Trenton: An Indian-born former Rutgers University student criticised by a judge for refusing to apologise for using a webcam to spy on his male roommate kissing another man days before the roommate killed himself apologised on Tuesday and said he has accepted responsibility for what he did. Dharun Ravi, 20, also said he will begin serving a 30-day jail term on Thursday even though he doesn't have to. Through a...
09:48 AM, May 30, 2012
New York: India-born Dharun Ravi, convicted of hate crime for spying on his gay roommate and sentenced to 30 days in jail, could end up spending only 20 days behind bars due to prison regulations in New Jersey that give credit to inmates for good behaviour. Ravi, 20, was to begin his prison term on May 31, after being sentenced earlier this week by Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman to...
03:20 PM, May 25, 2012
New York: Indian student Dharun Ravi was on Monday sentenced to 30 days in jail by a New Jersey judge on hate crime charges for using a webcam to spy on a homosexual roommate who later committed suicide. Judge Glenn Berman pronounced the sentence against the 20-year-old former Rutgers University student for bias intimidation and invasion of privacy charges for the 2010 episode involving his roommate Tyler Clementi. Ravi had...
11:02 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: India has launched its first radar imaging satellite that can deliver crystal clear pictures in all weather conditions. It can even peer through jungle and dense tree cover. RISAT 1, India's heaviest remote sensing satellite, soars into space aboard an extra powerful PSLV XL rocket. K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO, says, "RISAT took Rs 378 crore to make. This includes research and development costs. The PSLV XL rocket cost...
07:16 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: They call her RISAT 1 - short for Radar Imaging Satellite. She's the first such machine India has built on its own. While most remote sensing satellites need light to snap pictures, RISAT uses microwaves - similar to the ones in your kitchen oven. Just like your camera fires a flash of light, RISAT-1 fires microwaves, which the ground reflects back. A radar inside the satellite uses those...
08:19 AM, Apr 26, 2012
London: Suave and brutal British super-spy James Bond will find himself in the thick of danger at the end of the swinging '60s in a new, official novel by author William Boyd due out next year. The best-selling British novelist told Reuters on Thursday that he will put his knowledge of Cold War espionage to good use to pen the next adventure of the 007 character created by Ian Fleming,...
05:48 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Kolkata: Mehboob Elahi is happy that his old prison mate Asif Ali Zardari is coming to India but is crestfallen that he will not get to meet the Pakistani president during his short visit Sunday. Elahi, a former Indian spy, was Zardari's jail mate at the Karachi Central Jail for a few months between 1986-87. Elahi had decided that if he gets to meet Zardari he would request the Pakistani...
01:11 PM, Apr 08, 2012
Virginia: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai was on Friday sentenced to two years of imprisonment by a court here for "conspiracy to defraud the US" and for illegally working for Pakistan's ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir. 62-year-old Fai's 24 months of jail term will be followed by three years of supervised release. The judge also asked Fai not to maintain any contact with the officials and agents of...
01:46 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: A US court is set to sentence Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai on Friday on charges of illegally working for the Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir. Sentencing of Fai, 62, is scheduled before a court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. He was arrested by the FBI on July 19 last year and had subsequently pleaded guilty before the court to the...
12:39 PM, Mar 30, 2012
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06:27 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is set to begin hearing in the trial of former diplomat Madhuri Gupta. She was arrested over 21 months ago for allegedly passing sensitive information to Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. She has been on bail since January, 2012. While enlarging Gupta on bail in January, Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain, had restrained her from leaving Delhi without prior permission of the court. The court...
09:27 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: A US court has convicted Indian-born Dharun Ravi for all 15 charges against him - including anti-gay hate crime and privacy invasion. The Former Rutgers University student was charged with spying on, recording his roommate Tyler Clementi's homosexual activities with a webcam. The incident took place in September 2010 -- soon after which Tyler committed suicide. 20-year-old Ravi faces around 10 years in prison for the 'hate crime'....
07:34 AM, Mar 17, 2012
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Jurors deliberating in the hate-crime trial of a former university student accused of webcam spying on his roommate won't be deciding just whether he'll go to prison - they also could indirectly determine whether he's deported to his native India. Dharun Ravi, now 20, is accused of viewing a few seconds of his Rutgers University roommate's encounter with another man in their dorm room and telling...
08:49 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Chennai: A wholly Indian-built spy/surveillance satellite, Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) that can see through clouds and fog and has very high-resolution imaging is slated for launch in April, a senior official of the Indian space agency has said. An official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said thorough tests were being done on the Risat-1. "The Risat-1 is put to thermal vacuum test (a test to check the satellite's...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2012
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