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Topic: Spy

Ordeal of a jailbird — how Mumbai cops mistook Taiwanese ‘racing pigeon’ for Chinese ‘spy’

Last May, CISF first spotted a suspicious black-grey pigeon, with rings on its feet and markings on its wings, idling at Pir Pao pier. Last week, the bird was finally set free.

South Korea accuses North Korean hackers of creating fake website of their web portal Naver

Naver is one of the biggest tech giants and the most used web portal and search engine in South Korea.

Russia picks up WSJ journalist for ‘spying’. It’s a blast from Cold War past

Evan Gershkovich, 31, may be first US journalist to be picked up by Russia for espionage since Cold War, but there have been other similar accusations between both countries in past.

Very unlikely that a foreign adversary was behind ‘Havana syndrome’: Report by US intel agencies

Symptoms first appeared to affect US officials in Havana in 2016, then in India, China, Europe & Washington. There was even speculation about use of microwaves & soundwaves.

Iran executes British-Iranian Alireza Akbari accused of spying, prompts Western condemnation

The 61-year-old, once served as Iran's deputy defence minister, was arrested in 2019. UK PM Rishi Sunak called the execution "a callous and cowardly act carried out by a barbaric regime".

How CIA ‘failed’ its Iranian spies: Reuters report finds ‘negligence, faulty communications’

Titled ‘America’s Throwaway Spies’, the report probes the US intelligence agency's approach towards civilians it hires as spies, and how 'flawed' systems often lead to their capture.

China’s murky web of economic espionage was uncovered by an arrest in Brussels & an iPhone backup

Since the 1990s, America has charged almost 700 people with links to China for economic espionage. But Xu Yanjun’s story is the first one that has made this link explicit.

Russian spy honey-trapped NATO staff in Naples, sold cheap knock-offs as jewellery: Report

Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera’s lid was blown after her passport numbers were in the range of two other undercover fellow GRU spies.

New book traces history of Chinese intelligence service, details rise of Communist China

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’ by Roger Faligot will be released on 29 April on ThePrint’s SoftCover.

Pegasus scandal shows how lawless India’s ‘lawful interception’ has become

Many democracies understand the need for lawful surveillance against serious crimes. Few provide the executive such sweeping powers like India does.

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What the key political events of 2025 tell us about Narendra Modi and India’s future

From Operation Sindoor to India-US tensions to the EC controversies, a clear understanding has emerged about where the politics is headed now.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.