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 the state special branch on May 15 under Official Secrets Act and is currently under police remand, he said. Sinha, hailing from Assam, joined as lower division clerk in 1995 and was posted in Siliguri in West Bengal from 2000 to 2011 during which he came into contact with an ex-serviceman, who introduced him to the ISI agent in Nepal.
Dinkar said that Sinha had been to Kathmandu for at least four times to meet the agent and provided him secret information and documents. He was given Indian and Nepalese currency for spying, he said, adding, that the exact details of the amount is ascertained.
"We have recovered some important documents from his house in Jhotwara area here," the ADG said, adding that the accused was being interrogated by the intelligence officials for more informations. "Army will extend full cooperation to the police during investigation," said Defence spokesperson SD Goswami. He added that it is a police case as Sinha, a civilian employee of the force, cannot be tried under Army Act....
04:56 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Conceding to the longstanding demand of civil service aspirants, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is mulling to put online the scanned copies of answer sheets of the candidates writing the prestigious examination. The Commission, which conducts the annual examination to select candidates for IAS, IPS and IFS among others, is in discussion with the Ministry of Personnel over the matter. "The UPSC is considering to upload answer...
06:16 PM, May 16, 2013
Banka: Cracking the UPSC is a difficult proposition, especially for aspirants who live in Naxal-infested areas, with no access to proper coaching facilities. But all that has changed in Bihar's Banka district due to the efforts of District Magistrate Dipak Anand and his deputy Sub-Divisional Magistrate Mithilesh Mishra. Together, they conduct free coaching sessions for students taking the UPSC exam from this region. With no proper guidance, the youth in...
11:02 PM, May 15, 2013
In spite of the liberalisation of the Indian economy which has opened up so many avenues of quality employment, an IAS berth still appeals to a large number of young Indians. For a select few like Manjunath, it becomes the be all and end all of their lives. Is there need for greater sensitisation of IAS aspirants? Can counselling play a role? IAS officer Dr Raja Sekhar Vundru joined IBNLive...
05:33 PM, May 15, 2013
Bangalore: Two Indian IT firms are feeling the heat of the recent $ 45 million global ATM heist. But while they are under scrutiny for possible security breach, industry body NASSCOM says the incident is not a reflection on Indian IT services overall. It is being called the world's largest ATM heist - a sensational global crime that saw $ 45 million being stolen from two banks in the middle...
07:52 AM, May 15, 2013
Bangalore: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has denied the charge that the student YV Manjunath had cleared the exam. Manjunath had allegedly committed suicide on May 10, with the police stating that he was upset over a 'goof-up' in the UPSC results published in Bangalore. The UPSC Chairman has told CNN-IBN that the rank and roll number belonged to some other student. "There is no possibility of Manjunath having...
02:17 PM, May 13, 2013
Bangalore: An IAS aspirant committed suicide in Bangalore on Friday, upset over a "mix-up" in the Civil Services Examinations results list. 24-year-old VY Manjunath was found hanging in an under-construction building near his residence in Madikeri. His family claims Manjunath had even tried to rectify "goof-up" and contacted Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) officials seeking clarification. "My son was very upset and had tried to rectify the mistake but there...
10:22 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Ruchika Katyal, an IPS probationer, has achieved fifth rank in the prestigious Civil Services Examination. Katyal, a 2011-batch Arunachal Pradesh Goa Mizoram Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre probationary of Indian Police Service, is undergoing training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. She has been sent as an observer to poll-bound Karnataka. 26-year-old Katyal, who is also a Chartered Accountant, hails from Rohtak in Haryana and has...
08:22 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: For the third consecutive year, a woman has topped the prestigious Civil Services Examination 2012. Haritha V Kumar, a probationer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) 2011 batch, has made it to the top slot of the coveted exam, according to the results declared on Friday by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The top position in General, Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) have...
08:01 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Haritha V Kumar, who emerged topper in the All-India Civil Services Examination, initially did not believe it was true as she thought her friends had played a prank. "I did not believe that I got the first rank. My friends told me that I am the topper but I refused to believe. They dragged me and showed it to me on Internet and then only I believed them,"...
10:52 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: The third rank holder in this year's Civil Services Examination did her post-graduate diploma in marketing management from the national capital. Stuti Charan appeared for the exams in Delhi. This was her third attempt. She has completed BSc from Jodhpur University and PG Diploma in Personnel and Marketing Management from IIPM, New Delhi. Amongst the top 25 candidates, there are candidates claiming domicile from as many as 12...
07:38 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Keralites have outshone others in the UPSC civil services examination 2012. Three of the top four belong to the state, including the top two. The top 50 has eight candidates from the state. Haritha V Kumar (Roll No. 075502) from Thiruvananthapuram took the top position. This is after a gap of 20 years that a Keralite has notched the top rank. This was the B.Tech graduate's fourth attempt....
06:13 PM, May 03, 2013
The final results of Civil Services Examination, 2012 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were announced on Friday. A total number of 998 candidates have qualified and have been recommended for appointment including 457 General (including 23 physically challenged candidates), 295 Other Backward Classes (including 9 Physically challenged candidates), 169 Scheduled Castes (including 2 Physically challenged candidate) and 77 Scheduled Tribes candidates against 1091 vacancies (550 General, 295...
04:27 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: FM radio services would now spread to 294 cities across the country with the government on Wednesday approving a proposal which will involve private agencies. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the auction of 839 channels in 294 cities to be awarded through ascending e-auction through private agencies. It decided that the authority to make any other minor change in Request...
06:58 PM, May 01, 2013
Mumbai: Telecom operator Reliance Communications today announced a roaming agreement with Aircel, under which both the companies will use each others' mobile towers to improve network coverage for 2G GSM services. RCom is in talks with other operators as well to have similar arrangements and add total of around 10,000 base stations (mobile towers) in its network, it said in a statement. "We are already in advanced stages of talks...
03:46 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday made a series of announcements to strengthen the state police. The announcements include annual recruitment of personnel for police and fire services departments, construction for their housing, creation of youth brigade, extension of closed user group telephony facility to family members, residential school for children and others measures. Jayalalithaa also announced hike in food allowances to Rs 200 from Rs 85...
05:58 AM, Apr 24, 2013
San Francisco: Yahoo's email service in China will close this summer as part of an arrangement worked out with its partner in that country, Alibaba Group. The service is scheduled to close August 19. Yahoo is recommending users of its free email service in China transfer their accounts to another provider such as Aliyun, an email alternative offered by Alibaba. Yahoo Inc., based in Sunnyvale, California, has been phasing out...
10:04 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: India's mobile services market is expected to grow eight per cent to Rs.1.2 trillion in 2013 but will account for only two per cent of the worldwide mobile services revenue as operators are struggling to increase profit margins, research firm Gartner today said. The revenues from mobile services stood at Rs. 1.1 trillion in 2012, Gartner said in a statement. According to Gartner, mobile connections in the country are...
02:14 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's top software services provider, lifted quarterly profit by more than a fifth and painted a more bullish picture for future revenue growth than key rival Infosys. TCS said it expects revenue in the current fiscal year to increase more than the 12-14 per cent sector export growth forecast by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom). Infosys Ltd on Friday missed expectations...
09:42 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's sixth-biggest cellular carrier by customers, said it will surrender part of its CDMA mobile airwaves in all but two of its zones, after the government asked carriers to pay surcharges on airwaves. Tata Tele, 26 per cent owned by Japan's NTT DoCoMo, said it has informed the telecommunications ministry that it will give up CDMA airwaves beyond 2.5 megahertz in 15 service areas, but...
08:34 AM, Apr 18, 2013
