https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/india-orders-phone-companies-to-install-govt-cyber-safety-app-in-every-phone-users-will-not-be-able-to-delete-it-2828694-2025-12-01
The November 28 order gives major smartphone companies 90 days to ensure that the government's Sanchar Saathi app is pre-installed on new mobile phones, with a provision that users cannot disable it. For devices already in the supply chain, manufacturers should push the app to phones via software updates, the ministry said in its order, which was not made public and was sent privately to select companies.
The government said the app was essential to combat "serious endangerment" of telecom cyber security from duplicate or spoofed IMEI numbers, which enable scams and network misuse.
post by — 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒗𝒊 𝑹𝒂𝒋 𝒃𝒖𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒂 Through this app, the government is now going to spy directly on your phone... And all this is being done in the name of cyber security...
This means that the government will no longer have the hassle of purchasing data from other apps or even refusing to do so to gather information about you. So get ready, friends, the government is about to come and sit in your phone.
Western Ghats forests losing vitality despite green cover expansion: Study
https://www.heraldgoa.in/goa/western-ghats-forests-losing-vitality-despite-green-cover-expansion-study/455568/ Satellite imagery shows an expansion in green cover, yet a steady erosion of ecological function in the northern Ghats, where Goa’s major rivers, aquifers and biodi vesity corridors originate
The State’s river systems, groundwater recharge zones, forest soils and wildlife habitats depend not just on the presence of trees but on the functional strength of the Ghats as a living ecological engine..
Thus conservation planning cannot rely solely on canopy cover or tree-density figures. Long-term functional indicators, particularly NPP, are essential to capture how forests are actually performing under climate stress.
AQI 400 Paar! But We Are Obsessing Over Modi's Emosaans & Urban Naxals https://youtu.be/SiilQ3x-Z_Q?t=202
Delhi can’t breathe. AQI 500+. Kids coughing, elders wheezing…and you know what TV news is debating? “Maoist conspiracies” and “Ram Mandir sentiment.” Because why talk about PM2.5 when you can manufacture PM — Political Masala?
On this week’s TV Newsance, while India observed Constitution Day, our beloved Godijeevis did what they do best — lose themselves in Ram Mandir flag-hoisting visuals. Hours of primetime were spent decoding Prime Minister Modi’s “body language”, “divine emotions”, and “historic hand gestures”… all while Delhi gasped through its worst pollution spell of the year.
And when they weren’t celebrating saffron flags, anchors were manufacturing an “Urban Naxal” crisis out of a protest by… 22 students. Yes, 22. The same anchors who once performed live asthma attacks when AAP was in power now suddenly don’t know who to blame for the AQI crossing 500.
The lone exception? Sonam Mehrotra Kapoor of India Today — one of the very few who actually remembered that journalism is supposed to serve the public.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor was busy promoting hot-air balloon rides as “world-class infrastructure”. Because what better solution to pollution than literally floating above it?