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Generation Equality Forum Raises $40 billion – the Highest Ever for #GenderEquality On June 30, 40,000 people logged online to watch the three-day Generation Equality Forum in Paris, France. The global forum, a celebration of 25 years since the Beijing Declaration, has already managed to raise 40 billion – the highest ever for gender equality. […]
New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi acted to oust Alok Verma from his post as head of the Central Bureau of Investigation at midnight on October 23, 2018, an unidentified Indian agency known to be a user of Pegasus spyware made a note of three telephone numbers registered in his name. For India’s […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
