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TopicDigital arrest

Topic: digital arrest

SIM binding: What India’s new mandate means for your WhatsApp & why big tech is pushing back

Vrinda Tulsian -
Though the objective of addressing financial security breaches is understandable, a major issue is that SIM-binding requirement may be difficult to implement in short term.

After 465% spike in 2024, MHA data shows digital arrest scams are on a decline in India

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Indians lost Rs 1,918 crore to digital arrest scams in 2024. Cases still being reported, but awareness has helped curb menace, says MHA official.

Made-in-India Zoho’s app Arattai, which govt promoted, yet to comply with anti-digital arrest curbs

Vrinda Tulsian -
Centre tells SC, besides messaging app Arattai, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal have not complied with orders to ensure apps can't be used without original & active SIM, & need time-bound session controls.

Telecom dept’s limited powers, SIM misuse aid digital arrests—Centre pushes for SIM binding in SC

Vrinda Tulsian -
Submissions by Department of Telecommunications form part of a suo motu writ petition being heard by the apex court on digital arrest scams.

‘Summons to Mumbai & SC hearing’: How GK-2 couple lost Rs 14.85 cr to an elaborate cyber con

Mayank Kumar -
The couple, both doctors who used to live in the US, were held on “digital arrest” for two weeks between late December 2025 and 9 January.

Rajasthan HC ordered ride-hailing apps to have 15% women drivers. It was hearing a ‘digital arrest’ case

Khadija Khan -
The court’s directives in a bail hearing drew scrutiny from lawyers who said the orders went beyond addressing remedies for the cyber fraud involved.

India’s IT hub Bengaluru is also the cybercrime capital with over 17,000 cases

Samridhi Tewari -
Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of convictions in cybercrime cases at 446, followed by Jharkhand with 114.

Indian investors, the ‘unsung heroes’ amid Trump trade war & ‘lessons’ for Modi in global headwinds

Antara Baruah -
Financial Times reports on hotel chains making inroads into tier-2 India while BBC highlights digital arrest scam.

India’s elderly are losing their savings to scams. And it’s creating health problems

Shubhangi Misra -
Tapan Bhattacharya, a retired banker, said his degree of awareness of such crimes is high. He still lost Rs 20 lakh in a scam.

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Opinion

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

R Jagannathan -
Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Communism is based on self-deluding assumptions, it can’t be realised in practice: GN Lawande

Indian govt is scrambling to manage LPG shortage while denying it exists

Economy

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

Katharine Gemmell -
President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Defence

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

Vaibhav Pant -
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

National Interest

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Shekhar Gupta -
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.

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