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Sustained anti-government protests by the opposition on the floor of the House paralysed almost the entire first week of the monsoon session of Parliament in India, pictured here. Photo: Reuters >
Sustained anti-government protests by the opposition on the floor of the House paralysed almost the entire first week of the monsoon session of Parliament in India, pictured here. Photo: Reuters
The Pegasus spyware controversy has set off a political storm in India. Sustained anti-government protests by the opposition on the floor of the House paralysed almost the entire first week of the monsoon session of Parliament from July 19. Trinamool Congress member of the Rajya Sabha Shantanu Sen was suspended for the rest of the month-long session for snatching papers from the hands of India s IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who wanted to articulate the government s stand on the row, and flinging them in the air.
Phone tapping Congress modus operandi: Haryana CM
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The expose of the use of the Pegasus spyware, manufactured by an Israeli firm which the company claims is sold only to ‘vetted’ governments to check terrorism and crime to conduct surveillance on journalists, politicians and businessmen, leaves many questions unanswered. An international media consortium had on Sunday reported that more than 300 verified mobile phone numbers, including those of two serving ministers, over 40 journalists, three Opposition leaders and one sitting judge, besides business persons and activists in India, could have been targeted for hacking through the spyware. The Israeli company, on its part, has said it does not operate the system that it sells to governments, nor does it have access to data. It has also refused to disclose the identity of its clients. The Indian Government has also denied the surveillance charge, saying that it has no basis, raising queries over the whole affair.
Jairam Ramesh tweets report on MSP by Modi when he was Gujarat CM
Jairam Ramesh tweets report on MSP by Modi when he was Gujarat CM
Last Updated: Sat, Feb 13th, 2021, 21:23:32hrs
New Delhi: As the war between the government and the oposition on farmers issue heats up inside and outside Parliament, Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has tweeted a report about MSP by Prime Minister Modi when he was Gujarat Chief Minister and heading a working group on consumer affairs in 2011. We should protect farmers interests by mandating through statutory provisions that no farmer-trader transaction should be below MSP recommends the report on Consumer Affairs under Chairmanship of Gujarat CM @narendramodi in 2011. What about this U-turn, Madam FM @nsitharaman? Ramesh asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Former VP Hamid Ansari stoutly denied that he was in the running for President.
Ansari s memoirs By Many A Happy Accident: Recollections Of A Life released on Jan 28.
NEW DELHI: Former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari has stoutly denied that he was in the running for President to succeed Pratibha Patil, depreciating the Byzantine process that dragged his name into the picture and even played golf on the day the decision was to be announced. But one is left wondering whether he nurtured a secret desire that he held close to his chest. Media speculation initially named former president Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a possible candidate; he, however, denied it. One report quoted the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha saying that the BJP will not support anyone connected to the Congress, Ansari writes in his memoirs, By Many A Happy Accident: Recollections Of A Life (Rupa), which released on January 28.
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