Australians fear for privacy as hackers steal personal data
When Emma, a lawyer, found out that details of her mental health problems had been breached in a massive cyberattack on Australia’s largest private health insurer, she feared her career…
Growth takes the cake!
Several economic team leaders throughout the world rely on data manipulation to show a performance that is at odds with ground realities and yet, disturbingly, have convinced many a cabinet…
Philippines elections
Marcos Bongbong Marcos Jr was elected president of the Philippines in the presidential election held on May 09. According to unofficial results, Marcos Jr won a landslide with more than…
Economy: the muddling of fact and fiction
The strengthening of the stock market and the rupee - from a high of over 240 on 30 July 2014 to less than 214 this Friday past - a reflection…
Punching bags
THE last order Imran Khan signed as prime minister of Pakistan was to transfer his principal secretary Azam Khan to the Establishment Division — as per sources on his specific…
Foreign assets declared under amnesty immune from CVT
Capital Value Tax (CVT) was levied by the federal government in 1989 on transactions relating to acquisition of immovable properties. This tax, which was effectively a tax on immovable property,…
Britons feel the pinch as cost-of-living crisis bites
Standing outside a north London supermarket clutching two shopping bags, Gerald Pursey bemoans Britain’s burgeoning cost-of-living crisis which is impacting everything from the weekly shop to his energy bills. “It’s…
Winning edge
WIN the crowd and you shall win the fight; this was the advice that would be dispensed to the gladiators as they prepared for their fights in Rome’s Colosseum. The…
A tale of two islands
The details of the two-island (Bundal and Buddo) controversy have been discussed in the national media so exhaustively over the last one week that one can, without having to build…
Cyber terrorism by India
Warnings. Threats. Deaths. Murders. Terror. For daring to speak against religion? Almost 9 out of 10 people would say, of course this is Taliban or ISIS or Hezbollah. No this…
