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Day August 9, 2018

Inside the secret world of Facebook groups offering fake #Aadhaar cards

By Pooja Chaudhuri  – “Fake Aadhaar available…Ib [Inbox] for deal,” reads one of the posts on a Facebook group “Help for Friends – Advertising Deals” or as its over 7,000 members call it “HFF”. HFF is a secret group and does not… Continue Reading →

India – Why kanwariyas can get away with drugs and a rave party on the highway

The chillum-smoking, booze-swilling kanwariyas are evidence that young Hindus want to blow off steam. PALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA According to one story, there were always men and women coming to Haridwar in the month of shravan. They would take a dip… Continue Reading →

The National Health Stack: An Expensive, Temporary Placebo

  Murali Neelakantan@grumpeoldman Swaraj Barooah@swarajpb Swagam Dasgupta@Swagam_Dasgupta Torsha Sarkar The year 2002 saw the introduction of a very ambitious National Program for Information Technology in the United Kingdom with the goal to transform the National Health Service — a pre-existing… Continue Reading →

Delhi HC decriminalises begging, says provisions violate rights of vulnerable people

The Delhi high court on Wednesday decriminalised begging, striking down as “unconstitutional” the provisions which made it an offence. The court also said that criminalising begging violates the most fundamental rights of some of the most vulnerable people in society…. Continue Reading →

India – Vajpayee did not participate in the #QuitIndiaMovement

Vajpayee and the Quit India movement Findings of a Frontline investigation. MANINI CHATTERJEE V.K. RAMACHANDRAN TWENTY-FOUR years after reports were first published about Atal Behari Vajpayee’s signed confessional statement to a magistrate during the Quit India movement in 1942, the BJP’s Prime… Continue Reading →

FakesApp: A Vulnerability in WhatsApp

CHECKPOINT.COM   Research By: Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Oded Vanunu As of early 2018, the Facebook-owned messaging application, WhatsApp, has over 1.5 billion users with over one billion groups and 65 billion messages sent every day. With so much chatter, the potential for online scams,… Continue Reading →

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