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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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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)...
