Retaliation

Lithuanian state and private institutions were hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Monday, the Baltic country's National Cyber Security Centre said in a statement released by the defence ministry."It is very likely that attacks of similar or greater intensity will continue in the coming days, especially in the transportation, energy and financial sectors," the centre said.Lithuania's tax authority said in a statement it had halted all activities due to an unusually large number of attempts to connect to its systems,…

The new rape allegations against Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis sound pretty horrific. His attorney has proclaimed his innocence, but it remains to be seen whether this new accusation will become part of the director’s narrative that he has been targeted in the past with false sexual assault allegations because he spoke out against the Church of Scientology. As reported by the Daily Beast and other outlets, Haggis was in southern Italy for a film festival when a British woman alleged to police that she was “raped for…

In the biography of former defence minister and Goa's chief minister late Manohar Parrikar, authors' Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan outline with meticulous detail how the surgical strikes were planned in retaliation to the 2016 militant attack at an Army base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. The book, titled An Extraordinary life: a biography of Manohar Parrikar that was launched on Friday recounts Parrikar's second-last public appearance before his death due to pancreatic cancer. During the appearance, he was so unwell…