The strange allegation by UAE officials is noted in a State Department cable, which reports the details of a meeting between officials of the US Treasury Department and those of UAE's State Security Department (SSD) and Dubai's General Department of State Security to discuss suspected Taliban-related financial activity in the UAE.
Australia's former premier Kevin Rudd had told the United States that it should be ready to "deploy force" if attempts to integrate China do not yield results, secret cables released by WikiLeaks have disclosed, prompting an embarrassed Australia to insist that it continues to have strong ties with Beijing.
A top British diplomat in September 2009 told a visiting American diplomat that China has "dumped" Pakistan in the Conference on Disarmament, according to a United States cable leaked by whistleblower site WikiLeaks on Wednesday.
US embassy cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks reveal that teams of US special forces have been secretly working with Pakistan military in the tribal areas, the Guardian said.
As WikiLeaks began rolling out classified diplomatic cables running into more than 2.5 lakh documents that brought to the fore for the first time some of the top secrets of the United States, the whistleblower website christened this as 'Cablegate'. "Please use cablegate to discuss the pending US embassy cables release," WikiLeaks said in its twitter post. Even the website, where it posted all the documents, had cablegate in its browser address http://cablegate.wikileaks.org.
A number of Middle Eastern nations have expressed concern over Iran's aspirations of becoming a nuclear armed state, according to the secret cables released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Saudi Arabia's leader King Abdullah has even asked the US to consider bombing Iran's nuclear facilities, reveal the cables."He told you (US administration) to cut off the head of the snake," the Saudi ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir is quoted as saying.
The order to implement the directive strictly comes on the heels of the government banning an Iran-based private news channel -- Press TV -- after it aired a report about the alleged desecration of the Quran in the United States, that led to violent protests leaving 18 dead
The United States on Friday declined to comment on a WikiLeaks cable that sparked allegations that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government purchased the support of Members of Parliament to survive the trust vote over the Indo-US nuclear deal in 2008. "I am not going to say if it (the cable) is classified or not, but certainly if it is classified, we wouldn't speak about it, and we are not going to speak about it in way, shape or form," said a spokesperson.
Pakistanis have been left without their daily fix of Indian soap operas and Bollywood movies after cable operators across the country stopped beaming Indian entertainment channels on the orders of a media regulatory body.Leading Indian entertainment channels of Star and Sony networks have disappeared from cable networks across the country while several international news channels like BBC and CNN are no longer being beamed in some parts of Pakistan for the past few days.
At least eight cars were trapped when the 950-ton (tonne) bridge suddenly gave way.
China's presumed future president Xi Jinping is an "extremely ambitious" person who is incorruptible and has chosen to survive by becoming "redder than reds", a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said.
In a video posted after the alleged attack, Goswami said he was told by his security guards that the attackers were allegedly Youth Congress workers. However, there was no confirmation of the same by either police or the youth outfit.
The ruling Pakistan People's Party feels that the disclosure of US diplomatic cables have been beneficial to return of popular rule in the country as it has forced the military to clarify its position regarding democracy, a party leader has said.
The US embassy cable details how the regime was thought to be using football to distract its population from ongoing political and economic problems.
The Lashkar needed to strike badly using its Southern Modules since they wanted the attention for the modules down South. When Khafa was brought into the picture, he was told that the Southern module would begin with the assasination of Narendra Modi.
"Mubarak said that when President Bush Sr had called and asked what Mubarak thought about invading Iraq to get to rid of Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf war, Mubarak had told him not to because 'you won't be able to get out and you will drown in Iraq,'" according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Besides Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are listed as major source of terrorist financing.
Information coming out of a secret State Department cable dated June 19, 2009 released by WikiLeaks indicates that LeT has established a facilitation centre in Sri Lanka and was looking at setting up a base of operations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Cable operators were protesting police action, after 9 channels were blocked for breaching a high court order.
Telecom firms earning foreign exchange on incoming overseas calls, Internet services and rentals from cable networks are not entitled to duty sops under an export promotion scheme, says the government.
Telecommunications major Reliance Communications will invest $1.5 billion (around Rs 7,000 crore) in Flag Telecom, its under-sea cable subsidiary, over the next three years.
Earlier, RBI had allowed domestic entities to invest in overseas unincorporated entities in the oil sector, up to 400 per cent of the net worth of the Indian company, under the automatic route.
'I did not imagine I would be offered a film like Sonali Cable,' Rhea Chakraborty gets candid with Sonil Dedhia.
Currently, STB of a particular operator cannot be used by a consumer to receive signals of another operator
Placing an annual limit on the number of India and other non-EU professionals who could come to Britain for work is one of the major items on the coalition government's agenda. The plan, however, has been opposed in several quarters.
Cable operators continued to black out pay channels in South Delhi on Tuesday, making it clear that consumers will have to either go in for set top boxes to watch these channels or be content with the free-to-air ones.
Sukanya Verma looks at the wide-eyed dolly's presence in our movies.
There appears to be no end in sight to the woes of South Delhi TV viewers, with no word from the government on whether it plans to scrap the launch of conditional access system and cable operators.
With Conditional Access System (CAS) ready to take off in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata from January 1, 2007, almost 2.5 million cable television viewers can look forward to having a customised bouquet of channels.
According to minutes of a meeting held to discuss the panel recommendations, additional secretary in DoT pointed out that though OFC ensures sufficient bandwidth it has high cost of laying the cable (Rs 3,25,000 per kilometer), long time lag and is difficult to maintain.
'During Amit Shah's recent visit to Kerala, the strategy of concentrating the attacks on the CM on false charges was clear enough.'
Smart lighting is about to revolutionise the way we think of the humble bulb.
'One out of three phones sold in India is a Xiaomi phone.'
PEMRA will only allow airtime to Indian content if India allows airtime to Pakistani content.
A cyclonic circulation over Haryana was the trigger for the deadly dust storm that swept parts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, weather experts said.
Russia has unveiled the world's longest cable-stayed bridge, a part of the huge investment to boost the country's infrastructure in the Far East region.
Hathway Cable Internet, one of the largest broadband cable ISPs in India on Monday introduced two attractive plans - Liteway Basic and Thruway.
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