NILAMBUR: The Nilambur forests are fast turning a haven for Maoists and other extremist organisations, according to the latest intelligence reports. The police and forest officials have started combing operations to smoke them out from the forest areas of Vazhikadavu and Karulayi bordering Tamil Nadu where they are said to be camping. Nilambur forests are considered as a sensitive area where extremists thrive. This belief has been strengthened by the...
12:04 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: With states stoutly opposed to NCTC in its current form, Home Minister P Chidambaram has assured that the matter of re-location of the anti-terror body outside the Intelligence Bureau (IB) would be re-examined. In his concluding remarks at the Chief Ministers conference, which were released officially on Sunday, the Home Minister sought to clarify on the decision of placing the NCTC within the IB. "...I may recall, when...
01:55 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: The government may ask Army Chief General VK Singh to go on leave till May 31, the day he retires as it triple to tide over the crisis precipitated by the General levelling bribery allegations against serving as well as retired Army officers and writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mentioning that the Army was ill-equipped to fight a war and defeat the enemy. Sources say...
11:30 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai and also most vulnerable to a possible terror attack was on top of the list of sensitive buildings surveyed and video-taped by 26/11 terror attacks planner David Coleman Headley. Headley surveyed the BARC complex for a possible terror strike. Intelligence agencies have now reported, despite stepped-up security after the Mumbai terror attacks, at least 25 intrusions have...
06:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Washington: Researchers are tapping brainpower of babies, toddlers and pre-schooler's to nudge artificial intelligence (AI) into becoming smarter like humans. Computational models based on baby brainpower could give enable AI to overcome limitations such as handling nuances and uncertainty, said researchers. "Children are the greatest learning machines in the universe. Imagine if computers could learn as much and as quickly as they do," said study co-author Alison Gopnik developmental psychologist...
06:57 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Chennai: The CBI on Wednesday arrested a senior Directorate of Revenue Intelligence official in Chennai for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 8 lakh and an iPad. He was caught while accepting the first installment of Rs 2 lakhs. C Rajan, DRI Additional Director General, was allegedly caught while accepting the bribe which he had demanded from a businessman to defreeze his account and not book him under Conservation of...
10:29 AM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Reportedly, Google is said to be coming up with Siri's competitor this year. The company is believed to be working on artificial intelligence technology - dubbed "Google Assistant" - which is expected to be capable of surpassing the capabilities of Apple's Siri voice assistant. According to reports, Google plans to come up with its Assistant by the fourth quarter of this year. It is rumored that "Google Assistant"...
01:19 PM, Mar 04, 2012
On February 16th, the Defence Ministry raised an alarm about a possible bug that was found inside AK Antony's office. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry on Friday denied the reports of bugging in its office, saying that there were just routine checks in the offices of the Raksha Mantri and other offices in South Block. "Nothing has been found in these checks," said Defence Ministry officials. The Home Ministry too said it was not aware of any bugging incident in the Defence Minister's office. "The MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs)...
03:48 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony's office is said to have been 'bugged', reports claimed on Friday. The bugging came to notice on February 16, following which Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma took up the matter with the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Reportedly, officials of the Military Intelligence detected the bug during a routine check. Their hand-held detectors indicated presence of a monitoring device in Antony's office. The MI personnel were immediately...
01:25 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday claimed to have in possession 'millions' of Stratfor mails that establish its links with Dow Chemicals, one of the prime accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Stratfor is a US-based intelligence firm. WikiLeaks alleged that it had proof that Stratfor monitored and analysed online activities of the Bhopal activists, reportedly on Dow's asking. One of the activists, Rachna Dhingra said that she...
07:21 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked telecom operators Idea Cellular and Vodafone to provide Intelligence Bureau (IB) identification of subscribers using Internet on their mobile phones. DoT officials said instructions have been issued to Idea and Vodafone to provide the requisite information to IB at the earliest. The security agency had sought details of some mobile numbers by providing the corresponding IP addresses to Vodafone but the...
12:24 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to the Chief Ministers of six states on Tuesday, convincing them that the NCTC will, in no way, affect the allocation of powers between the states and the Union. In his letter, Singh wrote that the primary purpose of the NCTC was to coordinate counter-terrorism efforts throughout the country and would be more like the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in its functioning,...
07:59 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) faced a fresh crisis on Friday after eight chief ministers came out against a proposed powerful counter-terror intelligence hub, saying it infringed on the rights of states. The Congress, which leads the UPA, tried to play down the issue after ally and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee joined three chief ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal...
10:22 PM, Feb 17, 2012
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