New Delhi: The Essar Group on Tuesday rejected the allegations made in the US diplomatic cable published on WikiLeaks that it paid protection money to Maoists, saying it is a law abiding corporate. "Essar is a law abiding corporate. We don't think it is appropriate or necessary to react to baseless and unfounded allegations," an Essar spokesperson said in a statement. As per the cable published by whistleblower internet website...
11:36 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Srinagar: Moderate Hurriyat Conference leaders were privately in favour of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru if he was guilty but felt that he did not get adequate representation during parts of his trial, leaked US diplomatic cables have claimed. "While they (moderates) were concerned that Afzal did not have adequate representation during parts of his trial, privately they say that he should be executed if he is guilty," a...
09:41 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Washington: The Ruias-led Essar Group, which has mining interests in Chhattisgarh, pays protection money to Maoists to safeguard its operations in the state, a leaked US diplomatic cable said. "A senior representative from Essar, a major industrial company with large mining and steel-related facilities in Chhattisgarh, told Congenoff (Consul General Office) that the company pays the Maoists 'a significant amount' not to harm or interfere with their operations," a cable...
08:46 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Srinagar: Politics in Kashmir is 'as filthy as Dal lake' and corruption cuts across party lines, according to leaked US diplomatic cables from India released by WikiLeaks. David Mulford in a cable to Washington in 2006 when he was the US ambassador to India also alleged that corruption in Jammu and Kashmir was widespread and prevalent not only among mainstream politicians but separatists as well. "Corruption cuts across party lines...
06:37 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati sent a jet to pick up a pair of sandals, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. "When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand," a cable said describing her "eccentricities, whims and insecurities". US embassy cables from 2007 to 2009 released by the WikiLeaks website describe Mayawati as "a...
03:19 PM, Sep 05, 2011
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02:49 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: India and Pakistan had reached a 'back-channel' agreement on the Kashmir issue during the tenure of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told a visiting US Congressional team. According to secret US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks, Singh told the Congressional delegation in April 2009 that India and Pakistan had made great progress prior to February 2007, when Musharraf ran into trouble. "We had reached...
09:01 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: Former national security adviser MK Narayanan on Sunday came out in support of the UPA government saying that they were serious about extraditing 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley. He also told CNN-IBN that a chargesheet against Headley will be filed soon. Slamming criticism from the Opposition, Narayanan said that he could not comment on communications which took place between US officials with regard to Headley. "Ask these questions...
05:14 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister had asked the chief of American retail chain Walmart in 1995 to 'convince' then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee about allowing FDI in retail sector, which the latter opposed, a top CPI(M) leader said on Sunday. "The Prime Minister had asked the Walmart chief to go and convince the West Bengal Chief Minister on allowing FDI in retail trade. Bhattacharjee had then explained the...
03:29 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: By "surrendering" to the Telangana statehood demand, the Congress opened a can of worms and came across as a party that appeared "weak and feeble" and one that can be "easily bullied and intimidated by threats", according to US assessment of the situation in 2009. In a secret cable written on December 10, 2009, then US Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer said the ramifications of the "Telangana surrender"...
01:47 PM, Sep 04, 2011
D Raja reacts to the WikiLeaks cable that quotes former national security adviser as saying India wasn't serious about David Headley's extradition. ...
11:29 AM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: New revelations in a US cable released by Wikileaks state that India was never really serious about 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley's extradition. The cable says that in December 2009, former national security adviser MK Narayanan had told the then US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that New Delhi's demand for extraditing Headley was mere posturing. Narayanan is also reported saying that the government was just trying to...
10:05 AM, Sep 04, 2011
London: After a series of blunders, WikiLeaks on Friday dumped its entire archive of 251,287 unfiltered and unedited secret US diplomatic cables online, drawing an angry response from its media collaborators. The whistle-blower website made the controversial decision after losing control of the documents which exposed and possibly endangered confidential diplomatic sources. WikiLeaks supporters posted the entire encrypted archive on the internet late 2010. The group on Friday said on...
09:52 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: Terming the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir as an important achievement, classified US documents released by WikiLeaks revealed that Washington was keen on 'preserving' the truce by denouncing the violations carried out by Pakistani troops. In a 2005 cable to US State Department under the heading 'preserving the LoC ceasefire', then Ambassador to India David C Mulford urged the Bush Administration to issue a...
08:57 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Baghdad: Negotiations to keep US troops in Iraq came under new strain on Friday in the wake of WikiLeaks' release of a UN letter alleging that an Iraqi family was handcuffed and shot in the head in a 2006 raid by American forces, not accidentally killed in an airstrike. Iraq's government said on Friday it will investigate the new allegations. And some officials said that the document was reason enough...
08:10 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: IUML leader and Kerala Minister MK Muneer on Friday rejected CPM's demand for his resignation following WikiLeaks revelation suggesting that he had told US consular officials that his party had divisions about the approach towards Kerala-based radical outfit NDF. Dubbing the content of the diplomatic cable, quoted by the whistle blower, as "mere imagination of the US officials", Muneer told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram IUML has always stood firmly against...
08:07 PM, Sep 03, 2011
Kannur: After causing discomfiture in CPM in Kerala, US diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks have embarrassed the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) by suggesting divisions in the party over its approach towards extremist outfit National Development Front (NDF). The whistleblower site revealed that a cable allegedly sent to Washington by the US consulate in Chennai a few years back quoted IUML leader MK Muneer as having said that party leaders...
07:48 PM, Sep 03, 2011
London: WikiLeaks disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables on Friday, much if not all of it uncensored, a move that drew stinging condemnation from major newspapers which in the past collaborated with the anti-secrecy group's efforts to expose corruption and double-dealing. Many media outlets, previously had access to all or part of the uncensored tome. But WikiLeaks' decision to post the 251,287 cables on its website makes...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2011
London: Uncensored copies of WikiLeaks' massive tome of US State Department cables circulated freely on Thursday across the Internet, leaving a whole new batch of US sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution. The United States, meanwhile, denied ever cooperating with the anti-secrecy group, and blasted Wikileaks for allegedly threatening national security and the safety of confidential informants. WikiLeaks has blamed Britain's the Guardian newspaper for the breach, saying that...
10:47 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Facebook has announced that it is ready to pay people at least $ five hundred if they point out security glitches. ...
10:11 AM, Sep 01, 2011
