Describing bullying and harassment of Sikh children as a "serious problem", the US Department of Justice has recommended that crimes against Sikhs and Hindus should be added to the religion-based hate crimes tracked by the FBI to help law enforcement officials tackle the problem. ...
09:58 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Anti-virus software founder John McAfee arrived in the US on Wednesday night after being deported from Guatemala, where he had sought to evade police questioning in the killing of a man in neighboring Belize. ...
07:47 AM, Dec 13, 2012
The sex scandal that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign has generated bizarre plot twists. Another top general exchanged what have been described as 'inappropriate emails' with a key figure in the scandal; both generals were drawn into an ugly child custody battle; and a shirtless FBI agent leaked a report to a congressman. ...
11:11 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: The scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus widened on Tuesday as US defense officials said they were looking into "flirtatious" e-mails between General John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, and a woman at the center of the affair. Defense Department officials said they were sifting through 30,000 pages of email and other communications between Allen and Jill Kelley, a Florida socialite whose complaints about harassing messages...
07:54 AM, Nov 14, 2012
North Carolina: FBI agents searched the North Carolina house of Paula Broadwell on Monday, signaling renewed activity in the investigation that revealed her extramarital affair with CIA Director David Petraeus that led to his resignation. Agents entered the house in Charlotte, North Carolina, carrying boxes around 9:00 p.m. (0200 GMT Tuesday) and were still there almost two hours later. U.S. officials had said in recent days that their investigation in...
11:33 AM, Nov 13, 2012
This week on World View with Suhasini Haidar we take a detailed look at the Rajat Gupta sentencing, 10-day countdown to US Elections:, highlights of 3rd Obama-Romney debate. ...
02:38 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Rajat Gupta, 63, of Westport, Conn., was sentenced by US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff, who also ordered him to pay a $5 million fine. ...
08:49 AM, Oct 25, 2012
A former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. board member once widely respected worldwide for his business smarts was sentenced on Wednesday to 2 years in prison for feeding inside information about board dealings with a billionaire hedge fund owner who was his friend. ...
08:41 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New York: A Bangladeshi man was arrested in New York on Wednesday in a sting operation by US authorities for allegedly plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve bank. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested while he was trying to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Fed building on Liberty Street. Nafis, 21, arrived in the US in January and was planning to...
09:14 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New York: Goldman Sachs' India-born former director Rajat Gupta is seeking a sentence of probation accompanied by "rigorous" community service, according to court documents submitted by his lawyer a week before a federal judge here sentences him on his conviction on insider trading charges. In a 99-page sentencing memorandum submitted in federal court on Wednesday, Gupta's lawyer Gary Naftalis requested that the "court impose a sentence of probation with the...
01:41 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New York: Bill Gates and Kofi Annan are among several prominent businessmen and humanitarians asking a US judge to show fairness when he sentences former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta for his insider trading conviction later this month. Gupta, 63, the most influential and best-known corporate figure to be caught in a broad insider trading crackdown of the last four years, moved in elite business and philanthropic...
09:48 AM, Oct 13, 2012
United States On August 5, Micahel Wade Page killed six people inside a Sikh Gurdwara in Wisconsin, along with a police officer. Page was a supremacist, involved in underground music known as white power music or hate rock. FBI statistics show that since 2008, hate crimes towards African Americans have increased. Between 1996 and 2007, hate crimes had never crossed the 70 per cent mark, but in 2008 it touched...
10:56 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Florida: A Florida company said on Monday that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc, told Reuters. FBI...
10:54 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments on October 25 in hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam's bid to overturn his insider trading conviction on grounds that the US government improperly won permission to record his phone conversations. One-time billionaire Rajaratnam, 55, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in what prosecutors called the biggest insider trading case of a generation. Rajaratnam was the principal defendant among dozens of...
03:48 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New York: The FBI said on Tuesday there was "no evidence" to support claims that hacking group Anonymous infiltrated an FBI agent's laptop and lifted a file with identification numbers for more than 12 million Apple products. Anonymous affiliate "AntiSec" posted a file on the Internet on Monday that it said contained more than 1 million of the Apple numbers. AntiSec said it had taken them from a Federal Bureau...
09:47 AM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: In an apparent breach of an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent's laptop by hacker group AntiSec over 1 million Apple unique device identifier numbers (UDID) were posted online. The UDIDs were reported to be stolen from FBI special agent Christopher Stangl's laptop. Earlier this year Stangl was one of the FBI agents participating in a call that was breached by Anonymous hackers. The hackers say that the...
07:43 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Oak Creek: As thousands of mourners paid their last respects to six Sikh worshippers gunned down at a Sikh gurdwara at Oak Creek, US Attorney General Eric Holder called it "an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime." Holder spoke at an emotional memorial service at Oak Creek High School for the victims of the attack at the gurdwara in a Milwaukee suburb that brought an unending...
10:48 AM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: Promising a "thorough" probe by FBI into Wisconsin Gurudwara shooting in which six Sikhs were killed, US Ambassador Nancy Powell has said that anyone found involved in the incident will be brought to justice. "Our Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation; though the news suggests this was the act of one individual, if anyone else is involved, they will be brought to justice and charged under...
07:10 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Wisconsin: The Wisconsin gurudwara that was attacked last Sunday, leaving seven people dead, including shooter Wade Michael Page, has been reopened to the public. The police handed over the premises to the management early on Friday morning, five days after the tragic shooting that killed six worshipers. Built in 1997 to meet the needs of the local Sikh community, the gurdwara was the scene of tragic bloodshed on Sunday when...
08:56 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Milwaukee/Wisconsin: Wade Page, the gunman who killed six people at a US gurudwara at Oak Creek in Wisconsin on weekend, shot himself dead, the FBI revealed on Thursday. The FBI added that Page died of a self-inflicted wound to the head and not from a shot by the police as had been claimed earlier. The FBI also defended its decision to not monitor Page earlier even though he was on...
07:52 AM, Aug 09, 2012
