DailyPost 2788 POLICING THE POLITICIANS Policing the politicians may sound like a basket of actions and norms to discipline them, make them follow the rule of law, treat them as any other citizen, chide them when they are not on the right side of law et al. What we are aiming at is to gauge […]

DailyPost 2787 ELECTION OR WAR? Everything is fair in love, war and politics is an old adage. If elections are the epitome of politics, how can it then be a normal event? At the end of the day one elector goes and casts his vote at a polling booth to decide the fate of candidates

DailyPost 2786 MOBILED! Jamtara gained notoriety across the country and became synonymous with cybercrime, at least the proletarian variant of it. Semi-literates or otherwise from a small town; midway to nowhere, in the backwaters of India, could force India to cough up, with their cybercrime capabilities. This was a simple mix of social engineering and

DailyPost 2785 IS GRANTING BAIL SO COMPLEX? Arrest, bail, jail, police custody, judicial custody, interim bail, bail arguments, bail conditions, prosecution, defence, SG, ASG et al have become the narrative of the nation. Bail is the norm and jail an exception is the legal convention, but what we see and hear seems to give a

DailyPost 2784 AI DRUG DISCOVERY If someone were to ask you what all electricity can do, or provide power to, one would have a counter question, what all it doesn’t. This is the story of a general-purpose technology or utility, it cuts across all our needs and reaches a point that it permeates into everything

DailyPost 2783 CORRUPT: MENTALLY, MORALLY, SYSTEMIC? Corruption is the body politic of this nation. Can you imagine, a political party comes to power on the corruption plank to be replaced by the same party again on the corruption plank. This business case scenario is just to make you realise the morass we are in. The

DailyPost 2782 THE MAGNITUDE OF CRIME Variously titled the Karnataka Sex Scandal has taken the state and country by storm. It seemed as if the elections were relegated into the background. The 2976 videos / files recorded on pen drives distributed in thousands over a directed geographical area purported to sex crimes by the same

DailyPost 2781 A MANAGEMENT HACKATHON The tech world may raise its eyebrows on hackathon finding its way to the management world. It is not surprising why it is happening there; the actual surprise is why it has not happened so far. All of us in the tech world are familiar with Hackathons and what they

DailyPost 2780 THE FREEBIES SOFTWARE The democracy of India has finally been transformed to what we can safely term as freebie democracy. It comes somewhere between removing poverty and ration card regime and election manifesto / promises of current decade. The western concept of social security and practice belongs to a different world. Freebies have

DailyPost 2779 POLITICAL POCKET BOROUGH The democratic realpolitik can have emanated its own string of terminologies, which reflect the practice of democracy in India. It is a different world from the copybook classic constitution and law mandated democracy and governance which we have learned and then perfected the art of paying lip service to. The

DailyPost 2778 UNITED HEALTH -CONGRESSIONAL HEARING What happens to the data remains in no one’s control, once you are hit by a ransomware attack? The hacker will not provide you with all the information otherwise what is big fun of committing a crime with huge amount of effort and expertise. The aim of the ransomware