QHyderabad: Doctors Attacked; 2.6 Cr Cyber Threats in 3 Months
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1. Attacks on Doctors and Hospitals
Attacks on doctors and hospitals is creating deep-seated fear in them, leading to some medical practitioners not taking the risk of treating critical cases where chances of survival are low. According to practising doctors and heads of medical associations, most of these doctors are now referring such cases to government hospitals. They said that if the attacks continue, it could lead to a situation where people will not find doctors who will attend emergency cases.
President of Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) Dr K Mahesh Kumar said that in some critical cases, chances for a patient to survive could be low. He said that there are innumerable cases where patients survived after doctors put in efforts and in some cases patients die though best treatment was provided. However, he opined that now, some doctors are passing critical cases to government hospitals.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
2. Online Cricket Racket Busted
In a crackdown on the online cricket betting racket, the Commissioner's Task Force Police (North) on Thursday apprehended three bookies, including the kingpin of the gang, and seized Rs 41.20 lakh, six mobile phones and a set-top box from their possession.
The accused were identified as Alok Jain (36), a mutual funds agent from Himayatnagar, and a native of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, his associates, Abhishek Jain (32) from Ramkote, and Mehul K Morjaria (35) from Secunderabad. The three accused were running an online betting racket from Alok's residence in Vivek Nagar, Chikkadpally.
(Source: The Hindu)
3. 2.6 Cr Cyber Threats in Three Months: Report
With the growing prowess of artificial intelligence and all things technology-related, there has also been a simultaneous increase in the threat of cyber attacks faced by the country’s IT sector, found Seqrite, the enterprise arm of Quick Heal Technologies, a cybersecurity solutions provider. Overall, 2.6 crore country-based enterprises were threatened in a three-month period.
In the report titles ‘Seqrite Quarterly Threat Report Q3 2018’, it was found that IT/ITES companies faced the most number of threats with over 40 percent of the threats targeting the industry. Other key sectors such as manufacturing (17.88 percent), education (12.56 percent), and hospitality (9.17 percent) were also deemed to be at risk. Apart from threats such as ransomware, adware and worms, the report noted the abundance of crypto jacking attacks in the quarter. “Seqrite detected more than 2.6 crore threats targeting Indian enterprises during the three-month period – translating to a per day detection rate of over 2.8 lakhs threats,” a release said.
(Source: The New Indian Express)
4. No Clue on Cabinet Expansion
The aspirants for Cabinet posts are clueless about the timing of the expansion of his Cabinet by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao though he has declared that he would induct six to eight of them in first instance by December end and complete the full quota of 18 later.
One assessment that is widely discussed in TRS circles is that the first batch of ministers would either be sworn in before 4 January or, in the alternative, it will only be after Sankranti because the interim period was not auspicious. The second batch of almost the same number of ministers would join only after Parliament elections. Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali was sworn in along with Rao, marking the installation of the TRS government for second term.
(Source: The Hindu)
5. Housing Prices Up by 18.6%
Housing prices witness a steep surge in Hyderabad, making it as one of the top five cities across the world to have witnessed sharp rise in value of residential properties/homes. As per the recently released quarter 3 report of Knight Frank Global Residential Cities Index-2018, prices of residential properties increased in Hyderabad by a massive 18.6 percent in the last 12 months, since last year’s quarter 3 report was released. This makes Hyderabad stand fourth among top 150 cities in the world that have recorded rise in the prices of homes in a 12-month period, topped by Chinese city Xian, which recorded a 20 percent hike in values of its residential properties.
(Source: The New Indian Express)