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 Committee became frustrated that Holder could not answer why the subpoena to obtain the records was so broad and why the Justice Department did not first try to negotiate with AP to obtain information.
"We don't know where the buck stops," said US Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican....
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03:48 AM, May 16, 2013
Telecom operators could face penalty of up to Rs 10 lakh for submitting false and incomplete information in the action taken report (ATR) regarding metering and billing system, Trai said on Monday. The regulator Trai on Monday issued Quality of Service (Code of Practice for Metering and Billing Accuracy) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, which can impose a financial disincentive of Rs 1 lakh per week on telecom companies for delay in...
02:30 AM, Mar 26, 2013
A 13-year-old boy committed suicide by consuming poison in a village in Bihar's Gaya district after his parents refused to give him a mobile phone that he repeatedly asked for, police said on Saturday. ...
11:49 AM, Mar 09, 2013
New Delhi: Government on Thursday dismissed as "outrageous lie" a media report that at the behest of Home Minister P Chidambaram and his ministry telephones of key government functionaries were bugged. An official statement said attention of the Government has been drawn to a news story published in 'Chauthi Duniya' recently. "The story contains outrageous, baseless and defamatory allegations. There is no truth in the story whatsoever. The allegations that...
11:30 PM, May 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Almost 90 per cent of households in Kerala have telephone connections (land line or mobile) in 2011, a staggering rise over the 19.1 per cent in 2001, according to the house listing and housing Census conducted ahead of the Census 2011. The detailed figures, released here by the census directorate, revealed that households in Kottayam district had the highest number of telephones at 93.90 per cent, while the least...
05:57 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Mumbai: About 58.8 per cent of households in Maharashtra have TV sets while 13.3 per cent have computer/laptop and 69.1 per cent have telephone/mobile in their households, as per the data on "housing, amenities and assets" in the 2011 census. The respective figures at national level are 47.2, 9.5 and 63.2 per cent, Ranjit Singh Deol, director Census operations, Maharashtra, told reporters in Mumbai. The share of households having two...
10:59 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Hyderabad: Army chief General VK Singh on Monday denied reports of him tracking phone conversations of ministers. He also stuck to his stand that ammunition in the Army was seeing an alarming shortage. He termed as 'fiction' media reports of a complaint about telephone tapping to hear conversation in connection with his age row. "Fiction does not require any reaction. If people concoct stories and some of the irresponsible editors...
02:39 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Mumbai: The new phenomenon of missed calls has been gaining popularity. It was used in popular forms of protest during the Anna Hazare movement as well. Stingy or not, we Indians love giving missed calls. A missed call can be a pre-arranged signal or pre-arranged message to mean something specific like, "I have left the office and headed home," or "could you please bring the car to where you dropped...
09:20 AM, Dec 26, 2011
London: Singer Beyonce Knowles thinks Lady GaGa is the best pop star in the world. "I love GaGa. I mean, if she didn't perform and she wasn't a singer, just as a human being I love her to death. But on top of it, she is the most talented pop star right now, and I'm so happy for her," femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying. "It's just really inspiring to see...
03:37 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New York: In a secretly recorded phone conversation, the New York hotel maid who had accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, can be heard telling her boyfriend in Arizona about her plan to get money from the former IMF chief. "She says words to the effect of, 'Don't worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I'm doing," an official told 'The New York Times'. The phone...
01:52 PM, Jul 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the Telecom Department’s decision to collect an amount of Rs 4.50 lakh from the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd for making international "sex talk calls". A Bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari rejected the argument of the federation’s managing director that the calls were not made either by him or his family members but the huge bill was on account...
11:48 PM, Sep 24, 2010
The management has agreed to review the employees demands. ...
08:16 PM, May 20, 2009
PM said he conveyed condolences to Obama over death of his grandmother. ...
03:39 AM, Nov 11, 2008
Autorickshaws in Kozhikode now have a telephone inside them and anyone traveling in them can make a call. ...
08:34 AM, Jun 15, 2007
Transcript of the taped telephone conversation between bookie Mukesh Kochchar and West Indies cricketer Marlon Samuels. ...
08:16 PM, Feb 08, 2007
20,000 villagers of nine villages stay connected with rest of the world with the help of just three telephones. ...
08:06 AM, Dec 14, 2006
Preity had accused the tabloid for publishing an article where her name was mentioned in an objectionable manner. ...
06:11 PM, Dec 12, 2006
An Indian-origin Muslim woman divorced by her husband over phone moves the court seeking recognition of her marriage. ...
03:59 PM, Oct 30, 2006
