Spying
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Intelligence agencies tailed a sadhu for years suspecting him to be Netaji
India | Apr 21, 2015, 03:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: The West Bengal intelligence branch snooped on a sadhu for many years in 60s suspecting that he was Subhas Chandra Bose in disguise. The revelation has been made in the recently declassified documents.According
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Indian's conviction may be reversed for spying on gay roommate
World | Apr 01, 2015, 10:39 AM ISTNew York: An Indian-origin former Rutgers student, convicted for spying on his gay roommate who then committed suicide, could see his conviction for bias intimidation reversed after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the
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Ousted Egypt president starts latest trial on spying charge
World | Feb 15, 2015, 08:07 PM ISTCairo: A new trial for Egypt's ousted ex-president has begun in Cairo, with prosecutors accusing him of spying and leaking confidential information to Qatar.The hearing was swiftly adjourned and a new date set for Feb.
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Spying on allies creates mistrust, less security : Merkel
World | Jan 30, 2014, 01:54 PM ISTBerlin : Nations spying on their allies would risk destroying trust and harming security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in her first major policy speech after re-election Wednesday.She told parliament that Germany and the US
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US looks at ways to prevent spying in its spying
Jan 28, 2014, 05:11 PM ISTWashington: The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records.As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of those records from the National Security
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US judge says NSA spying on phone records unconstitutional
World | Dec 17, 2013, 04:25 PM ISTWashington: In a setback to the Obama administration, a judge today ruled that the controversial mass surveillance of phone records by US intelligence was “arbitrary” and “indiscriminate”, raising a question mark on the spy programme
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Revealed: NSA tracks more than 5 billion cellphones daily
World | Dec 05, 2013, 09:34 AM ISTWashington: The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.The NSA inadvertently gathers the location records of "tens
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NSA scoops data from Yahoo, Google data centres: Report
World | Oct 31, 2013, 09:14 AM ISTWashington : The US National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links connecting Yahoo and Google data centres around the world, a US daily reported Wednesday.The Washington Post cited classified documents leaked
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NSA head denies US spying in Europe
World | Oct 30, 2013, 09:02 AM ISTWashington: US National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency's spying on European allies were "completely false".Top US intelligence officials testified before the US Congress,
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US urged to tighten privacy laws to rebuild trust
World | Oct 30, 2013, 09:00 AM ISTWashington : The US needs to tighten privacy laws to rebuild trust, damaged during the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping scandal, as the issue has already put Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in
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Greece spied on US ambassadors, says ex-minister
World | Oct 30, 2013, 08:57 AM ISTAthens: Greece spied on at least two US ambassador, a former Greek foreign affairs minister Theodoros Pangalos revealed Tuesday, amid talks that the American embassy in Athens houses a surveillance centre."We didn't learn anything new...Everybody
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Key senator wants 'total review' of intelligence programs
World | Oct 29, 2013, 08:08 AM ISTWashington : Sen. Diane Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday called for a “total review of all intelligence programs” following allegations that the National Security Agency eavesdropped on the German chancellor—the latest
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France summons US ambassador over spying reports
World | Oct 21, 2013, 07:16 PM ISTParis: France summoned the US ambassador on Monday over newspaper claims that the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on millions of phone calls in the country.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced that he summoned
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Brazil blasts US for spying
World | Sep 25, 2013, 07:50 AM ISTUnited Nations : Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday slammed the US for "meddling" in her country's affairs by widespread espionage."Recent revelations concerning the activities of a global network of electronic espionage have caused indignation and
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Pakistani man, two others get ten years of jail for spying
India | Apr 09, 2013, 09:51 AM ISTBhopal, Apr 9: A Pakistani national and his two Indian associates have been sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment by a local court Monday on charge of spying for the neighbouring country.The court also imposed
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Pak launches judicial inquiry into Indian prisoner's death
World | Jan 26, 2013, 09:12 PM ISTLahore, Jan 26: Pakistan has launched a judicial inquiry into the death of Indian national Chambel Singh, who was serving a five-year jail term for spying, following allegations that he died after being beaten by
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Ravi Spying On His Roommate Was An Innocent Mistake : Lawyer
World | Mar 14, 2012, 07:57 AM ISTNew York, Mar 14: The lawyer for an Indian-origin student on trial for spying on his roommate's encounter with another man began closing arguments in the case at a US court here on Tuesday, arguing
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Stratfor Accused Of Spying For Dow On Bhopal Activists
World | Feb 27, 2012, 11:20 PM ISTLondon, Feb 27: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today began publishing more than five million confidential emails from US-based intelligence firm Stratfor, the anti-secrecy group said. The messages, which date from between July 2004 and December 2011, will
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Russian Accused Of Mass Spamming Charged In US
World | Dec 03, 2010, 12:44 PM ISTMilwaukee, Dec 3 : A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a network responsible for sending a large percentage of the world's spam e-mails will appear in a Wisconsin courtroom to hear charges against him.Oleg
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Naval Employee Held For Spying
India | May 27, 2010, 08:45 PM ISTAn employee of Navyhas been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and police claimed to have recovered from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut