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Recently the computer servers of many companies and organisations in Europe, United States of America (USA), Ukraine, and Russia were paralysed by a ransomware cyber-attack dubbed as “Petya”, A mass scale cyber attack. All the affected computers displayed a ransom note in which the attackers demanded US$ 300 in bitcoin currency as a ransom. Most …
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Recently China has organized a summit called Belt and Road Initiative(BRI), in which high level participants from more than 120 countries arrived, including nearly 30 head of the states. India was a conspicuous absentee, even though China, on multiple occasions, requested India to be a participant of this initiative. Since we are witnessing a potential watershed …
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IN BRIEF North Korea is a “small country, far-away, about which we know little,” to paraphrase a fateful comment in defense of appeasement from the 1938 crisis over Czechoslovakia. But there is one thing every American needs to know about far-away North Korea: its rulers are on a methodical and relentless quest for the capability …
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The scourge of renaming streets, alleys, and cities is not unprecedented, neither is the idea of renaming an airport. Recently, the Uttar Pradesh government in India renamed the Gorakhpur Airforce Station to Mahayogi Goraknath Airport after the founder of the Nath monastic movement; and likewise, the Agra Airport to RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay …
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Aadhaar is insecure because it is based on biometrics. Biometrics is surveillance technology, a necessity for any State. However, surveillance is much like salt in cooking: essential in tiny quantities, but counterproductive even if slightly in excess. Biometrics should be used for targeted surveillance, but this technology should not be used in e-governance for the …
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Yellow Book Part 1 - June, July & August 2016 Yellow Book Part 2 – September, October & November 2016 Yellow Book Part 3 – December 2016, January & February 2017 (would be available by 18th April 2017) Yellow Book Part 4 – March, April & May 2017 (would be available by 25th May 2017) …
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IN BRIEF No BS III vehicles will be sold in India from 1 April, 2017 The Honourable Supreme Court banning the sales and registration of BS III vehicles, So India is all set to move to a BS IV future and it seems that the auto manufacturers will have to pay the price, as there are …
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There is little to surprise in the ongoing consolidation moves in the telecom industry, the latest of which is the proposed merger of Vodafone with Idea. Increasing pressure on profitability, high cost of spectrum, cut-throat competition and slow regulation have combined to force telecom operators to look inwards in order to survive. These mergers and …
It was exorbitantly expensive, but can it be a future power source? It's hard to imagine that it's practical to build a road surface that is both hard-wearing and can produce electricity, but the French seem to have managed it. The Normandy village of Tourouvre-au-Perche now has a 1 kilometer stretch of solar …