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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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Aishwarya Tripathi (IndiaSpend) 26 June 2024
Jab machhar sab khoon pi lela, jab beemari ho jala, tab dawai chidki ka baa? [What is the use of spraying insecticide after the mosquitoes are done feeding on our blood and giving us the disease?].” Eighteen-year-old Seeta Devi’s voice cuts through the heat, as she talks from the doorway of her...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 June 2024
After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK and five years in maximum security prison for his groundbreaking publishing work with WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil.    JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE!! Watch here: https://t.co/7PlI9fnSMG#AssangeFreed

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While describing the challenges in Mumbai, Bambai or Bombay—as the city has been known over the years—Johnny Walker, in the 1956 Hindi superhit film CID, warned saying, "Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh hai Bombay meri jaan". Nearly seven decades later, the message of this evergreen number sung by...

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Groceries now have ratings! We all want to eat healthy, but do not know how to analyse the food products we buy. It is almost impossible to sort through and decode all the perplexing and contradictory health claims and counterclaims mentioned on the labels.   Xume’s food scanner takes the con...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2024
A recent study published in The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine has raised significant safety concerns about Rotavac, the rotavirus vaccine that is included in the government’s immunisation program and is widely used in India. The study found that Rotavac increases the risk...

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The antivirus app installed on your mobile device is expected to protect you, right? But what if the same app is also handing over your browser history to a major marketing company? In January 2020, PC magazine found out that user data was being shared between Avast and its subsidiary Jumpshot....

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We often come across lengthy YouTube videos which may be useful but are time-consuming. We just want to know the summary of the content without having to go through the entire video.   Summarize.tech is a very useful tool to get a text summary of the entire video within seconds. Just head to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 June 2024
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay US$700mn (million) to settle an investigation by 42 US states and Washington DC into its marketing of baby powder and other talc-based products blamed for allegedly causing cancer, says a news report.   According to a report from Reuters, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 June 2024
Upholding an order passed by the state commission, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed Mohali-based Max Super Speciality Hospital and three doctors, including a senior cardiologist, to pay a compensation of Rs25 lakh with an interest of 8% to the family for...

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While small cybercriminals continue to attack mostly individuals, more sophisticated and resourceful criminals (read: with money power) target industries using malware and ransomware to exploit vulnerabilities in a company's computer system. For example, in 2023, LockBit, one of the most...

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Indian elections have a major lacuna.   Usually, about 2/3rd of the eligible voters actually vote. If a party gets about 45% + of these votes, it wins a majority.  Therefore, votes from just 30% of the total electorate are enough to win an election.    Is this really a 'popular'...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 May 2024
To help ease the pain of running from pillar to post for health insurance policyholders, the insurance regulatory and development authority of India (IRDAI) has asked insurance companies to strive to achieve 100% cashless claim settlement in a time-bound manner. Insurers are asked to decide on...

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SnapEdit is a one of the best photo editing apps using artificial intelligence (AI) with a mission to make your editing easy, smooth and fun. Transform your photos like never before with SnapEdit which is designed to effortlessly remove unwanted objects with one click, enhance image quality...

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A cluster of applications filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, in the health ministry in 2022, regarding information on COVID-19 vaccine management and continuously denied by its central public information officer (CPIO) and first appellate authority (FAA) using exemption clauses of...

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Sushmita (IndiaSpend) 27 May 2024
On April 11, 2024, 42-year-old Rudolf Kujur arrived in Ranchi, 131 km from his village Bendora in Jharkhand’s Gumla district, with his day-old baby boy in one hand and a chatai (mat) in another. Two government hospitals in Gumla and Lohardaga said they were unable to handle post-birth...

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Everybody loves watching videos. You click on an exciting video shared by someone or find it on YouTube. The video seems legitimate, featuring a well-known personality and good production quality. You think, why not watch and check it out? However, the video could include a link that leads to a...

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