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“The scale of the data breach is what makes it hard to guess the repercussions,” says Srikanth Lakshmanan, a researcher who runs the digital payments collective Cashless Consumer. “Conservative estimates mean at least personal data of several hundred million users was exposed.” Local news outlets have been able to use the bot to “Usually, hackers reveal a slice of data publicly via a bot or web page to prove to the world they have said data and then sell it on the dark web,” Lakshmanan says. “While the bot is down now, we don't know where all the data is being traded." India’s digital public infrastructure has expanded massively over the past several years, with the growing popularity of the “The data involved with government entities is organically very large,” says Tejasi Panjiar, an associate counsel at the Internet Freedom Foundation, an organization that advocates for digital rights. “Which is why there needs to be very strict data-security standards for government-based entities.” Panjiar further said that the concern is that India doesn’t have a cybersecurity policy and that even the current data-protection framework “takes away that aspect of compensation that affected users would get,” making such leaks an even bigger cause for concern. “I think it's a time for worry for everyone who's been vaccinated through CoWIN,” added Panjiar. The health ministry has said that claims that the CoWIN portal has been breached are India’s IT minister, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, tweete...

• The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Roop Bansal, the promoter of real estate firm M3M, in a case of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) • This comes after the ED carried out search operations at seven locations in Delhi and Gurugram belonging to real estate developers IREO Group and M3M Group • The ED detected money laundering of over Rs 400 crore by IREO Group and M3M Group The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Roop Bansal, the promoter of real estate firm M3M, in a case of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This comes after the ED carried out search operations at seven locations in Delhi and Gurugram belonging to real estate developers IREO Group and M3M Group. According to officials, the probe was carried out against the firms for allegedly diverting, siphoning off and misappropriating funds. The ED detected money laundering of over Rs 400 crore by IREO Group and M3M Group. It may be noted that multiple FIRs have been registered against IREO Group, prompting ED investigation into the matter. The financial probe agency has also alleged that a huge amount of money running to hundreds of crores was siphoned off through the M3M group. “The investigations done by ED showed that in one of the transactions, M3M group received about Rs 400 crore from IREO Group through several shell companies in multiple layers. The transaction was shown in the books of IREO as payments towards development rights,” the central agency said. The ED ad...

Cement, gravel and asphalt The company told the ASX after the sharemarket close on Wednesday that the tapering-off of fixed-price contracts in the construction sector was also a plus. Boral CEO Vik Bansal Louie Douvis “We have seen price traction across all regions and all product lines,” the company said in a statement that accompanied a slide presentation ahead of Boral’s investor day to be held on Thursday. Boral said the earnings before interest and tax run rate for the June half was ahead of the December half, and was “expected to remain so for the full year”. But it also cautioned that the run rate of volumes in May was slower than the March quarter nationally, in a sign that residential construction may be softening. Mr Bansal The company is The stock has made a solid recovery on the sharemarket, rising from $2.87 in early January. Boral shares closed 1¢ lower at $4.18 on Wednesday. The presentation to the ASX also outlined that discretionary costs were being “tightly managed” but there would be a sharper focus on freight and cartage costs, where more improvement was required.

With a score of 715 out of 720, Noida resident Shubham Bansal secured all India rank (AIR) of 16 in the medical entrance exam NEET UG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Undergraduate) on Tuesday and became the only student from Uttar Pradesh to be ranked among the top 20 , a statement from National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducted the prestigious test, said. Shubham Bansal with his parents. (Sunil Ghosh/HT Photo) Bansal, a resident of Sector 12 in Noida, completed his schooling from Vishwa Bharti Public School in Sector 28, and scored 98.2% in class 12 CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) board exams. He said he was in Class 10 when the Covid pandemic struck and the service imparted by doctors and other front-line workers inspired him to become a doctor himself. “We were in a lockdown and I had just entered Class 10. That was when I saw how doctors were risking their lives to save others. They were praised for their service and were called front-line warriors and that is when I decided that I too shall preparing for the medical entrance test,” said the 18-year-old. He added that after appearing for the examination on May 7, he was certain that he would score 715 out of 720, which is exactly what he scored when the results came. “I had calculated my marks and was expecting to score of 715. However, I never expected that I would be ranked 16 across India and judged a topper in Uttar Pradesh,” said Bansal, adding that he wants to pursue a career in surgery a...