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"Is the govt following path of North Korea's Kim Jong Un?": Akhilesh Yadav
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
He compared the move to North Korea's surveillance practices, citing Kim Jong Un's regime.
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"Baseless controversy is being created": BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad on 'sur
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday defended the Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) directive to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi App on mobile handsets, likening it to a 'suraksha kawach' (protection shield).
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Jio users to get advance security warnings on highways, company signs MoU
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Under the MoU, a telecom-based safety alert system will be developed across the National Highway network, where travellers will receive warnings on their mobile phones as they approach identified risk locations, such as accident-prone stretches, stray-cattle zones, fog-affected areas, and em
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"No, Govt wants to do no snooping": BJP's Sambit Patra addresses concerns
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Patra explained that Sanchar Saathi allows users to report suspicious calls, fraudulent activities, and malicious links, empowering them to protect themselves. The app utilises IMEI tracking to combat phone duplication and aid in recovering stolen devices.
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Akhilesh Yadav slams BJP over Sanchar Sathi app, says party keeping "vultu
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
"Those whose history itself has been one of spying, how can they possibly give up espionage? In the BJP government, the freedom of expression was already being snatched away; now, even the private conversations within homes, families, relatives, friendships, and businesses will come under
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Apple to resist India government order to preload Sanchar Saathi app on mo
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Apple does not plan to comply with the mandate to preload mobile handsets with the 'Sanchar Saathi' app and will convey its concerns before the Indian government, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing three unnamed sources.
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"Sanchar Saathi's functionality neither disabled nor restricted": Priyanka
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Tuesday hit back at Union Minister of Communication Jyotiraditya Scindia over the directive mandating the Sanchar Saathi app, claiming that the app's functionality can neither be disabled nor restricted.
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India needs transformational geospatial push to meet development and secur
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
India needs a transformational push in geospatial infrastructure to achieve its economic and national security goals, senior government officials and experts said on the opening day of the GeoSmart India 2025 summit in New Delhi.
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"Sanchar Saathi app voluntary, activation not mandatory; opposition unnece
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday asserted that activation of Sanchar Saathi app on mobile handsets is not mandatory and it is fully up to the consumers to use it or delete it like any other app.
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"Govt will pry into citizens' lives, replicating Russia": Congress MP Kart
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday slammed the Department of Telecommunications' directive to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on all new mobile handsets, calling it "Orwellian" and warning that the government will now "pry into the private lives of every citizen" and is "replicat
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"Attack on privacy of common people": KC Venugopal slams Centre over Sanch
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
The Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) move to mandate the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi application on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported in India has sparked political controversy. Congress MP KC Venugopal on Tuesday criticised the government's directive, calling
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Govt mandates 'Sanchar Saathi App' on all mobile handsets used in India
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
To safeguard the citizens from buying the non-genuine handsets, enabling easy reporting of suspected misuse of telecom resources and to increase the effectiveness of the Sanchar Saathi initiative, the DoT has mandated some norms for the manufacturers and importers of mobile handsets that are
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