BITCOIN SLUMPS 7% AS US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEIZES $2.3 MN OF COLONIAL PIPELINE RANSOM

Highlights

• Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators managed to 63.7 bitcoins valuing about $2.3 million currently

• The bitcoin which initially went up to $60,000 plunged to nearly $30,000 last month

The impact of the US Justice Department s...

HACKERS BEHIND JBS USA CYBERATTACK LIKELY FROM RUSSIA SAYS U.S.

Highlights

• JBS, which happens to be the world's largest meatpacker, said on Tuesday that it had made "significant progress in resolving the cyberattack." 

• The US contacted Russia's government and that the FBI was investigating said the Whit...

PRESIDENT BIDEN SAYS HE WILL TAKE CYBERATTACKS ISSUE WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN

Highlights

• President Biden said “I’m going to be meeting with President Putin. So far there’s no evidence from our intelligence people that Russia is involved”

• Recently a major US energy pipeline company was forced to stop all pipeline ope...

US GAS PIPELINE COMPANY SAYS IT WAS FORCED TO HALT PIPELINE WORK AFTER A CYBERATTACK

Highlights

• Colonial Pipeline issued a statement where it said that the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems

• In a statement issued on Friday, the company said “Colonial Pipeline is taking steps to understand a...

HONG KONGERS FLEE UK UNDER NEW VISA SCHEME, CHINA SAYS UK IS BACK WITH COLONIAL BEHAVIOUR

HIGHLIGHTS

• Another visa scheme offering a large number of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship went live on Sunday as the city's ex-colonial ruler UK makes its ways for those needing to get away from China's imposition of national security law

SOUTH KOREAN POLITICS ROCKED BY COMFORT WOMEN SCANDAL

HIGHLIGHTS

• South Korea has witnessed a new scandal about “comfort women” that can put a blot on South Koran Army as well as government.
• A former comfort woman Lee Yong-soo has accused a lawmaker of exploiting her.

South K...

Conflicts between Indian and Hindutva Nationalism

The RSS – BJP blends the polls' narrative away from people's daily concerns. Numerous demonstrations and campaigns have demonstrated the dissatisfaction of the people. But a new narrative was used successfully to launch the terrorist attack on 14 February 2019 in Pulwama, followed b...

Big Uncle: Italian fashion label defendant of racism over new 'colonialism' Collection

An Italian fashion label has attracted criticism from around the world when emotional a replacement assortment taking inspiration from a period of empire-building related to slavery and racial extermination. Big Uncle, a Milan-based wear firm for men, denies endorsing “a historical bloody a...