Washington: Unlike in the past, the latest tranche of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have not been leaked, but have been "legitimately obtained from a US government web site" and released in a user-friendly searchable format. These diplomatic cables about 1.7 million from the period of 1973-76 - now being dubbed as "The Kissinger cable" - were declassified by the US State Department in 2006 and since then have been posted at the website - www.archive.org - of National Archives and Records Administration.
NARA is an independent US state agency charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records. For instance the most talked about cable - 1975NEWDE14031_b, confidential - which refers to Rajiv Gandhi, son of the then Prime Minister, late Indira Gandhi - was declassified on July 6, 2006 and has been parked on the NARA website for years.
"It is basically repackaging of the documents" and putting them into a "nice searchable format", National Security Archive senior analyst William Burr told reporters. "The WikiLeaks press release also asserts that Kissinger authored many of the telegrams but that is an exaggeration because Secretaries of State don't see many of the hundreds of thousands of telegrams that go out under their names," Burr added....
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12:15 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: WikiLeaks returned to haunt the Congress party on Monday which trashed reports claiming that Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman for a Swedish aircraft company before entering politics but the Opposition demanded that the "truth" be made public. The Congress made it clear that the reports had no basis whatsoever, with party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi referring to the last line of the leaked WikiLeaks cable to emphasise that...
08:54 PM, Apr 08, 2013
There are only three, not 30, kissing scenes in upcoming film '3G', says actor Neil Nitin Mukesh. ...
06:53 PM, Feb 28, 2013
For almost four decades, Bollywood's only association with intimacy was two nodding dandelions and the camera panning to logs burning in the fireplace. Desire was portrayed through symbolism on the celluloid as filmmakers learned to fear the censor board. But this wasn't always the case in cinema's 100 year history. Actresses were as bold in the 1930s as they are today, perhaps even more. ...
08:33 AM, Feb 20, 2013
A never-seen-before interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will premiere next month. In the interview, Jobs speaks about how he pulled off a prank call to the Pope, saying he was US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Jobs was interviewed by journalist Bob Cringely in 1995 for a Channel 4 series titled "Triumph Of The Nerds", the Daily Mail reported. The Apple founder - who died in October last year...
10:44 AM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, the architect of the US' historic opening to China, has denied that that the US struck a secret pact with India to prevent an attack on West Pakistan in 1971. Known in India for unflattering comments on former prime minister Indira Gandhi, he sought to correct the picture, saying he always thought she was "an extremely strong and far-sighted woman". "India and the former...
12:09 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: He has shot a quite a few kissing scenes already in his movies and actor Ranbir Kapoor says that filming a lip lock is mechanical, just like an action sequence. The actor has locked lips with a number of his leading ladies, including Deepika Padukone in 'Bachna Ae Haseeno', Priyanka Chopra in 'Anjaana Anjaani', American actress Sarah Thompson in 'Raajneeti' and Nargis Fakhri in his upcoming film 'Rockstar'....
07:57 PM, Sep 26, 2011
London: If you think the passion to kiss your partner is missing in your life, it could be due to your marriage. A survey in Britian has found one in five married couples does not kiss for a whole week and when they do, it is usually a quick smooch lasting not more than five seconds. But younger sweethearts are more romantic, the survey finds, with those between 18 and...
07:15 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Pattaya: A kiss is still a kiss -- even if it goes on for over a day. Fourteen couples from across Thailand gathered at Pattaya beach resort to try and break the world record for kissing, attempting to spend more than 32 hours locked lip-to-lip. The marathon kicked off at 6:00 am local on Sunday (2300 GMT), with each couple given a space of 1 square metre in which they...
11:23 AM, Feb 14, 2011
'Kites' hottie tells all about shooting in India ...
03:42 PM, Apr 28, 2010
Juicy Mausi turns an eyewitness ...
11:58 AM, Mar 26, 2010
Punching in kissing scenes can get vulgar after a time, says Emraan. ...
02:57 AM, Nov 12, 2009
Emraan has forgotten how many on-screen kisses he has done till date. ...
03:16 AM, Oct 31, 2009
France is taking precautions to avoid the spread of the H1 N1 virus. ...
09:06 AM, Sep 15, 2009
Bollywood lip-lock scenes are not frowned upon anymore. ...
11:05 AM, Jul 23, 2009
Take a look at how couples around the world lip-lock. ...
10:24 PM, May 06, 2009
The pair was spotted in Tel Aviv enjoying tender moments during a romantic dinner. ...
04:16 PM, Apr 24, 2009
