Wellington: The New Zealand Police said on Friday that it was probing death threats sent to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on social media. A Twitter post containing a photo of a gun and captioned “You are next” was sent to the Prime Minister earlier on Friday, The New Zealand Herald reported. The post had been […]
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Facebook stored users’ passwords in ‘readable’ form
San Francisco: Facebook on Thursday said it has fixed a security issue wherein millions of its users’ passwords were stored in plain text and “readable” format for years and according to reports, were searchable by thousands of its employees. The report by KrebsOnSecurity claimed on Thursday around 200-600 million Facebook users may have had their […]
Nirav Modi held in London, denied bail, sent to police custody till March 29
London/New Delhi: Fourteen months after he fled India, fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi has been arrested in London in connection with a Rs 13,500 crore PNB fraud case and was sent to police custody till March 29 after being denied bail. The 48-year-old businessman was arrested from Holborn on Tuesday afternoon on behalf of Indian authorities […]
EU fines Google $1.7 bn for unfair online ad rules
Brussels: The European Union’s antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing its dominance in the online search market by blocking rivals. Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google’s rivals from placing their search adverts on […]
Come what may, we stand with Pakistan: China
Beijing: China on Tuesday said it would stand by Pakistan during its testing times and firmly support it to uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity and also told the international community not to target it following the Pulwama suicide bombing. At the meeting of Foreign Ministers Wang Yi and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the two long-standing […]
Gunman kills 3 in attack on tram in Dutch city
Utrecht (Netherlands): A gunman killed three people and injured nine when he opened fire aboard a tram in a square to the west of the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday in what authorities described as a possible terror attack, officials said. Jan van Zanen, the Mayor of Utrecht, said in a television broadcast that […]
London court issues arrest warrant against Nirav Modi
London/New Delhi: A court in London has issued an arrest warrant against fugitive Indian diamantaire Nirav Modi, accused in the Rs 12,700 crore bank, confirmed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday. According to the ED, the Westminster Court issued the arrest warrant against Nirav Modi on March 13. The Indian government had moved an extradition […]
Many injured in ‘terror shooting’ in Dutch tram
Utrecht (Netherlands): A gunman on Monday opened fire inside a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht injuring several people that police said can be a possible terror attack. The gunman reportedly fled the scene by car, the police added. They said they were investigating a “possible terrorist motive”, the BBC reported. Prime Minister Mark […]
Train derailment kills at least 30 in DR Congo
Kinshasa: At least 30 people were killed and several others injured in a train derailment in Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said on Monday. According to information from police, most of the dead passengers on Sunday were stowaways who boarded the train carrying mainly goods, reports Xinhua news agency. For the […]
American pastor claims Bible predicted Trump’s rise
New York: An American pastor who leads a church fixated on doomsday has claimed that US President Donald Trumps rise to power was foretold in the Bible. Jonathan Cahn is the pastor at the Beth Israel Worship Centre in Wayne, New Jersey, where every weekend some 1,000 congregants gather for his idiosyncratic teachings, The New […]