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The French are quick on their feet. Within 24 hours of ‘Forbidden Stories’ piercing the cover on Pegasus spyware, with French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal telephone numbers also among the infected, France ordered an investigation. And on July 25, Macron called new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and requested him to get to the bottom of the affair, ASAP. Earlier, Macron had spoken of a “series of investigations”.

Even as the Congress managed to repair its broken house in Punjab, the BJP found itself in trouble in Karnataka. How the two parties will fare in the coming weeks will be a test of their resilience on the eve of assembly elections which will pose a challenge to both. Of the two, the BJP will be particularly concerned about its government’s fate in the southern state lest a setback there should have a demoralizing effect on its cadres in U.P., Goa, Gujarat and several other states which will go to the polls.

The growing concern in India among politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, social activists and dissidents, business community and prominent individuals about the increasing use of highly invasive surveillance technologies to spy on individuals in blatant abuse of human rights is very valid. Unfortunately, they are able to do little to prevent and punish those using the spyware to curtail their individual freedom. Digital surveillance is openly abusing human rights in the absence of strong regulatory frameworks. The United Nations, the global body, itself has little answer to growing attacks on individual freedom. It merely condemns the ‘unlawful and arbitrary surveillance’ as an infringement of fundamental human rights and acknowledges that the practice continues unabated, not least because it is shrouded in secrecy.

Union Ministry of Railways has planned investment of Rs.11.43 lakh crore in railways by 2024-25 in which Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), a regulator set up to develop unutilized, surplus railwayland and air space for commercial utilisation keeping in view the futuristic use for the railways own requirements on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model to garner additional resources for modernization, up gradation and expansion of railways to meet futuristic challenges of increasing faster freight and passenger traffic. Currently, Indian Railways (IR) is on mission mode to deliver 126 critical projects worth 1,15,000 crore. PPP in IR is key to infrastructural development, which forms bedrock of the economic development of the nation. IR, therefore, is integral part of infrastructural development of India.

New Delhi: To stay alive for quarterfinal berth Indian Women's Hockey Team will have to put up a better show on against Germany in their second match of Pool A in Olympic competition at the Oi Stadium on Monday.

New Delhi: Playing with clinical efficiency Australia decimated India 7-1 for their second successive win in the Pool 'A' Olympic Hockey match at the Oi Stadium In Tokyo on Sunday.

New Delhi: It was another poor day for Indian shooters at Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.

New Delhi: Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal (Women’s 10M Air Pistol) Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar (Men’s 10M Air Rifle) will be seen in action in the Tokyo Olympic Games Shooting competition on Sunday.

Veteran goalkeeper PR Sreejesh brought off some incredible saves to enable India pip spirited New Zealand 3-2 in a pool A Hockey match that went down to the wire. The eight-time winners thus opened their Olympic campaign note collecting full three points on Saturday.

New Delhi: Ranked World number one Saurabh Chaudhary finished a creditable seventh in the 10M Air Pistol, but three other Indians in the fray failed to make the cut for the last eight in their respective events in the Shooting competition of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.