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On July 16, 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced the reconstitution of a ‘high level committee’ to implement Clause 6, a salient section of the Assam Accord. The clause is designed to provide ‘constitutional safeguards” to the “Assamese people” and its importance had come to the fore in the wake of the Modi government’s […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday fielded its senior leaders across the country including state chief ministers to try and blunt the opposition attack over the Pegasus spyware revelations. As part of the Pegasus Project, 17 global partners revealed how a leaked list of numbers, which include some who have been targeted with the […]
Buoyed by her an emphatic victory in the West Bengal elections where she humbled the combined might of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, a triumphant Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that it is time for a Bengal model in the country, not Gujarat. ‘‘I have arrived’’ — she seemed to convey […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a 2013 judgment of the Gujarat High Court striking down the 97th Constitutional amendment relating to the cooperatives sector that allowed the Parliament sweeping control over the states in a sector that ideally falls under the state jurisdiction. In a strong reprimand to the then Central government (the UPA), […]
New Delhi: In the run-up to the toppling of the opposition-run state government in Karnataka in July 2019, the phone numbers of deputy chief minister G. Parameshwara and the personal secretaries of chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and former chief minister Siddaramaiah were selected as possible targets for surveillance, according to The Wire’s review of records of numbers […]
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani criticised the anti-national mentality of the Opposition party which had created a false controversy over the Pegasus issue. To this, he said “The Congress was just damaging India’s reputation by being a pawn of foreign powers. He said that raising the issue of Pegasus spyware even before the monsoon session […]
Releasing its report, “Sedition: India’s Silencer Gun”, the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) stated that as per the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled states have dished out more sedition cases under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) since it started […]
The Congress has served a notice for suspension of all business in the House today in Rajyasabha and instead focus on Pegasus. A similar notice could be issued soon for the Loksabha too, sources claimed. According to sources, the notice has been served under rule number 267 seeking suspension of the House business in the […]
Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was working on an important story on the foreign assets of the Ambani family when Pegasus, the sinister spyware, hit his phone and kept tracking whatever he was doing. In fact, Thakurta was not aware that it was Pegasus or for that matter any other malware that would have struck […]
Siddharth Varadarajan who has exposed the Israeli spyware Pegasus and how it was used for surveillance in India via WhatsApp is the founder and editor in chief of India’s prominent independent digital media portal, The Wire. Siddharth Varadarajan, a senior journalist known for his independent, original and courageous reporting has an undergraduate degree in economics at the […]
India first came to know of Pegasus when WhatsApp alleged in a Californian court in San Francisco,USA that the Israeli Group had targeted some 1400 plus users with Pegasus. This happened in May 2019. Before this a human rights activist in the UAE was targeted with an SMS link on his iPhone6. The Pegasus tool […]
How secured are your messages, or how private are your WhatsApp chats, Pegasus spyware has put a question mark on a commoner’s right to privacy. The Israeli spyware is apparently used so frequently by various governments across the world that almost every few months there are reports of how a phone was hacked using it. Earlier […]
Ministers in Rajya Sabha dodged the question on Pegasus in Parliament in Nov, 2019. Union information and technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed, “No unauthorised snooping happened in the case,”. The matter under discussion was serious and therefore, the ministers responded with an appeal to exercise discretion. Excerpts from the meeting are provided below: Digvijay […]
BJP Spokesperson, Dr Sambit Patra accused NewsClick of defamation of India and serving foreign propaganda in the country using foreign funding at the conference held in New Delhi. After the Enforcement Directorate investigation into the media portal’s funding revealed an alleged violation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms and its connection with China, the BJP […]
Mumbai witnessed a very heavy rainfall Saturday night, as a result of which, two incidents of collapses took place in the city’s Chembur and Vikhroli areas on Sunday. At least 18 people died in a wall collapse incident in Bharat Nagar area of Chembur, according to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Mumbai’s fire brigade […]
The United States-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) coalition has confirmed and fast-tracked the process of withdrawal of its armed forces in Afghanistan. Subsequently, the security condition in Afghanistan has been deteriorating as The Taliban insurgents gain territory across the country. A dynamic change in the existing status quo is inevitable and will be evident […]
SAWM India is shocked and saddened at the tragic death of Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui while reporting the escalating violence between Taliban and Afghan forces in Spin Boldak, Kandahar. Danish, who worked for Reuters in India was a Pulitzer Award winning journalist. His images from Kashmir after the removal of Article 370, and more recently of […]
Nearly a century after the British charged Mahatma Gandhi with ‘sedition’ in Ahmedabad in 1922, the Supreme Court of India on Thursday termed it ‘colonial’ even as it questioned its increasing ‘misuse’ by the Indian government. The top court also asked the Centre why it was not repealing the penal law used by the British […]
In 2015, Varsha Nikam was elected as the sarpanch in Mankapur, Maharashtra. The village had no bridge. An educator for over two decades before her stint in politics, Nikam was aware of how difficult it was for kids to come to school. After countless letters to local, district and national leaders, she managed to bring […]
Virtual Trilateral Table Top Exercise (TTX) – 2021 was conducted on 14 and 15 July 2021 with the participation of the India-Maldives-Sri Lanka Navy. It is being coordinated by the Maritime Warfare Centre, Mumbai. The exercise came at a time when the success of Operation Sagar Aaraksha 2 was executed with seamless cooperation between the […]
