KOLKATA: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, has come to the defence of fellow parliamentarian Mahua Moitra, stating that her only fault is asking questions about Adani. Addressing the media in his constituency, Chowdhury expressed his view that the situation reflects political vindictiveness. He drew attention to the Ethics Committee formed during the […]
NEW DELHI: During an ethics committee hearing concerning the “cash-for-query” scandal, Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP) Mahua Moitra acknowledged receiving various gifts, including a scarf and chauffeur-driven rides in Mumbai and Dubai on multiple occasions, as well as “some items of make-up” and basic architectural drawings to make her government accommodation vaastu compliant. […]
In a fresh controversy, various opposition MPs, including Congress’s Pawan Khera, AAP’s Raghav Chadha, and Mahua Moitra, received alarming alerts on their iPhones, hinting at potential phone hacking by a state-sponsored threat. The technology giant has issued a statement clarifying its stance. Apple asserts that it does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific […]
Moitra and her fellow opposition MPs emerged from the committee's questioning, criticising the line of inquiry.
As a matter of fact, the New Indian also sent queries to Apple's India team, which refused to reply thus far.
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress’ Lok Sabha Parliamentarian Mahua Moitra wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla regarding “warning messages” of their Apple devices being hacked on Wednesday. Earlier Moitra had taken to the social media platform, X, to share the warning message from Apple tagging Shiv Sena (UBT) parliamentarian Priyanka Chaturvedi. The content of the […]
NEW DELHI: In the wake of mounting allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre regarding privacy breaches within the INDIA alliance, Congress’ Member of Parliament from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi, issued a bold challenge to the government, asserting that they will not be deterred. At a press conference, Rahul Gandhi boldly declared, “Very few people are fighting […]
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing controversy in India, where opposition leaders have raised concerns about alleged government-sponsored phone surveillance, it has come to light that India’s nodal agency for cybersecurity, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), had issued a security warning for iPhone users in the country back in June 2023. The alert specifically focused on […]
NEW DELHI: As Opposition MPs from different parties on Tuesday shared screenshots of alerts from iPhone maker Apple to posit claims of snooping by the Centre, additional information is surfacing from around the globe hinting at a bigger phenomenon all around. Artur Papyan, a digital security and media consultant and the director of the Media Diversity […]
KOLKATA: In the ongoing defamation case brought by Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Lok Sabha Parliamentarian, Mahua Moitra, her legal counsel opted not to seek an interim injunction during the latest court hearing. The counsel representing Moitra informed the court that they were not pressing for an ex-parte ad interim injunction against the defendants, which would have included […]