Tech

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News Reports

Delhi police unearths cyber fraud module transferring Cryptocurrency into the wallets linked to Islamic terrorist organization Hamas

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2022

The National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing of Israel's Defense Ministry announced in July 2021 that it had confiscated a number of digital wallets related to Hamas.

Opinions

‘Apple can’t leave China’ is a myth that has already been broken by India

Gopal Tiwari - 10 January, 2022

Doug Guthrie, in his recent podcast, claimed that Apple can't leave China, belittling the tech giant's growth in India, Vietnam

News Reports

Over 17.5 lakh WhatsApp accounts banned in India in November mostly for spamming, reveals compliance report under IT Rules 2021

OpIndia Staff - 2 January, 2022

WhatsApp is reported to have banned nearly 17.5 lakh Indian accounts in the month of November under IT Rules 2021

News Reports

Government urges tech giant Apple to expand manufacturing in India to make products worth $50 billion in a year

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2022

Senior govt officials and minister met top Apple executives to discuss expansion of manufacturing of Apple products in India

News Reports

Amazon deleted all ratings and reviews of Xi Jinping’s book from its China website after authorities asked them to remove all non 5 ratings

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2021

Amazon has removed all customer reviews for a book by Chinese premier Xi Jinping on its Chinese website, as asked by the Chinese govt

News Reports

ICMR centre in Dibrugarh in Assam develops kit that can detect Omicron variant of Covid-19 in two hours, current tests take 36 hours

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2021

ICMR-RMRC in Dibrugarh developed a a real-time RT-PCR assay in 10 days that can detect the new Omicron variant within 2 hours

News Reports

Hackers take control of Congress leader Kapil Sibal’s Facebook page, changed to an Australian skincare company’s page

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2021

Kapil Sibal's verified Facebook Page was hacked and it was changed to an Australian skincare company Dermalyana

News Reports

Indian-origin entrepreneurs own a big share of US-based unicorns, negating perceptions that they can only become CEOs: Details

OpIndia Staff - 30 November, 2021

Between 1995 to 2005, Indians founded 25.8% of immigrant-founded companies.

News Reports

ISRO makes Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre, close conjunction between Chandrayaan 2 and NASA’s LRO avoided

OpIndia Staff - 17 November, 2021

On October 20, a very close conjunction between Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter (CH2O) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of NASA was expected to take place according to the analyses of both ISRO and NASA.

World