Police hand over 225 mobile phones to owners in Kalaburagi

Police hand over 225 mobile phones to owners in Kalaburagi

Police officers going through the recovered mobile phones before handing them over to their owners in Kalaburagi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI The police who recovered 225 lost and stolen mobile phones worth around ₹46.54 lakh handed them over to their rightful owners here on Thursday. Addressing presspersons, Police Commissioner Sharnappa S. Dhage … Read more

Mobile recovery mela: Over 601 stolen phones worth over ₹12 crore returned

Mobile recovery mela: Over 601 stolen phones worth over ₹12 crore returned

SP V. Vidyasagar Naidu speaks at the ‘Mobile Recovery Mela’ held at Rayachoti in Annamayya district on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement The police in Annamayya district recovered 601 lost or stolen mobile phones valued at about ₹1.2 crore and returned them to their rightful owners during the seventh “Mobile Recovery Mela” held at … Read more

China to subsidise purchase of phones & smartwatches

China to subsidise purchase of phones & smartwatches

China will expand consumption subsidies to cover smartphones and other electronics, in a step to promote domestic spending as external headwinds pick up. ET Year-end Special Reads A national trade-in programme that currently applies to home appliances and cars will broaden this year to include personal devices like phones, tablets and smartwatches, officials from the … Read more

Pegasus infection found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International

Pegasus infection found on Indian journalists’ phones after Apple alert: Amnesty International

Representational image only. The Pegasus spyware, which the Union government has not categorically denied buying or using, allows attackers to extract all the contents of smartphones by leveraging software weaknesses that are known to a select few hackers, and sold for millions of dollars.  The Wire news website’s editor Siddharth Varadarajan and another journalist in … Read more

ED raids two ex-Punjab ministers; seizes documents, mobile phones

ED raids two ex-Punjab ministers; seizes documents, mobile phones

Sadhu Singh Dharamsot. File photo: Twitter/@INCPunjab “Incriminating” documents, mobile phones, and other electronic devices were seized by the ED after raids against two former Punjab forest ministers and Congress leaders Sadhu Singh Dharamsot and Sangat Singh Giljian and others as part of an alleged forest scam-linked money laundering probe. The federal probe agency issued a … Read more

Bihar policemen directed not to use mobile phones, social media on field duty

Bihar policemen directed not to use mobile phones, social media on field duty

Police in Bihar have been directed again to not use mobile phones or social media while on field duty, failing which stern action will be taken against them. In June 2021 too, a similar direction was given by the State police headquarters to personnel on duty. Of late, said the order, it has been found … Read more

Andhra Pradesh: Eluru police hand over 105 stolen mobile phones to owners

Andhra Pradesh: Eluru police hand over 105 stolen mobile phones to owners

The Eluru district police on Friday handed over 105 stolen mobile phones, all worth ₹22 lakh, to the owners in the town. The Eluru police set up a special cell, headed by Deputy SP G. Pydeswara Rao, in August to receive complaints regarding theft of phones. By the first week of October, the police have … Read more

Google wants to know the impact of phones on your mental health – ET HealthWorld

Google wants to know the impact of phones on your mental health – ET HealthWorld

The use of smartphones all over the world has increased exponentially in the last few years. While there are numerous benefits of having almost everything at the tap of the screen, it does have its fair share of downsides as well. Google is conducting research to find out the deep impact of phones on mental … Read more