The government has "no proposal for banning any 'NSO Group'" and has no information on whether or not the United States has blacklisted the Israeli firm that developed the Pegasus spyware, the junior IT Minister told Parliament today.
Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar did not provide a reason for not banning the Israeli cybersecurity firm.
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New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): Samajwadi Party MP Vishambhar Prasad Nishad on Wednesday welcomed the Centre's decision of passing the OBC Bill in Lok Sabha.
NEW DELHI: Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has suspended some TMC MPs from participating in House proceedings for the rest of the day for disrupting the proceeding of the House.
Some members from the opposition parties, including TMC members Dola Sen, Arpita Ghosh and Nadeem ul Haq, held placards and raised slogans against the Modi government in Rajya Sabha. They demanded a discussion into the Pegasus snooping scandal and a Supreme court monitored probe into the matter.
Dola Sen, Md Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chhetri, Arpita Ghosh and Mausam Noor have been suspended by the Rajya Sabha chairman for entering the well of the House, displaying placards and disobeying the Chair under rule 255, a statement from the Rajya Sabha said.