Three phone numbers belonging to the Supreme Court staffer, who had accused former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment in April 2019, were selected as potential targets for surveillance by an official - but unidentified - Indian agency that is a customer of the Israel-based-NSO Group, The Wire rep...
shok Lavasa, the only member of the 3-person Election Commission to rule that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had violated the Model Code of Conduct while campaigning for the 2019 general election, was selected as a potential candidate for surveillance just weeks after his dissent, according to leaked records of phone numbers that The Wire has...
A Hyderabad-based businessman on Monday donated a golden sword 'Suryakathari', worth Rs 1 crore to Lord Venkateswara Swamy, TTD officials said....
At least 9 people were killed, including five of a single family, as heavy rains continued to lash large parts of Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region for the third day, taking the toll in the past two days to 42, up from 33 on Sunday, officials said here on Monday....
Authorities in Manipur on Monday released activist Erendro Leichombam on the Supreme Court's orders, two months after he was detained under the National Security Act (NSA) for his Facebook post criticising BJP leaders for advocating cow dung and cow urine as cure for Covid-19....
Under attack by the opposition over reports of snooping of prominent citizens using Israeli Pegasus spyware, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday claimed that "disruptors and obstructers" will not be able to derail India's development trajectory through their "conspiracies"....
Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Randeep Singh Surjewala held a press conference here on Monday and held the Narendra Modi government guilty of "treason", claiming that the "Centre's spyware has dismantled national security", after it emeregd former party President Rahul Gandhi, among others, was one one of the potenti...
A day after reports surfaced in the media of alleged snooping on journalists, politicians and other personalities of the country using Pegasus, a spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group, Union Information and Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, while replying on behalf of the government to questions raised by the opposition in the L...
Congress party on Monday demanded an independent probe into the alleged illegal surveillance of journalists using Pegasus spyware and sought the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. While addressing the press conference, Congress leader and LoP in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge alleged, "Th...
According to the report published by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC, 80 per cent of the Muslims in the country have faced prejudice or discrimination, reports Xinhua news agency....
