
New Delhi:WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has demanded that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati apologise for her attack on him and quipped that he would send her a range of the finest British footwear if she sends him a private jet. Assange's comment came in response to Mayawatis allegation that the Wikileaks founder had either gone mad or is working with her opponents. The WikiLeaks official account posted Assange's response on...

07:20 PM, Sep 06, 2011

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has a "penchant for personal corruption" and a strong authoritarian streak, according to WikiLeaks. The whistleblower site claims that Mayawati's close confidante and Rajya Sabha MP Satish Mishra told US officials on May 29, 2007, 16 days after she took oath as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, that she was corrupt However, Satish Mishra has flatly refuted ...

12:42 PM, Sep 06, 2011

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleging that "he had either gone mad or is working with our opponents". Reacting to WikiLeaks revelations about the money spent by her, Mayawati termed the claims by the whistleblower site as wrong and baseless. However, during her entire speech, Mayawati didn't mention the name of Julian Assange and referred to him...

12:14 PM, Sep 06, 2011

New Delhi: The Essar Group on Tuesday rejected the allegations made in the US diplomatic cable published on WikiLeaks that it paid protection money to Maoists, saying it is a law abiding corporate. "Essar is a law abiding corporate. We don't think it is appropriate or necessary to react to baseless and unfounded allegations," an Essar spokesperson said in a statement. As per the cable published by whistleblower internet website...

11:36 AM, Sep 06, 2011

Srinagar: Moderate Hurriyat Conference leaders were privately in favour of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru if he was guilty but felt that he did not get adequate representation during parts of his trial, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed. "While they (moderates) were concerned that Afzal did not have adequate representation during parts of his trial, privately they say that he should be executed if he is guilty," a...

09:41 AM, Sep 06, 2011

Washington: The Ruias-led Essar Group, which has mining interests in Chhattisgarh, pays protection money to Maoists to safeguard its operations in the state, a leaked US diplomatic cable said. "A senior representative from Essar, a major industrial company with large mining and steel-related facilities in Chhattisgarh, told Congenoff (Consul General Office) that the company pays the Maoists 'a significant amount' not to harm or interfere with their operations," a cable...

08:46 AM, Sep 06, 2011

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati sent a jet to pick up a pair of sandals, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. "When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand," a cable said describing her "eccentricities, whims and insecurities". US embassy cables from 2007 to 2009 released by the WikiLeaks website describe Mayawati as "a...

03:19 PM, Sep 05, 2011

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02:49 PM, Sep 05, 2011

New Delhi: By "surrendering" to the Telangana statehood demand, the Congress opened a can of worms and came across as a party that appeared "weak and feeble" and one that can be "easily bullied and intimidated by threats", according to US assessment of the situation in 2009. In a secret cable written on December 10, 2009, then US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said the ramifications of the "Telangana surrender"...

01:47 PM, Sep 04, 2011

D Raja reacts to the WikiLeaks cable that quotes former national security adviser as saying India wasn't serious about David Headley's extradition. ...

11:29 AM, Sep 04, 2011

New Delhi: New revelations in a US cable released by Wikileaks state that India was never really serious about 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley's extradition. The cable says that in December 2009, former national security adviser MK Narayanan had told the then US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that New Delhi's demand for extraditing Headley was mere posturing. Narayanan is also reported saying that the government was just trying to...

10:05 AM, Sep 04, 2011

London: Uncensored copies of WikiLeaks' massive tome of US State Department cables circulated freely on Thursday across the Internet, leaving a whole new batch of US sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution. The United States, meanwhile, denied ever cooperating with the anti-secrecy group, and blasted Wikileaks for allegedly threatening national security and the safety of confidential informants. WikiLeaks has blamed Britain's the Guardian newspaper for the breach, saying that...

10:47 PM, Sep 01, 2011

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01:06 PM, Aug 26, 2011

Washington: The WikiLeaks organization said Thursday it was releasing tens of thousands of previously unpublished US diplomatic cables, some of which are still classified. "We will have released over 100,000 US embassy cables from around the world by the end of today," said a message on WikiLeaks' Twitter feed. The Twitter page is believed to be controlled by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' controversial Australian-born founder and chief. The cables which the...

07:35 AM, Aug 26, 2011