The U.N. Human Rights Council will defer the key report on Sri Lanka’s conflict, due in March, to September 2015. In what appears to be a clear shift in stance, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday said he had made a recommendation to the Council “to delay the consideration…
North Korea says it will respond “very strongly” to a conference in Washington on Tuesday about its widespread human rights abuses and says the United States ignored Pyongyang’s offer to attend and defend itself. Puzzled conference organizers said the event was open to the public.
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An entrepreneur who has won a patent for a digital veena, and also designed a mechanism that fires rockets at a command from a computer aboard the Indian Air Force’s Jaguar aircraft? Incongruous but true. The entrepreneurial career of G Raj Narayan, 66, founder and managing director of Bengaluru’s Radel Group, has been guided by his…
‘Make in India’ a national programe announced by the government last year is intended to be a game changer for the Indian economy. To make it a success, the government needs to undertake extensive reforms that facilitate the ease of setting-up of a manufacturing facilities in India. Steps, such as single window approvals for registrations…
Until recently, most western countries thought of India as a land ruled by age old traditions, and foreigners visited the country to understand this. However, the 1990s saw India awakening to the world of economic liberalisation and undertook structural reforms that attracted foreign investments, unlocked entrepreneurial aptitude and led to the emergence of a neo…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to build I-ways to digitally empower people is floundering, with the government meeting just about 12% of its 2014-15 target to connect 50,000 villages through a national optic fibre network by the end of January.
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People can be forgiven for believing this week’s revelation of the world’s biggest heist — $1 billion — to be an April Fool’s Day prank, had that date not been too far away to be blamed for the audacious crime.
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Amrita Chowdhury is a technology wizard who holds seven US patents in semi-conductor manufacturing. She is the author of Breach, an intriguing, multi-layered narrative that explores the realms of cyber crime and intellectual property rights. Here she discusses with Zehra Naqvi the need to be cagey in the virtual world and how women are coming…
Some 16 million mobile devices have been infected by malicious software globally as of the end of 2014, according to the latest security report by Motive Security Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s security arm. Such malware is used by “cybercriminals for corporate and personal espionage, information theft, denial of service attacks on business and governments, and banking and…
The first month of 2015 concluded with an extremely high rate of cyber crime – which increased by more than 200 per cent as compared to January 2014. According to experts, were banks more inclined to take action against cyber crimes, the number would only have been higher.
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