There is an online propaganda “arms race” with Russia and the most important thing right now is to make sure no one interferes in the upcoming elections globally, vowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the five-hour marathon session at the US Congress. “The most important thing I care about right now is making sure no […]
The 32-hour countdown for Thursday’s early launch of the IRNSS-1L navigation satellite is progressing smoothly at the Sriharikota rocket port, around 105 km from here, Indian space agency officials said. The countdown began at 8.04 p.m. on Tuesday. The 1,425-kg satellite — part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) — will be carried […]
Culture and heritage are a distinct part of the identity of an individual and a community. The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha Australia hosts a variety of initiatives for a deeper understanding about the Indian Culture. One such Cultural Convention was ‘Sanskrutik Ek Khoj’ – In Search of Indian Culture’ witnessed by over 3000 audiences in the […]
Facebook will begin connecting with the 87 million users – including 562,455 in India – from Monday if their personal data was “improperly shared” with the British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. Those affected by the data privacy breach will see a detailed message at the top of their news feeds. Apart from those affected, […]
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday over a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. “The US, along with Cote d’Ivoire, France, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Sweden, and the UK, has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in light of the latest allegations of a chemical […]
A Canadian humanitarian worker has been arrested in Nepal over paedophile charges, police said on Monday. The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police arrested Peter Dalglish over his involvement in paedophile activities in Kavre District, some 50 km north from Kathmandu, reports Xinhua news agency. “We have started investigation against the Canadian national,” Pushkar Karki, […]
German Justice Minister Katarina Barley has slammed social media giant Facebook in the ongoing Cambridge Analytical data scandal. Speaking to the press in Berlin on Thursday, she labelled Facebook as a “network of opacity” and demanded consequences for the firm in response to its mishandling of private user data, Xinhua news agency reported. “The time […]
On 31st March 2018, day 96 of Queens Baton Relay, Reena Augustine represented Australian & Indian community and carried the baton starting from 999 Brunswick Road, New Farm at 3pm.Reena came to Australia as a student, and now she is a proud Australian citizen. She works as a migration agent. Reena offers her service to the […]
Facebook believes the data of up to 87 million people was improperly shared with the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica — many more than previously disclosed. The BBC has been told that about 1.1 million of them are UK-based. The overall figure had been previously quoted as being 50 million by the whistleblower Christopher Wylie, BBC […]
A group of Asian-American was suing Harvard University, saying that admission files showed a pattern of discrimination against the community that goes back decades, the media reported. The group, Students for Fair Admissions, has demanded the varsity to publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants which challenges Harvard’s admissions policies, The New […]