Month: October 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…

Policeman killed while guarding Peshawar polio team

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Policeman killed

A policeman, while protecting a female polio vaccination team yesterday in Peshawar’s Matta section, was shot and killed by yet another attack, this one targeting health workers engaged in Pakistan’s long-running anti-polio campaign. Two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot at a door-to-door vaccination campaign, said police reports Monday. The officer was hitting numerous times and died on the spot. The attackers escaped before reinforcements could arrive. An extensive search operation by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, shutting off access to the area and routes for escape, is undertaking to try…

Court Protects Suniel Shetty’s Image Rights

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Suniel Shetty

To overcome misuse of digital identities and AI, the Bombay High Court granted temporary protection to veteran Bollywood Suniel Shetty’s Image Rights by restraining unauthorized use of his simulated or changed images. The actor’s name, image and personal voice may not be used across digital platforms without his consent according to this order, which was handed down today. Several online ads, fake endorsements, and deepfakes generated using his face or voice by AI also triggered Suniel Shetty’s petition. Friends often shared these materials through social networks or e-commerce links, creating…

Pakistan Could Face Its “Coldest Winter in Decades”

Ahmed Raza
Pakistan Could Face Its “Coldest Winter in Decades”

Meteorologists predict Pakistan will face its coldest winter in years. They link this forecast to atmospheric circulation changes, with a marked peripheral western weather system that has seen temperatures plummet across the globe since June this year while our country simply takes part in what was originally supposed one small in long series of such events. Cities in the north and central provinces are already reporting an early chill this year, which suggests a long and intense season ahead. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), cold waves from Siberia…

Internet Services Going to Go Down for the Whole Day in Pakistan

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Internet Services Going to Go Down for the Whole Day in Pakistan

Major outage today as PTCL positions to fix submarine link PTCL said that this work is aimed at repairing an underwater cable fault distributor. The repair work is scheduled to start on 14 October at 11am (local time in Pakistan) and may take up 18 hours. We feel sorry for the service interruption you will experience during that period,” said the company in its announcement. As the world begins to adapt, an increasing number of Pakistan people reported yesterday on Down detector that they are having difficulty accessing social media…

Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra Face Travel Ban Amid ₹60 Crore Fraud

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Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra

The High Court just issued an order directing both of these celebrities not to travel abroad until the ₹60-crore fraud case is investigated. For Bollywood’s most famous couple, who have been dogged by legal troubles in length recently years, this is yet another setback and has to be intolerable. According to court papers, the two must get written consent from investigators before leaving India. They need to apply formally to the investigating authority for every trip outside the country. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raised concerns about possible tampering with evidence…

Polish Inventor’s Hoverbike Defies Gravity in Real Test

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Hoverbike

Tomasz Patan, the Polish inventor, has brought something from a science fiction movie to life. He has created a machine that is even better than the hovercar in THX 1138–this world’s most advanced jet-powered hoverbike, the Volonaut Airbike. In a recent test carried out in the natural environment, called ‘real world testing’, Airbike flew it through dense forests; this marked a major advance in personal aviation technology. When asked about the flight, a Volonaut spokeswoman said the Airbike lifted off smoothly, flew just beneath several trees, and landed precisely. She…