London: Rupert Murdoch batted away accusations on Wednesday that he used his vast media empire to play puppet master to a succession of British leaders, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken faith in Prime Minister David Cameron's government. The 81-year-old media mogul's appearance is the high point in an inquiry which has laid bare collusion between ministers and News Corp, reawakening decades of concern over the cozy ties between...
05:03 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Hyderabad: Army chief General VK Singh on Monday denied reports of him tracking phone conversations of ministers. He also stuck to his stand that ammunition in the Army was seeing an alarming shortage. He termed as 'fiction' media reports of a complaint about telephone tapping to hear conversation in connection with his age row. "Fiction does not require any reaction. If people concoct stories and some of the irresponsible editors...
02:39 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to place before it the report of the probe ordered into the leakage of "classified documents/telephonic intercepts" of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia's conversations with politicians, businessmen and journalists. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay asked Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising to place the report before it by January 31, 2012, when it would take up for final...
08:08 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that phones of the Team Anna members were being tapped. ...
06:36 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday trashed Team Anna's allegations that their phones were being tapped and advised the activists to lodge a complaint with the police if they have any doubts. "It is not necessary to answer allegations which are the product of a fertile imagination and involve only tilting at windmills without any factual basis," Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said in New Delhi. Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal had...
05:43 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: The number of phones and email accounts being tapped in the country nearly doubled during the month of July, with central security agencies making fresh requests for monitoring 3,420 phone lines and 465 email accounts. A total of 4,350 phone lines and 501 email addresses were under surveillance and fresh orders were received from the Home Secretary recently for monitoring of an additional 3,420 telephones and 465 e-mails...
08:46 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Grilled by the British Parliament, the world's most powerful Media mugol Rupert Murdoch apologised for phone hacking by his journalists, but refuses to take overall responsibility for the fiasco. ...
09:10 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi left for Tappal in west Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning as he took on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on her home turf. Rahul Gandhi started the padyatra on Tuesday from Bhatta-Parsaul village. Rahul Gandhi resumed his footmarch on Wednesday to make common cause with farmers in Uttar Pradesh over land acquisition after an overnight halt at this village where in slept in...
07:58 AM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: In the clash of the titans at North Block, Pranab Mukherjee has finally had his way - phone tapping for unearthing tax evaders - this despite objections from the Home Ministry and the Cabinet Secretariat. Post the Nira Radia phone taps by the income tax department, the Cabinet Secretariat had suggested the department be removed from the list of agencies that can tap phones. The reasoning being tax...
08:33 AM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: The smokescreen around the secret world of phone taps legal and illegal is all set to clear up. In an unprecedented move, the Union Home Ministry has called police chiefs from across the country on Tuesday on phone tapping. Perhaps keeping in mind the corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and former BSP leader Amar Singh phone tap scandals, the Home ministry has prepared fresh standard operating procedures. The Central...
07:01 AM, May 31, 2011
New Delhi: All set to crack down on illegal phone tapping, the Centre has asked the government agencies and state governments to return all surveillance equipment. "MHA has not authorised any phone tapping of any political leaders," said Home Minister P Chidambaram in a damage control mode in Parliament last year. But the ghost of illegal phone tapping that's been haunting the government and corporate India refuses to go away...
08:11 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) will continue to enjoy the power of telephone tapping despite a strong recommendation by a Committee of Secretaries against it following a controversy in the wake of the Niira Radia episode. "The CBDT will continue to have the power of phone tapping subject to certain Conditions," an official said. However, it is not immediately clear the conditions the CBDT will have...
11:27 AM, May 22, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the Supreme Court lifted a gag order on his tapped telephonic conversations, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday admitted that the tapes had his voice but alleged a cut and paste job. "I don't say it was not my voice. But if you are tapping someone's phone for over an year, the conversations can be put in other context. The tapes are spliced,...
03:26 PM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce its verdict on Wednesday on the issue of lifting the stay on publishing and telecasting the tapped conversations of former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh with top political leaders and Bollywood stars. The apex court had on February 27, 2006, restrained the electronic and the print media from broadcasting and publishing the contents of the tapped conversations of anyone, including that of Singh....
08:47 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: Market watchdog SEBI has sought the Government's permission to tap phones during its probe into suspected financial irregularities in its third such request in less than three years. The latest request has been made by SEBI Chairman UK Sinha after his predecessor CB Bhave failed at least twice in his attempts to secure an authorisation for SEBI to tap phone for its surveillance and investigative actions. In his...
05:02 PM, Apr 11, 2011
New Delhi: Corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and industrialist Ratan Tata were on Monday grilled by Parliament's Public Accounts (PAC) Committee on her tapped conversations with politicians, corporates, bureaucrats and journalists in connection with alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation. PAC Chief and BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said that Ratan Tata accepted that he had written to Karunanidhi about A Raja. "Tata gave answers to all questions candidly. Both...
07:07 PM, Apr 04, 2011
New Delhi: Corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and industrialist Ratan Tata were on Monday grilled by Parliament's Public Accounts (PAC) Committee on her tapped conversations with politicians, corporates, bureaucrats and journalists in connection with alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation. Radia, whose tapped phone conversations with politicians, corporates, bureaucrats, and journalists form a key part of the investigations into the 2G spectrum scam, is believed to have told the Committee...
11:05 AM, Apr 04, 2011
New Delhi: Phone tapping norms are set to become tougher. A committee led by Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar has said the Central Board Direct Taxes and the Income Tax Department should not be allowed to seek phone taps, sources have told CNN-IBN. The committee has also recommended that the the finance ministry must first clear requests by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for phone...
05:22 PM, Mar 03, 2011
If a new proposal from the Cabinet Committee on Security is implemented, things will change, and your phone call will be directly on tap.
06:41 PM, Feb 18, 2011
New Delhi: Nira Radia phone calls, recorded for a Government probe, were leaked to the media, which led to uproar and loads of embarrassment. Even Amar Singh's phone calls were tapped based on a document with a lot of errors. Questions were also raised about safety of manual phone monitoring by service providers. If a new proposal from the Cabinet Committee on Security is implemented, things will change, and your...
05:55 PM, Feb 18, 2011
