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1.13 million fraud cases in 2023, and pig butchering is a new scam practice that is becoming more frequent. In simpler terms, pig butchering is a version of smishing where scammers use social media platforms for cyber theft. As the name suggests, the victim is being ‘fattened up’ through validation and friendship before ‘butchering’ i.e.

With the Bitcoin halving completed, and all altcoins rallying back to new all-time high prices

Memecoins are created on the idea of internet jokes or memes and are hyped by the large community support and social media hype. They don’t have any specific utility but have helped build many rags-to-riches tales. 

Shares in Snap jumped nearly 25% in on Friday after targeted ads and new features helped the owner of the photo messaging app beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter revenue and user growth. The Snapchat parent now expects second-quarter revenue between $1.23 billion and $1.26 billion, above analysts' estimates of $1.22 billion, according to LSEG data.

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BJP MP and Bangalore South Candidate Tejasvi Surya for allegedly posting a video on a social media platform and soliciting votes on the grounds of religion, the Election Commission said on Friday. He is contesting against Congress candidate Sowmya Reddy, daughter of Karnataka Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy.

Delhi Police has arrested two persons, including a woman, under Motor Vehicles Act from Najafgarh after a video went viral on social media in which the duo can be seen doing stunts in the costume of spiderman and spiderwoman. The accused have been identified as Aditya (20) and Anjali (19), both are residents of Najafgarh. «Two persons were riding a bike and wearing Spiderman costumes. An inquiry into the matter was conducted and the riders have been booked under sections different sections of the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act for offences without a helmet, without a mirror, without a licence, dangerous driving and not displaying a number plate etc,» a senior police officer told news wire agency PTI. Delhi police arrested the duo on Friday for various Motor Vehicle Act violations such as riding without a helmet, mirror, license, and displaying no number plate.

With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26

One of the demands of antiwar protestors on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza

PTI that precise number would depend on several factors, including the election's scale, the quantity of polling stations, and the demands of election-related tasks. "However, on our platform, we anticipate at least 9 lakh jobs during the elections," Dungarwal told PTI.

Election Commission seized ₹4.8 crore cash in Karnataka ‘s Chikkaballapura Constituency on Thursday, April 25, a day before the voting for the second phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. An FIR has been registered against K Sudhakar, Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate for the constituency. Lok Sabha elections voting LIVE Updates “The FST of Chikkaballapura seized cash worth 4.8 Crores.

BBC report, experts have said that daily showers offer no proven health benefits. They have dismissed this practice as a socially accepted norm aimed at avoiding body odour. While speaking to BBC, environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy said, “Why are we washing? Mostly because we’re afraid somebody else will tell us that we’re smelling." McCarthy, who now showers once a month, explained that his decision stemmed from his experience spending two weeks with the indigenous Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest.

mutual funds have offered an average return of 16.52% in the last three years, data crunching by ETMutualFunds showed. There were around 10 mutual fund schemes in the ESG theme based mutual fund category which includes both active and passive funds. Quant ESG Equity Fund, the topper in the category, gave 31.58% return in the last three years. ICICI Prudential ESG Exclusionary Strategy Fund offered 17.40% return in the said time period. SBI ESG Exclusionary Strategy Fund gave 16.63% return in a five year period. Both these schemes follow Exclusionary Strategy after Sebi introduced five new sub-categories.

The anticipation surrounding Scorpion Casino’s upcoming exchange launches has reached a fever pitch, as investors eagerly position themselves to capitalize on the project’s lucrative passive income opportunities. Even before its official launch, the Scorpion Casino ecosystem has been generating waves of excitement by consistently delivering on its promises of daily payouts to presale participants.

Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as «part of public discussion», rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X's «global government affairs» account said the video taken by an «innocent bystander» should not have been banned under Australian law, which «permits content that can be reasonably considered as part of public discussion or debate».

Will cease to function if forced to break encryption, WhatsApp tells Delhi High Court WhatsApp and its parent firm have challenged Information Technology Rule 4(2) of the 2021 IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) that compels "significant social media intermediaries" to "enable the identification of the first originator of the information" which may be required by a court order or other competent authority. WhatsApp has unequivocally said it would not break its end-to-end encryption as it argues it would violate users' privacy.

Sam Pitroda sparked discussions on social media and generated increased interest in the concept of inheritance tax, both on social media and in Google searches. Unlike some countries like South Korea, America, and the UK, India currently does not have a system of inheritance tax in place, having abolished the Inheritance or Estate Tax back in 1985. Amid the controversy surrounding inheritance tax, an old video of Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath, who is also India's youngest billionaire, has also gained traction on social media. In the video, Kamath voiced his support for the implementation of an inheritance tax in India, arguing that it could serve as a means of redistributing wealth across generations. He pointed out that in a country where only a small percentage of the population pays income tax, such a tax could broaden the tax base, providing the government with additional resources for reforms and infrastructure development. “When wealth transfers from one generation to another, there has to be a filter so that a part of it can be redistributed. There is plenty of precedence to inheritance tax," Kamath said.

Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend on Thursday and a $70 billion stock buyback, cheering investors who sent the stock surging nearly 16% after the bell. The Google parent is returning capital while spending billions of dollars on data centers to catch up with rivals on generative artificial intelligence. The dividend will be 20 cents per share.

fund managers suffered their worst-ever quarter for ESG-focused products as the pace of client redemptions intensified. Client withdrawals from US funds targeting environmental, social and governance goals reached $8.8 billion in the first three months of 2024, according to fresh data compiled by Morningstar.. That stood in stark contrast to the roughly $11 billion of inflows into ESG funds in Europe, where sustainable investing regulations are far more entrenched.

The Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard is designed to be an easily-digestible, freely-available window into publicly-available aggregated blockchain data, beginning with stablecoins. From information on active users, to volumes by coin and blockchain, to transaction sizes and an evolving set of metrics, the dashboard looks to provide clear insights into stablecoin activity. Explaining the value of the resource, Visa head of crypto, Cuy Sheffield cites a chart that has been making the rounds on social media showing the volume that some of the world’s major settlement networks process annually, in billions of dollars, and comparing those to annual stablecoin volumes. The chart shows stablecoin volumes overtaking Bitcoin, PayPal and "remittances" - and fast approaching Visa.

Taylor Swift meme has attracted a famous personality. Monica Lewinsky has written «you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me» and posted a photo of White House on social media X. The lyric from Swift's latest song has become an instant hit. The line — «you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me» — has become a viral one. Fans are using the line to reveal bittersweet memories of their own.