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While the nation was transfixed by the soap opera of the investigation into the suspicious death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a collateral issue started playing out simultaneously. Besides the personal interrogations, most of the evidence in the ca

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2010 2015 OCT 15, 2017 2020 8.8 km Allows year-round connectivity from Manali to Lahaul and Spiti valley. The tunnel will reduce the road length of the Manali-Rohtang Pass-Sarchu-Leh road by 46 km ■

A 19-year-old Dalit girl is gang-raped and tortured, allegedly by four upper caste men, in Boolgadhi village of Hathras district in UP The girl is admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital in Aligarh with a severely damaged spinal cor

Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has been in a sulk. The NCP leader was recently asked by uncle and party chief Sharad Pawar, who continues to have the final say in all party-related matters, to take down a tweet. Ajit had tweeted a tribu

Former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh, once a close aide of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, jumped ship in 2019 to join the BJP. This year, the BJP seat hopeful has been campaigning against the TMC in East and West Midnapore. But what should r

In 2015, Akhilesh Yadav, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had launched a ‘Samajwadi Shravan Yatra’ scheme meant to fund the pilgrimage of senior citizens. The scheme, though, was a non-starter and didn’t benefit Akhilesh electorally. The Yog

I was greatly saddened to hear of the demise of Jaswant Singh. He was a valued colleague, both in government and the party to which we both belonged and of which he was a founding member. A thorough gentleman and an upright army officer, Jaswant Sing

As a private chat forum, WhatsApp has no equal—not in India, not in the world. Globally, the American freeware, cross-platform messaging service, owned by Facebook, boasts 2 billion users across 180 countries. With an estimated 65 billion messages be

WhatsApp messages, both sent and received, are stored in the phone memory. Even if a specific chat is deleted in the app, messages could still be retrieved by hackers who have either remote or physical access to your phone. There are some caveats—if

Under Section 5 of the Telegraph Act, 1885, A Union homse secrtary or a home secretary of a state can order the interception of phone conversations to protect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the state, friendly relations with

No messaging service is 100 per cent secure The most vulnerable point is the phone itself. If someone gains access to your handset—either by hacking it or by physically stealing it—all the data stored on it can be accessed A phone infected with s

Don’t use messaging services to communicate information that could get you in trouble/ leave you vulnerable Turn off auto-backups unless you really need them. Avoid saving backups on storage services that you do not directly control (like cloud sto

The regular leaking of private WhatsApp messages recovered from various phones during the CBI’s probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and the NCB’s inquiry into an alleged drug angle—which led to actor Deepika Padukone being questioned—has br

Digital health records are only a small fraction of a larger digital stack--usually called Hospital Information Management Systems. For the past 20 years, public and private hospitals across the country have been implementing disparate digitisation s

›› Data theft occurs when records are stolen and sold unlawfully. To safeguard against data theft, data must be stored in parts across different locations and brought together as and when necessary. This ensures no data is lost and any data breach ca

• Interest rates are at a historic low—banks are offering loans at 6.7% • With tax savings, the effective rate could fall below 5% for those in higher tax brackets • The best rates are offered to those with the highest credit scores—check your score

There are few things more pleasing to a borrower than low interest rates. This is especially true for those who have taken home loans—for a majority of such borrowers, this is the largest liability they will take on in their lives, and any fall in in

In 1989, 43 women across the globe spontaneously give birth despite not being pregnant. The children all have superpowers—time travelling, super strength, ability to talk to the dead—and seven wind up being adopted by ‘eccentric billionaire’ Reginald