Let’s begin in 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto – a pseudonym either of an individual or a group – created bitcoin. That money defines a whole society in which exactly the production of this abstract wealth is the highest purpose – in which therefore cars, cucumbers and tables are not manufactured because someone wants to drive, […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed during his visit to the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage photo gallery of Rural Heritage, in Samba district, Sunday, April 24, 2022. New Delhi: On Sunday , Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first trip to Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370 was read down in August […]
In January 2017, 23-year-old Anzer Ayoob, the editor-in-chief of the news website, started this portal that would run news in Urdu and English. While the promotion of Devnagri does not only imply demonetisation of Nastaliq script, but empowering Devnagri over the Nastaliq script stirs questions about the endangerment of several languages like Gojri, Pahari, Poshtu, […]
Lastly, the Federal Reserve’s monetary and fiscal expansionary policies have also been blamed for stoking the flow of easy funds to emerging economies and creating asset bubbles. Even in the run-up to the Russian offensive, inflation was roiling the economies of countries like Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, Spain, Poland and South Korea. Inflation expectation is […]
“Religious processions, including those on Ram Navami, were also taken out in the past, but back then you would have never seen youth brandishing swords or stopping outside mosques for 15-20 minutes to deliberately raise provocative slogans. Elaborating on the issue, he said that “there was a determined agenda to take these actions”. In the […]
Stuffing two small suitcases with the bare essentials, the friends boarded a train and fled west to Poland, then Berlin, then Rome, where their difficulties began in earnest. Having been told they qualified for temporary EU residency, they tried to find shelter at a Ukrainian Orthodox church on Rome’s outskirts, where Ukrainians were packing huge […]
Murthy, an Indian citizen, is eligible for so-called “non-domiciled” status in Britain, something available to foreign nationals who do not regard Britain as their permanent home. Murthy said her previous tax arrangements were “entirely legal”, and that she would continue to claim India, not Britain, as her domicile. …Read the full story
In 1997, he had pointed out that South Asia was the poorest region in the world, the most illiterate, the most malnourished, the least gender-sensitive, the most deprived in terms of access to even rudimentary facilities, including water and healthcare. Also today, despite the proliferation of social media, the average South Asian knows less about […]
I am watching in this court also, it is a new trend,” Ramana said on Friday, April 8. You are a senior counsel, you have seen this more than us. …Read the full story
Chaudhary had interviewed Rashid’s father on the show, from whom she and her mother are estranged, and he had made wild allegations against her without any proof. Sikri, also noted that the visuals Zee News chose to use alongside Rashid’s father’s words – of the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus – had nothing at all to […]
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting directed the blocking of 22 YouTube channels, three Twitter accounts, one website and one Facebook page. According to the ministry, the YouTube channels posted fake news on various subjects such as the Indian Armed Forces, Jammu and Kashmir. “False thumbnails were used, title and thumbnail of the videos were […]
New Delhi: Thirty people, including several members and the chief of right-wing Hindu outfit ‘Sangeet Som Sena’, have been charged with rioting and looting after they vandalised a biryani-seller’s cart in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut. The biryani vendor, Mohd Sajid, has said that his cart was vandalised while he was selling biryani near a market in Sardhana. […]
The Chancellor of Exchequer plays the role of the chief finance minister in the UK. Sunak, who since the beginning of the Russian offensive has been repeatedly calling on British companies to pull out of Russia to “inflict the maximum economic pain” on Putin’s regime was left “fumbling for words” in a recent TV news […]
“We are eight people. We have two buckets of potatoes, one bucket of onions,” said Irina, an engineer, in her apartment where windows had been blasted out. They named Israel and NATO members Canada, Poland and Turkey as countries that may give such guarantees. Russia, the United States, Britain, Germany and Italy could also be […]
The Textile Development Trust in the state, which runs the auditorium where the event was supposed to have taken place wrote to the organisers saying the talk would have to be cancelled. …Read the full story
Or so it would seem from the frenetic buzz in the studio of a TV news channel, as anchors and journalists vociferously sift through various feeds to decide the best spin on the day’s story. This is the preamble of Saeed Naqvi’s fanciful tragicomedy, The Muslim Vanishes, the Hitchcockian allusion in the title more than […]
Muslims and Christians have been suffering incidents such as the vandalism of churches, the harassment and exclusion of women who wear the hijab and the lynching of Muslim men. In September 2004, when France announced and subsequently passed legislation banning Sikh turbans, Christian crosses, Muslim hijabs and burqas and the religious symbols of the Jews […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a roadshow, in support of BJP candidate Ved Prakash Gupta for the ongoing UP Assembly elections, in Ayodhya, Thursday, Feb. This ‘chauka’ analogy has been used by other leaders earlier – today’s election spiel is invariably crafted in some IT backroom and passed on like a virus from […]
An unusual error in NSO’s spyware allowed Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul and privacy researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting the Israeli spyware maker had helped hack her iPhone, according to six people involved in the incident. Al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent activists, is known for helping lead a campaign […]
In a 19-page detailed report, the researchers have stated that Wilson was subjected to two specific cyberattacks. Since their arrest, several journalistic investigations and those conducted by human rights and digital organisations like Amnesty Tech Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy of the University of Toronto […]