New Delhi: The Twitter account of veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor, who passed away on August 14, 2011, has been reportedly hacked. The recent tweet from his account says, "Are you serious about starting your own business in 2012? you have to check this out - [URL redacted]." When you click on the link in the tweet, it redirects you to a Consumer Warnings Weekly page that tells you the...
12:13 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: The bank accounts of national career Air India were on Thursday frozen for not paying service tax. The bank accounts were frozen by the Central Board of Excise and Customs for non payment of service tax amounting up to Rs 25 crore. However, Air India has claimed that negotiations are on to sort out the issue. This is the second time in two months that Central Board of...
10:27 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) all set to file chargesheet against a judge of an Income Tax tribunal for colluding to pass favourable orders for a Chartered Accountants firm's clients. The CBI is said to have collected evidence that a member of the Income Tax Apellate Tribunal (ITAT) colluded with a Kolkata-based firm of chartered accountants SK Tulsiyan & Co. The CBI believes that the firm had...
09:35 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: In order to guard against possible leakage of names figuring in the secret bank accounts lists it has received from foreign shores, the CBDT has ordered the IT department to obtain a signed undertaking from any government entity or department who demands the data for their own probe. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) fears that if these names are leaked and they are publicised, global financial...
12:30 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New York: Twitter, the popular microblogging site, apologised on Tuesday for incorrectly verifying a false account for Wendi Deng, the wife of News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch. The fake account with the handle @Wendi_Deng popped up on Sunday soon after a real Twitter account was started by the media mogul on New Year's eve. News Corp communications staff confirmed that the Murdoch account was genuine. Like Murdoch's own Twitter...
11:50 AM, Jan 04, 2012
London: British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking scandal at News International's now defunct News of the World tabloid, the paper said....
05:37 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: As part of efforts to fight black money, the government has decided to double the strength of the crucial foreign tax division in Finance Ministry which handles classified tax related information between India, tax haven nations and other countries. The Ministry recently gave approval for creating a new unit in the Foreign Tax and Tax Research (FT and TR) division under the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)...
11:40 AM, Jan 01, 2012
London: The US department of homeland security reportedly makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles in a bid to track down people who use "sensitive" words. If anyone uses a word or phrase from the department's list, American spies might read the posts, investigate the online account and even attempt to identify the person from it, the Daily Mail reported. Some words which reportedly attract attention are outbreak, drill, strain, illegal...
11:20 AM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: All three major anti-corruption bills - Lokpal, Judicial Accountability and Protection of Whistleblowers could not be passed in the Winter Session of Parliament as the government was not able to muster support from its allies and the Opposition. While the Lokpal Bill met with an anti-climax on Thursday midnight in the Rajya Sabha after passage from the lower house, the protection of the whistleblower bill could not even...
07:31 AM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Lok Sabha was adjourned abruptly on Wednesday after uproar created by the BJP, which wanted voting on two bills - Judicial Accountability and 114th Constitution Amendment Bill. The sudden adjournment of the House left the debate on the two crucial bills incomplete. The much-delayed Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010, which is an amended version of the one introduced last year, provides for a mechanism to investigate complaints...
08:26 PM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday will be taking up another much-anticipated piece of legislation, the Judicial Accountability Bill. The bill seeks to set standards for judges and a credible mechanism to investigate into complaints of misbehaviour and incapacity of a judge of the Supreme Court or High Court. It also proposes to form a panel to incorporate a provision to have in-camera proceedings of the committee which will...
06:11 AM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: The much-talked about Judicial Accountability Bill that will provide for accountability of judges and establish a credible mechanism for investigating individual complaints of misbehaviour will be taken up by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pawan Kumar Bansal said the Lok Sabha will take up the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, and also the Bill providing for increasing the retirement age of High Court judges...
09:45 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: The winter session of Parliament, which was scheduled to end on Thursday, has been extended by three days from December 27 to discuss Lokpal Bill and other legislations. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said this in the Lok Sabha while tabling the 33rd report of the Business Advisory Committee. The Lokpal bill is expected to be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and would be taken...
06:06 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: The UPA government, facing flak for not taking strong actions to curb corruption, has decided to extend the winter session of Parliament has for three days till December 29 to pass four crucial anti-graft bills - the Lokpal Bill, the Citizens' Charter Bill, the Judicial Accountability Bill and the Whistleblowers' Bill. The Citizens' Charter Bill was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, even as Team Anna wanted the Citizens'...
03:29 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire for being soft on corruption the cabinet on Tuesday cleared three key anti-graft Bills ahead of the all-party meet on Lokpal on Wednesday. The Judicial Accountability Bill, Citizen's Charter Bill and Whistleblower Bill were cleared by the cabinet. But the Civil Society is cautious about commenting on it yet. While Team Anna has been demanding that the Judiciary, a Citizen's Charter and a Grievance Redressal mechanism...
06:14 AM, Dec 14, 2011
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11:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011
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11:17 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared three major anti-corruption bills " Citizen's Charter Bill, Judicial Accountability Bill and the Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making the Disclosures Bill (Whistleblower's Bill) " in a crucial meeting. The Cabinet, however, met amid reports of clearing four crucial bills, including Congress president Sonia Gandhi's favourite, the National Food Security Bill. However, a decision on the Food Security Bill was...
06:59 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will meet on Tuesday evening to decide on the Food Security Bill, Sonia Gandhi's flagship programme. While the Lokpal Bill won't be coming up for discussion but keeping Team Anna's demands on agenda the Cabinet will also take decisions on the Judicial Accountability and Citizens Grievance Redressal Bills on Tuesday. Under pressure from Team Anna over the Lokpal Bill, the government is clearly arming itself...
07:42 AM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: Scam-tainted Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society of Mumbai was on Friday allowed by the Supreme Court to open a bank account in a nationalised bank for raising money for day-to-day functioning. A Bench comprising justices HL Dattu and CK Prasad gave conditional permission to the Society directing it to submit monthly statement of the accounts to CBI. The order was passed after the Society filed an affidavit stating that...
07:56 PM, Dec 09, 2011
