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A single accused. Multiple bank accounts. Approximately ₹67 lakh in transactions. And an estimated 10,000 illegally procured SIM cards feeding a sprawling cybercrime network across India - industrialised SIM card abuse crackdown

52 arrested including 32 bank officials — the largest crackdown on insider-enabled cybercrime in India | Links to investment scams and digital arrest - one of the major scams reported across India

The Committee examined challenges such as job displacement, algorithmic bias, data privacy concerns (under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act), copyright issues, need for comprehensive AI legislation, deepfake proliferation, cyber financial frauds using AI, illegal immigration detection, and the lack of consensus on defining autonomy of weapon systems.

A sophisticated cyber fraud operation that siphoned ₹8,38,402 from a Varanasi resident's bank account has been busted by the Varanasi Police Commissionerate's cyber crime unit, with the arrest of two key operatives — including the gang's ringleader — from Andal in West Bengal's Paschimi Bardhaman district.

How a country of 1.4 billion is turning its national domain into a model for proactive cybersecurity for securing its ".in" domain space.

Bhopal, March 25, 2026 — In a world drowning in SIM-based cybercrime — from OTP scams and financial fraud to identity theft and terror financing — India just demonstrated what decisive, technology-led policing looks like. The country has deployed a first-of-its-kind AI facial recognition dragnet called Operation FACE (Facial Authentication & Compliance Enforcement), and the results are staggering.

A small-town police unit in Uttar Pradesh cracked an organized syndicate that exploited India's unemployed youths to steal millions