HYDERABAD: Tightening its noose around Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddys neck, the CBI on Tuesday reportedly froze the bank accounts of his three companies - Jagathi Publications Pvt Limited, which publishes Saakshi Telugu newspaper, Indira TV, promoter of Saakshi TV, and Janani Infrastructure Ltd, which owns the premises used by both Jagathi Publications and Indira Television.The charge against the three companies is that huge amounts of money were invested...
11:19 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: In a development that will boost the fight against black money menace, Switzerland has agreed to provide details of secret bank accounts of individuals sought by India even on the basis of limited information. Under a mutual agreement reached on April 20 between the two countries, Switzerland has agreed to give liberal interpretation to the provisions concerning identities of Indian citizens. "... it is sufficient if the requesting...
03:07 PM, Apr 30, 2012
pLos Angeles: A man pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of such celebrities as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet. Christopher Chaney, 35, entered his plea in federal court to nine counts, including unauthorised access to a computer and wiretapping. He was immediately taken into custody. Sentencing was scheduled for July 23. Chaney was arrested in October as part...
05:20 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Tax authorities have warned top Indian carrier Jet Airways its bank accounts will be frozen if it does not clear outstanding dues of about 690 million rupees, local media reported on Sunday. "They have 24 hours to make the payment, failing which their accounts will be frozen," SK Goel, chairman of the Central Board of Excise and Customs, was quoted by the Business Standard newspaper as saying. In a...
01:31 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Corporate Affairs Minister has ordered an inquiry into its books following complaints from numerous investors against real estate major DLF. The senior officials of the ministry say they've received several complaints alleging that there are anomalies in the company's books. Sources says that SEBI has sent a reference to the Ministry in this regard. The Companies Act empowers the ministry to call and scrunitise a company's books....
06:32 AM, Mar 02, 2012
London: Chelsea spent 28 million Pounds on firing manager Carlo Ancelotti and hiring Andre Villas-Boas, an outlay that does not appear to be paying off with the team performing worse in the English Premier League this season. Ancelotti was ditched in May after failing to win a trophy in his second season at Stamford Bridge, prompting owner Roman Abramovich to take a costly gamble on luring the inexperienced Villas-Boas from...
02:46 PM, Feb 09, 2012
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: 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
Mumbai: After Kingfisher Airlines, Air India's accounts have been frozen for not paying service tax. Air India owes a total of Rs 150 crore in outstanding service tax to the Central Government. First banks, then vendors and now, the Service Tax Department of the Government, the action against ailing airlines Air India and Kingfisher is coming thick and fast from all sides. With various partners demanding to be paid, the...
11:56 PM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: Pressure is building on the government ahead of the winter session in Parliament to reveal the names of close to 800 Indian tax evaders. The Yashwant-Sinha led Parliamentary Standing committee has set a 15-day deadline for the government to take action on black money. The HSBC bank in Geneva is now the focus of India's investigation on Black Money but for finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, keeping secret the...
06:04 AM, Nov 19, 2011
New Delhi: Members of Parliamentary Panel on Friday sought quick government action on the black money issue and also asked the Finance Ministry to disclose the names of the evaders. House Panel grilled Finance Ministry officials on the black money issue and fixed a 15-day deadline for action. The Income-Tax department has already collected about Rs 140 crore from 100 tax evaders who have stashed over Rs 400 crore in...
08:34 PM, Nov 18, 2011
London: Find it difficult to remember your password? Here's some good news - researchers claim to have developed picture password for your online account, which will also help protect against hacking. An international team says that it's actually a new kind of login which relies on the fallibility of human memory to prevent phishing attempts at stealing one's account details, the 'New Scientist' reported. The researchers at Stony Brook University...
09:19 AM, Nov 07, 2011
BJP MP Varun Gandhi filed a RTI on Friday saying that the government needs to name the MPs who have Swiss bank accounts. ...
01:53 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Gautam John, 32, is well prepared. On the professional front, he has done well. He dabbled in professions like law and even tried his hand at business, but stumbled onto Pratham Books and Akshara Foundation, where he works for the new projects division. On the personal front, he is all set to get married in January next year. And five years ago, he prepared himself for something else: Death. He...
10:42 AM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst a debate on controversies surrounding some of the CAG reports, the High Level Committee which went into the Commonwealth Games related projects, has suggested changes in the functioning and structure of top audit and vigilance bodies like the Comptroller and Auditor General making it a three-member body. Besides, it found certain flaws in the working of Comptroller General of Accounts (CGA), Government of National Capital Territory of...
11:33 AM, Oct 30, 2011
