London: Britain's prosecutors say The Sun tabloid's politics editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British government's tax department.
Prosecutors say The Sun paid bribes to press officer Jonathan Hall in return for information about unannounced spending plans, deficit reduction work, and policy decisions. Hall, 51, was also charged in relation to the payments.
Hartley, 38, was arrested in 2012 as part of a sprawling bribery probe linked to Britain's phone hacking scandal. The investigation has already ensnared some of The Sun's most senior staffers....
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09:40 PM, May 14, 2013
Movie buffs in China, especially those interested in foreign films, were frustrated by the ban. ...
04:25 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Los Angeles: Hal David, a lyricist who along with composer Burt Bacharach took the pop world by storm in the 1960s with hits such as 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head' and 'Walk on By,' died in Los Angeles on Saturday at age 91, a representative said. David died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from a stroke, said Jim Steinblatt, spokesman for the American Society of Composers, Authors and...
11:12 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Heads have begun to roll in Pakistan after a sting by a British tabloid exposed a visa scam that could allow potential terrorists an easy route to sneak into the UK posing as support staff for Pakistan's Olympics contingent. ...
11:22 AM, Jul 24, 2012
The Sunderbans: The Ganga ends its journey in the Bay of Bengal, forming one of the largest delta in the world. Here, the nature is at its pristine best. Despite the difficult terrain, scientists are now using modern technology to count tigers. An odd-looking camera trap, with a sensor inside it, is used to click pictures of the big cat. For this, the scientists must select an ideal spot, where...
11:30 AM, May 18, 2012
An actress of repute for nearly three decades, Revathy's short film 'Red Building Where The Sun Sets' was selected for a National Award this year. The actress, who was in New Delhi to attend the awards ceremony, said "viewers can not be cheated easily". "Despite the attention span of audience has decreased considerably these years, it is difficult to cheat them. In fact, they have to be given a lot...
11:50 AM, May 06, 2012
Actress-director Revathy's short film 'Red Building Where The Sun Sets' was selected for a National Award this year. The actress, who was in New Delhi to attend the awards ceremony said that viewers cannot be cheated easily. "Despite the fact that attention span of the audience has decreased considerably over the years, it is difficult to cheat them. In fact, they have to be given a lot in a short...
03:57 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Actress Revathy, who has won a national award for her short film 'Red Building Where The Sun Sets' that shows how fights between parents affect children, says there are films about children, but very little for them. "India doesn't make too many films for children, we make it about children. But the Children's Film Society is trying to do their bit by approving scripts for children," Revathy told...
04:46 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Little-known Bollywood actress Nupur Mehta has decided to send a legal notice to 'The Sunday Times' for accusing her of being involved in match-fixing and has also kept open the possibility of filing for civil and criminal defamation against the British daily. "We will be sending a legal notice to the newspaper, and see what kind of response we get. We will then be moving ahead and filing...
10:44 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: As a white man, Corban Addison acknowledges he took a risk entering the brothels of Mumbai pretending to be customer but he was determined to make his novel about sex trafficking as authentic as possible. Your overall assessment of the trafficking problem in the city? Unfortunately, sex trafficking is thriving in Bombay. Experts estimate that there could be as many as 500,000 women in prostitution in Bombay. Of those,...
01:45 PM, Mar 14, 2012
London: British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information. The payments investigation, dubbed Operation Elveden, is part of a wider probe into illegal news gathering practices that have rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last year prompted the closure of News Corp's Sunday...
11:44 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: Vinod Mehta on Wednesday relinquished the charge as Editor-in-Chief of 'Outlook' after being in the post for 17 years. He will continue as advisor of the magazine. Krishna Prasad, at present the Editor, will now assume the post of Editor-in-Chief. "I am still with Outlook. I have just relinquished the day-to-day responsibilities. If somebody thinks that I am out of Outlook, they are wrong. I am still very...
08:47 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday filed a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against The Sunday Indian magazine for publishing an article insinuating that he has black money stashed away in Swiss banks. Tharoor, a former minister of state for external affairs, has appointed Kochi-based legal firm of Sherrif Associates to represent him. The firm has sent the defamation notice to the editor-in-charge and two others officials of the...
04:55 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Dharamshala: The two day Tibet film festival concluded here with the screening of award-winning film The Sun Beaten Path by Sonthar Gyal. The annual event was dedicated to Dhondup Wangchen, who is serving a six-year jail term in China for his documentary Leaving Fear Behind. The festival was held simultaneously in two cities, Dharamshala and Zurich from October 28 30, 2011. One of the organisers of the Festival Nyima Dhondup...
03:01 PM, Nov 01, 2011
London: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was among individuals whose personal data was clandestinely obtained by private investigators at the behest of a newspaper owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch. Nick Davies, a journalist writing for The Guardian who has doggedly exposed the dubious news-gathering practices in the British press, mentions that Zardari's credit-card statement was obtained by a private investigator for The Sunday Times. Davies, an award-winning journalist whose...
04:54 PM, Jul 21, 2011
On Whats Trending, we bring to you the update on how hackers not only fake killed Rupert Murdoch but also managed to post the news on the Sun's website. ...
10:46 AM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: King of the tabloids and hard-boiled businessman Rupert Murdoch, 80, heads the world's second largest media conglomerate that includes top brands like Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Television, the Sun, the Wall Street Journal, Harper Collins, and MySpace. But Murdoch's great love has always been the newspaper business. Rupert Murdoch said, "New times demand new journalism. Our challenge was to take the best of traditional journalism, competitive shoe leather...
09:00 AM, Jul 20, 2011
London: Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death. The hackers redirected visitors to the Twitter feed of hacker group Lulz Security, which came to prominence after several cyber assaults on the websites of Sony Corp, the CIA, and News Corp's Fox TV. "We have owned Sun/News of the World," LulzSec...
07:22 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Kate Middleton is having a recurring nightmare - that she is nude in front of the marriage congregation, a media report said Wednesday. Kate's sister 27-year-old Pippa, who is to be the maid of honour Friday, is in fits of hysterics, The Sun reported. The 29-year-old has confessed to imagining herself in the buff as the world watches her tie the knot with Prince William. Kate had suffered a...
12:12 PM, Apr 28, 2011
London: Young men enjoy watching pornography on the web for at least two hours a week, while women do so for 15 minutes on an average, say a survey. The study conducted over 1,000 individuals aged 18-24 found, a quarter of young men fear they are watching too much pornography. One in three young adults, who were light users, admitted it upset their partner or caused relationship problems. That number...
12:12 PM, Apr 22, 2011
