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Harish Khare From its apprenticeship days in Gandhinagar, the Modi crowd has had a fascination for unorthodox policemen and their unconventional – and often unlawful – repertoire of tricks and treats. Consider this. Last weekend Amit Shah, the greatest Home Minister India has had since Sardar Patel, travelled to Shillong, Meghalaya. The Big Boss gathered […]
Friendship, what is the definition of this particular word? It is one thing that you cannot live without, friendship defines a lovely bonding between two people no matter how far they are. This virtual friendship that I will be describing today is a friend who is not in my society, school or even grade. My […]
He is in everything. He is space and also within it. He embodies time. Gopal Agarwal, founder of Dance Inc India tells us about the theme of his latest production, Namah. In his contemporary dance performance, he juxtaposes Lord Shiva’s potential with Big Bang, the moment where all creation sprang to life. Agarwal, 27, hails […]
The much controversial love jihad bill passed recently in Gujarat has been stomped after being challenged in the Gujarat High Court. Three cases under the “love jihad” law have been registered to date in Gujarat from which two cases were registered in Vadodara and one in Rajkot. The accused in all the cases registered being […]
In a career spanning over four decades, Subhash Ghai has introduced many newcomers and resurrected many careers. From Dilip Kumar and Raaj Kumar to Anil Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor to Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan, he’s worked with the best of actors. If there’s any regret, it’s that he is yet to […]
The “political loyalty” reward to Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana by the Narendra Modi-led BJP government in the Centre has come under harsh criticism. At least six IPS officers that Vibes of India spoke to also criticised the appointment saying,”we had much hope in PM Modi that he rewards meritocracy. But that seems to […]
Nine people killed, three others injured in multiple landslides in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district
The telephone numbers of more than 60 women – homemakers, lawyers and school teachers, journalists, scientists, civil servants and even friends of politicians – figure in the leaked database of probable surveillance targets selected by an Indian agency that uses Pegasus spyware, a count by The Wire has established. The names of some of these women have […]
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 […]
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (born 8 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter. She won a silver medal at Tokyo Olympics. A regular presence in international events since 2014 in the 48 kg category, Chanu has won the World Championships and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of […]
Adani Group partners India’s Olympic Contingent Amit Panghal, Deepak Punia & Rani Rampal among 7 top athletes at the Tokyo Olympics supported by the Adani Group’s Garv Hai initiative, as part of the Group’s long-term sports incubation Garv Hai is the Adani Group’s long-term incubation programme to nurture India’s next generation of sporting champions. 19 athletes […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
In February 2018, the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Maharashtra set up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe companies that were allegedly selling or releasing unapproved herbicide-tolerant (HT) transgenic cotton, or Bt cotton, seeds in the state. In particular, the state had accused several seed companies of surreptitiously releasing the seeds in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After laying the foundation stones of development projects in Uttar Pradesh; now it’s time for Gujarat. On July 15, PM Narendra Modi inaugurated projects worth Rs 1,500 crore in Varanasi and today he launched over 11 projects worth 1,100 crore projects in Gujarat.The commonality between the two states—UP and Gujarat—is its importance in the 2022 […]
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 […]
