
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 191.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.71 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the Pegasus snooping scandal. The plea filed by advocate M.L. Sharma has claimed that the snooping scandal is an attack on the Indian democracy. ...

The Taliban militant group now controls a total of 212, or roughly half of Afghanistan's 419 district centres, a top US General said....

After the below par performance of the Janata Dal (United) in last years Assembly elections in Bihar, several reasons have been cited for the partys underperformance. ...

Amid talks of change of leadership in Karnataka, chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has postponed the dinner party, to he held on July 25 for the party legislators and senior leaders. Earlier, he had also cancelled a BJP legislators meeting scheduled on the same day to celebrate the completion of two years in office....
The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) of the state police on Thursday conducted inspections at the premises of former transport minister and AIADMK leader M.R. Vijayabhaskar. ...

The phone numbers of several top leaders of the NSCN (I-M) were added to a list of persons of interest believed to be generated by an Indian client of Israeli spyware company NSO Group, The Wire reported....

Mobile phone numbers belonging to Princess Haya bint al-Hussein of Dubai, her closest aides, advisers and friends, were being entered into a computer system operated by agents of the emirate of Dubai, one of the clients of spyware manufacturer NSO Group, The Guardian reported....

The Pegasus project has turned the spotlight on spyware firm NSO Groups ties to Israeli state, The Guardian reported....

The Israeli Defence Ministry is studying the investigation into NSO Group, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said Tuesday after it was revealed that the Israeli cyber company has been selling spyware to foreign governments to target journalists and activists, Jerusalem Post reported....