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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...
Trinamool mocks Modi’s pre-session all-party meet
Ahead of the monsoon session, PM Modi today sought a productive sitting of Parliament. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attended an all-party meeting on the eve of this year’s monsoon session of Parliament, seeking a productive sitting. The Trinamool, however, took a swipe at him saying his...
Phones of Indian politicians, journalists hacked using Pegasus
Phone numbers of Indian ministers, opposition leaders and journalists have been found on a leaked database of targets for hacking that used Israeli spyware ‘Pegasus’, media reports said. Members of the legal community, businessmen, government officials, scientists, rights activists and others are also in the list of over 300...
UP Kanwar Yatra cancelled
Uttar Pradesh will not hold Kanwar Yatra this year too, organisers of the religious event have said. The move to cancel Kanwar Yatra amid the COVID-19 pandemic comes a day after the Supreme Court gave the Yogi Adityanath government time till Monday to reconsider its decision to go ahead...
Amarinder Singh agrees to Sidhu promotion with riders
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday agreed to a Congress plan to promote rival Navjot Singh Sidhu as the party’s state president and end the simmering mutiny but listed terms for the solution, sources said. Captain Singh’s assent came after a meeting with Congress’s Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat...
PM Modi, Sharad Pawar meet amidst President speculation
Sharad Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence. The meeting last 50 minutes, sources said. “Rajya Sabha MP Shri Sharad Pawar met PM Narendra Modi,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted, along with a photo of the two leaders meeting. The...
Punjab Cong in-charge Rawat’s meeting with CM triggers speculation
The Congress’s Punjab In-Charge, Harish Rawat, was today flown into Chandigarh in a state government chopper to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh even as the rebellion in party’s unit there continued to simmer. The senior leader arrival came hours after indications that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu may be given...
SC asks UP to reconsider Kanwar Yatra
New Delhi: States must not allow the movement of devotees undertaking the ‘Kanwar yatra’ due to the pandemic situation, the Centre told the Supreme Court today during a hearing on the matter. Instead, states should develop a system to make the holy water from Ganga available to the devotees through tankers,...
NITI Aayog CEO justifies high fuel prices
Investing huge sums into top quality infrastructure will lead to a high trajectory of growth, but it is a difficult choice to make if resources are scarce, the Chief Executive of the government think tank NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, told NDTV. The government has been battling criticism over...
Rahul among those hailing Supreme Court on sedition law
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other opposition parties have commended the Supreme Court terming India’s sedition law as “colonial”. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while agreeing to look into petitions by the Editors Guild of India and a Major General (retired) challenging...
10 of 30 people falling into MP well remain to be rescued
Vidhisha, Madhya Pradesh: In a major mishap, around 30 people fell into a well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened when the villagers were trying to rescue a boy who had fallen in the well earlier. As per the officials, the roof of...
Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart on LAC standoff
India and China have agreed that solving the border row should be prioritised as “a prolongation of the existing situation was not in the interest of either side”, the government said today in a statement after a meeting between Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang...
DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran flown to Chennai by BJP’s pilot Rudy
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in a tweet thread narrated how he ran into his parliamentary colleague and BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy – and why he thought it was an interesting meet. The DMK leader titled the thread “A Flight to Remember.” Mr Maran had boarded an IndiGo flight...
Rahul walks out of defence panel meet over China
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and some of his parliamentary colleagues walked out of a Defence Committee meeting after they were not allowed to discuss border issues with China, sources have said. The meeting was scheduled at 3 pm today, they said. A request by Mr Gandhi and the Congress...
2 Indian-Americans in Joe Biden’s 11 key nominations
Washington: President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) announced his intent to nominate 11 individuals including two Indian-Americans to serve in key roles. As per the White House statement, the nominated persons are – Gabe Camarillo, Alan Estevez, Jeff Lane Flake, Kent Doyle Logsdon, Lisa Wang, Chester John Culver,...
