September 2024

DailyPost 2916 WHAT A STATE OF AFFAIRS… THE RG KAR IMBROGLIO What a state? And what is the state of affairs? What is the use of a thumping majority? Does nothing impact the bureaucracy and the political executive? Does democracy mean total subservience of the people; not only the poor and the hapless, but also […]

DailyPost 2915 GOOGLE DEEPMIND – AI DESIGNED DRUGS Founded in 2010, DeepMind can be called the original artificial intelligence company and was able to cross many barriers in the nascent field, in which the company and its founder Demis Hassabis had complete faith. In 2014 it joined the Google fold, getting in return both the

DailyPost 2914 UNBRIDLED POWERS, DEMOCRATICALLY YOURS… Full-fledged robust democracy matured for over seven decades, supposedly withstood the test of time, and moving confidently to find its place in the sun is India. Somehow the ruling class; political, bureaucratic or otherwise to their luck have stumbled across a goldmine of unbridled powers or have they neatly

DailyPost 2913 MEDICAL / HEALTHCARE MAFIA The Hippocratic Oath which every medical practitioner dutifully takes, is an oath of ethics historically taken. The message and practice behind this oath takes the medical profession to hallowed levels, way different from any other profession. The capability to cure is a superhuman skill and thus was to be

DailyPost 2912 DEMOCRATIC IMPASSE! The inability of democratic leadership and governance to handle an issue or crisis and cannot go in for consistent improvement in the quality and coverage of governance can be termed as democratic impasse. Not being able to set right issues which are known and nearly routine, even with resources being available

DailyPost 2911 THE FORTINET HACK – DETAILS OUT… The IT revolution which promised transparency to the world, brought it only for the hapless, the organisations, institutions and enterprises who wanted their tracks and data covered, have managed to do so. The cyber security companies, the tech policemen to the IT world, would like to keep

DailyPost 2910 A SAFETY VALVE FOR RANSOMWARE ATTACKS If one cyber crime has taken over the world’s imagination, that is ransomware. One attack and the organisation is brought to its knees. It cripples in manners unimaginable. The cost of paying and not paying is evaluated over and over again whenever a big enterprise faces this

DailyPost 2909 IF CYBER SECURITY MAJORS ARE BREACHED… If a daredevil robbery takes place in a police establishment, the credibility of the security provider is in tatters. As we move into the cyber security domain, the police do not have an overarching role to play more so in peacetime. There are cyber security companies who

DailyPost 2908 PHISHING BIGGEST CYBER THREAT – PROTECT THE DNS WAY! Given the nature of the increase in the phishing attacks, I think this term is being used more extensively than its original, fishing. The world is under total transformation and cyber threat has been completely changing the way we view crime. FedEx / Investment

DailyPost 2907 THE FUTILITY OF ELECTIONS Without getting into the nitty gritty of democracy, its institutions, checks and balances and all that it professes and intends to achieve, as aptly enumerated in the preamble, elections are primordial to democratic existence. Without any exaggeration it can be said that no elections means no democracy. If election

DailyPost 2906 CRYING FOR PUBLIC SERVICE! From where are we getting desperate cries for public service today, anyone having any idea of India would be able to make the right guess. The whole concept of our democracy and its practice is based on public service. The maxim is maximum good to maximum people. Greed has