The US wants India to be its “best partner” to combat “shared” cyber crime threats in specific sectors of finance, infrastructure and energy, a top American official said here today. United States of America’s Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter, who is in India for meetings with his counterparts in the cyber security domain, said both…
Hackers calling themselves “CyberCaliphate” threatened U.S. President Barack Obama and his family when they took control of Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account on Tuesday with the words “Je suIS IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the deadly attack at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
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Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said the new agency will rapidly pool and disseminate…
Turkish authorities including government agencies have stepped up their crackdown on freedom of expression online in 2014, with figures fromTwitter showing the problem getting worse.
According to the latest transparency report from the website for the last six months of 2014, Turkey was the country that made the most content removal requests.
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Trust Aamir Khan to take a stand for all things right, and call a spade a spade. In what is perhaps the most damning reaction from a Bollywood biggie on the controversial AIB Roast featuring Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, reports suggest that Aamir has come down heavily on the show, saying that…
After 40 years in the United States of America, Palestinian-American Professor Sami al-Arian was deported to Turkey. He was born in Kuwait. His parents were Palestinian refugees. He had tenure at the University of South Florida. His ordeal began after a contentious interview with Bill O’Reilly on the right-wing channel “Fox News ” and lasted for…
The AIB’s tongue-in-cheek humour has not gone down well with a number of people. A lot has been said on AIB Roast post January 28, after a group of stand-up comedians followed the knock-out pattern of roasting celebrities at an event in Mumbai. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has also been filed in the Bombay…
In a recent judgment, a bench of the Indian Supreme Court convicted a Kerala ex-MLA for contempt of court for calling some judges fools, and sentenced him to four weeks imprisonment. In my opinion this judgment is incorrect, totally unacceptable in a democracy, and violates the freedom of speech guaranteed by Article 19(1)(a) of the…
The district panchayat, in association with IT@School, proposes to embark on an e-literacy project during the 2015-16 plan period. As part of the project, IT@School project proposes to extend e-jalakam, a handbook on availing of e-governance services, to schools falling under the jurisdiction of the district panchayat. Currently, the handbook is made available to students…
“The new infrastructure development that is now taking place in Hyderabad will make the city even more attractive for the IT companies,” says S Narsing Rao, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Telangana.
For improving the economy of the state, what are the key steps that the government of Telangana is taking?
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