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Amarinder, Sidhu to end war with tea
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Navjot Sidhu will meet today for tea in a first effort for peace ahead of the cricketer-turned-politician’s inauguration as the Punjab Congress chief. The overture came from Mr Sidhu, who invited the Chief Minister for the programme at the party office. Mr Singh...
Amarinder slams Meenakshi Lekhi for “hooligans” remark on farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded resignation of Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi for allegedly calling protesting farmers “hooligans”. Ms Lekhi, when asked about incidents of violence during the farmers’ protests against the three central agricultural laws, had on Thursday called the protesters “mawali” or hooligans. After...
Parliament uproar over Pegasus continues
Both houses of parliament continued to witness uproar over the Pegasus snooping incident. The trouble forced adjournment of both houses. The opposition benches were demanding to know whether India has bought the Israeli spying tool. The opposition gave a notice for adjournment to discuss the issue in Lok Sabha,...
Ravi Shankar Prasad defends Pegasus use
Amid the tumult over reports of snooping in multiple nations through Israeli spyware Pegasus, former Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has questioned why only India is being “targeted” for the use of the spyware when 45 nations are using it. Mr Prasad, who handled the IT ministry...
SC stops short of striking down easing of Kerala curbs
Kerala’s move to “give in to pressure groups” and announce a three-day relaxation of Covid curbs for Bakrid (Eid-ul-Azha) has alarmed the Supreme Court which today said this was “wholly uncalled for”. However, it did not cancel the government notification that eased the lockdown in the state. “Alarming state...
Assam ‘Population Army’ for Muslim-majority areas
Guwahati: Assam will have a ‘population Army’ to distribute contraceptives and create awareness about population control in Muslim-dominated areas of the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told the Assembly on Monday. A 1,000-strong force will be sent to areas in Lower Assam, he said. The Chief Minister, whose...
Modi government listening to bedroom conversations, says Congress
Union Home Minister Amit Shah must be sacked and Prime Minister Modi must be investigated over the recent news reports of illegal hacking of cell phones of constitutional functionaries, Union Ministers, senior opposition leaders, judges, journalists, and others, the Congress demanded today. It alleged that the government can...
Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor, 2 Union ministers among Pegasus targets
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, poll strategist Prashant Kishor and new IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw are among the big names revealed today as potential targets of Israeli spyware ‘Pegasus’ in the latest set of explosive revelations by The Wire. At least two mobile phone accounts used by Rahul Gandhi...
Gujarat faces Supreme Court heat over fire safety
The Gujarat government was pulled up by the Supreme Court today for bringing a notification to reverse its order on fire safety norms in hospitals treating Covid patients. Accusing the state of a breach, the court said the notification only gives more time to hospitals that do not have...
Pegasus most sophisticated snooping tool available
Pegasus was developed by the Tel Aviv, Israel-based cyber intelligence and security firm NSO Group. The spyware, believed to have been around at least since 2016, is said to be known by other names as well, like Q Suite and Trident. Considered the most sophisticated among all such products available...
