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WannaCry ransomware: Andhra police fall prey to global cyber attack
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), a nodal agency under the ministry to deal with cyber security emergencies, said a new ransomware named Wannacry was spreading widely. Within hours, over 75,000 attacks have been detected worldwide, the company said. The largest global cyber attack has affected around 1,30,000 Windows computers in more than 100 countries. [Full Article...]
White House advisers postpone Paris climate deal meeting
With the rest of the world on tenterhooks ever since, Trump has said he will make his decision before the next G7 meeting on May 26-27 in Sicily. But it was postponed . Investors representing trillions in assets are urging G7 leaders to keep their climate commitments, and in the USA about two dozen major companies are calling on President Donald Trump to remain in the Paris Agreement. [Full Article...]
Trump eyes 'fast decision' on Federal Bureau of Investigation director as interviews begin
Trump is considering almost a dozen candidates to succeed Comey. The veiled threat added to the storm over Trump's abrupt firing of Comey on Tuesday. James Comey has agreed to testify in a public Senate hearing regarding the investigation into alleged ties between Russian Federation and Donald Trump's campaign team. [Full Article...]
Netanyahu Reaffirms Israel's Commitment to Pursue "a Genuine Peace"
The American leader bravely plunged into the diplomatic conversation with Mr Abbas and encouraged him with the words "We will get it done", meaning the peace deal in the Middle East. Sanders called for a more even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and called into question supplying "endless amounts of money, of military support to Israel". [Full Article...]
Delhi will be made mosquito-free: Arvind Kejriwal
The government has already instructed hospitals to use 10 to 20 per cent of the beds for treatment of fever and to be ready for extra fever clinics, according to Sisodia. To prepare the proposal, officers from the central government will also be involved. The court had also said that a lot of hospitals in Delhi remained under-used and that there was need to increase the number of beds to deal wi... [Full Article...]
Africa Cup victor to join tough group at Rugby World Cup
The latest milestone in the All Blacks' bid to win the Rugby World Cup has been made in Kyoto , Japan , tonight with the Pool Draw for Rugby World Cup 2019. Eddie Jones' men will be in the same group as France and Argentina . The top North and South America qualifier will be either U.S. or Canada, and the second-best Oceania qualifier will be one of Fiji, Samoa or Tonga. [Full Article...]
Trump preparing certified letter denying Russian Federation business ties
The highly anticipated hearing was expected to fill in key details in the chain of events that led to the ouster of General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, during the administration's first month in office. [Full Article...]
North Korea fires ballistic missile: South Korea military
The launch, from a region near North Korea's west coast, was reported by South Korea's military, which added the nature of the projectile was unclear. Japan's Defence Minister Tomomi Inada says the missile reached an altitude of more than 2000 kilometres and could be a new type of a missile. "We have breaking news". [Full Article...]
Only three days needed to hack EVMs across Delhi, says Manish Sisodia
Outside the assembly, Kejriwal dared the Election Commission. "We can hack EVMs across Delhi in three days", Sisodia boisterously said during a special session of the Delhi Assembly. "Yesterday what was shown in Delhi Assembly was a matter of concern, we believe that EVM can be hacked". This can be done by changing motherboard of the the EVM. [Full Article...]
EVMs can be tampered with in 90 secs: Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj threw a fresh challenge before the poll panel on 11 March by saying his party can prove how the EVMs used in assembly polls were pre-programmed to favour a particular party. This is not your machine versus my machine, but the concern is that the democracy is in danger today. Using the analogy of cricket match-fixing, the AAP MLA said people earlier woul... [Full Article...]
UN chief says seeking further $900 million for Somalia crisis response
U.S. defence secretary James Mattis, EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini, the presidents of Kenya and Uganda, the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Turkey, and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Germany, the Netherlands and Qatar also attended the conference, the third such meeting on Somalia to be held in London since 2012. [Full Article...]
At least 74 countries affected in 'biggest ever' cyber attack
The National Cyber Security Centre applauded his actions and said in a statement: "Media reports today have rightly praised the efforts of MalwareTech to tackle the Wannacry cyber attack". "I believe many companies have not yet noticed", said William Saito, a cyber security adviser to Japan's government. "We are continuing to take the appropriate steps to address the situation". [Full Article...]
Trump to work as 'mediator' for Middle East peace
That move would likely spark Palestinian fury and is privately seen by many in the Israel and U.S. security establishments as needlessly inflammatory. Trump , campaigning for president, pledged to move the embassy to Jerusalem, but has retreated from the promise since assuming office. The administration seeks to enlist Israel's Sunni Arab neighbors, who share Israeli concerns about Shi'ite Iran,... [Full Article...]
Kremlin says feels 'cautious optimism' after Trump meeting with Lavrov
The diplomats met a day after the administration fired FBI Director James Comey , who had been investigating Russia's relationship with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and numerous president's official circle. Mr Comey's shock dismissal ignited furore among Democrats, who suggested that the FBI's investigation into Mr Trump's campaign and Russian Federation could now be tainted, an idea the ... [Full Article...]
AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj demonstrates EVM 'hacking' in Delhi Assembly
Bharadwaj brought an EVM prototype used by the Election Commission and claimed how codes embedded inside can be used to manipulate results. The AAP has been vocal in alleging that EVMs were tampered with in the assembly elections in Punjab and the civic polls in Delhi, both of which it lost. [Full Article...]
Trump promises quick decision on new Federal Bureau of Investigation boss as interviews begin
Asked if the pick would be announced before his trip overseas, Mr. Trump said, "Even that is possible". Trump's frustrations came to a head this week with the firing of FBI Director James Comey, who was overseeing the probe into his campaign's possible ties to Russia's election meddling. [Full Article...]
PSEB Class 12th Results 2017 Release Tomorrow, Punjab Board 12th Result
Out of 3,18,453 students who appeared for PSEB Class 12 exam in 2016, a total of 2,44,487 students were declared successful in the exam. PSEB issued two merit lists in 2016 for students "with sports" and "without sports" for Class XII. The class 12 exams were delayed to the state assembly elections and were conducted from February 28 with the General English paper to March 24, 2017 with Sociol... [Full Article...]
Israeli Knesset passes bill on Arabic language
The bill states that Hebrew would be the lone national language and downgrades Arabic to "a special status in the state" whose "speakers have the right to language-accessible state services". "Discrimination has received a legal stamp. The danger in this law in that it establishes two classes of citizen - Jewish and Arab", he said in a statement. [Full Article...]
Paper-trail EVMs to be used in all polls: EC
Feedback was also taken from political parties about the proposed hackathon, where representatives from political parties would be invited to hack the EVMs and prove that they can be tampered with. He claimed that though some countries, including India, had introduced the EVM, they later abandoned it as the system can easily be tampered with. Since we switched to EVMs (in 2004), many other systems... [Full Article...]
Trump tweets warning to Comey over leaks
He tweeted that Mr Comey had "better hope there are no "tapes" of our conversations", suggesting such tapes, if they existed, might contradict him. Later, OANN's Trey Yingst asks if anyone has an audio recording of what went on at the dinner between Comey and Trump. [Full Article...]