Bangladeshi hackers breach 20K Indian sites - Security - News - ZDNet Asia Mobile. Amnesty India TroopZ To Be Charged. Bio_Metric India. India Mulls Government-Only Internet and Phone Network. Indian authorities are considering the possibility of developing a high-security telecom and Internet network dedicated to the government usage across the country, according to a report from NDTV. The proposal, which is estimated to cost 4.5 billion INR (which is around $85 million), is currently being reviewed as the government considers a more secure alternative to host its data and provide support for other Web-based communication and activity. A Department of Telecom (DoT) report, cited by NDTV, explains more details of how the network would be used: To develop and deploy a pan-India secure network and network-based services such as e-mail, voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), mobile communication through a survivable and available network architecture for secured communication for government use with a government funding of Rs 450 crore.
The request has been particularly problematic for RIM, as it goes against the company’s policy of revealing customer data.
SocialMedia Bullying In India. Massacre - Jallian Wala Bagh. "The impossible men of India shall rise and liberate their Motherland" Mahatma Gandhi, after the Amritsar Massacre. "The incident in Jallian Wala Bagh was 'an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation"...Winston Churchill It started a few months after the end of the first world war when an Englishwoman, a missionary, reported that she had been molested on a street in the Punjab city of Amritsar.
The Raj's local commander, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, issued an order requiring all Indians using that street to crawl its length on their hands and knees. On April 13, 1919, a multitude of Punjabis gathered in Amritsar's Jallian wala Bagh as part of the Sikh Festival "Baisakhi fair" and to protest at these extraordinary measures. "The Indians were 'packed together so that one bullet would drive through three or four bodies'; the people 'ran madly this way and the other. Dyer then marched away, leaving 379 dead and over 1,500 wounded.
Indian 'Occupy Wall Street' movement takes shape. Hackers deface Sonia Gandhi profile on Congress website. NEW DELHI Fri Dec 9, 2011 1:11pm IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi's profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president's 65th birthday on Friday. It was not clear when the attack took place and Congress party leaders were not available for comment. The official website(www.congress.org.in/) was inaccessible to the public at noon on Friday, a couple of hours after the hacked post was noticed on Gandhi's profile page. Cyber_Wars_India. Transgender India. Cabinet approves 51 pct FDI in supermarkets. By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:56am IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India threw open its $450 billion retail market to global supermarket giants on Thursday, approving its biggest reform in years that may boost sorely needed investment in Asia's third-largest economy.
The world's largest retail group, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, and its rivals see India's retail sector as one of the last frontier markets, where a burgeoning middle-class still shops at local, family-owned merchants. Allowing foreign retailers to take stakes of up to 51 percent in supermarkets would attract much needed capital from abroad and ultimately help unclog supply bottlenecks that have kept inflation stubbornly close to a double-digit clip.
Wal-Mart hailed the decision, but said it would take a close look at the fine print to see what the decision entails for its ability to do business in India. "We believe this is an important first step," said Scott Price, president and chief executive of Walmart Asia in a statement. Endosulfan - Wiki. Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide that is being phased out globally. The two isomers, endo and exo, are known popularly as I and II. Endosulfan sulfate is a product of oxidation containing one extra O atom attached to the S atom. Endosulfan became a highly controversial agrichemical[1] due to its acute toxicity, potential for bioaccumulation, and role as an endocrine disruptor. Because of its threats to human health and the environment, a global ban on the manufacture and use of endosulfan was negotiated under the Stockholm Convention in April 2011.
Uses[edit] Production[edit] The World Health Organization estimated worldwide annual production to be about 9,000 metric tonnes (t) in the early 1980s.[13] From 1980 to 1989, worldwide consumption averaged 10,500 tonnes per year, and for the 1990s use increased to 12,800 tonnes per year. Endosulfan is a derivative of hexachlorocyclopentadiene, and is chemically similar to aldrin, chlordane, and heptachlor. India's Silent War - Al Jazeera Correspondent. A 40-year long civil war has been raging in the jungles of central and eastern India. It is one of the world's largest armed conflicts but it remains largely ignored outside of India. Caught in the crossfire of it are the Adivasis, who are believed to be India's earliest inhabitants. A loose collection of tribes, it is estimated that there are about 84 million of these indigenous people, which is about eight per cent of the country's population.
For generations, they have lived off farming and the spoils of the jungle in eastern India, but their way of life is under threat. The risk of losing everything they have ever known has made many Adivasis fertile recruits for India's Maoist rebels or Naxalites, who also call these forests home. The Maoists' fight with the Indian government began 50 years ago, just after India became independent.
By Imran Garda (with thanks to Nandena Saxena, Kamal Kumar, Kavita Bahl and Yasir Khan) The simple village real estate looked worse here. Inside India's 'red corridor' - Al Jazeera Correspondent. By Imran Garda (with thanks to Nandena Saxena, Kamal Kumar, Kavita Bahl and Yasir Khan) The eye of the world has been focused on India's meteoric rise as a future superpower - the billion people, the Bollywood blockbusters, the inimitable IPL cricket - but, as with everything, India has its more troublesome aspects.
We have some knowledge of the conflicts on the borders - the almost intractable tension over Kashmir and a nuclear standoff with Pakistan in an epic neighbourly story. We have learnt about the slums of Mumbai, the slumdog millionaires and the struggle to bridge the gap between the poor and the super-rich in a super-stratified caste system. But, most of us know little about the silent war that rages within India's central and eastern jungles. The Maoists believe in armed agrarian revolution to establish a classless society and have their roots in the Naxalbari uprising of the 1960s. The simple village real estate looked worse here. Deadly blaze strikes India eunuch gathering - Central & South Asia. At least 15 people have been killed by a fire that swept through a venue in New Delhi where nearly 1,000 members of the marginalised eunuch community had gathered for a national convention, police said.
The fire broke out around 7pm (13:30 GMT) on Sunday and quickly spread through the community hall in the Nandnagary neighborhood of east Delhi, where the meeting was taking place, as well as in tents erected in the grounds of the venue. Police officials at the site said 12 bodies had been recovered and another two people were reported to have died of their burns in hospital. More than 36 people were injured in the blaze. A group of attendees at the planned 20-day event, protested against the police statement, saying that the reported casualty number was too low. The fire erupted on the final evening of a three-day all-India convention of the country's eunuch community. One witness, Angelie, said there was a loud shot, then flames suddenly erupted and a gas cylinder exploded. City of Dreams | Reuters.com. UPDATE 1-Bangladesh raises oil prices from midnight. At India-Bangladesh Border, Living in Both, and Neither. Manpreet Romana for The New York Times Bikas Roy lives in Fallanapur, one of 50 Bangladeshi enclaves situated in India.
Leaders have signed a pact to resolve the enclave situation in both countries. But the house across the footpath sits in India, and its owner, Chitra Das, has all the trappings of citizenship: a voter ID and a ration card that entitles him to discounted rice and wheat at a government shop. His children go to local schools and have access to Indian government hospitals. Mr. “The Indians say we are not Indian; the Bangladeshis say we are not Bangladeshi,” Mr. There are 50 other Bangladeshi enclaves like Mr. For decades, neither the Indian nor the Bangladeshi government has taken responsibility for them. “We were born like this,” said Abdul Mutalib, of Madhya Masaldanga. Now, after decades of indecision, the problem may soon be resolved.
When British India was split in two, the region known as Rangpur went to Pakistan. 06NEWDELHI4667. India- in the shadow of the gallows. The events of the past will always impact upon the politics of the present. However, developments in India over the coming weeks and months will push this truism to the extreme; for it was announced last Friday that on 9th September three men will be hanged for their part in the murder of Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi twenty years ago.
The fall-out from the executions, should they go ahead, will inevitably be vast- after all this has been an utterly sordid saga from the start. The assassination itself was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in retaliation against the involvement of Ghandi’s forces in the Sri Lankan Civil War. The so called Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) had been fighting battles with the LTTE since 1987, marking something of a reversal of India’s previous sympathy for the Tamil struggle, and proving dramatically counterproductive. Of course there is no time limit on justice – but just is not what these executions represent.