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Amnesty International Hits Out at ‘False’ Media Reports, ‘Fully Stands By’ Pegasus Project Data

July 22, 2021 16:22

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 […]

Young Engineer kills himself due to Financial Crisis

July 22, 2021 16:26

A young Civil Engineer died by hanging himself in Parle Point Gokul Row House, Surat. After his father died due to contracting Covid almost six months ago, Rishit was under stress. Rishit Zaveri, a Labour Contactor, was under stress for one and a half years due to the financial crisis. Rishit’s dead body was found […]

Covid mauls Ahmedabad’s poor; incomes plummet, costs skyrocket

July 24, 2021 10:38

For 31-year-old homemaker Drashti Parmar and her husband, who is an electrician and the sole breadwinner of the family, it was the post covid hospitalisation costs that were difficult to manage. Drashti and her mother were diagnosed with Covid-19 a month ago and received free treatment at Civil Hospital. The Ashram road residents lost their […]

France Orders Probe Into Spyware Targeting, Israel Sets Up Crisis Group, India Remains in Denial

July 22, 2021 15:17

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 […]

Pegasus Project: 115 Names Revealed On Snoop List So Far

July 22, 2021 15:25

New Delhi: Over the past few days, The Wire – in collaboration with 16 other media organisations – has been revealing the names of people who were either persons of interest or forensically identified as having been targeted by clients of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Those on the list include heads of state, political figures, activists, students, […]

Farmers protest at Jantar Mantar

July 22, 2021 13:07

Farmers will be protesting against the Farm Bills at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Thursday. This will be a new phase of the ongoing farmer’s movement against agricultural laws, which is about to begin, with more than 200 farmers to demonstrate at the site. Farmers from Sindhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders are reaching Jantar Mantar by […]

Income Tax Department Raids Multiple Premises of Dainik Bhaskar Group

July 22, 2021 15:57

The Income Tax department is conducting raids on premises owned by the Dainik Bhaskar newspaper group over alleged tax evasion, news agencies and outlets have reported. Searches are being carried out at multiple locations by multiple teams, including the newspaper’s promoters’ residences and offices, news agency ANI has reported. Raid locations are spread across Madhya Pradesh […]

Karnataka Becomes the First State to Reserve Jobs for Transgender Persons

June 15, 2022 20:14

On Wednesday, Karnataka became the first state in India to reserve jobs in public employment in favour of transgender persons. The state government informed the division bench of the Karnataka high court of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Suraj Govindaraj that it has amended the Karnataka Civil Services (General Recruitment) Rules, 1977 to provide […]

Sandesara brothers’ assets worth Rs 548 crores to be auctioned

July 22, 2021 01:23

There is perhaps a gallery of defaulters with the Indian investigative and legal teams. And so, it comes as no surprise when businessmen dodge arrests and flee the country from the clutches of the law. In 2018, Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, owner of Vadodara-based company Sterling Biotech Ltd, did just this. He along with his family, […]

Didi trying to beard the lion in his den?

July 21, 2021 21:32

Having vanquished the mighty Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the rough and tumble of West Bengal politics, the maverick Mamata Banerjee wants to try a hand at bearding the lion in his den — Invincible Gujarat. More significant than whether Didi succeeds in Gujarat is that she is sending a strong message to the […]

Former Gujarat Congress president Arjun Modhwadia accuses BJP of hacking his phone in 2012

July 21, 2021 21:06

The Congress party now aggressively places allegations on the BJP government for hacking phones of 300 people using Israeli spyware Pegasus. Former Gujarat Congress president Arjun Modhwadia on July 21, blamed the government for the whole incident. He said, “The call details of my mobile phone were obtained illegally in 2012 to frame IPS officer […]

Pegasus Project: Assam Numbers in List Show Footprint of Modi’s Citizenship Amendment Plans

July 22, 2021 16:10

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 […]

BJP Fields State Leaders to Tackle Pegasus Allegations, Uses ‘International Conspiracy’ Bogey

July 22, 2021 16:16

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 […]

Maana Patel’s recovery credited to Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital

July 21, 2021 21:04

The 21-year-old backstroke champion from Ahmedabad, Maana is all set to create history in the coming global sports event, Tokyo Olympics 2021. She is the first and the only Indian female swimmer in Tokyo Olympics, Maana Patel. This achievement came with its own hurdles. In early 2016, a shoulder injury almost ended her budding career. […]

DIDI THUNDERS: Time for Bengal model, not Gujarat

July 21, 2021 17:50

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 […]

Will Shankarsinh Bapu call it a day?

July 21, 2021 15:49

On his 81st birthday Bapu shares :” I am no longer part of the CM face rat race. I do not qualify for the state legislative assembly, nor do I wish to contest general elections.”Born in Gandhinagar district’s Vasan village on 21st July 1940, Shankar Sinh Vaghela who holds a postgraduate degree, the octogenarian fondly […]

Woman goes missing after husband subjected her to unnatural sex

July 21, 2021 14:46

As if giving birth to a girl child during her first pregnancy was like a sin for 32-year-old Damini ( name changed to protect the identity of the victim), daughter of an Assistant Sub Inspector deployed in a police station of Western Ahmedabad was subjected to mental and physical torture and even unnatural sex by […]

Financier murdered by a borrower

July 21, 2021 14:10

This is the fifth incident of murder in eastern Ahmedabad, within a span of a fortnight, a financier Bala Subramani of Vatva was stabbed to death by a person named Jayesh Goswami who had borrowed money from the deceased. The incident took place near Khokhra Garden, this morning. According to police sources Bala used to […]

An 8-year-old case filed against UPA may fetter Modi-Shah’s ambitious Cooperatives Ministry plan

July 21, 2021 13:34

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), […]

Two youth die by suicide inside the computer room of Chikli police station, Navsari district

July 21, 2021 12:22

In an incident that took place in Chikhli police station during the early morning hours of July 22, 2021, two 19-year-old youths Ravi Jadav and Sunil Pawar, both residents of Vaghai village of Dang district died by suicide inside the computer room of the Chikli police station. They had used computer wires to hang themselves, […]

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