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Time of India
15-07-2025
- Time of India
‘May I help you, Uncle': Sr citizen loses 27k to shoulder-surfing fraud
Kolkata: In yet another incident of "shoulder surfing" leading to ATM fraud by trained fraudsters, a 65-year-old resident of north Kolkata fell victim to a card swap scam, losing Rs 27,200 through unauthorised transactions. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Pradip Kumar Hela, a resident of Gauribari Lane, reported that while attempting to withdraw money from a public sector bank ATM on Ultadanga Main Road on July 11, he encountered difficulties with the ATM. An unidentified individual offered assistance and requested Hela to enter his PIN while standing beside him. During this interaction, the accused allegedly switched Hela's ATM card with an identical old card. "The ATM was not working properly and an unknown person came in and tried to help me and asked me to type the PIN. He was standing by my side and changed my ATM with a fake one," Hela wrote in his complaint. Following the incident, Hela received multiple transaction alerts on his account. The unauthorised withdrawals included amounts of Rs 944, Rs 10,027, Rs 5,027, Rs 6,000, and Rs 5,200, totalling Rs 27,200. These transactions were confirmed in the bank statement of his account number that the cops later obtained. The police are now checking CCTV footage for leads. Shoulder surfing involves incidents in which a criminal closely observes shoppers and notes down their PIN numbers when they are paying for goods or, what has been more common in this gang's case, when they use an ATM. The cards are then stolen and used for purchasing goods elsewhere. The case has been registered as an FIR by Ultadanga police, and the detective department is helping with the probe. The incident has prompted cops to advise ATM users, particularly elderly citizens, to exercise caution while conducting transactions. They recommend declining assistance from strangers at ATM kiosks and ensuring privacy while entering PINs. "The Tollygunge Police last year arrested one such accused and found him involved in several similar cases. Several gangs from Bihar are experts in this, having struck earlier as far as Hyderabad and Chandigarh," said a police officer.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
All Symbiote skins in Marvel Rivals & how to unlock them
(Image via NetEase Games) In Marvel Rivals, it's Symbiote season, and we're not talking just Venom. From web-slingers to tree aliens, everyone's rocking that gooey, alien drip. Whether you're here to flex that Black Suit Spider-Man or just want to see Groot go full monster-mode, we've got the full list of Symbiote skins and exactly how to get your hands on each one. What Are Symbiote skins in Marvel Rivals? Symbiotes (aka Klyntar) are alien parasites in the Marvel universe. They bond with hosts to create powerful, twisted versions of your fave heroes and villains like Venom, Carnage, and Black Suit Spider-Man. In Marvel Rivals, Season 3 leans hard into this lore with a wave of Symbiote-themed skins that basically scream: 'I'm not just here to win, I'm here to dominate.' Spider-Man | Black Suit Battle Pass Skin Showcase | Marvel Rivals Gameplay Season 3 Season 3 Battle Pass Symbiote Skins in Marvel Rivals If you've got the Season 3 Battle Pass (990 Lattice), you're in for a treat. These twisted variants are all part of the premium tier: Symbiote Squirrel Girl – Cute but terrifying? Yes. Symbiote Flora Groot – More roots, more rage. Black Suit Spider-Man – Classic. Iconic. Must-have. Symbiote Rocket Raccoon – Even more unhinged. Jeff the Land Shark: Devouring Duo – It's weird. It's wonderful. Hela – Queen in Black – Teased in the trailer but not yet confirmed in-game. All skins (except Hela) are directly unlockable through the Battle Pass tiers as you grind XP. Free Symbiote Skins in Marvel Rivals Want the look without spending a single Unit or Lattice? Here's what's up: Venom (Default Skin) – Everyone gets it. Log in, and boom—you've got Venom. Symbiote Storm – Complete the Milano Repair Logs challenges during Season 3. No grind, no glory. Captain America | Captain Klyntar Skin Showcase | Marvel Rivals Gameplay | Season 2.5 Store-Exclusive Symbiote Skins in Marvel Rivals These bad boys pop in and out of the in-game shop, so keep your Units (and eyes) ready. Captain America: Captain Klyntar – 1,600 Units. Symbiote shield bash. Peni Parker: Ven#m – 1,400 Units. Futuristic and freaky. Pro tip : If you see them, snag them. They will rotate out. Symbiote skins are easily some of the most fire cosmetics in Marvel Rivals right now. Whether you're chasing the Battle Pass, grinding challenges, or waiting for a store drop, there's something for every chaos-loving Marvel main. Stay drippy, and may your Klyntar be forever bonded. For real-time updates, scores, and highlights, follow our live coverage of the India vs England Test match here. Catch Manika Batra's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 3. Watch Here!
RNZ News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Violence in Papua New Guinea appears to be increasing
Paul Barker says PNG will need international assistance to address the law and order issues in the country. (file image) Photo: AFP/RNZ Pacific Most recently there was an horrific murder in Hela where a mother of six was shot after being being burnt and tortured following accusations of sorcery. In Port Moresby, bus drivers this week retaliated after one of their colleagues was killed in the suburb of Hanuabada. National Capital District governor Powes Parkop pleaded with the drivers not to take the law into their own hands. There have also been prolonged battles in various Highlands provinces, and last year a police strike sparked a calamitous riot in the capital. Paul Barker, the executive director of the PNG Institute of National Affairs, spoke with RNZ Pacific about the violence. (This transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity.) PAUL BARKER: We're certainly having law and order problems that have in the past tended to be restricted to certain provinces and locations seem to have extended to additional provinces that were hitherto relatively peaceful, including East New Britain and other places in the islands. But also, not just in the islands - through down to other coastal provinces, Madang and so on, and as you've seen, conflicts that have broken out in the streets of Moresby. To some extent it relates to a lack of economic opportunities, frustration by young people, particularly; on the other hand it's also weak capacity for application of the rule of law, not just by the police, but by communities and cooperation between the different parties. During this year, a major focus of the 2025 budget has been on enhancing police capacity. And that was a bit of a wake up call from the riots in January of last year. They have got extra police that they've recruited and that are in training. We also know that the commissioner has terminated quite a lot of police over the last period of time for abuse and poor conduct and sometimes aggressive conduct. Some of these problems emanate from some of the conflict zones in the Highlands, and you get young people, or whole families, who effectively are displaced from these Highlands communities, come to the towns and cities of PNG to escape pretty horrendous conflicts in Upper Highlands, particularly in Enga, Southern Highlands, Hela. And again, we've had this dialogue with various parties, including the police, saying it cannot be addressed simply by more police on the ground. It needs to have more effective policing, better cooperation. There are a lot of people who buy into that and who totally agree, including some in the government itself, who say, yes, just adding to the numbers of police without enhanced capacity, discipline and so on, will not, in itself, address these problems. In fact, it could even exacerbate that. DON WISEMAN: You would like to see what happen? PB: We would like to see a system of cooperation. In the past, government was seen to be a neutral hand the old system, going back into colonial times, with the Kiap and so on. They were impartial in conflicts. Unfortunately, what we tend to see now is that a lot of people in government are seen to be party to the conflict. You've got some instigating conflict for their own ends. They may be people who are living in Moresby or even sometimes outside the country, and they have effectively gangs who work for them back in their home provinces and stir up trouble. So we need to effectively neuter them to be able to work with the communities to establish effective community engagement and policing and early warning systems, and we need to make sure, for example, that the police do actually have the resources to be able to respond to cases very promptly. We've got these sorcery accusation related violence (SARV). As highlighted in the media just lately, it seems that always, the police don't have a vehicle or don't have any fuel for their vehicle at the critical time when you've got to go and intervene to rescue someone. The whole system of community engagement, the churches are some of the most effective at working on the ground, along with some of these other entities, human rights defenders and so on. But we do need this strong government, civil society. The answer is not the Terrorism Act, which was rushed through just recently, and which risks making the situation worse by casting everyone, including, school kids, as terrorists just because they may be young and wandering the streets or traveling. We need to have, instead of that antipathy and effectively, an autocratic approach, we need to establish our systems of community dialogue, and we need the leaders to be engaged and participating, not all remote, overseas, travelling or in their Land Cruisers somewhere else. We need them to roll up their sleeves. We've got some very good examples where we've actually brought sides together. There was one in Hagen, an ongoing tribal fight, and the leaders were all in Moresby, but some players on the ground brought conflicting sides together and said, 'Why are you even fighting each other? You're just doing this because your bosses tell you to do it, but if you actually look at it, you've got more in common with each other.' And the end of a long session, they were all playing football with each other and enjoying each other's company. And that was the end of a long conflict. But it was stirred by old antipathies and power broking by these, they call them warlords, but we're told not to use the word 'warlords,' because that sort of engrandises them. They're not lords of anything. They're just war mongers as it were. So clearly, money is involved. Money gets involved with the arms' trade. You've also got some of the other trades; the drugs trade and some of the other trades, but it's this melding of power, money, even the sorcery accusation related violence. It's a new form of power, intimidating people and making yourself powerful and everyone being compliant with you. So we've got to break those systems, and that requires cooperation. DW: Under the Terrorism Act, that's the lethal force allowance? PB: Yeah, that means you can go out and shoot anyone who happens to be inconvenient to you, and obviously that can open the Pandora's box. You can shoot political enemies, people who are critics, journalists, anyone else and it's certainly not what PNG needs. DW: What you're talking about here, it's something of a revolution that would take a huge amount to achieve, wouldn't it? Do you think there is the wherewithal within the country to do it, to achieve it? PB: I think it's going to need a lot of international assistance, but it's going to have to be ideas,the commitment are going to have to come from within the country, so the outside world can support, in training, in dispute resolution, training for not just police, but for community leaders. We need that commitment. There are certainly people who are seeing some of these issues, are seeing this is needed, and I think it's part of the dialog we have this 50 year review that's going on looking forward 20 years, 'How do we move forward and avoid many of the mistakes of the past'? So that review team is raising many of those issues. A committee chaired by former deputy prime minister, Charles Abel, so they're trying to think outside the box and see where we can go forward. But all across the board, if you look at the statistics just lately, which have been put together in the latest economic and social reports from the ADB, from the World Bank and others, you'll see absolutely atrocious social indicators. You see the economy growing slowly. You're seeing education capacity not growing. You get a lot of these functions, high malnutrition, low job creation, and so on and so forth. We've got to address those together with the impacts of that, which is growing frustration and conflict developing in the urban areas where people have re-migrated. The development partners, some of them, are aware of this, and they're throwing their hands a little bit in the air and saying, 'what do we do'? And academics are sort of doing that as well, and saying, 'Hey, look, you know, the only way is cooperation, working with those who are willing and able to provide leadership and think outside the box'.
CNET
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Marvel Rivals Season 3 Release Time: Phoenix Abilities, Blade Info
As Marvel Rivals gets ready to kick off season 3 next week, we're getting our first glimpse at some of the upcoming changes. And, with respect to my poor beleaguered Blade bros, the biggest news for me is that Jean Grey, original member of the X-Men and sometimes terror of the cosmos, is joining the roster as Phoenix. There's plenty more coming, including Blade in Season 3.5 next month, but Phoenix is the headliner for me, and here's our first look at what she can do. Phoenix's abilities in Marvel Rivals Phoenix joins as yet another duelist -- an already oversaturated role, but one that feels appropriate for her. She brings a mix of area-of-effect damage that can help chew through groups of enemies as well as mobility that lets her flit around the battlefield to find flank angles. Phoenix's primary fire appears to instantly apply damage to enemies with no travel time (also known as hitscan) and apply some kind of flame stacks to opponents, represented by up to three flame icons above their characters. In the trailer, heroes appeared to detonate when hit at full stacks, releasing a burst of additional damage around them. Her alternate fire sends a rapid-fire burst of flame that creates a series of small explosions, similar to Hela's alternate fire. In the trailer, we see it used on a group of enemies with maximum flame stacks to detonate everyone and effectively burst down the entire opposing team at once. I can't tell you exactly what's happening here, but whatever it is, it looks fun. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin Her first ability is a quick dash. In the trailer, Phoenix uses it to jump backward, dodging an enemy Venom looking to crash down on her. Her second ability appears to be a limited-duration flight, allowing Phoenix to freely fly around the battlefield for a few seconds. The flight is on a resource meter that recharges while Phoenix isn't flying. Phoenix's ultimate is what made me scream. I've watched the trailer several times and my best description of how it appears to work is, "You crash to the ground, kill everyone in your way and explode." And I mean everyone -- in the trailer, we see Hela in her ultimate, wherein she flies up into the sky and her health jumps up to 1,000 HP, get erased when Phoenix ults through her. In addition to also killing Rocket and Psylocke in one shot, the ultimate also clears deployables like Rocket's rez beacon and Peni's nest while whittling Peni herself and Groot down to a sliver of health in the explosion. Lore accurate Phoenix? Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin A mobile hitscan hero who with a stacking mechanic and a meteoric ultimate? Yeah, sign me up. Between this and Overwatch 2's Freja, this longtime support/strategist main may have officially turned into a damage/duelist main. When does season 3 start? Marvel Rivals season 3.0 is scheduled to start on Friday, July 11 UTC. Typically, this involves servers going down for a few hours around midnight PT before being turned back on for the new season in the very early morning. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin What about Blade? Haven't we waited enough? Rivals continues to make Blade fans wait, since that hero won't be added to the roster until season 3.5. But at least that's only a month away under the new season structure. Rivals season 3 balance changes In the Dev Visions vol. 7 video, Rivals devs gave us a quick breakdown of the upcoming balance changes, though we're still waiting on full details from official patch notes. Here's the quick breakdown, with any confirmed details in parentheses. Buffs: Venom Thing (gains a new ability to jump to enemies, possibly knocking down fliers) Namor (primary fire) Scarlet Witch (ultimate) Invisible Woman (healing efficiency) Mantis (healing and ultimate utility) Nerfs: Emma Frost Iron Man (poke potential) Punisher (turret) Mister Fantastic (survivability) Loki (ultimate charge) Ultron Phoenix adds some literal firepower to Wolverine's attacks with the new team-up. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin Team-up changes Rivals is adding two new team-ups, tacking heroes onto two existing ones and removing two others (Storming Ignition and ESU Alumnus) from the game. It's also nerfing another. Here's the quick rundown: New -- Primal Flame: Phoenix anchors to add damage over time and lifesteal to Wolverine's attacks after his leap. New -- Ever-Burning Bond: Human Torch anchors to let Spider-Man shoot a burning web with a flaming tracer. (The flaming tracer stacks with Spidey's regular tracers, devs said.) Updated -- Symbiote Shenanigans: Adds Hela, giving her Soul Drainer Hel Sphere slowing tendrils. Updated -- Stark Protocol: Adds Squirrel Girl, giving her an explosive, homing gauntlet. Updated -- Guardian Revival: Devs said they'd be nerfing some element of the Guardians' team-up. Other things coming in season 3 The battle pass is getting some adjustments to account for shorter seasons. Battle passes still offer 10 skins, but you'll earn tokens at a faster rate to make it easier to progress through the entire battle pass in the shorter time period. Daily missions are also going away, with weekly missions shifting to permanent quests instead of being time-limited. Seasonal missions that offer large batches of tokens are also being added. Rivals devs also announced a new competitive mode coming in season 3.5 but said we'd have to wait for any details about it. The game is also adding accessories (which appear to be animated stickers that float above the KO notifications), new chroma options and visual effects for ultimate abilities. Perhaps the nicest quality of life change is the ability to mix & match MVP animations with any skins, instead of having certain MVP animations locked to specific skins. Rivals needs a win Season 3 is a major turning point for the hero shooter, marking the start of its new two-month seasons where we'll be getting new heroes every month -- one at the start of the season and one at midseason. The new cadence is an aggressive pace for expanding the game's roster, and threatens to keep the metagame churning even faster, assuming those new heroes are relevant at launch. That's important because Rivals has been bleeding active players since launch. Based on SteamDB data, the start of each new half-season brings in fewer players than the previous. (For example, fewer players joined for season 2.5 than for 2.0.) Most games lose players over time, but for a live-service game, that kind of consistent drop is bad news because it means fewer players coming back each season to spend money on battle passes and cosmetics. And while Rivals was a hit at launch, the game has struggled with player retention, whether it's due to in-game toxicity, role-based infighting, frustrating metagames or just generally losing the luster of being a brand-new game. How do you fix that? Not easily, that's for certain. But adding an iconic member of the original X-Men and giving her fun gameplay in the form of mobility and unique mechanics can sure help. I'll tell you this much: It's working on me.
CNET
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
Marvel Rivals Season 3: Our First Look at Phoenix Had Me Screaming 'WHAT?!'
As Marvel Rivals gets ready to kick off season 3 next week, we're getting our first glimpse at some of the upcoming changes. And, with respect to my poor beleaguered Blade bros, the biggest news for me is that Jean Grey, original member of the X-Men and sometimes terror of the cosmos, is joining the roster as Phoenix. There's plenty more coming, including Blade in Season 3.5 next month, but Phoenix is the headliner for me, and here's our first look at what she can do. Phoenix's abilities in Marvel Rivals Phoenix joins as yet another duelist -- an already oversaturated role, but one that feels appropriate for her. She brings a mix of area-of-effect damage that can help chew through groups of enemies as well as mobility that lets her flit around the battlefield to find flank angles. Phoenix's primary fire appears to instantly apply damage to enemies with no travel time (aka hitscan) and apply some kind of flame stacks to opponents, represented by up to three flame icons above their characters. In the trailer, heroes appeared to detonate when hit at full stacks, releasing a burst of additional damage around them. Her alternate fire sends a rapid-fire burst of flame that creates a series of small explosions, similar to Hela's alternate fire. In the trailer, we see it used on a group of enemies with maximum flame stacks to detonate everyone and effectively burst down the entire opposing team at once. I can't tell you exactly what's happening here, but whatever it is, it looks fun. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin Her first ability is a quick dash. In the trailer, Phoenix uses it to jump backward, dodging an enemy Venom looking to crash down on her. Her second ability appears to be a limited-duration flight, allowing Phoenix to freely fly around the battlefield for a few seconds. The flight is on a resource meter that recharges while Phoenix isn't flying. Phoenix's ultimate is what made me scream. I've watched the trailer several times and my best description of how it appears to work is, "You crash to the ground, kill everyone in your way and explode." And I mean everyone -- in the trailer, we see Hela in her ultimate, wherein she flies up into the sky and her health jumps up to 1,000 HP, get erased when Phoenix ults through her. In addition to also killing Rocket and Psylocke in one shot, the ultimate also clears deployables like Rocket's rez beacon and Peni's nest while whittling Peni herself and Groot down to a sliver of health in the explosion. Lore accurate Phoenix? Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin A mobile hitscan hero who with a stacking mechanic and a meteoric ultimate? Yeah, sign me up. Between this and Overwatch 2's Freja, this longtime support/strategist main may have officially turned into a damage/duelist main. When does season 3 start? Marvel Rivals season 3.0 is scheduled to start on Friday, July 11 UTC. Typically, this involves servers going down for a few hours around midnight PT before being turned back on for the new season in the very early morning. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin What about Blade? Haven't we waited enough? Rivals continues to make Blade fans wait, since that hero won't be added to the roster until season 3.5. But at least that's only a month away under the new season structure. Rivals season 3 balance changes In the Dev Visions vol. 7 video, Rivals devs gave us a quick breakdown of the upcoming balance changes, though we're still waiting on full details from official patch notes. Here's the quick breakdown, with any confirmed details in parentheses. Buffs: Venom Thing (gains a new ability to jump to enemies, possibly knocking down fliers) Namor (primary fire) Scarlet Witch (ultimate) Invisible Woman (healing efficiency) Mantis (healing and ultimate utility) Nerfs: Emma Frost Iron Man (poke potential) Punisher (turret) Mister Fantastic (survivability) Loki (ultimate charge) Ultron Phoenix adds some literal firepower to Wolverine's attacks with the new team-up. Marvel/Screenshot by Adam Benjamin Team-up changes Rivals is adding two new team-ups, tacking heroes onto two existing ones and removing two others (Storming Ignition and ESU Alumnus) from the game. It's also nerfing another. Here's the quick rundown: New -- Primal Flame: Phoenix anchors to add damage over time and lifesteal to Wolverine's attacks after his leap. New -- Ever-Burning Bond: Human Torch anchors to let Spider-Man shoot a burning web with a flaming tracer. (The flaming tracer stacks with Spidey's regular tracers, devs said.) Updated -- Symbiote Shenanigans: Adds Hela, giving her Soul Drainer Hel Sphere slowing tendrils. Updated -- Stark Protocol: Adds Squirrel Girl, giving her an explosive, homing gauntlet. Updated -- Guardian Revival: Devs said they'd be nerfing some element of the Guardians' team-up. Other things coming in season 3 The battle pass is getting some adjustments to account for shorter seasons. Battle passes still offer 10 skins, but you'll earn tokens at a faster rate to make it easier to progress through the entire battle pass in the shorter time period. Daily missions are also going away, with weekly missions shifting to permanent quests instead of being time-limited. Seasonal missions that offer large batches of tokens are also being added. Rivals devs also announced a new competitive mode coming in season 3.5 but said we'd have to wait for any details about it. The game is also adding accessories (which appear to be animated stickers that float above the KO notifications), new chroma options and visual effects for ultimate abilities. Perhaps the nicest quality of life change is the ability to mix & match MVP animations with any skins, instead of having certain MVP animations locked to specific skins. Rivals needs a win Season 3 is a major turning point for the hero shooter, marking the start of its new two-month seasons where we'll be getting new heroes every month -- one at the start of the season and one at midseason. The new cadence is an aggressive pace for expanding the game's roster, and threatens to keep the metagame churning even faster, assuming those new heroes are relevant at launch. That's important because Rivals has been bleeding active players since launch. Based on SteamDB data, the start of each new half-season brings in fewer players than the previous. (For example, fewer players joined for season 2.5 than for 2.0.) Most games lose players over time, but for a live-service game, that kind of consistent drop is bad news because it means fewer players coming back each season to spend money on battle passes and cosmetics. And while Rivals was a hit at launch, the game has struggled with player retention, whether it's due to in-game toxicity, role-based infighting, frustrating metagames or just generally losing the luster of being a brand-new game. How do you fix that? Not easily, that's for certain. But adding an iconic member of the original X-Men and giving her fun gameplay in the form of mobility and unique mechanics can sure help. I'll tell you this much: It's working on me.
