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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Delhi Police’s Gandhi ‘moment’, & the Rhea-Kangana-Sushant ‘media circus’ in times of Covid

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Wish-list of Army Corps in J&K — grenade launchers, drones, surveillance equipment

The 15 Corps in Kashmir and 16 Corps in Jammu, along with the 14 Corps in Ladakh, have asked the Northern Command to make some urgent purchases.

GPS, watch out. Here comes China with a better satellite navigation system

China has launched the final leg of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite system, or BDS, completing the build-out of a network that competes with US’ GPS and Europe’s Galileo.

Under Hong Kong’s new security law, police swab protesters for DNA & search their homes

Hong Kong police have had the authority to collect DNA samples for more than a decade, but it was typically only used in assault or drug cases.

Warrant-less search, net surveillance, property seizure – Hong Kong cops get sweeping powers

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam said people will not regularly fall afoul of the law, but affirmed that much of its implementation would be managed in secret.

Hong Kong could come up against China’s Great firewall under the new national security law

A firewall similar to that in mainland China would cut Hong Kong's access to most foreign news outlets, websites and messaging apps.

Monopoly in the name of privacy: How Google is slowly closing its advertising ecosystem

By encrypting domain naming system data, Google would prevent third parties from tracking users while they explore the web.

WhatsApp surveillance: Are Supreme Court guidelines on tapping outdated & need strengthening?

Facebook-owned WhatsApp confirmed that Indian journalists and human rights activists were under surveillance until May 2019 via Israeli spyware Pegasus.

Modi govt seeks to adopt China-style facial recognition in policing

Modi govt will open bids next month to build a system to centralise facial recognition data captured through surveillance cameras across India.

Aadhaar to e-commerce: Data needs to ensure ease of living, not be a burden on Indians

The government’s administrative architecture must be designed in such a way that the burden on Indians to provide data to multiple agencies is reduced.

On Camera

What Trump-Harris result could mean for India in key areas, from geopolitics to trade & immigration

India cannot be blasé about change in any important capital in the world. Let's look at five key areas where US policy matters for India and how it may vary between Harris and Trump.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

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.