Recently, there were reports in the press about lavish amounts being spent on renovation of toilets in the office of the Planning Commission in New Delhi.
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Suspicious messages asking users to submit a refund application for the disbursement of income tax (I-T) refund have been doing the rounds, with a link that directs users to a webpage looking like the I-T e-filing web page. An investigation by CyberPeace Foundation along with Autobot Infosec Private Ltd reveals that similar looking but fake websites of five banks, State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Punjab National Bank (PNB) and HDFC Bank, are used to collect all personal and financial data. Further, an app gets installed on the user s Android mobile device, which asks for administrator rights and takes full control for duping.
Banking services are likely to be affected across the country as lakhs of bank employees went on a two-day strike from Monday protesting the privatisation of two public sector banks and retrograde banking reforms.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking direction to give voters the right to reject a candidate in an election, if maximum votes are polled in favour of NOTA.
We had mentioned in previous week’s closing report that Nifty, Sensex gains reversed due to fall in US pre-market futures. On Monday, the indices opened lower and closed with minor losses.