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| Goa Police hunting for conman in Uttar Pradesh |
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| Panaji, March 18 (IANS) Police are on the lookout for a conman in Uttar Pradesh who is believed to have lured four women from Goa promising them jobs in Germany and then robbing them of Rs.5 lakh. William Mathew allegedly called the victims to Shahajanpur in Uttar Pradesh, checked them into a hotel, drugged their refreshments and later tortured them into revealing their ATM password before withdrawing the money and fleeing for good, police said. "We were promised jobs as house-keepers and maids in Germany by Mathew who had published an ad in a local English newspaper," said one of the victims. |
| Australian sports need access to police intelligence - Speed |
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 By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia is closing legislative loopholes to fight sports-related corruption but needs to allow police to share more information with sports administrators, former International Cricket Council boss Malcolm Speed has said. Speed, ICC chief executive from 2001-08, now heads the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS), an advocacy group representing the governing bodies of top Australian sports including cricket, rugby and soccer. Australia has been on the front foot drafting legislation to fight betting-related corruption, and convicted two British footballers in Victoria state in December using new legislative powers. World soccer's governing body FIFA extended a lifetime ban globally on the players on Monday after they were banned in Australia for seeking to corrupt outcomes in Victoria's state-level competition.
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| Seven killed while cleaning factory tank in Tamil Nadu |
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| Chennai, March 18 (IANS) At least seven workers were killed Tuesday and another seven were taken ill after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a septic tank in a private factory in Tamil Nadu's Perundurai town, said police. It seems there was some poisonous gas inside the tank and all of them lost their lives," a police official of Erode district told IANS. Police said the unit is located inside the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu industrial estate in Perundurai town. |
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