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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 […]
With multiple variants of coronavirus identified every few weeks, public fear concerning infections and re-infections is at an all-time high. While the news of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the Lambda variant, as the seventh and newest “variant of interest” was still fresh, Uttar Pradesh government identified two cases of Kappa variant, also designated as “variant […]
Union cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was held on Wednesday. Some significant decisions were taken into the meet which included Central Government giving a nod to the increase of Dearness Allowance for Central Government Employees. Union Minister Anurag Thakur briefed about the cabinet meeting in the Press Conference. Important decisions taken in […]
On receiving specific intelligence from JKP of the presence of terrorists in the built-up area of New Colony, Pulwama, an operation was launched by troops of Panzgom, Pulwama based Rashtriya Rifles Battalion, JKP, and CRPF at 11:55 pm on 13 Jul 2021. As the troops were laying cordon at 01:20 AM, the terrorists opened fire […]
On June 24, the Union Labour and Employment Ministry told the parliamentary standing committee on labour that it did not have any data on female labour force participation in the country. “We are waiting for the data. The ministry said it would need 10 days to compile this,” Lok Sabha member from Odisha Bhartuhari Mahtab, […]
In Gujarat’s rural areas, reliance on female sterilization for married women aged 15-49 years has increased by 2.3 percentage points, from 33.6 per cent in 2015-16 to 35.9 per cent in 2019-20. The good news: More than half the Gujarati women are increasingly using modern contraception as a method for family planning, according to therecently released Phase 1 of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-5). The bad: Nearly 7 out […]
After a cloudburst in Bhagsu village near Mcleod Ganj, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh recorded a record high rainfall of 79.4mm, whereas 21.2 mm is normal in the area according to IMD(Indian Meteorological Department) . Many videos of the havoc in the Kangra district have gone viral, especially Dharamshala. Several horrifying videos are posted on Twitter showing […]
The Office of International Religious Freedom, US State Department condemned India on the death of Stan Swamy in custody and called out India to understand the importance of the human rights activists in a democracy. Stan Swamy died due to COVID-19 while waiting to receive bail on July 5, 2021, in a hospital, in Mumbai. […]
NCC is now made a General Elective Credit Course under the Choice Based Credit System course for the students of colleges affiliated to the University of Ladakh after getting a nod from VC Shri Chewang Phunchok. This comes after a number of meetings held between VC of the University of Ladakh and officials of NCC […]
