Key Cong-JDS leaders were ‘possible targets’ of Pegasus spyware during 2019 crisis: report
The Hindu
CM Kumaraswamy, Deputy CM Parameshwara, Siddaramaiah’s numbers found on list
During the , which ended in the collapse of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government and the BJP coming to power, the phone numbers of key leaders in the coalition parties and their associates “were selected as possible targets for surveillance”, The Wire reported on Tuesday, as part of the Phone numbers of the then deputy chief minister Dr. G. Parameshwara, of personal secretaries of the then chief minister H. D. Kumaraswamy, former chief minister Siddaramaiah and a security personnel of the former prime minister H.D. Devegowda were selected as possible targets, according to The Wire’sreview of records of numbers that were of interest to Indian client of Israel’s NSO Group.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.