A High Court in London will decide on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanges plea against extradition to Sweden. ...
10:45 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: China hacked India's intelligence network and the West intercepted mails and phone calls from India, that's Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's stunning disclosures at HT Leadership summit. Julian Assange said, "Telephone connections and e-mails from India that go through the Pacific (Ocean) can be intercepted and are being intercepted by the West. The information acquired from their intercepts are used as economic intelligence." Ominous warnings on the extent of...
08:00 AM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: The 26/11 Mumbai attacks, India was taken by surprise but soon, our forces were ready to hit back because our intelligence officers intercepted the communications of the terrorists with the Lashkar-e-Taiba's headquarters in Pakistan. Last week, Maoist military chief Kishenji was killed in West Bengal. The success came after incercepting his communications for many months. In between, we had the 2G tapes, which snowballed into a major controversy....
10:00 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: WikiLeaks is out with yet another explosive expose. It has released 287 files of numerous companies containing details of mass surveillance. Speaking in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said more than 150 organisations worldwide were selling information obtained by monitoring people's mobile phones and computers. "Today, we release over 287 files, documenting the reality of the international mass surveillance industry. An industry which now sells equipment to dictators...
10:15 AM, Dec 02, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to stave off his extradition to Sweden over sex-crime allegations, filing papers to see if he can win an audience and appeal to Britain's highest court. In the latest twist in Assange's year-long extradition battle, Britain's Judicial Office said Assange filed an application for the chance to persuade judges he should be allowed one last appeal in the Supreme...
08:27 AM, Nov 16, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to stave off his extradition to Sweden over sex-crime allegations, filing papers to see if he can win an audience and appeal to Britain's highest court. In the latest twist in Assange's year-long extradition battle, Britain's Judicial Office said Assange filed an application for the chance to persuade judges he should be allowed one last appeal in the Supreme...
01:53 AM, Nov 16, 2011
Here is a timeline of the main elements in the WikiLeaks saga. Britain's High Court has ruled that founder Julian Assange should be extradited from Britain to Sweden. April 5, 2010: Internet group WikiLeaks releases a video showing a 2007 US helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff. Eight days later US Defence Secretary Robert Gates criticises WikiLeaks, saying it released the video...
09:47 AM, Nov 03, 2011
London: Julian Assange, the Australian who became a global celebrity when he published stolen classified US government data on the website he founded, is now set to lose even more sleep than what he quoted in 'The Unauthorised Autobiography' that was out earlier this year. "I was beginning to get the hacker's disease: no sleep, bottomless curiosity, single-mindedness, and an obsession with precision," Assange quoted in the autobiography. Assange is...
10:25 PM, Nov 02, 2011
On Julian Assange's extradition issue, Desai said Sweden is a law abiding country with good of human rights record. ...
04:34 PM, Nov 02, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost appeal against extradition to Sweden on Tuesday. UK high court judges ruled that Assange should face accusations of rape in Sweden. Assange can appeal in the Supreme Court against the order. On the basis of this order, Assange could be removed to Sweden within 10 days. Swedish authorities want to question Assange over the alleged rape of one woman and the molestation of another...
03:30 PM, Nov 02, 2011
London: A London court will rule on Wednesday whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who angered the government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, can be extradited from Britain to Sweden for questioning over alleged sexual crimes. Swedish authorities want to quiz the 40-year-old over accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two former female volunteers for his WikiLeaks organization. The case has cast a shadow over Assange and...
09:16 AM, Nov 02, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will get to know on November 2 whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct in that country, the court hearing the case in London said on Friday. Lawyers for Assange, 40, have insisted that his extradition to Sweden would be "unfair and unlawful". He is wanted in Sweden to answer accusations of raping one woman and sexually molesting and...
06:37 PM, Oct 28, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will learn next week of the verdict in his fight against his extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct, the organization said on Thursday. WikiLeaks staffer Joseph Farrell said that Britain's High Court had informed Assange it will deliver judgment on his appeal on November 2, "The court told us. We have no further details," Farrell said in a text message. In February,...
05:21 AM, Oct 28, 2011
London: WikiLeaks will have to stop publishing secret cables and devote itself to fund-raising if it is unable to end a financial "blockade" by US firms such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the year, founder Julian Assange said on Monday. After releasing tens of thousands of confidential US government cables, WikiLeaks needs $3.5 million over the next year to continue operating, Assange said. Visa and MasterCard stopped...
09:02 AM, Oct 25, 2011
London: The whistleblower website WikiLeaks that has rattled many across the world by publishing numerous secret documents on Monday announced the 'temporary' stoppage of its work and blamed US financial companies for the drastic move. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made the announcement here and vowed to fight back the economic blockade. His group also issued a statement saying it would stop publishing in order to focus on making money explaining...
06:24 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Lima (Peru): WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described as nonsense reports of defections from his organisation and said his group helped inspire the Occupy Wall Street movement. Addressing a meeting of the Inter American Press Association in Peru on Monday via Internet video hookup from Britain, Assange said WikiLeaks' biggest problem was the ban on processing contributions by credit card companies and PayPal. "We have not cut any staff," he said,...
08:06 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Washington: The US government on Friday announced steps to clamp down on who can access classified information, seeking to avert another WikiLeaks-scale breach of military documents and diplomatic cables. The presidential order requires US agencies to appoint senior people to prevent and detect breaches and creates a task force to monitor potential wrongdoing by government officials, bureaucrats, diplomats or soldiers handling classified data. That task force, to be headed by...
08:15 AM, Oct 09, 2011
London: The Unauthorised Autobiography of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange could not drum up interest of readers, as the first three days of its arrival in the market have seen sales of just over 600 copies. It was the book the founder of WikiLeaks said was published to "screw" him for cash but despite huge publicity surrounding its release, it has become a sales flop. Titled 'Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography',...
12:04 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Washington: He laid bare the secrets of governments and corporations. But until now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fiercely fought demands for more transparency in his own personal and financial affairs. But a bizarre dispute between Assange and a Scottish publisher who last week released an "unauthorized" version of Assange's autobiography has prompted the WikiLeaks frontman to make public some of his own secrets. Late on Tuesday, WikiLeaks published a sheaf...
11:23 AM, Sep 29, 2011
New York: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun an auction on eBay to raise money, selling memorabilia tied to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, the New York Times reported Saturday. WikiLeaks group auctioned 10 pieces of memorabilia and services, including a portrait of Assange set at more than $900, a package of coffee from Assange's time spent in a London jail, and a computer on which the WikiLeaks team prepared publication of...
10:34 AM, Sep 18, 2011
