The Bombay High Court has ruled that the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in any form cannot be the subject matter of exclusivity, clearing the path for Mahesh Manjrekar's new Marathi movie, 'Punha Shivaji Raje Bhosale', for release on Friday as scheduled.
Since the IPKF's withdrawal from Sri Lanka in March 1990, the LTTE's once-powerful influence in Tamil Nadu has faded.
The latest biopic on Jyotibai Phule has come at a time when the Department of Taking Offence is super-active. Utkarsh Mishra feels it will be interesting to see if it portrays his attack on Brahminism in the same 'no holds barred' manner-- and, if it does, what reaction it provokes.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to enter a plea deal with the Joe Biden administration that could pave the way for him to avoid imprisonment in the United States, according to recently filed federal court documents, CNN reported.
Moris, dressed in a wedding gown designed by British designer and Assange supporter Dame Vivienne Westwood, arrived at the prison with her sons and Assange's father Richard and brother Gabriel.
For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from information on Wikipedia, the free internet-based encyclopedia has alleged. Adani, a first-generation entrepreneur, has lost over $70 billion in net worth and slipped to 25th rank on the world billionaire index from being Asia's richest and the world's third most wealthy businessman, in less than a month. This followed US short-seller Hindenburg Research accusing the group of accounting fraud, stock price manipulation and money laundering, allegations that the conglomerate has repeatedly denied, and threatened legal action.
Kamala has finessed bubblegum conversation about whether she is Black or Indian. Her Irrelevancing-approach, an Irrelevance-code if you will, is Elevated and Elegant -- this is the Elevance of Kamala! asserts economist Dr Anuradha Luther Maitra.
WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America's premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently hold up in Ecuador embassy in London, will stand for the Senate in Victoria for the September federal poll as the lead candidate of a newly formed WikiLeaks Party.
The ministry of information and broadcasting is working on a proposal to set up a mega movie production studio -- akin to those in Hollywood -- with an investment of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion), which will be supported by the government.
Wikimedia Commons, the most popular website for sharing and using photographs, has compiled the best features pictures from 2011.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has developed a life threatening heart defect and a chronic lung condition during his years confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in southwest London, according to a report.
Pakistan's political and military elite have been shaken by damaging disclosures about the country's foreign policy and internal politics in hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, with the media screaming "WikiWreaks havoc" and "WikiLeaks bombs rock Islamabad".
Rediff.com brings for you the third in the series of leaked Wiki cables, which point towards some startling revelations.
WikiLeaks has dismissed a claim that its founder Julian Assange called Narendra Modi "incorruptible" and accused a Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Maharashtra of pushing this "fake" endorsement in support of the party's prime ministerial candidate.
A book has claimed that the United States army personnel, who has been accused of downloading and passing thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, was able to copy them due to a lapse in security. Specialist Bradley Manning, 23, who downloaded the material in Iraq, had 'unrestricted access' to millions of classified documents 'with virtually no supervision or safeguards', revealed extracts from the book.
Called WikiLeaks Task Force or WTF, it is focused on the immediate impact of the most recently released files, The Washington Post reported.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said a criminal investigation in underway against WikiLeaks and any individual involved in breaking US law, be it an American or foreigner, will be held accountable.
Training her guns at WikiLeaks for making an expose about her 'whims and fancies', Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday termed it a conspiracy by the Opposition.
The 47-year-old faces allegations that he publicly released secret documents relating to the United States.
A top aide to German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle has been identified as the person responsible for passing on information about government coalition talks to the United States embassy in the latest WikiLeaks disclosures.
The then Australian deputy prime minister Julia Gillard's visit to India in 2009 during a spate of racial attacks on Indian students in Australia was a 'wasted opportunity' as it failed to quell the rising tide of anger in the country over the assaults, whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has revealed.Diplomatic cables unveiled by WikiLeaks disclose that Gillard's India visit secured only 'vague commitments' on the burning issue in the country.
United States lawmakers have introduced legislations in the Congress which is aimed at stopping the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks by making it illegal to publish the names of military or intelligence community informants.
Even though the NIA claims that more than 90 per cent of cases charge-sheeted have ended in conviction, the figure is likely misleading. To date, very few cases investigated by the NIA have resulted in a completed trial, points out former CBI joint director Navneet Rajan Wasan.
Hackers in support of WikiLeaks have brought down the websites of credit-card giants Visa and MasterCard in the ongoing cyber-war between sympathisers of the whistle-blower site and firms trying to stifle it.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US "deeply regrets" the release of lakhs of confidential documents by WikiLeaks and described it as an attack not only against her country, but the global community.
The WikiLeaks has alleged that the United States had rejected its offer for constructive dialogue and accused it of trying to suppress evidence of human rights abuses and other criminal behaviour, saying Washington's concerns were "entirely fanciful".
A Pakistani court on Friday rejected a petition seeking a ban on WikiLeaks for releasing thousands of secret United States diplomatic cables, with the judge saying the people must know the facts.
The United States has warned India and other key governments across the world about a new potentially embarrassing release of classified documents by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks which may harm the American interests and create tension in its ties with its "friends".
Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks on Thursday released a cache of more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and other functionaries, which it said would embarrass not only Syria but also its opponents.
Wikimedia Commons, the most popular website for sharing and using photographs, has compiled the best features pictures from 2011.
Global private intelligence group Stratfor knew that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba was planning to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi much before whistleblower WikiLeaks brought it before the world through its leaked US diplomatic cables.
Pakistan's civilian government complained to the United States that it was being kept in the dark about American funding to the military and that money provided for the war on terror had been used for other purposes, according to secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
Warning that Assange's legal pursuit in Sweden had "political motivations", his lawyer Marx Stephens said that WikiLeaks still held secret material, which would be released if it needed to protect itself.
China on Wednesday blocked access to WikiLeaks, which has released 2.5 lakh secret United States documents, with its official media stonewalling publication of the leaked cables highlighting Beijing's embarrassing predicament over its close ally North Korea and allegations that it directly authorised hacking of Google.
Politely decline to be prime minister, and hand the baton to someone else in the BJP -- like Sonia did to Manmohan Singh -- advises Krishna Prasad.
Richard N Hass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington-based think tank said the unauthorised release of a trove of diplomatic documents reveal little new information. "The latest unauthorised release of some 250,000 documents by WikiLeaks does not appear to constitute a national security crisis, although it will cause more than a little near-term awkwardness and create some longer-term problems for the United States and its partners," said Hass.
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.
Inspired by the utility and popularity of Wikipedia, a duo in their late twenties hit upon the idea of a similar wiki site offering procedures for availing various government-to-citizen services, from getting a birth certificate to a passport.
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.
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