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Top 10 stories of the week: January 29th to 4th February 2018

In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 4th February 2018 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Info Edge, PhonePe & E2E, for their support. Apex coordination center for cyber crime to be set up in Delhi The government of India has planned an apex co-ordination center in Delhi to fight cyber crime, the Home Ministry told PTI. States have been asked to establish similar mechanisms in every district. Rs. 83 crore has been provided towards setting up of a cyber forensic training laboratory-cum-training center for police officials in each state, under the Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children Scheme (Cyber Crime Wing). Read it here Amazon India gets infusion of Rs 1950cr from its parent Amazon India (Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd) has received a massive infusion of Rs 1950 crore to up its e-commerce game in India a notch higher, Registrar of Companies documents showed. The development was first reported by The Economic Times. The capital came in from its parent Amazon Inc. (US) and Amazon Singapore. Read it here Strava's fitness tracking heat map reveals location of military bases Data released by fitness platform Strava may have unintentionally exposed critical information like the whereabouts of US military bases around the world. Read it here Budget expectations 2018: GST, digital payments, tax benefits, angel tax and more India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley will present Union Budget 2018-19 on February 1, 2018. This will be a first post-GST budget, so a…

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