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WannaCry ransomware cyberattack fails to paralyse India; some businesses hit

WannaCry ransomware cyberattack fails to paralyse India; some businesses hit

Barring sporadic incidents in a few states, most institutions and industries across India continue to remain insulated from the effects of the ‘WannaCry’ ransomware cyberattack that has affected computers in approximately 100 countries worldwide.

Banks, government departments and corporate houses have issued messages of caution and reinforced online security. However, business was unaffected as…

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Supreme Court’s U-turn: Open to looking at polygamy & nikah halala

Supreme Court’s U-turn: Open to looking at polygamy & nikah halala

NEW DELHI: Within four days of emphatically announcing that it would not test the validity of any issue other than triple talaq, the Supreme Court clarified on Monday that it had not closed the window to scrutiny of two contentious issues: polygamy and nikah halala.

When a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said “we have taken a conscious decision to deal only with triple talaq”,…

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Is Beijing planning to turn Pakistan into its economic colony?

Is Beijing planning to turn Pakistan into its economic colony?

NEW DELHI: China’s longterm plans for Pakistan would do the East India Company proud. Proposals for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor revealed in Pakistani newspaper Dawn envisage thousands of acres of agricultural land being leased to Chinese enterprises to set up demonstration projects and a fibre-optic system that will facilitate the dissemination of Chinese culture.

The proposals seem to…

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India at ICJ: Kulbhushan Jadhav could be executed even as trial is on

India at ICJ: Kulbhushan Jadhav could be executed even as trial is on

THE HAGUE/NEW DELHI: India vigorously took on Pakistan over the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, saying the Indian national facing the death sentence for alleged spying could be executed even as the trial at ICJ was on.

India said Jadhav was framed on the basis of a “confessional video” and had been denied consular access, leaving his family and the…

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UN report slams ‘opaque’ Pak military courts; Let civil courts try Jadhav-like cases, says panel

UN report slams ‘opaque’ Pak military courts; Let civil courts try Jadhav-like cases, says panel

NEW DELHI: Even as India has gone to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), terming the sentencing of Kulbhushan Jadhav by a Pakistani military court as “premeditated murder”, the United Nations has come down heavily on the military courts system in Pakistan, lack of independence of military court judges who are within military hierarchy and the practice of holding “closed trials”.

The UN…

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Hafiz Saeed spreading terrorism in name of jihad: Pak govt

Hafiz Saeed spreading terrorism in name of jihad: Pak govt

LAHORE/NEW DELHI: In what could be the first official admission by the Pakistan government that Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed is involved in terrorist activities — he is named by India as the 26/11 mastermind — its interior ministry told a judicial board that Saeed and his aides were spreading terrorism in the name of jihad.

An official representing the Nawaz Sharif government, arguing before…

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As China opens its One Belt One Road summit, anti-CPEC protests erupt in PoK

As China opens its One Belt One Road summit, anti-CPEC protests erupt in PoK

GILGIT: As China opened one of its biggest foreign policy initiatives since 1949 — the One Belt One Road (OBOR) summit in Beijing, which is being attended by heads of state and government of over 23 nations, including Pakistan, protests broke out in Gilgit-Baltistan against the ongoing construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project

under the Belt and Road initiative.

Various…

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Crores funnelled into AAP coffers via shell cos: Kapil Mishra

Crores funnelled into AAP coffers via shell cos: Kapil Mishra

NEW DELHI: After building up suspense for over two days about a purported “mega expose” against chief minister Arvind Kejriwal

and the Aam Aadmi Party, sacked minister Kapil Mishra alleged on Sunday that people close to Kejriwal had funnelled crores of unaccounted money into party coffers through shell companies and donors.

“The shell companies were formed by people close to Kejriwal to channel…

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An alert researcher, teamwork helped stem huge cyberattack

An alert researcher, teamwork helped stem huge cyberattack

LONDON: The cyberattack that spread malicious software around the world, shutting down networks at hospitals, banks and government agencies, was thwarted by a young British researcher and an inexpensive domain registration, with help from another 20-something security engineer in the U.S.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Center and others were hailing the cybersecurity researcher, a 22-year-old…

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Gagan Narang shoots better than world record, settles for silver

Gagan Narang shoots better than world record, settles for silver

UNE: Sweden’s Karl Olsson and London Games bronze medallist Gagan Narang scored better than the existing World Record to win gold and silver respectively in the rifle 50m prone final of International Shooting Competition of Hannover on Saturday.

Narang scored 250 to finish only 0.1 point behind Olsson’s 250.1 in the eight-man final.

The Indian was poised to win gold till the 22nd shot with 229.9…

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'Arvind Kejriwal and friends lied to EC, concealed donations', alleges Kapil Mishra

‘Arvind Kejriwal and friends lied to EC, concealed donations’, alleges Kapil Mishra

NEW DELHI: Suspended AAP member Kapil Mishra today alleged that party leaders close to chief Arvind Kejriwal concealed donations from the public, lied to the Election Commission (EC) and laundered money using 16 shell companies.

“I have the papers to prove multiple scams,” Mishra said at the beginning of the press conference. Towards the end of the conference Mishra said he would “drag Kejriwal…

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Hafiz Saeed spreading terrorism in name of jihad: Pakistan

Hafiz Saeed spreading terrorism in name of jihad: Pakistan

LAHORE: Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamat-ud Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and his four aides have been detained for “spreading terrorism in the name of jihad”, Pakistan’s interior ministry has told a judicial review board.

Saeed appeared before the board yesterday and told it that he had been detained by the Pakistani government in order to stop him for raising voice for Kashmiris.

Howev…

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Businesses, institutions brace for Monday as new ransomware threat lingers

Businesses, institutions brace for Monday as new ransomware threat lingers

SINGAPORE/TORONTO: Technical staff scrambled on Sunday to patch computers and restore infected ones, amid fears that the ransomware worm that stopped car factories, hospitals, shops and schools could wreak fresh havoc on Monday when employees log back on.

The spread of the virus dubbed WannaCry – “ransomware” which locked up more than 100,000 computers – had slowed, cybersecurity experts said,…

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Justice Karnan pleads for relief, but Supreme Court refuses to oblige

Justice Karnan pleads for relief, but Supreme Court refuses to oblige

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant relief to Calcutta high court judge C S Karnan who had sought suspension of its order awarding a six-month jail term to him for contempt of court, saying due process would be followed in the case.

As Justice Karnan’s lawyer pleaded for an urgent hearing on suspension of the sentence, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar asked…

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U-turn,Belt,Balochistan,China-Pakistan Economic, tremendous

NEW DELHI: In the midst of a raging debate on the reliability of electronic voting machines (EVMs), a majority of political parties that attended the Election Commission’s all-party meeting on Friday supported the use of electronic machines though they called for paper trails and more safeguards.

The parties demanded EVMs with voter verifiable paper audit trails (VVPAT) and more scrutiny of…

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US makes U-turn, to drive down One Belt One Road initiative

US makes U-turn, to drive down One Belt One Road initiative

BEIJING/NEW DELHI: The US has made a sudden U-turn and decided to participate in the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative being organised by China with much fanfare in Beijing this Sunday and Monday.

The US move puts tremendous pressure on India, which remains undecided on whether to send representatives to the event. India maintains that China has not created an environment of trust to carry out…

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Hackers exploit stolen US spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack

Hackers exploit stolen US spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack

LONDON/MADRID: A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the US National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.

Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain…