Monthly Archives: July 2015
Leaked emails say India is ‘really huge’ market for snooping, spyware
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the NIA, RAW, the intelligence wing of the Cabinet Secretariat and … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Snowden, Hacking Team, PhineasFinisher, Wikileaks
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WikiLeaked emails of IT firm show India as ‘really huge’ market for snooping, spyware
The Wire July 10, 2015 Bangalore: Indian intelligence agencies and police forces are listed among the customers of an Italian company accused of selling spyware to repressive regimes. Apart from the NIA, RAW, the intelligence wing of the Cabinet Secretariat and … Continue reading
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Open defecation affects pregnancy outcomes too, new study finds
The Wire July 7, 2015 Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecation have been known to cause cause stunting in children, not … Continue reading
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Tagged adverse pregnancy outcomes, Odisha, open defecation, PLOS Medicine
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A telescope that gives India a new place in the Sun
The Wire July 8, 2015 An attempt to make sense of anything in the Solar System cannot happen without first acknowledging the presence, and effects, of the Sun at its centre. And in an effort to expand this understanding, the … Continue reading
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Tagged chromosphere, Department of Space, ISRO, Mutli Application Solar Telescope, solar flares
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Probe encounters glitch 10 days ahead of historic rendezvous with Pluto
The Wire July 6, 2015 In the last mile of its 3,464-day journey and only ten days away from a historic rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto, the New Horizons probe experienced an anomaly on July 4 and prompted the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Stern, New Horizons, Pluto, safe mode, telemetry
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Petition asks why Aadhar is a must to unlock Modi’s DigiLocker
The Wire July 4, 2015 New Delhi: Of all the schemes of the previous Manmohan Singh government, the Aadhar UID program is one that Narendra Modi is the most committed to. On July 1, he flagged off a ‘digital locker’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Aadhar project, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, privacy, unique identification
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IIPM, 1973-2014
The Indian Institute of Planning and Management has finally shut its doors to new admissions. On July 2, a notice appeared on the website of the controversy-riddled school announcing, “All IIPM campuses now only have old students and these campuses are being shut … Continue reading
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Tagged AICTE, Arindam Chaudhuri, Caravan, featured, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, Malayendra Kisor, UGC
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A new particle to break the Standard Model?
The Wire July 2, 2015 Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider particle-smasher have unearthed data from an experiment conducted in 2012 that shows signs of a new particle. If confirmed, its discovery could herald a new period of particle physics … Continue reading
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Tagged LHC, particle physics, Standard Model
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