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Moneylife Digital Team 30 July 2024
While digital technologies offer various opportunities for India, such as faster growth, financial inclusion and seamless fiscal transfers and cross-border payments, they also present challenges related to cybersecurity, data privacy and concentration risks, says a report from the Reserve Bank...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 29 July 2024
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered Patanjali Ayurved and its promoters, including Baba Ramdev, to take down claims that allopathy doctors were responsible for the deaths of lakhs of people during the COVID-19 pandemic, while promoting Patanjali's Coronil as a "cure" (Resident Doctors...

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The idea of dating apps was to revolutionise the way people meet and form relationships. However, alongside the benefits of these digital matchmaking platforms, a darker side has emerged: dating app scams or honey traps. These scams have become increasingly sophisticated, preying on...

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We all have multiple devices at home / office and very often, we need cross-platform compatibility for transferring files between devices. The files could be audio, video, text or images.   LocalSend resolves this problem very smoothly. Just install it on multiple devices on the same Wi-Fi...

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Nileena Suresh (IndiaSpend) 25 July 2024
This year, the Union government allocated Rs 3.27 lakh crore or 6.8% of total expenditure under the gender budget, which includes schemes for the welfare of women. This represents a 19% increase compared to the revised estimate for 2023-24 and is also 5% higher than the interim budget for...

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Akshay Naik 24 July 2024
A recent study conducted by the University of Turku in Finland has revealed that just 30 minutes of exercise can significantly increase the proportion of tumour-killing white blood cells in the bloodstream of breast cancer patients. Published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Immunology,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 July 2024
The Union government on Tuesday slashed customs duties on a range of products, including gold, silver, critical minerals, mobile phones and other electronic items, to cut input costs, increase value addition, promote export competitiveness and boost domestic manufacturing. In the Budget speech,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 July 2024
Users of the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS) globally have reported massive outages in services, with outage tracking website Downdetector showing users flagging disruptions across various services. Several Windows users in India are also reporting outages. The outage hit several...

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The internet has come a long way from its idealistic beginnings. The history of the internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks since the 1950s. In 1974, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn published a research note that evolved into...

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Many websites, especially news and general interest websites which are free, carry a large number of advertisements to help pay for the content. It becomes irritating to wade through the ads to read the main content.   Google Chrome has now introduced—Reading Mode–to take care of this. So...

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In today's interconnected world, cyberspace has become integral to our daily lives. We go online (some 'addicted' people are online 24x7!) for almost everything-from shopping and banking to socialising and working. However, the convenience of the digital age comes with an increased risk of...

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Just like social media is becoming a hotbed of deepfake videos and bogus products, malvertising, which is used for phishing attempts, scam pages, and even disguised malware, is rapidly spreading on almost every online platform. In fact, unless you have a paid subscription, you will find...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 July 2024
Sir Keir Starmer pledged a phase of 'national renewal' on Friday as Britain's prime minister (PM)-elect after leading the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the historic general election, gaining over 200 seats. Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, conceded defeat, with the Conservative Party...

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 July 2024
Bharti Airtel Ltd (Airtel) has denied a data breach in its systems that allegedly led to a hacker publishing details of 375mn (million) subscribers of Airtel for sale on the dark web.   In a statement on X, Airtel says, "There has been a report alleging that Airtel customer data has been...

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Are you tired of writing emails? Do you spend substantial time composing long emails? Stop wasting your valuable time and use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate your email writing.   Install the GhostWrite extension for Chrome or Outlook and start writing emails with just a few prompts....

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2024
Holding two doctors, including one cardiologist, from Kolkata-based Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan, responsible for medical negligence in treating the patient who died of cardiac arrest, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed these two doctors to pay Rs10...

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Earlier this week, I noticed my friend and classmate posting a Facebook profile photo of another friend with a changed name. I first thought he was mocking the other friend (let's call him Nandu). However, I soon received a frantic phone call from Nandu saying someone had hacked his account and...

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Are you serious about caring for the planet? Want to know what is your carbon footprint? Want to do something about it yourself?   Cool the Globe is the app for you. Just enter details of your daily travel, your appliances, the materials you use (including plastics), forest / tree...

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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 28 June 2024
Savita Devi associates rain with death.   Last September, within a span of 10 days, the 30-year-old farmer and her husband Raju (he uses one name) belonging to the Baiga community, a scheduled tribe, lost five of their seven children to malaria as the southwest monsoons pounded their village,...

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Common Dreams 26 June 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday reached a deal with the U.S. government, agreeing to plead guilty to one felony related to the disclosure of national security information in exchange for his release from Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom.    A related document was filed in...

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