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
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
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Chennai: The Madaras High Court has rejected a plea from Kal Cables Private Limited (owned by Kalanidhi Maran) of Mylapore to restrain the TN Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited in Nungambakkam from interfering with its peaceful running of cable TV service business. Advocate-General A Navaneethakrishnan was justified in contending that the petitioner was not operating in accordance with the rules of the TN Municipalities TV Cable Installation and Regulation Rules,...
08:57 AM, Sep 30, 2011
Washington: American officials knew for a very long time that ISI had created various terrorist groups, including those based out from Nepal, to carry out attacks in India including the 1996 Lajpat Nagar blast, according to the latest US cables released by Wikileaks. The US cables clearly show that Americans also knew that Tiger Memon, the prime accused in 1993 Mumbai blast case and an aide of global terrorist Dawood...
04:49 PM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: As Julian Assange's WikiLeaks continues to cause embarrassment to governments across the globe, its latest target is the world's largest maker of movies Bollywood, the reference of which appears in several of the leaked embassy cables made public by the whistleblowing website. Many of the cables are surprisingly succinct and contain detailed analysis of the Indian film industry that churns out almost 1000 films a year and generates...
12:02 AM, Sep 07, 2011
London: WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables on Friday, much if not all of it uncensored, a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the anti-secrecy group's efforts to expose corruption and double-dealing. Many media outlets, previously had access to all or part of the uncensored tome. But WikiLeaks' decision to post the 251,287 cables on its website makes...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: All India Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee would better serve American interests as Chief Minister of West Bengal if she wins the 2011 Assembly election in the state, according to an Embassy cable leaked by online whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. The October, 2009 Kolkata Consulate cable, headlined 'Trinamool's Mamata Banerjee: from oppositional street fighter to West Bengal Chief Minister-in-waiting,' advises United States officials to cultivate Banerjee as the likely...
04:15 PM, Apr 21, 2011
London: Revelations by the WikiLeaks are having a positive impact, believes its founder Julian Assange, who claims that the publication of secret US embassy cables by the Indian media had helped inspire an anti-graft movement in the country. Questioned at a public debate about the whistleblowing organisation's own transparency, Assange told an audience of 700 people, many of them supporters "We are directly supported on a week-to-week basis by you....
05:36 PM, Apr 10, 2011
Arun Jaitley told an embassy official that Hindu nationalism was just an opportunistic issue for BJP. ...
02:33 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley became the latest target as more details emerged from candid cables sent by diplomats at the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington, which have been released by WikiLeaks and accessed by The Hindu newspaper. One such cable dated May 2005 claims that senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told an embassy official that Hindu nationalism was just an opportunistic issue for the party,...
12:55 PM, Mar 26, 2011
New Delhi: The WikiLeaks India cables have produced some more explosive details. The latest one is on the controversial voting on the 2008 Indo-US civil nuclear deal. WikiLeaks says five days before the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of Manmohan Singh faced a crucial vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha on the deal, Congress leader Satish Sharma's aide Nachiketa Kapur showed a US Embassy employee two chests containing...
07:59 AM, Mar 17, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his entourage of lawyers, supporters, protesters and journalists are headed back to a London court for a showdown between the secret-spilling computer hacker and Swedish authorities who want him extradited to face sex crimes allegations. A two-day hearing that begins on Monday will decide Assange's legal fate. It will also keep the spotlight away from WikiLeaks' revelations and on its opinion-dividing frontman. Assange is...
11:41 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Los Angeles: It happened to Xerox and more recently to Google, and now "wikileaks" has joined the list of proper names that are common enough to enter the English language as their own word. Texas-based Global Language Monitor on Tuesday said the website WikiLeaks, which has publicly released thousands of confidential U.S. government documents, has been referred to by so many people that it has met the criteria of reach,...
09:24 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Washington: Diplomatic cables are not part of the US policy and meant to just provide information which is not always accurate, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, while acknowledging that the Defence Department did not handle properly the classified papers illegally obtained by WikiLeaks. "Diplomatic cables are not policy. They are meant to inform. They are not always accurate. They are passing on information for whatever it's worth," Clinton...
06:08 PM, Dec 04, 2010
London: Interpol issued a "red notice" on Tuesday to assist in the arrest of Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, who is wanted in Sweden on suspicion of sexual crimes. Assange, a former computer hacker now at the centre of a global controversy after WikiLeaks released a trove of classified US diplomatic cables at the weekend, denies the Swedish allegations. The website of Interpol, the international police agency,...
08:00 AM, Dec 01, 2010
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