Finally today we see a significant loss for the “Big Club”. Speaker Paul Ryan, the GOPe professional business class, Wall Street and the U.S. CoC accept the Border Adjustment Tax is not going to be a part of any larger tax reform agenda under the Trump administration. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross […]
Snowden, Security Experts: ‘Petya’ Ransomware Attack Stems from NSA Exploit…
Claims First U.S. Victims…
Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Just Like WannaCry…
Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannaCry, another wide-spread attack. The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, UK, India, and Europe and demanding $300 in bitcoins…
Nearly 740k Foreigners Overstayed Their Visas Last Year…
The U.S. Homeland Security Department says nearly 740,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the country during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas. The count released Monday includes people who arrived in the U.S. by plane or boat but does not include ground border crossings. Countries with the highest visa overstays during the period […]
India’s Modi Launches 75 Cashless Townships Across 12 States…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched 75 cashless/less-cash townships, with an overwhelming 56 of them being in Gujarat. The towns span across 12 states contributing to around 1.5 lakh cashless transactions per day and around 5.5 crore transactions a year. Some of the prominent townships include those of state- owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp […]
Trump Administration Cracks Down on H1-B Visas for Coders…
The new policy guidance that would make it harder for companies to use the H-1B visa program to bring foreign computer programmers into the U.S. A policy memo from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services changes the way the agency will process visa applications for computer programming positions, making companies jump through extra hoops to […]
Trump’s New Alliance to End Islamic Terrorism by Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar…
Terrorists are being killed, locked up, and running scared now that a Commander-in-Chief has replaced an Apologizer-in-Chief. Terror mastermind Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was placed under house arrest in Lahore on January 30, less than ten days after Donald Trump took office. For years, Saeed had been living in the open in Pakistan in spite of […]
Indian Police Unearths $550 Million ‘Pay Per Click’ Internet Scam…
Masterminded by a 26 year old tech graduate, the scam mainly involved collecting subscription fees from users who were offered handsome payment for clicking on URLs or liking web pages specified by the company…
A $500B Pot of Gold: How Boston Consulting and Google Pushed Modi to End the Era of Cash…
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the omnipresent US-consulting company, and Google, the global data miner, issued a joint report in July 2016 on the “$500 bn Pot of Gold”, which is the Indian digital payment market. Even though the authors deny it, the report gives much reason to suspect that the authors knew that something radical […]