The Gujarat High Court has asked the CBI to conclude its probe and file charges by July 4. On Tuesday, top Intelligence Bureau officials Rajinder Kumar was also interrogated in the case. ...
08:22 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Washington: A group of major American business organisations and advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a new alliance against what they allege as India's "discriminatory" economic policies, including intellectual property issues, which they claim hurt US jobs and economy. Co-chaired by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC), the Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI) was launched in Washington ahead...
01:02 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI's claim that Intelligence Bureau (IB) Special Director Rajinder Kumar was involved in his individual capacity in the 2004 encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others in Gujarat has been shot down by a former senior officer of the intelligence agency. Ashok Karnik, former Deputy Director of IB, says: "The claim that he masterminded the encounter is totally falicious because an IB officer cannot mastermind the entire...
11:10 AM, Jun 15, 2013
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11:55 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Top BJP sources said on Friday that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had conveyed his decision to their party president Rajnath Singh. ...
09:22 PM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Nine years after a Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and three other youths were killed in cold blood by the Gujarat Police, the case has now come to haunt the country's premier intelligence agency - the Intelligence Bureau. And in the dock is the IB's Special Director Rajinder Kumar, who was posted in Gujarat in 2004 when the encounter took place. Kumar now faces a real danger of being...
09:02 PM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday clarified why it is probing Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajendra Kumar's role in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. The agency publicly claimed that it has evidence which shows a senior IB officer colluded in the 2004 fake encounter by Gujarat Police. Sources say the CBI has call detail records to prove Kumar's role in the alleged encounter. Sources say the...
02:26 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Reports that India is the fifth most tracked nation by the US intelligence system has invited strong reactions from youth, who consider it an intrusion into their privacy. A recent revelation by the UK-based Guardian newspaper about the extensive spying operations of the United States National Security Agency has exposed the regular interception and monitoring of electronic communications between ordinary people across several countries, including India. "People share...
11:30 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday summoned the Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau in connection with the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. Special Director Rajendra Kumar, who was the intelligence officer responsible for routing information about all the encounters that took place in Gujarat between 2001 and 2005, was summoned as an accused in the case. The CBI summons to Kumar came just hours after...
07:54 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Accusing the Congress-led UPA government of "destroying institutions,", BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that the cost of its "Modi-phobia" would be paid by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in the case of the alleged killing of Ishrat Jahan. In an article on the party's website on Tuesday, Jaitley said there were news reports that the CBI has been interrogating senior officers of the IB in the case...
05:55 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Chennai: In a relief to pharma major Pfizer, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board in Chennai has set aside the revocation of the patent of the company's anti-cancer drug 'Sutent'. The Board has asked the Patent Office to consider the entire matter afresh in a time-bound manner, which had twice revoked the patent earlier. "The impugned order is set aside and the matter is sent back to the Controller General with...
09:11 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Taipei: Intel Corp is ramping up its efforts to have more of its chips used in mobile devices, a market it was initially slow to respond to, as officials said they expect more than 30 tablets using its processors hitting the market this year. Samsung Electronics Co announced it will use Intel's processors to power a new version of one of its top-tier Android tablets, while Asustek Computer Inc also...
03:14 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of CBI issuing summons to a senior IB official over the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the BJP on Friday accused the Centre of misusing the intelligence agency for "political gains", saying it could hurt national security. "BJP has cautioned repeatedly that under the Congress-led UPA, the misuse of the Central Bureau of Investigation is rampant. We fear the Intelligence Bureau too is being misused by...
07:07 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioned some Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials at its headquarters to find out the truth about the inputs that led to the Ishrat Jahan encounter in 2004. The CBI is probing whether a senior IB officer connived with Gujarat Police officers. According to the CBI an IB officer sent a false input of threat to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that was passed...
02:27 PM, May 31, 2013
San Francisco: Samsung Electronics has chosen an Intel processor to power a new version of one of its top-tier Android tablets, a source with knowledge of the plans told Reuters, in a major victory for the US chipmaker, which is struggling to find its footing in the mobile market. Samsung has chosen Intel's Clover Trail+ mobile chip for at least one version of its Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, which competes...
07:04 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: In a new twist in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case of 2004, sources say that the CBI will probe whether a top Intelligence Bureau officer created a false input of threat to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that led to the girl's encounter. CNN-IBN has accessed exclusive details which say that the CBI will interrogate the top IB officer who was posted in Gujarat in 2004. The...
06:15 PM, May 29, 2013
Jaipur: An employee of the Army Supply Corp, posted in the South Western Command in Jaipur, was arrested for allegedly passing confidential information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, police said on Friday. "The accused Upper Division Clerk BK Sinha (43) was spying for ISI and sharing classified information and documents regarding Army's transport related movements to Nepal based ISI agent," said Additional DG (Intelligence) Dalpat Singh Dinkar. Sinha was arrested by...
04:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Thirty six years ago a young Vinod Sahni crossed the Line of Control as Agent 22. After months as an active spy, Sahni was captured and given 11 years in a Pakistani jail. After undergoing inhuman pain and torture for 11 years, When he returned to India, Sahni found his recruiters had ignored his family. Vinod Sahni, former Indian spy who served in a Pakistani jail, joined IBNLive readers for...
05:48 PM, May 15, 2013
Moscow: Russia expelled a US diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA. Apparently detained in an incongruous-looking blond wig, with props reminiscent of a schoolboy's spy kit, US Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle hardly looked like a Cold War secret agent. But the announcement still...
02:46 AM, May 15, 2013
