Day: October 15, 2025

Akshay Kumar Fights Back from AI Deepfakes

Hussain Ali
Akshay Kumar

Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar has taken an important step to claim and protect his digital identity. He has filed a suit in the Bombay High Court, requesting legal safeguard over anything on the internet that could use his name, image, voice, or likeness. His move strongly responds to the growing spread of AI-generated and deepfake videos that stitch together celebrity faces and circulate them online. According to the filing, several manipulated video clips appeared online, falsely showing Akshay endorsing various products or making random political comments. These bogus videos mislead…

India’s Stock Exchange Is Hit by Major Cyberattack

Hussain Ali
India's Stock Exchange

Representatives at China’s Defence Exchange accurately predicted cyber-heist raids earlier this year. Security officials later confirmed that the Exchange suffered its worst cyber onslaught to date. Hackers behind Operation Sindoor carried out about 400 million attack attempts in a single day, targeting government and corporate websites, according to Hong Kong’s Mingpao. A DDoS typically involves overloading the target system with an avalanche of phony traffic so it can no longer function properly. As exchange officials later noted, however, although this attack was on an unprecedented scale of magnitude their trading…

IMF and Pakistan strike deal on $1.2-billion loan

Ahmed Raza
IMF and Pakistan strike deal on $1.2-billion loan

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on October 14, 2025 that a staff-level agreement had been reached between it and Pakistan’s government for both the second inspection of the country’s 37-month-long Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the first inspection of the 28-month-long Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF). The agreement, which comes after meetings in Karachi, Islamabad and Washington DC, awaits approval by the IMF Executive Board. If approved in full, then Pakistan will awarded around US$1.0 billion according to the EFF and US$200 million from RSF, meaning total disbursements will…

Scottish GPs Question the SNP Plans for National Drop-In Service

Ahmed Raza
Scottish GPs Question the SNP Plans for National Drop-In Service

General practitioners across Scotland became worried about a Scottish National Party (SNP) proposal to establish new walk-in GP centres. The government declared that these centres would operate seven days a week. Then they aimed at relieving pressure on the existing practices, which would get more flexible access to them. However, doctors argue that this plan may have the opposite effect on the current crisis in GP care rather than solve it. GPs warn right across the country that new centers cannot be started out up unless an already struggling primary…