Report by tech magazine Wired, quoting US cybersecurity researchers, alleges that email accounts of three accused — Rona Wilson, Varavara Rao and Hany Babu — were compromised.
Swamy’s lawyer alleged that this was a result of ‘criminal negligence’ by Taloja prison authorities, who failed to provide adequate care to inmates & conduct timely RT-PCR tests.
Swamy, who suffers from multiple ailments, had earlier refused to get admitted to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai, saying he had been there twice but found no relief.
The 83-year-old, a Jesuit priest and activist, was arrested from Ranchi in October 2020, and has since been lodged at the Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai.
The case relates to inciting people and giving provocative speeches during an Elgar Parishad event organised by the Kabir Kala Manch at Shaniwarwada in Pune.
The Supreme Court questioned why the state had not interrogated Gautam Navlakha, charged in the Koregaon Bhima case, for over a year when it objected his protection.
Maharashtra Police booked Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferriera and Vernon Gonsalves for alleged links with Maoists and triggering violence in Koregaon Bhima near Pune in January 2018.
Civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha had appealed against a Bombay High Court order that refused to quash an FIR against him in the 2017 Koregaon-Bhima case.
Poland PM Donald Tusk highlighted that the ‘Trump pill’ will serve as a much-needed wake-up call for Europe to make painful but necessary structural changes.
Donald Trump has been vocal about India’s high import tariffs and has threatened retaliation. Simultaneously, his tough stand on China could see Chinese goods flood India.
The Chinese aircraft has uncanny similarities to the American F-35 jet. There are claims that China copied the design. Cyber theft of F-35 design data was reported in 2009.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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