'It's not only painful annoying and bothersome, the worst thing is its unpredictability.'
On January 2, 2016, a team of gunmen wearing Indian army fatigues waded through a branch of the Ravi river on the India-Pakistan Punjab border. Arriving on the Indian side, the men hijacked vehicles and drove towards the sprawling Pathankot Air Force base.
Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com's take on Delhi's sensational corporate espionage scandal.
In a major victory for India, the International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence for Jadhav.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the new shows on our plate.
Wading through the long list of biopics coming up, Subhash K Jha picks the ones likely to make a mark.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the 10 Best Action Thrillers.
Akshay Kumar leads the show in a manner only he can. There is the right swag coming into the picture, but more important it is his deadpan style that works in favour of the character he is playing, applauds Joginder Tuteja.
"He was carrying an Indian passport. Do spies carry passports?" the home minister asked, seeking to trash Islamabad's claim that the 46-year-old was involved in "espionage and sabotage activities".
Joginder Tuteja lists how much money Salman's Eid releases have made over the years.
The US move came after the Justice Department said that hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world.
India has sought from Pakistan details about the charges against a 31-year-old Indian engineer who has been sentenced to three years in prison for espionage by a Pakistani military court.
Both India and Pakistan have already submitted their detailed pleas and responses in the world court.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has foiled a major terror plan during the festival season with the arrest of a 40-year-old Pakistani terrorist who has Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) links and had been living in India for over 10 years under a fake identity.
Morsi, 67, was attending a session in his trial on espionage charges on Monday when he blacked out and then died, according to state media.
According to the sources, those who have left include commercial counsellor Syed Furrukh Habib and first secretaries Khadim Hussain, Mudassir Cheema and Shahid Iqbal.
The concluding part of the A to Z guide to a year that will soon become history.
Radhika Apte's espionage skills, a quartet of romances in Visakhapatnam and a whole lot of other adventures and thrills, there's tons of action to catch on OTT this week.
The arrests were made on Sunday and Monday in Boston, New York, New Jersey and Virginia, the Department of Justice announced today alleging that the group dubbed the 'Illegals' was tasked by the Russian intelligence agency SVR to enter the US, assume false identities and carry out espionage activities.
A curt namaste was all that the senior Indian diplomats Deepak Mittal, joint secretary heading the Pakistan division in the external affairs ministry, and Venu Rajamoney, India's Ambassador to the Netherlands, offered when Pakistan's Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan wanted to shake hands ahead of the hearing.
China during the weekend ordered the US to close its consulate in Chengdu within 72 hours in retaliation to the US demand for China to shut down its consulate in Houston.
Police said the accused, identified as Raju Lakshman, was arrested on Wednesday from Rakhi Gaj area of Dera Ghazi Khan district, some 400-km from Lahore.
In its 42-page ruling, the ICJ ruled that Pakistan had "breached" the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which gives countries the right to consular access when their nationals are arrested abroad.
'India can replicate what Pakistan did to Kulbhushan Jadhav should the need arise.' 'Hopefully, Pakistan will see reason before that transpires,' says Ambassador G Parthasarathy, former high commissioner to Pakistan.
Fearing that his freedom may be 'short lived', WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that the United States was preparing to indict him on espionage charges and it was likely that he may be extradited. Assange, who had an emotional reunion with his mother at the 600-acre Suffolk estate where he is currently under house arrest after being released on bail, told newsmen, "The US is preparing to indict me on espionage charges. I am afraid my freedom may be short-lived."
'Pursuant to the decision of the ICJ, Commander Kulbushan Jadhav has been informed of his rights under Article 36, Paragraph 1(b) of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations'
"The Indian side has been also making incongruous demands of allowing an Indian lawyer to represent Commander Jadhav. "We have repeatedly told them only those lawyers can represent Commander Jadhav in the court who have a licence to practise law in Pakistan. This is in accordance with legal practice in other jurisdictions also," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said.
A round-up of what our lawmakers have been discussing in Parliament on Tuesday
The 50-page Shadows in the Cloud: An Investigation into Cyber Espionage 2.0 report, on released April 6, claimed 780 sensitive documents had been stolen from India. It said the Chinese hackers had also stolen sensitive documents from 16 other countries and all E-mails from Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama's office in Dharamsala.
War is an ode to such star power, one that pits Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff together for the first time and capitalises on their famous idol-idoliser energy to draw us into a world of espionage, action and camaraderie.
Scandal is a result of callous administrative approach.
Ghafoor said the reports of the amendment in the Pak Army Act to implement ICJ verdict regarding Jadhav are 'incorrect'.
Pakistan said that Jadhav is not an ordinary person as he had entered the country with the intent of spying and carrying out sabotage activities.
Reflecting concern about Internet security, the United States has said it won't tolerate government-sponsored cyber theft of trade secrets even as it brought cyber-espionage charges against China's five military officers for allegedly stealing classified corporate information.
Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif also dismissed Indian concerns that proper legal process was not observed in the trial. "There was nothing in the [legal] proceedings that was against the law," he said.
Salve was the lead counsel for India in the Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice which had last year ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence awarded to the retired naval officer after a closed trial.
People in Jadhav's native Javli village in Satara district condemned Pakistan and demanded immediate release of the retired Indian Navy officer sentenced to death by a Pakistan army court on alleged 'espionage' charges.
A serving army personnel was on Sunday arrested by Delhi Police from Siliguri in West Bengal in connection with the alleged ISI-linked espionage racket, taking to five the number of people taken into custody in the case.
Hamid Nihal Ansari was awarded imprisonment by a Pakistani military court in December 2015 after being slapped with charges of espionage and involvement in anti-state activities on him.
Pakistan FO said that it was "travesty of logic" to link the case of Jadhav with civilian prisoners
