Day: August 28, 2019

Wimbledon champion Halep targets strong finish in Asia

Gibbs, who beat cancer this year, loses to Halep at US Open

8:29 pm August 28, 2019

New York: Nicole Gibbs was all even with the Wimbledon champion, a set away from a triumphant return to Grand Slam tennis. She couldn’t pull it off. Nor could she be too upset. Beating cancer was already the most important victory Gibbs was going to get this year, no matter what happened against No. 4 […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

French cyberpolice break up massive ‘botnet’ ring

8:24 pm August 28, 2019

Paris: French police have neutralised a hacking operation that had taken control of more than 850,000 computers, mainly in Latin America, while also managing to remove the malware from the infected devices. The agents went into action last spring after the Czech antivirus firm Avast alerted them to the software worm, called Retadup, that was […]

23 killed in Mexico bar fire, officials investigating ‘attack’

8:19 pm August 28, 2019

Coatzacoalcos (Mexico): At least 23 people were killed and 13 badly wounded in a fire at a bar in eastern Mexico that is being investigated as an attack, authorities said Wednesday. The fire in the city of Coatzacoalcos, which broke out Tuesday night, “may have been the result of a vile attack,” said a statement […]

Gmail, other Google services face outage

Brussels probes Google job search tool

8:15 pm August 28, 2019

Brussels: The European Commission said Wednesday it had begun a preliminary investigation into Google’s job search tool on competition grounds, having identified a conflict of interest. “With respect to Google Jobs, our preliminary investigation is ongoing,” a Commission spokesperson said, adding: “We cannot comment on or predict its timing or outcome. On Tuesday, Competition Commissioner […]

No proposal for JNU name change: Pokhriyal

HRD Minister launches school education portal ‘Shagun’

8:10 pm August 28, 2019

New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday launched a web portal ‘Shagun’, which links over 15 lakh schools across the country, to provide all information on school education. The schools have been geo-tagged and all the data provided by them can be accessed through this portal. “The progress of the […]