Israel has developed a cybersecurity center to protect its railway system, media reports said on Sunday. The security center is created by Rafael, an Israeli government-owned defence technology company, Xinhua reported, quoting local media reports. The company will provide Israel Railways corporation with a cybersecurity operations center (CSOC) located in the city of Lod in […]
Israeli consumption of plastic bags decreased by 80 per cent in 2017 than the year before, according to Israeli Environment Ministry on Sunday. The Ministry said sharp reduction was attributed mainly to a law from 2016 that put restrictions on big supermarkets chains, Xinhua reported. The “plastic bag law” was sponsored by the Environment Ministry […]
Over 1,87,300 pilgrims have so far performed this year’s Amarnath Yatra as another batch of 4,195 pilgrims left Jammu for the Valley on Monday. “A total of 4,195 Yatris left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in two batches of 2,455 and 1,740 for the Valley in escorted convoys. Of these, 2,455 Yatris are headed for Baltal […]
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he considers the European Union an adversary of his country. “I think we have a lot of foes,” Efe quoted Trump as saying to CBS Evening News in response when anchor Jeff Glor asked him to name his “biggest foe globally right now”. “I think the European […]
The key Indian equity indices was trading flat-to-negative on Monday soon after opening. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 15.79 points or 0.04 per cent lower soon after opening. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 23.30 points or 0.21 per cent lower at 10,995.70 points. The Sensex […]
Several Facebook groups are sharing pirated Hollywood movies to hundred of thousands of users and the social media giant’s automated software are unable to stop copyright infringements, the media reported. According to the Business Insider, these Facebook groups make no attempt to conceal catalogs brimming with the latest blockbusters like “Ant Man and the Wasp” […]
Twitter has announced it will remove locked accounts — which are disabled owing to suspicious activity — from follower counts across profiles globally in the coming days resulting in some users seeing a drop in their base of followers. If you lose some followers, do not fret as most people will see a change of […]
John Schnatter, the founder of American pizza chain Papa John’s, has resigned as the company’s chairman after it emerged that he used a racial slur during a conference call in May, a media report said. Papa John’s said in a statement late Wednesday that it would appoint a new chairman “in the coming weeks”, reports […]
Thirteen pilgrims were injured on Thursday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, police said. A vehicle carrying the pilgrims to the valley met with the accident near the Birma Bridge by-pass of Jammu-Srinagar highway. All injured have been shifted to hospital.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday came out in support of Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav after raids on his former colleagues’s family members and demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi must end his vendetta politics. “We strongly condemn victimisation of Yogendra Yadav’s family by the Modi government through the use of agencies like IT […]