AHMEDABAD: A single default password – “admin123” – was all it took to unlock a national nightmare. What began at Payal Maternity Hospital in Rajkot as a case of careless digital housekeeping spiralled into one of India’s most disturbing cyber scandals. Hackers breached the hospital’s CCTV system through its default admin login, stole hours of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday deprecated the Union government’s request, made mid-hearing, to refer to a five-judge bench petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Tribunal Reforms Act, which sets out uniform service conditions for chairpersons and members of various tribunals.A bench led by CJI B R Gavai, which had heard the arguments of petitioners…
NEW DELHI: MHA and CBI informed Supreme Court through solicitor general Tushar Mehta on Monday that cyber criminals have used digital arrest to coerce citizens, mostly elderly, and robbed them of around Rs 3,000 crore across India.A bench of CJI-designate Surya Kant, and justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Joymalya Bagchi perused the sealed cover reports filed…
NEW DELHI: Until now it is governments and dog lovers who have been heard by Supreme Court while passing orders on the menace of stray dogs.On Monday, the court turned its attention to victims of dog bites, saying they too must be heard and agreeing to implead those who are espousing their cause.A bench of…
Scientists have identified a previously unknown coronavirus in Brazilian bats, named BRZ batCoV, which carries a genetic element strikingly similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. This virus was discovered in a ‘moustached’ bat species that is widespread across Latin America, suggesting that it may have been circulating undetected for some time due to…
Bengaluru: Angry that a four-year-old chihuahua barked at her, a 29-year-old caretaker, Pushpalatha, smashed the dog against the floor of a lift in a Bengaluru apartment, resulting in its death.She cooked up a story that the dog collapsed and died after the lift door opened, but was arrested after CCTV from the lift revealed her…
A peculiar contest has emerged in Darbhanga’s Gaura Bauram constituency. Amid uncertainty and confusion during seat-sharing within the Mahagathbandhan, RJD had initially allotted the ticket to Afzal Ali Khan. Later, the seat was handed over to Mukesh Sahni’s VIP. Sahni then fielded his younger brother Santosh Sahni from here but Afzal Ali refused to withdraw….
Mumbai: The trial of LeT suspect Zabiuddin Ansari, alias Abu Jundal, accused of coordinating the 26/11 Mumbai attacks from Karachi, is set to resume after seven years. Bombay HC Monday set aside as “wholly unsustainable” and “misdirected” a 2018 court order directing Delhi Police to hand over certain “sensitive documents” to Jundal, who claimed he…
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee (Photo credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Monday stoked a controversy by challenging Union minister Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari to visit Dankuni without security amid the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.Banerjee accused Majumdar of threatening Bengal’s electorate and challenged him to…
Indian players celebrate with the trophy after their win over South Africa (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) India celebrated the Indian women’s cricket team’s maiden World Cup triumph, revealing that conversations around the historic win exploded by 456.5% in just 24 hours on the platform.The surge in engagement came…
