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BGMI ban possibility: Why?News18 has reported that the union government’s cybersecurity arm has been spooked by factors like:Illegal entry of a foreign national named Seema Haider to India to meet her lover, with whom she fell in love through PUBG.The fear of data misuse by Krafton, a Chinese company. The game collects a variety of data and the government worries about the worst-case scenario wherein this data could be used for surveillance and cyber attacks.  The apprehension towards the BGMI data stored in the US…

The management of the Geometric Power Plant has confirmed the percentage of equity stake purchased by the Abia State Government in the company’s power plant in Aba. Controversy There was speculation that the Abia State Government contributed a five per cent equity stake in the power plant during the administration of Okezie Ikpeazu who served as the governor of the state from 2015 to 2023. Data from the Abia State Accountant General’s 2022 financial report indicated that the state government invested N1.41…

A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed.The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according to cybersecurity firms SentinelLabs and Malwarebytes. I-Soon also breached "democracy organisations" in China's semi-autonomous city of Hong Kong,…

The interim union budget for FY25 announced the setting-up of a ₹1 trillion-corpus to fund deep-tech ventures. This gives India’s nascent deep-tech sectors a shot in the arm. However, there will be challenges. Mint explains why the corpus is significant. Why does deep-tech need govt support?Deep-tech includes sectors that are heavily driven by engineering, research and development, and innovation. This niche area covers technologies that are yet to go mainstream. Innovation of…

Last Updated: January 16, 2024, 16:51 ISTAviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announces new rules over flight delays. (PTI File Photo)The minister also informed that sufficient CISF manpower availability will be ensured round-the-clock. This came after a passenger assaulted an IndiGo pilot on Sunday after his flight was delayed by 12 hours.The central government on Tuesday announced a new action plan as heavy fog disrupted fight operations across north India, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded at airports for…

Governments should not “abandon” the idea of having safe harbour provisions for tech firms in their policymaking, said Vint Cerf, regarded as one of the fathers of the Internet. Cerf also said that companies working on artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI should be “cautious and careful” about the way they introduce these technologies, while also being transparent about the capabilities of the systems. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate…

Mumbai: The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association, or IVCA, is reportedly in discussions with central government officials to help ease the wide-ranging curbs the banking regulator imposed earlier this week on Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), potentially choking institutional fund flows to a high-risk and hitherto lightly regulated investment vehicle experts believe could be misused to evergreen doubtful corporate loans. SIDBI, which loans funds to small industries, and various AIFs are simultaneously…

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While announcing it in 2021, Gadkari said that the Vehicle Scrapping Policy is aimed at creating an ecosystem for phasing out unfit and polluting vehicles. (Representational image/PTI)The certificates of registration for vehicles owned by central, state, and union territory governments and their departments are not being renewed after a lapse of 15 years, Nitin Gadkari told Parliament. This order has been implemented since April 1With 31 Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSF) operational across 12 states, at least…

Twitter has restricted the official handle of the Pakistan Government in certain parts of the country, thinking that certain areas fall within India’s jurisdiction. As much as it is an egg on the face moment for Twitter, it seems to be a bigger fiasco for the central Government of Pakistan Twitter users in our neighbour to the west woke up to a nasty surprise when they saw that they couldn’t see the tweets from the official handle of the Pakistani Government. Users in Gilgit Baltistan in…