You cannot be the biggest social networking website in the world without a few million fake profiles. Facebook has reported in its 10-K annual report that the site was home to 76 million fake accounts last year. ...
11:02 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Prema Jayakumar, the daughter of a Mumbai autorickshaw driver, has topped the All India Chartered Accountancy examination. 24-year old Prema aced the exam with a score of 607 out of 800, a solid 75.88 per cent, and attributed her success to support from her parents and teachers. ...
10:20 AM, Jan 23, 2013
Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based auto rickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination. Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her parents and brother, the 24-year-old topper said she was ecstatic to have secured the first rank in the examination. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A fake Twitter account in the name of External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid was on Tuesday created, prompting the Ministry to complain to the social networking site operator and seek its blocking. ...
11:02 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Judicial reforms were the flavour of the year as the government focused its efforts on bringing a bill on judicial accountability and kept up its plans to change the present system of appointment of judges where the executive has little say. In March, the Lok Sabha passed an ambitious bill to lay judicial standards but despite two sessions of Parliament the bill could not be brought in the Rajya Sabha....
12:52 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Micro-blogging website Twitter has closed down several accounts after it received complaints that they contained indecent images of children, Sky News reported. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Mumbai: The cyber crime cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch has blocked the fake Facebook accounts of MNS chief Raj Thackeray's children. Thackeray's children had filed a complaint earlier this week, claiming that neither of them were personally on Facebook or on Twitter. Police said that they are yet to trace the Internet Protocol address to ascertain who made the fake accounts. Raj's children had requested people to not fall...
09:20 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: MNS chief Raj Thackrey's children have filed a complaint with the Maharashtra cyber cell over fake Facebook and Twitter accounts in their names. Raj's son and daughter have asked the police to try and block these accounts and clarified that they have no accounts on social media websites. Raj's children have also requested people to not fall for such a trap and send friend requests. In yet another...
07:13 AM, Dec 01, 2012
New Delhi: The government is set to retain in Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill the controversial provision that gags judges of higher judiciary from making observation in courts during hearing of cases. Contesting that prohibiting judges from making observations that had no bearing on the case before the court was a gag provision, Law and Justice Minister Ashwani Kumar on Friday said the provision was being retained in the Judicial...
09:18 PM, Nov 30, 2012
The government has circulated new guidelines on how to enforce the controversial section 66 (A) of Information Technology Act following the Facebook arrest row. Sources tell CNN-IBN that the government advisory tells states how Section 66 (A) of the IT Act is to be implemented. It says prior approval from the Deputy Commissioner or an IGP-level officer is needed before Station House officers can register such complaints. The sources say ...
02:32 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Income Tax department has decided to begin prosecution action against those having "substantial" amounts in their bank accounts in HSBC's Geneva branch. The department has now written to the Finance Ministry to suggest a benchmark for funds held on the basis of which the I-T department can initiate legal action for tax evasion and tax theft. Top sources said a benchmark of about Rs 5 crore is...
03:53 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi wasted no time in attacking the BJP after a CAG officer levelled charges against one of its prominent members saying that he influenced the agency's 2G report. Principal auditor RP Singh had alleged that BJP leader and Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) MM Joshi had influenced the 2G report. Speaking to reporters, Sonia said, "The BJP is exposed." When asked whether the row...
01:09 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader and PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi has hit back at the Congress after the latter said a probe must be ordered into the latest allegations to hit the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) over its 2G report. An ex-auditor of CAG, RP Singh said that Joshi had influenced the report and that the loss figure mentioned in it was presumptive which had been added...
12:43 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The man who authored the CAG's report on 2G spectrum has now said that it is not his report, that it merely carried his signature. Speaking to CNN-IBN, ex-CAG audit officer RP Singh said that the audit was done without guidelines and was influenced by PAC Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. He further said that the loss figure mentioned in the report was presumptive and had been restored in...
10:17 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: CAG's ex-principal auditor RP Singh on Friday made startling revelations about the agency's 2G report saying that it was audited without guidelines and influenced by Public Accounts Committee Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Singh further stated that the loss figure of Rs 1.76 lakh crore was presumptive, which he had deleted from the draft report but which was restored in the final copy....
08:18 AM, Nov 23, 2012
London: One in five men have a secret email account they use to hide love affairs, financial issues and correspondence with an ex from their partner, according to a new study. Researchers found that millions of men keep an account they opened years ago to correspond with an ex-partner or somebody their other half doesn't like. Others said they deliberately set up the account because they were having an affair,...
03:29 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New York: Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on Tuesday it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following...
01:05 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Income Tax department, probing the secret list of account holders in the Geneva branch of HSBC bank, has approached Swiss revenue authorities for banking data of certain individuals after investigations showed some of them reportedly had other accounts under fictitious names. The department, which approached the Finance Ministry and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in this regard recently, has initiated the step in order to...
11:30 AM, Nov 18, 2012
New York: Pinterest is allowing small businesses and corporations to create official accounts, a move that could be an early step toward profitability. Pinterest Inc. burst onto the tech scene last year, appealing to designers, wedding planners, chefs and anyone else who likes to collect and share images from the Web. The San Francisco company said it is offering businesses free tools for their Pinterest content. Companies already use Pinterest...
12:29 PM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal has refused to accept the government's statement that explained that a probe had been initiated into the information provided by the government of France regarding several Indians who had accounts in foreign banks. Speaking to reporters, Kejriwal said he had five questions for the government. "Do you agree that the names and the amounts, that we disclosed, are there in the...
06:44 PM, Nov 10, 2012
