Washington: The Obama administration may seek to end a long-running debate over Internet wiretaps with proposed legislation that would enable law-enforcement agencies to tap into many types of Internet communications, US officials with knowledge of the matter said.
The proposal is aimed at getting past the technical and legal obstacles that make it difficult for the FBI and other agencies with court orders to check so-called voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) services such as those offered by Microsoft Corp's Skype.
It would also apply to real-time chat services offered by Facebook, Google and others.
The FBI has long sought new policies that would enable it to eavesdrop on the Internet in the same way that it does on traditional telephone calls. But tech companies have fiercely opposed the idea, and it would likely face stiff opposition in Congress....
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06:20 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate may have seized assets worth Rs 2,357 crore in 2012-13, a seven fold increase from previous fiscal, but it sees the cases of money laundering, forex violations and other economic offences probed by it as just the "tip of the iceberg". The ED has stepped up its prosecution in money laundering cases and is planning to take steps, including filling 1,400 posts, to go full throttle...
05:20 PM, May 01, 2013
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said Enforcement Directorate should be extremely careful while choosing cases for prosecution under the money laundering law and focus its energies on important ones. "A word of caution is necessary. We must be extremely selective in deciding which cases to prosecute under the money laundering law. Otherwise, we will be overwhelmed with cases that we would be required to prosecute," he said...
04:32 PM, May 01, 2013
Tiruchirappalli: A total of 74 students from the first batch (2011-13) of IIM Tiruchirappalli (IIM-T) have been placed with companies such as Cognizant, KPMG and BPCL, among others, at annual salaries ranging from Rs 11.5-18.25 lakh, the premier management institute has said. These successful placements for the 2011-13 batch were notwithstanding the difficult economic environment, an IIM-T release said, adding that this was the largest first batch among new IIMs...
11:03 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress MP, Kunal Ghosh was on Monday summoned by the Bidhannagar Police for interrogation over the multicrore Saradha chit fund scam. Saradha group promoter Sudipta Sen and his aide Debjani Mukherjee had alleged that Kunal Ghosh had played a role in the fraud. Ghosh, however, denied all the charges against him, alleging it was a conspiracy. "Lies are being spread about me. The probe will bring out...
06:05 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Chandigarh: Three officials of Punjab's Faridkot town jail were injured on Monday in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a magisterial enquiry. The inmates went on the rampage and damaged property inside the prison, police officials in Faridkot, 250 km from Chandigarh, police said. Police reinforcements and fire brigade had to be rushed into the jail complex...
05:49 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Hoshangabad: A tribal widow was allegedly forced to drink urine and mercilessly beaten up by members of her own community as they suspected her of practising black magic, police said on Monday. Four persons were arrested following a complaint by the victim, they said. The shocking incident took place in Kudkheda village under Piparia tehsil of Hoshangabad district on April 19, 2013, police said. The tribals suspected the widow indulged...
01:20 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: The oft-heard boarding announcements that would alert passengers at airports about the departure of their flights, is now a thing of the past at Mumbai's domestic airport. Departing private airline passengers at the airport will now have to rely on large display screens put up throughout the airport to find out the status of their flights. It's all a part of the airport's effort to cut noise pollution. A...
09:38 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday questioned sacked CWG organizing committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and recorded his statement in connection with its probe into alleged money laundering in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. The agency questioned Kalmadi for the second time in less than a month. He was questioned in a separate case of alleged forex violations on March 25 by the agency. Kalmadi has denied...
03:56 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who got a three-week provisional bail from Jharkhand High Court, could not go home on Wednesday following his failure to produce bail documents to the jail authorities. "We don't have any document of his bail in any of the cases against him (Koda). He can only walk out after producing all bail-related documents," Jail Superintendent Dilip Pradhan told PTI in Ranchi. Koda was...
02:07 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Federal officials are denying that a suspect is in custody in the Boston Marathon bombings. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Wednesday a suspect was in custody. But the FBI and the US attorney's office in Boston dispute that. The official who spoke to The Associated Press did so on condition of anonymity and stood by the information even after it was...
12:45 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Law enforcement sources on Wednesday said an arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon twin blasts case. However, the motive behind the bombings, which killed three people and injured over 170 others on Monday morning, is still not known, sources added. Earlier, officials had said they have identified a dark skinned male who is a suspect in the blasts case, CNN sources had informed. Officials had also believed...
11:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Patna: A local court on Friday rejected the bail application of Pune-based businessman Hasan Ali Khan in a fake passport case. Judicial Magistrate Sunil Kumar passed the order summarily rejecting the bail plea of Khan. The police had last week submitted a charge sheet in the court hearing the fake passport case against the businessman, who is presently lodged in a jail in Mumbai. A case was lodged against Khan...
09:56 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Hyderabad: Jailed Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy on Wednesday moved a special CBI court here, seeking directions to the central agency to act as per the Supreme Court order with regard to filing of charge sheets in connection with the case against him for his alleged quid-pro-quo deals. The YSR Congress chief, who filed a memo through his counsel submitted that in view of the specific undertaking given by the...
10:45 AM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: At least 30 inmates of the Tihar Jail here were selected by 15 companies in the fourth campus placement drive conducted by jail authorities on Tuesday. The inmates were selected after they were interviewed by companies at Tihar's Jail No 3. "All the 30 inmates with good character, who would be released in the next six months, were selected by 15 companies after they fulfilled certain criteria laid...
05:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday alleged irregularities in all irrigation projects in Maharashtra, including the Tillari project bordering the state. "All irrigation projects in Maharashtra are scam. I am saying this on record," he told the State Legislative Assembly, while speaking on demands for grants. "We know about Tillari irrigation project. How much of cement is used and how much is soil cannot be ascertained." Parrikar claimed...
01:48 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Dalmia Cements, named as accused in the CBI chargesheet in disproportionate assets case against Jagan Mohan Reddy, has allegedly invested Rs 55 crore through hawala route in the cement companies promoted by the YSR Congress chief. CBI sources claimed they have got money trail of Rs 55 crore which were allegedly invested by Dalmia Cements in Jagan's company through hawala routes in return for favours received from the...
07:22 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: A 30-year-old owner of placement agency has been sent to 10 years in jail by a fast track court for raping a girl after confining her in his house. Additional Sessions Judge MC Gupta gave the jail term to Rohini resident Mukesh Khanna for raping, threatening and confining a 20-year-old girl, brought to Delhi from Odisha on the pretext of meeting her 'sick' sister who was employed as...
03:21 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday registered money laundering case relating to Punjab narcotics haul from the house of alleged drug dealer Anoop Singh Kahlon. ...
03:00 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Sacked CWG organising committee chief Suresh Kalmadi was on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into alleged forex violations in the run up to the 2010 sporting extravaganza. ...
08:12 PM, Mar 25, 2013
