six-member special team comprising five from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and one from the Income Tax department was on Thursday constituted by the Supreme Court to examine the contents of tapped telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with politicians, corporate honchos and others. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhaya said the working of the team will be supervised by two officers of […]

In Pic :American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, has used his Twitter account to spread his ideology and to report threats on his life. If the last decade of the so-called “war on terror” was about boots on the ground and winning hearts and minds, the next 10 years may include a battle for retweets and “likes.” A growing consensus of counterterrorism analysts who track […]

JEDDAH: Labor Minister Adel Fakeih yesterday disclosed that there are about 448,000 unemployed Saudi men and women in a country that hosts 8.4 million foreign workers. Addressing the fourth HR Forum at Jeddah Hilton, he said more than 1.3 million unemployed Saudi men and women have benefited from the Hafiz program, citing a report issued last Ramadan. He emphasized the need for creating more job opportunities for the increasing number […]

A city lawyer and social activist on Sunday lodged a first information report (FIR) against popular social networking site Facebook, after his profile was blocked. The report was filed at the ‘cyber crime cell’ of the Lucknow police by Prince Lenin, a resident of Hussainganj in Lucknow. In his complaint, Lenin alleged that although he had long been a user of Facebook, his profile was recently blocked by the site […]