Sacked BrahMos scientist absolved of leaking missile secrets to Pak by HC NAGPUR: Seven years after his arrest, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Monday exonerated a former scientist with BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, Nishant Agarwal, of charges of espionage and cyber terrorism, but upheld his conviction under Section 3(1) C of...
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Winter session: SIR debate demand wipes out Day 1; Rijiju rebuffs Opposition
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha and walked out of Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session after govt refused to concede their demand to immediately allow a debate on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted by Election Commission.They rejected the stand of parliamentary affairs...
‘One speech could set fire’: Punjab opposes Amritpal’s temporary release; hearing on Dec 8
Amritpal’s Parl speech ‘could set five rivers on fire,’ Punjab tells HC CHANDIGARH: Strongly resisting the temporary release of radical Sikh preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, who seeks to attend the ongoing winter session of Lok Sabha, Punjab govt on Monday told Punjab and Haryana high court that even a single speech by...
Govt orders handset makers to preload its Sanchar Saathi app
(Representative image) NEW DELHI: In a move that is causing some concern to the industry and privacy advocates, govt has asked smartphone makers to mandatorily pre-install its Sanchar Saathi app on their devices. Govt says this is being done to strengthen cyber security on the devices and prevent tampering and spoofing of the IMEI (International...
‘Don’t want a slave’s peace’: Maduro hits back after Trump’s ultimatum; tensions surge
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro responsed to escalating US pressure, telling thousands of supporters in Caracas that the country “does not want a slave’s peace” as tensions with Washington deepen.Addressing marchers after weeks of rising military activity by the United States, Maduro accused Washington of “testing” Venezuela with a naval deployment that has now entered its...
SC orders CBI probe into ‘digital arrest’ scam cases
(AI-generated image used for representation purposes) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court order for pan-India CBI probe into ‘digital arrest’ cases, while signifying the threat from digital scamsters, is important also because the opposition-governed states had withdrawn “general consent” to CBI to probe crimes in their territories.Keeping two other forms of cyber-crime – investment scams and part-time...
Winter may be chillier with more cold waves in parts of north: IMD
(File photo) NEW DELHI: The upcoming winter (Dec-Feb) is likely to be colder in most parts of central India (Madhya Pradesh, north and east Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat) and parts of adjoining northwest (Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, east and southeast Rajasthan, and west and south UP) and peninsular India (Telangana), with below normal day and...
SIR burden turns fatal: UP headmaster’s heart attack raises alarm; 8 deaths in 10 days
MEERUT: A headmaster working as an assistant booth-level officer for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls died of a heart attack in Sambhal district on Monday, becoming the eighth person to die during SIR duty in Uttar Pradesh in 10 days, with three of them taking their own lives.The family of Arvind...
Internet outages fallout: Google and Amazon join hands; here’s what it means
In a move signaling a shift toward greater cooperation in the competitive cloud market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud introduced a jointly developed multicloud networking service on Sunday. The initiative aims to bolster internet reliability and drastically reduce the time required to connect disparate computing platforms. The collaboration comes as the tech industry...
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion break the internet with new relationships
Image – Elsa/Getty Images, FILE Move over, music charts, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are breaking the internet again, but this time it’s not with a new hit. Fans are loving the fact that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are finally dating some of the most eligible athletes out there, NFL wide receiver...
