The Times of India reported, that starting next month, PM Narendra Modi's government will begin amassing a warehouse of virtual information collected not just from traditional sources like banks, but also from social media sites, as it looks to match residents' spending patterns with income declarations
The Indian Express reported that 4.12 hectares of forest land have been acquired in Chhattisgarh for a resort by Sarita Agrawal, the wife of State Minister Brijmohan Agrawal. Officials have now found that 13.9 hectares of government land was encroached upon for the project.
Demonetisation and the subsequent push for digitisation has escalated risks relating to cyber crime and India needs to urgently upgrade its defences by setting up a cyber security commission on the lines of the Atomic Energy and Space Commissions, reported The Times of India.
The Janata Dal (U), which last week broke its alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress in Bihar, will now vote for Opposition candidate for the vice-presidential poll Gopalkrishna Gandhi. JD(U) spokesperson K.C. Tyagi told The Hindu.
The Patna High Court dismissed two PILs challenging the formation of the new government by Nitish Kumar’s JD (U) along with the BJP, The Hindu carried a news report. After hearing all parties, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice A K Upadhyay dismissed the two PILs saying no intervention of the court is required, after floor test in the state Assembly.
