Moscow: Russian aircraft makers on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of a new fighter jet that features stealth capabilities and other advanced characteristics and will be offered to foreign buyers. Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the prospective warplane displayed with much fanfare at the MAKS-2021 International Aviation
New Delhi: The cost of deploying a spyware like Pegasus is, even by conservative estimates, rather steep. According to estimates based on documents on the NSO Group’s commercial proposal acquired by The New York Times in 2016, the Israeli spyware maker priced its surveillance tools
Vatican City: "His Holiness Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life in the explosion at the Al-Wuhailat market in Baghdad". This was how the telegram sent by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on behalf of Pope Francis to the Apostolic
New Delhi: The phone numbers of over 40 Indian journalists appear on a leaked list of potential targets for surveillance, and forensic tests have confirmed that some of them were successfully snooped upon by an unidentified agency using Pegasus spyware, The Wire can confirm. The leaked
India’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be a staggering 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, likely making it modern India’s worst human tragedy, according to the most comprehensive research yet on the ravages of the virus in the South Asian country. Most experts believe India’s
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi’s name in the list of potential ‘hacking’ targets in the Pegasus scandal underlines an inexplicable fact — his undying importance. The Congress leader may not be considered to be a heavyweight in terms of his political abilities and electoral successes; he
New Delhi: The Congress accused the Narendra Modi government of ‘treason’ and compromising national security reports of Pegasus software being used to spy on people and demanded the dismissal of Home Minister Amit Shah and an inquiry into the role of the Prime Minister. Following reports
Tamil Nadu: Dalit Christian organizations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have urged a Vatican tribunal to end casteism and discrimination against Dalits in the Catholic Church. The group sent documents on July 10 highlighting the plight of Dalit Christians in India, especially in
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reaches out in all directions, across Central Asia into Europe, up into Russia, through the seas and oceans of Asia, out to Africa and of course, deep into Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asian leg of BRI consists primarily of a
United Nations: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “encouraged” by the agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban to expedite peace talks, according to Deputy Spokesman Farhan Aziz Haq. “The secretary-general is encouraged by the joint declaration issued in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, under