Popular dating apps such as OkCupid, Tinder, and Bumble have vulnerabilities that make users’ personal information potentially accessible to stalkers, black mailers, and hackers. The security lapses, which vary in terms of their severity and feasibility, could expose people’s names, login information, location, message history, and other account activity, warned researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a…
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a new mega-city across its borders with Jordan and Egypt which will be entirely powered by renewable energy. The city, which has been named NEOM, will be built from the ground up on a massive greenfield site in northwest Saudi Arabia. It will span over 26,500 square kilometers,…
Russia will soon launch the biggest even nuclear missile, powerful enough to destroy the whole of UK, Texas or even France, reported Daily Mirror. The intercontinental ballistic missile, codenamed Satan 2, has the power to deliver about a dozen nuclear warheads of 40 megatons – 2,000 times as powerful as powerful as the atom bombs…
The ISRO has started flight integration activity for its next lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and scientists are currently carrying out tests for the lander and the rover that will explore the moon. Officials said the spacecraft launch, on board GSLV-Mk II, is planned for March and many new technologies have been developed indigenously to achieve the…
New Delhi: Large personal electric devices (PED) like laptops might be banned inside check-in luggage to avoid any fire incident in the cargo of planes, report claimed. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a study submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) stated that fire in PED kept in cargo hold “could lead to…
Rory Stewart says Islamic State members pose a serious danger and ‘the only way of dealing with them will be to kill them’ The only way of dealing with most of the British Islamic State fighters in Syria is to kill them, a British government minister has said. Rory Stewart, an international development minister, said…
In one adrenaline-loaded stunt, 245 people rope-jumped off a bridge in Brazil. As many as 245 people jumped together on Sunday from a 98-foot-high bridge in Brazil in a Guinness World Record attempt at rope jumping. The stunt took place in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo. Although the success of the attempt has not…
Supreme Court steps in on National Anthem row, says no need to stand up in movie halls to prove patriotism. New Delhi: People do not need to stand up in cinema halls to prove their patriotism and “cannot be forced to carry patriotism on their sleeves”, the Supreme Court said on Monday, asking the Centre to…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (PTI) The Union home ministry has collected more than Rs 5 crore so far this year as penalty from NGOs which have failed to file their annual income and expenditure statements on time, an official said. Filing of annual returns by NGOs within the stipulated date is mandatory under the Foreign…
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third visit to his home state Gujarat this month saw the announcement of projects worth Rs. 2000 crore. The state also had its first “roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro)” ferry service – a Rs. Rs. 650-crore initiative which the Prime Minister inaugurated this morning, calling it his “dream project”. The day ended…
