Akhilesh Sharma And Sukirti Dwivedi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said it was critical to stop what he called the "emerging second peak" of Covid with decisive steps including micro-containment zones, increased testing and enforcement of restrictions like masks.

India COVID-19 Vaccine: It would make every Indian proud that the two COVID-19 vaccines given go-ahead by the country's drug controller are "made in India", PM Modi today said within minutes of the approval being made public.

Three of the four labour code bills, that comprise the government's flagship labour reforms, were passed by the Rajya Sabha today as opposition protests raged outside parliament. The opposition, which boycotted both houses since yesterday, had written to Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu, asking that the contentious bills not be passed "unilatera...

There is no security breach in coronavirus tracking app Aarogya Setu, the government said today in response to claims by a French "white hat", or ethical hacker, who said on Tuesday that the "privacy of 90 million Indians is at stake". The hacker also said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who has repeatedly warned against the app, "was right". In a statem...

The government today asked WhatsApp for an explanation on a snowballing snooping scandal after WhatsApp confirmed it had informed several Indian users this week that they had been targeted by Israeli spyware earlier this year in a hacking spree that included journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials. The journalists and activi...

The government has invited comments from social media platforms on redoing the IT rules to enable breaking end-to-end encryption and tracking of messages or "unlawful" online content.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said it was critical to stop what he called the "emerging second peak" of Covid with decisive steps including micro-containment zones, increased testing and enforcement of restrictions like masks.

India COVID-19 Vaccine: It would make every Indian proud that the two COVID-19 vaccines given go-ahead by the country's drug controller are "made in India", PM Modi today said within minutes of the approval being made public.

Three of the four labour code bills, that comprise the government's flagship labour reforms, were passed by the Rajya Sabha today as opposition protests raged outside parliament. The opposition, which boycotted both houses since yesterday, had written to Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu, asking that the contentious bills not be passed "unilatera...

There is no security breach in coronavirus tracking app Aarogya Setu, the government said today in response to claims by a French "white hat", or ethical hacker, who said on Tuesday that the "privacy of 90 million Indians is at stake". The hacker also said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who has repeatedly warned against the app, "was right". In a statem...

The government today asked WhatsApp for an explanation on a snowballing snooping scandal after WhatsApp confirmed it had informed several Indian users this week that they had been targeted by Israeli spyware earlier this year in a hacking spree that included journalists, activists, lawyers and senior government officials. The journalists and activi...

The government has invited comments from social media platforms on redoing the IT rules to enable breaking end-to-end encryption and tracking of messages or "unlawful" online content.