thousands of rupees from banking accounts. The term 'social engineering' is used to describe the modus operandi of hackers who trick people into revealing passwords or other confidential information over the phone or in person.

World-renowned economist Amartya Sen is a recent victim of identity theft but he certainly is not the last. Billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani had a profiler using a fake Twitter handle @MukeshAmbani, which was recently suspended.

NOIDA: A day after a 10-year-old boy was kidnapped from his house in Noida's Sector 12, police are yet to trace the child or arrest anyone.