India raises snooping issue again with US

Though,it has raised the issue with the US,both in Washington and here,India in the meeting this time conveyed that as per reports,the monitoring of online traffic by their security agencies as was revealed by Snowden,the National Security Agency contractor-turned-whistleblower,was not restricted to the data collection purposes.

The issue was first raised by National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon with US Ambassador Nancy Powell and then by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid during the meeting here with his US counterpart John Kerry in June.

Indian mission in Washington had also taken up the issue with the US government when reports of US intelligence snooping on various countries including India emerged in July.