Pakistan blocked the website of Al-Jazeera on Tuesday after it leaked a controversial report about Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's decade-long stay in the country before he was killed by United States special forces at his Abbottabad hideout.
Leaks of documents are neither new nor limited to particular ministries.
'Tanhaji has so much fun recreating a bygone legend and fictionalising history, authenticity and spellings, it gets infectious,' feels Sukanya Verma.
'After decades, there is movement on multiple fronts in artillery development. Now let us see how quickly we can get these guns into service'
40,000 security personnel guard every nook and corner of New Delhi as US President Barack Obama arrives.
William D Green, chairman and CEO of Accenture, the $20 billion global management consultancy and technology services company, is in India to chair a select meet of the board of directors. On global economy, he said that there are some pockets of challenges (slowdown) and other pockets of great success (accelerators). "Firms will continue to outsource and offshore as they aspire to become globally efficient and locally responsive," he said.
Malala was dressed in Pakistani salwar kameez and dupatta. She was smiling and looked happy as he was greeted at the airport.
Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland said Darren Lehmann was as surprised as the thousands of spectators in Cape Town's Newlands stadium and millions more watching at home when images on big screens showed Cameron Bancroft brazenly cheating.
Amid a row over snooping on close relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose, his grandnephew is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Germany on Monday, and try to demand declassification of all secret files related to the freedom fighter.
According to sources, the Pashtun army officer came from the SSG, to which Pervez Musharraf belonged and which was specially trained by the US Special Forces for covert ops.
'So why didn't the police make it very clear that this is the line of investigation, this is what we are doing.' 'Nobody knows what kind of report was done.' 'Was she checked for (sexual assault)?'
In fact, no other recent Union Budget has held so much significance for the Indian economy as the one to be presented in about six weeks from now, notes A K Bhattacharya.
A first look at the couple as they arrive in Mumbai en route to Jodhpur
The reliability of US information and assessments on Iran is increasingly at issue as the Bush administration confronts the emerging regional power on multiple fronts.
The apex body of CDMA operators, has shot off a letter to the telecom ministry alleging that the GSM operators were given spectrum "way beyond their licences".
Britain's intelligence and other special forces have been on the trail of IS forces in Iraq, Syria and even Libya in the last few months on top secret missions.
Mission Shakti 'shows the development within India's military space programme, its desire to be seen as a global space power and its recognition of the potential dangers of China's counterspace programme.'
The White House on Wednesday released its annual collection of some of the most interesting photographs of President Barack Obama and his family.
The Director of Federal Government Affairs for KPMG LLP has been named one of the top 25 corporate lobbyists on Capitol Hill.
The accused revealed that in 2012 he came in contact with the ISI, which trained him to work in India from where he had to send information about the army from western UP and Uttarakhand,
The court has also questioned Epic's assumption that Tata Consultacy Services used the information for the creation of a competitive product
'The much-awaited decision could be a welcome change at a time when the Indian armed forces are crying for self-reliance and the defence industry is looking forward to more indigenisation,' notes Nitin A Gokhale.
Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Modi have learnt from their past mistakes. Modi has understood that Rajapaksa is a 'forever politician' that India has to live with, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Today, with growth having slowed and macro-economic challenges in every direction, would the government have benefited from the advice of 'Harvard' economists? asks T N Ninan.
In this conversation with Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt, former Army Chief V K Singh refutes the allegations made in the Indian Army's Secret Board of Officers Inquiry report, which accuses him of misusing of his position
Advait Chandan decodes Aamir Khan.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday claimed that former chief of army staff General V K Singh is being targeted by the United Progressive Alliance government for sharing the dais with BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a recent rally in Rewari, Haryana.
When was the last time you saw Ramu Kaka in the movies?
In order for somebody to do Big Brother kind of a job, one has to collect lots of data. Aadhaar collects very minimal data whether at the time of enrollment or at the time of authentication.
'None of these three countries -- Turkey, Iran or Malaysia -- ever made a hostile move against India to support the Pakistan-based terrorist elements,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'China would rather tie us down; and bleed us as much as it can so that we aren't able to lift our heads to face them.'
>What happens when two teenagers -- one Israeli and one Palestinian -- discover that they were accidentally switched at birth? The Other Son is a wonderful vision of Israel and Palestine. There is no positive future for the region and its people without this vision, feels Aseem Chhabra.
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