Dharavi is known for being Mumbai’s biggest slum. But it’s also Mumbai’s largest informal special economic zone, the biggest melting pot of cultures and the biggest unstructured township in Mumbai. Clearly, Dharavi is a brand known for many things and Megha Gupta, the 29-year- old founder of Dharavimarket.com has set out to promote Dharavi in…
With India placing high priority to cyber security, the government is in talks with a number of countries, including the US, for co-operation to check cyber espionage and other attacks, Union Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said. “The Prime Minister himself has said, cyber security represents something like bloodless war. Therefore, cyber…
Indian officials today flatly denied Facebook’s plan to offer free access to stripped-down, popular websites — including, of course, the popular website known as Facebook — and, in so doing, disbanded a Facebook–Indian telecom firm partnership that had already been put into practice. Facebook’s Internet.org project has been controversial from the start and its Free…
Despite aggressive efforts to promote universal connectivity in India, Facebook just struck out. India’s telecom regulator has blocked the company’s Free Basics service as part of a ruling that supports net neutrality. The decision follows nearly a year of escalating conflict between Facebook and the country’s net neutrality activists, who argue Free Basics violates neutrality by…
Card cloning, OTP (one time password) fraud, phishing, spoofing, stalking, intrusion and non-delivery of merchandise are some of the cybercrime related complaints law enforcement agencies in the state have received in the past few years. Latest challenge to cyber police is dealing with organised cybercrime. In November last year, an organised credit/debit card cloning gang…
Three months after The Indian Express reported about a separate anganwadi for Dalit children in Gujarat’s Patan district, the state government has taken corrective steps. Nine children from anganwadi No. 159, which had only Dalit children, have been shifted to No. 160, while 19 children from the Thakore, Patel and Rawal communities in No. 160…
Over two-thirds of Indian Americans and half of Asian Americans are foreign-born, and we rely on a diverse and open Internet to stay in touch with our friends and families back home. For example, we asked our Desi friends, and they keep in touch with friends and family overseas using a wide variety of apps…
Four months ago, cyber criminals hacked into the computer network of a New Delhi-based international 5-star hotel chain and stole some ‘loyalty points.’ The criminals then used the loyalty points to book air tickets and hotel rooms and then advertised in a leading national daily, offering them to unsuspecting buyers at half the usual rates.…
Salonie Chawla’s mom was at home on January 11 with her maid mopping the house, when two women rang the bell offering to work as household helps. They convinced the maid who was already working to leave and took her job immediately. While the older of the two kept the lady of the house distracted,…
The Friday sermon delivered by the Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah last Friday slammed irresponsible social media use in Saudi Arabia. This serious misuse of the digital space is not geographically limited to West Asia alone. News feeds buzzed with updates about the transfer of an Indian Police Service officer in Kerala. In…