A day after reports surfaced that nearly 10,000 credit or debit card holders of Punjab National Bank (PNB) were affected by a data breach, the cyber security firm that detected the breach on Friday said it is now the responsibility of the bank to validate and take necessary actions. CloudSek Information Security, a company registered […]
A 27-year-old tribal youth said to be “not of sound mind” was beaten to death here in Kerala by a lynch mob which had accused him of theft, according to the mother. The turn of event on Thursday has elicited response from across the state after a perpetrator of the beating posted a selfie taken […]
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj here on Friday called on visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and discussed ways to deepen the bilateral relationship. “Picture speaks for itself!” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted along with a picture of the leaders smiling warmly as they shook hands. Kumar said Sushma Swaraj had a “warm […]
Delhi Police on Friday visited Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to look for evidence in connection with an alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash there by two AAP legislators just days back. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Harendra Kumar Singh told IANS that the “raid” was underway and police would be looking for CCTV […]
New York is the dirtiest city, with more pests and litter than any place else in the US, according to a review of government data by the cleaning-services company Busy Bee. The newly released report ranked 40 urban areas across the US based on pest and litter data from the American Housing Survey, air pollution […]
At least 44 people were killed and 24 others injured when a bus skidded off the road and plunged into a river in Peru’s Arequipa region, authorities said. Seven of the injured are in serious condition, including three children, reports Efe news agency. The accident occurred on Wednesday on the Pan-American Highway. The authorities were […]
Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President Donald Trump, will lead the US delegation to attend the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea on Sunday, the White House has said. Ivanka, also Trump’s advisor, was scheduled to have dinner on Friday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at his office in […]
The US economic growth rate will increase to 3.1 per cent in 2018 and remain above 3 per cent through 2020, according to President Donald Trump’s first official economic report to Congress. “The Trump Administration is the first since that of President Ronald Reagan to see positive economic growth exceed its first-year forecast,” said the […]
Brazil President Michel Temer has denied through his spokesperson Alexandre Parola, that the federal state of emergency declared about public safety in Rio de Janeiro had any political motivations. In a statement on Wednesday, Temer said that the electoral agenda “is not nor will be the cause” of the federal takeover of Rio de Janeiro, […]
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has turned down UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ offer to mediate between him and the opposition in the ongoing political crisis, Guterres’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said. “He offered to the President (Yameen) UN mediation but the President conveyed that mediation was not wanted at this stage,” Haq said on Wednesday. Asked […]