London: The website and Twitter feed of British newspaper the Financial Times were hacked on Friday, apparently by the "Syrian Electronic Army", a group of online activists who say they support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The group posted links on the newspaper's Twitter feed to a YouTube video, uploaded on Wednesday, which purports to show members of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front Syrian rebel group executing blindfolded and kneeling members of the Syrian army.
The video could not be independently verified. Hacking attacks on verified Twitter accounts of media organisations have triggered urgent calls for the micro-blogging website to increase account security, particularly for news outlets.
"Various FT blogs and social media accounts have been compromised by hackers and we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible," a statement from the FT press office said. The paper is owned by Pearson Plc....
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08:29 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The government on Thursday deferred a proposal on giving domestic workers the right over minimum wages, paid leave and regulated working hours under a national policy. The national policy for domestic workers, which would benefit over 6.4 million domestic workers, was slated to be taken up by the Union Cabinet for consideration. The proposal, recommended by National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Sonia Gandhi in April 2009, aimed...
03:15 AM, May 17, 2013
Washington: US lawmakers accused the Obama administration on Wednesday of trampling on free speech rights and evading questions about the Justice Department's secret seizure of Associated Press telephone records. US Attorney General Eric Holder, testifying before a House of Representatives panel, provided limited responses on the issue, noting he had been recused from the probe into a government leak that led to the records seizure. Lawmakers on the House Judiciary...
03:48 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Four directors collaborated on 'Bombay Talkies' and the film received critical acclaim from all quarters. Now, eleven filmmakers from different parts of India have come together for a never-seen-before cinematic experience as they collaborate on one single film about one filmmaker. 'X' is a filmmaker's journey through his past encounters with his 10 ex-girlfriends as he spends one unusual night at a film festival after he meets a...
03:12 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Youth Congress workers on Wednesday protested outside the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in the national capital over the BJP's demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation. The protesters stormed barricades, following which the police fired water cannons. The protesters said that the BJP must stop asking for the Prime Minister's resignation and let Parliament function. This came even as Parliament was adjourned sine die last week. However, there...
12:44 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will visit Saudi Arabia on May 24-27, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom's Nitaqat work policy, regional and international issues would be discussed. Then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee had visited Saudi Arabia in 2008. Khurshid's visit comes days after the trip of a high level Indian delegation, led by Overseas Indian...
11:40 PM, May 14, 2013
Washington: A professional US body of engineers has asked the Senators to reject any move to increase the number of H-1B visas, popular among Indian professionals, arguing that it has a damaging effect on American economy. In a statement issued on Monday, IEEE-USA - the largest American body of professional engineers asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject amendments to the comprehensive immigration bill that would increase H-1B temporary visa...
02:54 PM, May 14, 2013
New York: A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack. "It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday. On the creative side of the heist, a small team of highly skilled hackers penetrated bank systems, erased withdrawal...
11:30 AM, May 11, 2013
New York: In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, US prosecutors said on Thursday. The US Justice Department accused eight men of allegedly forming the New York-based cell of the organisation, and said seven of them have been arrested. The eighth,...
02:36 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Amid the media brouhaha in India over the border incursions by their troops, Chinese engineers were last week calmly tunneling in the heart of the national capital for the heritage line of the Delhi Metro network, signifying the growing commercial linkages between the two neighbours. Engineers of the Shanghai Urban Construction Group (SUCG) lowered a massive 300-tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) into a crater that was once a...
12:49 PM, May 09, 2013
London: Got a drinking problem? Pop this pill! A new once-a-day pill which could help problem drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they consume has been launched in the UK. Manufacturers claim that dependent drinkers who take the drug nalmefene and undergo counselling can cut their alcohol consumption levels by 61 per cent. The pill, also known as selincro, has been licensed for use by health officials in the UK...
04:25 PM, May 06, 2013
Audi India for one has never shied away from stating that it wants to be number one among the luxury marquees in the country. And it hasn't tried to hide behind a moral curtain either, just in case it failed to achieve its objective. I guess this had something to do with the confidence that Audi had both in its product lineup as well as its strategy at the retail...
03:44 PM, May 06, 2013
Swapan Mullick, film critic and former director of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata, joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on on Satyajit Ray's 92nd birth anniversary. Q. Which movie do you think is his worst movie? Asked by: Kamya A. Ray never fell below the standard he had set for himself. But there was a point towards the end when ill-health took a toll and he couldn't...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2013
Mumbai: Key equity benchmarks closed in green after consolidating for most part of the day. The action was by and large limited around the stocks that had declared their results. Positive regional shares helped the Nifty to close above 5900 mark once again. Broking house Religare expects to see some correction in Indian stocks in May due to macroeconomic headwinds. The May selloff is likely despite the satisfactory January-March corporate...
09:53 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal chit fund is getting bigger each day. It has now turns out that ponzi schemes in the state financed not just media houses but Tollywood films as well. In the past four years, at least one in three films has been produced by groups that run ponzi schemes. Rose Valley, a deposit-taking company which is now under the MCA scanner, has produced 18 films including three...
08:42 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Biharsharif: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday asked Janata Dal (United) workers to be prepared to face "any kind of situation" in the future. "Though everything is now normal within NDA but we should be prepares to face any if and buts in future," he said. Nitish made this appeal to party workers while addressing the JD-U trader cell at the convention hall at Rajgir. Relations between NDA partner...
12:26 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Mysore: Ten girls from West Bengal and Bangladesh, including two minors, have been rescued from a sex racket in Mysore. The CID's anti-trafficking squad raided a motel after getting a tip off by an NGO. The police said that the hotel seems to have been built specifically for such a racket with secret rooms and hideouts and an alarm system to alert girls to take shelter in case of a...
07:12 PM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: A traffic constable escaped unhurt after he was fired upon when he tried to stop three people who were riding a motorcycle without wearing helmets on Wednesday evening, police said. "The incident happened at Preet Vihar in east Delhi. Traffic constable Monu was manning a traffic signal when he saw the motorcyclists, with no helmets and riding three to a motorcycle. He tried to stop them, but they...
05:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Dhar: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said factionalism was one of the main problems plaguing the party and assured that voice of ordinary workers would be heard at the time of ticket distribution. Factionalism was one of the three problems plaguing the Congress. The other two were neglect of party workers and sabotage during elections, he said. Rahul was addressing a meeting of Panchayat representatives and office-bearers of the...
02:55 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Luxury carmakers in India are moving downmarket and shifting production of smaller and cheaper cars to local plants to cut costs, broadening their target market to include young, female and middle-class drivers to boost lacklustre performance. In an effort to raise stuttering sales that far lag emerging Asian rival China, the German big three of Mercedes-Benz, Audi AG and BMW AG want to win buyers outside the ultra-rich with...
07:00 AM, Apr 23, 2013
