New Delhi: Unauthorised tapping of telephones will soon be a matter of past as the government has decided to operationalise a "foolproof" Central Monitoring System (CMS) which will put an end to all illegal interception. The CMS, which enables security agencies to monitor phones and internet communications of suspected persons, will ensure that monitoring of phone calls, text messages and internet use of citizens will be done only by government agencies after taking due permission from designated authority.
"We will soon operationalise the CMS. It will be a fool-proof monitoring system," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters. The CMS will put an end to the involvement of telephone operators in phone tapping and if any agency wishes to monitor any particular number will have to keep all record online -- taking permission, duration of monitoring, what did they found and the persons involved in the whole process -- so that the person concerned could be brought to task if there is any irregularity.
The Home Secretary will soon chair a review meeting on the CMS and its operationalisation along with all stakeholders - the Ministry of Telecom and Department of Information Technology. The government has been maintaining that it is setting up CMS to safeguard citizen's privacy from mobile operators and protects national security.
Phone-tapping powers are restricted only to nine agencies in the country, including CBI and the Income Tax department. The government is, however, planning to give market regulator SEBI the powers to get
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Kolkata: New data with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows West Bengal has the highest incidence of crimes against women. The data shows that 30,942 incidents of crime against women were reported in the state - the highest in the country. According to the data, Kolkata is the third most unsafe city, preceded by Delhi and Bangalore. There is a caveat here. The data pertains to 2012 and accounts...
01:42 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Friday defended the newly revealed government surveillance programmes as a small price to pay for keeping America safe from terror attacks. Sweeping up Americans' telephone records and monitoring Internet activity from overseas are "modest encroachments on privacy" that can help US intelligence analysts disrupt terror activity, he said during a four-day trip to the West Coast. "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he reassured...
03:07 AM, Jun 08, 2013
San Francisco/New York: The US National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon Communications customers, according to a secret court order obtained and published by the Guardian newspaper's website. The order marked "Top Secret" and issued by the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court directs Verizon's Business Network Services Inc and Verizon Business Services units to hand over electronic data including all calling records on an "ongoing, daily...
07:44 AM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: All four accused in the Arun Jaitley call detail records case were granted bail by a Delhi court on Thursday. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal granted bail to Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas, 35, and three private detectives, Anurag Singh, 37, Neeraj Nayar, 36, and Nitish Singh, 30, on a personal bond of Rs one lakh each and two sureties each of the like amount. The court enlarged...
04:39 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: Valery Rozov, a 48-year-old climber and base jumper from Russia, has set a new world record by performing a wing-suit jump off Mount Everest from an elevation of 23,687 feet, which is considered to be the highest ever Base jump to date. Rozov jumpped off Mount Everest to celebrate the the 60th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, by Sir Edmund Hillary and...
11:40 AM, May 30, 2013
Washington: US lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records. US Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before a House of Representatives panel, provided limited responses on the issue, noting he had been recused from the probe into a government leak that led to the records seizure. Lawmakers on the House Judiciary...
03:48 AM, May 16, 2013
Washington: In an unusual move, US Justice Department secretly obtained two months' of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press, an action termed by the global news wire as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how it gathers the news. The Justice Department obtained secret records as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot in 2012. The Associated Press,...
10:56 AM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's 'Gangs of Wasseypur' won the National Film Award for best sound recording, but he will boycott felicitating ceremony on Thursday evening. This comes after two of his award-winning sound team members were not invited for the presentation ceremony. Sound engineers Alok De, Sinoy Joseph and Shreejesh Nair couldn't contain their joy when they were pronounced as the winners of the Best Audiography National Film Award for...
09:53 AM, May 03, 2013
Bangalore: There are two days left for the Karnataka Assembly elections and as always money power is a concern in the state. Not just that, the state Election Watch finds that more than 20 per cent of candidates have criminal records. Political parties may have promised to make the Karnataka 2013 Assembly polls a clean one, but a report by the Karnataka Election Watch shows that nearly 21 per cent...
09:34 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is set to hear charges in the Arun Jaitley call-records case involving the senior BJP leader on Tuesday. In the last hearing, the Delhi Police had filed a chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh, a police constable Arvind Dabbas and two other private detectives, currently in judicial custody. The people named in the report are currently in judicial custody. Arvind Dabas was arrested in...
09:08 AM, Apr 30, 2013
MS Dhoni, who guided Chennai Super Kings to a scintillating five-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday, has become the first captain in the IPL history to complete 2000 runs. Dhoni lies eighth in the overall tally of batsmen who have scored more than 2000 runs in the cash-rich league in the past six seasons. Here are some more statistical highlights from Game 34 between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers...
11:30 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Bangalore: Mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi, nicknamed as "human computer" for her ability to make complex mental calculations, died at a hospital here on Sunday following respiratory problems. She was 80. "She passed away at Bangalore Hospital," Shakuntala Devi Educational Foundation Public Trust Trustee DC Shivadev told reporters. Doctors declared her dead at 8.15 am, he said. Devi was hospitalised a couple of weeks ago for critical respiratory problems, Shivadev said....
07:15 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has filed the first chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh and others in the Arun Jaitley call records case. This for illegally attempting to take out call records of Jaitley's and other BJP leaders. The charges have been filed against four people under sections of cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery and also the IT Act. However, even after two months of investigations, the police have failed...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police will submit its chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh - an accused in the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case - and his aides on Tuesday, said sources on Monday, adding that the police have yet not linked Anurag Singh to any politician. Police are likely to state in its chargesheet that Anurag Singh collected call records of important leaders within the BJP as he was...
10:41 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai girl Ashwini Nene has topped the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) - a pre-requisite for admissions to most US graduate schools and for some other countries - by scoring full marks of 340/340, an official said here on Wednesday. Nene, 20, is a student of Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Andheri. The GRE results were announced by Educational Testing Services, a US-based organisation that conducts the examinations worldwide. Coached...
11:00 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The 3D broadcasts of the speeches of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2012 Assembly elections have entered the Guinness Book of World Records, he stated on Thursday. "Gujarat election campaign 2012 becomes even more memorable with the 3D interaction creating a Guinness World," Modi said on Twitter. ...
09:19 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas, arrested in connection with BJP leader Arun Jaitley's phone tapping case. ...
04:13 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Delhi Police has swung into action following the Call Detail Records (CDRs) case and restricted the use of email IDs of police officials for seeking information on the CDRs. While earlier, ACP level officers could mail to seek information on CDRs, now only DCP and Additional CP level officers can seek information about call records. The rule, however, remains unchanged for Special Cell and the Crime Branch. ...
06:26 PM, Mar 08, 2013
The call details racket which first surfaced with a Delhi Police constable seeking Arun Jaitley's phone records is getting murkier. In a similar case, a Mumbai police probe has put the scanner on two more Delhi Police officials. ...
07:46 AM, Mar 08, 2013
