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An Indian national was sentenced to two years and six months’ jail term here for a charge of unauthorised access to computer material during which he deleted 180 virtual servers, costing his employer about SGD 918,000 (USD678,000). The sentence was pronounced on Monday. Another charge was taken into consideration for sentencing Kandula Nagaraju, 39, who was “upset” that he was fired by NCS in October 2022 due to poor work performance and his employment ended on November 16, 2022. Between November 2021 and October 2022, Kandula was part of a 20-member team managing the quality assurance (QA) computer system at…
Poor refereeing robbed India of a chance to secure a historic entry into the third round of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers as Asian champions Qatar rode on a controversial goal to emerge 2-1 winners here on Tuesday. India were ahead thanks to Lallianzuala Chhangte’s 37th-minute goal but disaster struck when the referee adjudged Yousef Aymen’s 73rd-minute equaliser as fair after the ball appeared to have gone out of play. The controversial decision turned the game on its head as Qatar scored their second through Ahmed Al-Rawi in the 85th minute. This was after the Indians came within touching distance…
Terrorists attack Army post in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda, 3rd terror incident in 3 days Original Source
Pakistan pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi was blasted on social media by fans, after he was seen enjoying a video of his own batting after Pakistan’s loss to the USA in the ongoing 2024 T20 World Cup. Afridi had played a great cameo of 23 in 16 balls, including hitting two sixes, to take Pakistan to a total of 159 in 20 overs. However, a video of him – recorded on the TikTok application – went viral, where he is seen smiling at a video of his batting. The video was seemingly recorded by someone close to Shaheen Afridi, as…
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Maharashtra police for its “superficial” probe in tracing a woman who went missing after she went to Rajasthan three months ago, leaving her baby behind. A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande directed the superintendent of police, Kolhapur, to coordinate with his counterpart in Jalod, Rajasthan and ensure that the woman is traced and produced in court on June 20. The bench remarked that it was “unbelievable that police machinery of two states, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, were unable to trace a woman”. The bench was hearing a habeas…
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar has talked about the biannual admission process according to which admissions can either be offered in January-February or July-August from the new academic year. Mr Kumar explained that currently, higher education institutions admit students in one academic session, which starts in July-August and ends in May-June. Students who miss the admission process have to wait one full year to get admission in colleges. The University Grants Commission wanted to introduce a system where students do not have to wait for an entire year for securing admission in colleges. With the option…
In his first stint as a Union Minister, HD Kumaraswamy, a two-time chief minister from Karnataka, has said that he is “not a selfish man” and his focus will now be not just his home state, but the entire country. Taking charge of the Steel and Heavy Industries portfolios on Tuesday, the Janata Dal Secular leader was asked by a reporter if a company like Tesla would be interested in setting up a factory in Karnataka. “Yes, it is there. We will try”, Mr Kumaraswamy said, before adding, “My concern is not limited to Karnataka, it is the entire country’s…
The big test for Nirmala Sitharaman, who has retained the finance ministry in the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be the upcoming budget, where she has to lay the roadmap for the next year, Finance Commission chairman Dr Arvind Panagriya has said. He also disagreed with the view that there is a need for job creation, arguing that the capital in the market is enough for jobs, but they are tied up in sectors that are not labor intensive. What is needed, he said, is to reassign the capital, so it generates more jobs. “You have got…
Two days after nine people died when the bus they were travelling in was shot at by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Raesi district, a person was killed and two others were reportedly injured after terrorists opened fire in a village in the Union Territory’s Kathua district, close to the International Border. A terrorist has also been killed. In a post on X, Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is the MP from Udhampur, said, “I am in continuous online contact with DC (district collector) #Kathua Sh Rakesh Minhas in the wake of a terrorist attack on a house in village Saida…
Two Indians who were recruited by the Russian Army have been killed in the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict. Confirming this, the foreign ministry said the government has taken up the issue with Russia and asked that recruitment of Indians in the Russian army be stopped immediately and all Indians currently with the Russian army be allowed to return. The ministry has also asked people to be cautious while taking up jobs in Russia. “The Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy in Moscow have strongly taken up the matter with the Russian Ambassador in New Delhi and with Russian…