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America is now posting about 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day. Just a couple of months ago, that number was around 11,000 per day. 93% of the new cases are the delta variant. New pediatric COVID-19 cases jumped up 84% in one week. Dr Anthony Fauci says that unless we get a handle on […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former Australian Prime Minister The Hon Tony Abbott on Thursday. He is on a visit to India from 2-6 August 2021 in his capacity of Australian Prime Minister’s Special Trade Envoy for India. The two leaders discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral trade, investment and economic cooperation for the India-Australia […]
When people across the world were celebrating their friendships on World’s friendship day, the viral ‘Friendship break-up meme’ was sold for $51,530 i.e. around 38.21 lakhs Indian rupees. After a fight with his friend Mudasir, Asif Raza from Gujranwala, Pakistan took to Facebook in order to denounce his friendship with him. He created an iconic […]
High Commission of India in Colombo has received requests from Sri Lankan citizens in respect of visa and consular services. In the view of current surge of COVID cases, fatalities and the prevalence of Delta variant in Sri Lanka, the High Commission has taken necessary steps to stringently comply with COVID-apt attendance and behaviour at work […]
It was a proposition that would change everything. Two 20-something Israeli entrepreneurs who had been running a small customer service start-up for mobile phones were at a client meeting in Europe in 2009 when they received a visit from law enforcement officials. The entrepreneurs’ first instinct was fear. Maybe they had done something wrong that […]
New Delhi: Reports from some websites misquoting, mistranslating, and misinterpreting a Hebrew statement issued by Amnesty International Israel on the Pegasus Project and its leaked database have been seized upon by the Modi government in an attempt to discredit the allegation that an official agency in India might have been snooping on journalists and opposition politicians. In a […]
Less than 24 hours after the consortium of media organisations which are part of the Pegasus Project reported the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal telephone number in the leaked database of numbers believed to be potential targets for surveillance, France has ordered an investigation into the matter. Quoting remarks made by Prime Minister […]
Telephone numbers linked to least 14 heads of states and governments, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are among the 50,000 numbers on a leaked database that includes some people whose phones were targeted for hacking by Pegasus spyware. NSO Group, which counts some 36 […]
Flemings, a contact-tracking system by NSO, the same Israeli firm that developed Pegasus, is a contact-tracking system developed earlier this year aimed at helping the Governments track the spread of Covid-19. The system allowed governments to feed real location data of people to visualize and track the spread of the virus. The firm claimed that […]
“Journalists and human rights defenders play an indispensable role in our societies, and when they are silenced, we all suffer.”, The UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet issued a statement after the revelations were brought forth by the Pegasus Project. Bachelet further stated “These reports also confirm the urgent need to better regulate the sale, […]
A leaked database and analysis of infected phones show that the months before Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi and even at least a year after his gruesome murder, people associated with him including two women closest to him, were selected for potential surveillance by clients of the Israeli company NSO Group. The Pegasus Project, a […]
On the 8th of July 2021, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga decided to impose a state of emergency in Tokyo, considering the recently increasing number of COVID-19 cases. This decision is speculated to have been taken in order to host the 2021 Olympic Games without causing a COVID crisis in Tokyo and […]
Physical willpower is important but it’s the mind that matters. Bhavina and Sonal Patel have just proven that. Not related, though they share the same last name, Bhavina, 34, and Sonal, 33, are now all set to participate in Tokyo Olympics. Bhavina and Sonal both have polio and are disabled from their waist down. They […]
In recent years, Siberia has undergone some record-breaking temperature readings making it hotter than usual. It is undergoing a persistent heatwave which is also affecting the Arctic Circle, one of the coldest regions badly. The land surface temperature of the Arctic Circle reached 48C due to this. Siberia has also been hit by wildfires leading […]
In 1995, women around the world gathered in Beijing, China, for the Fourth World Conference on Women and developed the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It was adopted unanimously by 189 countries. The Beijing Declaration became the most ambitious global agenda for empowerment of women and girls. Now, 26 years later, tens of thousands […]
Even as the United States sets about pulling its troops out ofAfghanistan in matter of weeks, several towns and districts of the war-ravaged mountain-locked country have slipped into the clutches of theTaliban. Faced with this prospect of the radical Islamist group gainingcontrol, India, which is deeply invested in that country, has feltcompelled to open back […]
