The incumbent, Arun Sinha, has been given another extension as technical intelligence chief following a stalemate over names moved by the PMO and Union home ministry.

U-turn comes after The Wire reported controversial details from the cement giant’s ‘vision document’ for the UNESCO heritage monument.

A Ministry of Culture scheme has put Delhi’s most renowned monuments, including Humayun’s Tomb and the Red Fort, in the care of a private foundation. Its ideas for improvements could damage and degrade our priceless heritage.

With not enough reserves and no collateral charged, the question arises as to how the bank will pay up if a guarantee is invoked by a government entity.

Was there intelligence available about a possible hijack months before and were the agencies caught napping?

Signalling woes and a lack of routes add to the woes of the Modi government's flagship railway initiative.

No matter which government comes to power, farmer unions will continue their agitation till their demands are met, said a farmer leader at the rally.

The court order this week may have laid down a process for increasing confidence that the vote is being counted, as cast, but some serious, technical issues remain unaddressed, say experts.

That disclosing the source code will make the machines vulnerable to hacking is an argument the Supreme Court has put forward time and again.

End-to-end verifiability involves voters being able to verify whether the paper trail generated by EVMs actually has the names of the candidates they select. Some say this can be achieved in India without disturbing the existing setup.

The Speaker and the ruling party, officials and even the media are calling it a security breach. Yet the five arrested have been booked under the draconian anti-terror law UAPA.

The government agreed to some concessions in the Bill, including retaining the status of the CEC and the ECs on par with judges of the Supreme Court.

The stated intent of these two Bills is to nominate two members from the 'Kashmiri migrant community' and one representing the displaced persons from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) to the J&K legislative assembly.

She said this issue has nothing to do with the party as it was a government matter. On being asked if Hamas should be banned, she said the concerned division would answer on this matter.

The extent of opposition unity was clearer outside. The INDIA alliance, seen to be on shaky ground after the Assembly polls, rallied behind the TMC member appealing to Speaker to let her speak in the House.

The two legislations are being viewed as an attempt by the Union government to tweak the political landscape to its advantage ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, by wooing the Kashmiri Pandits and Pahadia community of the region.

It appears that Indians will have to continue travelling in jam-packed General and Sleeper compartments for the next two years or more, after which, they will have to shell out higher fares if they wish to travel by train.

A recent petition in the Supreme Court asking for the source code of EVMs was dismissed. But there are important questions that remain about the code, the importance of making it public and other software deployed for the machines. 

In an interview with Meetu Jain, Apar Gupta from the Internet Freedom Foundation says that while ordinary citizens are unlikely to be the targets of sophisticated spyware attacks, they will feel the ripple effects.

The Wire spoke to K.M. Chandrasekhar about the controversy over the Modi government asking ministries to nominate civil servants as 'Rath Prabharis'.