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Saqib Mugloo Srinagar, July 27 (KMS): For the past few days journalists across the globe have been on their toes. Courtesy: the Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus, which created global headlines and sparked political controversies for unprecedented surveillance capabilities. Pegasus snoopgate has created ripples across India too. In …

(The Wire) The technology cannot be rolled back. But it needn’t be allowed to function as an unregulated, legitimate industry, reeling in profits, blossoming and flowering on the pulsing transcontinental highways of the free market.

(Scroll.in)  The architecture underpinning judicial independence needs to be thought anew given these alarming revelations.

Bengal, July 26 (KMS):The number of “excess deaths” registered by the Civil Registration System (CRS) in West Bengal ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit (from April 2020 to May 2021), was an estimated 1,20,227, which is 11.1 times the official reported figure of 10,787 deaths for the same period. Five …

(Scroll.in) If the accused are in custody and police have completed their investigations, why is justice delayed?

(Scroll.in) Too many Indians are happy to dismiss news of the gathering darkness, shrug at falsehood and bigotry, and be narcoticised into believing all is well.

Gafira Qadir Srinagar, July 23 (KMS): The Kadoo family often keeps their two-storey residence in Ashajipora village of Anantnag locked from the inside. “Because I’m mostly naked. I can’t tolerate the clothes on my body,” said Masooda Tabassum, belovedly known as Masrat in her neighbourhood. “I feel itchy. My body …

(The Wire) Two prominent political personalities from Assam, Samujjal Bhattacharjee of AASU and Anup Chetia of the pro-talks faction of ULFA figure in the leaked list of potential spyware targets, as does a Manipuri writer.

(The Wire) Unlike the swift probe ordered in France, the reaction of the Modi government has been to deny the possibility of any involvement of the Indian authorities in any surveillance on the individuals named.

(The Guardian)  Study gives most comprehensive picture yet of true toll of pandemic in India