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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 5, 2017
Social media – a violent tool?
An incendiary post on Facebook by a teenager has seemingly sparked off communal violence in West Bengal. According to latest reports, in a period of two days, at least six police vehicles as well as…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 4, 2017
Killing of journalists in Mexico
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press. More than 100 media workers have been…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jul 3, 2017
Fleeing Thailand
Between June 23 to June 26, over 60,000 people believed to be working in Thailand have reportedly fled its borders. According to the immigration bureau in Thailand, this number has probably increased…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 30, 2017
World War II era machinegun found
Australian police have seized a World War II era machine gun during a traffic stop 100km (60 miles) north of Sydney. Officers searched a car on the Central Coast of New South Wales on June 25 and…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 30, 2017
Mosque attack in France
A man tried to drive a car into a crowd of people standing in front of a mosque in Paris. There were no injuries as a result of theincident which place in a suburb called Creteil. The French police…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2017
Military response to cyberattacks?
If there is ever a cyberattack in UK, then the region might respond with military strikes. This was the sentiment expressed by Sir Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary of UK. He said that Britain…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2017
“Not in my name”
About 2000 people are protesting in Delhi and several across India against rising attacks on Muslims and Dalits by vigilante cow protection groups. Protests were also being held in 15 other cities as…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2017
Wi-Fi spacecraft launch
On Wednesday night, a new Europe-wide wi-fi service for aeroplanes came a step closer with the launch of a key satellite from French Guiana. Airline passengers will soon be able to connect to the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 29, 2017
Vaccines via patch
A painless sticking plaster that delivers vaccine through the skin has passed important safety tests trial in people. Patch has a hundred-tiny hair-like micro needles that penetrate the skin’s…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 28, 2017
WWW.hacked – a signalling
Companies and agencies across the world were victims to a number of virulent ransomware attacks on June 27. The attack seems to have specifically targeted Ukranian businesses and Russia’s biggest oil…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 28, 2017
Searching for a solution
The European Union antitrust regulators have slapped Alphabet (Google) with a record $2.7 billion fine. This is the verdict on the first of three investigations currently being conducted on the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 27, 2017
Opioids-bigger terror threat?
There is an opioid epidemic in the United States and the government is working to address it. Recently, the Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, held its first meeting in…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 26, 2017
Pakistan fuel tanker inferno
On 25 June 2017, an overturned oil tanker exploded in a huge fireball in Pakistan, killing at least 150 people, including many women and children. Witnesses described terrifying scenes at the site in…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 24, 2017
Women under Sharia law
Decamping with a minor Muslim girl does not attract abduction charges nor the charge of statutory rape if the couple gets married. The Gujarat High Court recently quelled abduction charges against a…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 22, 2017
Loan weaver- solution to farmers crisis?
On 21 June 2017, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that the state will waive off farmer loans up to Rs 50,000 which were taken from co-operative banks till June 20, costing the state…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 22, 2017
A reserved nation?
A group of refugees from East Bengal, who later settled in the district of Raichur in Karnataka, have long fought to be recognized as Scheduled Caste. They had fled to India in 1971 during the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 21, 2017
Uber Founder Resigns as CEO
Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber officially stepped down from his position as CEO of the company on June 20. The technology company that was started in 2009 offers car transportation as well as…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 21, 2017
India taken over by sedition law
Indian authorities have slapped sedition charges against villagers for allegedly cheering for Pakistan's victory over India during the finals in the Champions Trophy, an international cricket…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 21, 2017
Is your medicine a fake?
Drug Counterfeiting is a worldwide phenomenon having both social and economic impacts, and India is not an exception to it. The counterfeit drug industry is estimated to be worth $200 billion a year…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Jun 20, 2017
The death of cash
A number of governments, central banks and even some economists now advocate a switch to all-digital currencies. With the rapid rise of mobile payments, the long-term survival of cash seems…