Section: The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
Ukraine hit by 6,500 hack attacks, sees Russian ‘cyberwar’
File – A padlock is displayed at the Alert Logic booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on August 3, 2016. Photo: Reuters KIEV: Hackers have targeted Ukrainian state institutions about 6,500 times in the past two months, including incidents that showed Russian security services were waging a cyberwar...
US releases detailed look at Russia’s election hacking
President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, on December 16, 2016. Photo: AP WASHINGTON: The US on Thursday released its most detailed report yet on Russia’s efforts to interfere in the US presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. The...
US set to announce response to Russian election hacking: sources
US President Barack Obama (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 17, 2013. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON: The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into US political institutions and...
Russia examines all possible reasons for Black Sea jet crash
The Tu-154 plane with registration number RA-85572, foreground, at Chkalovsky military airport near Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, January 15, 2015. Photo: AP SOCHI: Backed by ships, helicopters and drones, Russian rescue teams searched Sunday for victims after a Russian plane carrying 92 people to Syria crashed into the Black Sea shortly after...
Trump’s nuclear remarks test bid to improve Russia ties
US President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, US, on December 21, 2016. Photo: Reuters WEST PALM BEACH/MOSCOW: US President-elect Donald Trump upped the stakes on Friday in a back-and-forth exchange with President Vladimir Putin over nuclear weapons that tested the Republican’s promises to improve relations with Russia. Offering a...
Kremlin says almost all dialogue with US is frozen: RIA
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov speaks during a news briefing on the sidelines of the Russia-ASEAN summit in Sochi, Russia, on May 19, 2016. Photo: Reuters The Kremlin said on Wednesday almost all communications channels between Russia and the United States have been frozen but the US State Department disputed the statement. Kremlin spokesman...
Identity-based federalism: Decentralisation is a better option
Sharing sovereignty, providing autonomy to a complex, costly and inequality raising, national integration-threatening system of identity-based federalism is an unbearable risk for Nepal Identity-based politics is turning out to be a reality for South Asia. Nepal is at the juncture to accept it or leap forward to continue the famed existence of...
Foreign employment fraud convict held
KATHMANDU: Police on Tuesday arrested a person convicted of foreign employment fraud around two years ago. The 39-year-old Chakrawarti Lohani, a permanent resident of Benighat-3 of Dhading district, was arrested from Samakhusi of Kathmandu today. The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police had deployed a team after him. Earlier, on February...
NATO seeks to allay concerns at meeting with Russia
File – A NATO flag flies at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels during a NATO ambassadors meeting on the situation in Ukraine and the Crimea region, on March 2, 2014. Photo: Reuters BRUSSELS: NATO will seek to reassure Russia on Monday that its troop deployments to the Baltics and Poland next year are purely defensive, in a rare meeting of the...
Obama points finger at Putin for hacks during US election
US President Barack Obama waves as he leaves the podium after speaking to journalists during his last news conference of the year at the White House in Washington, US, on December 16, 2016. Photo: Reuters WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Friday strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorised the computer hacks...
