Renee James, President of Intel Corporation became the latest high-profile executive from the global technology industry to pay a visit to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. James, met Modi on Wednesday along with the Intel South Asia managing director Debjani Ghosh and Intel India’s President, Kumud Srinivasan.
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FMCG giant Unilever CEO Paul Polman and technology major Intel President Renee James on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a slew of global corporate honchos continue to line up to express their intention to invest in India.
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Uttarakhand police’s special task force (STF) has arrested a Delhi police constable from Noida for his alleged involvement in duping a Dehradun resident of Rs 1.30 crore via Facebook. In the racket operated by a Nigerian national, constable Neeraj Kumar Anand played the role of an agent by using fake documents to open bank accounts…
Cyber crime in the city has taken a new dimension. Hacking is the in-thing, and it is being done from remote centres in far off countries such as Nigeria or Sierra Leone. Recently, the e-mail account of a prominent businessman in the city was hacked. The hacker sent an e-mail to the businessman’s banker, instructing…
Days after US President Barack Obama visited India, the Central Bureau of Investigation, home ministry, foreign ministry and the US department of justice organized a joint workshop on mutual legal assistance and extradition in cases investigated by agencies of the two countries.
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A three-day India-US international cooperation workshop on mutual legal assistance and extradition began here Wednesday.
The workshop, being jointly organised by the Central Bureau of Investigation, ministries of home affairs and external affairs and the US Department of Justice, was inaugurated by CBI director Anil Sinha.
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A Japanese hacker who hijacked computers in order to issue death threats, leading to the arrest of several innocent people, was jailed Wednesday for his high-stakes games of cat and mouse with police. Yusuke Katayama, 32, used computers around the country to make a series of threats in 2012, including that he would kill multiple…
Violence against women has become a routine affair. The heart wrecking stories of women being subjected to inhuman treatment unfold every other day. It has been observed that crimes against women are on a constant rise. Be it rapes, molestation, sexual harassment, domestic violence, female trafficking, eve-teasing or abduction, there is no end to woes…
Posting pictures and comments on social networking sites which hurt religious sentiments cannot be tolerated and people must be prosecuted under Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Justifying the need for such penal provision in the Act, the government said hurting religious sentiments comes under the…
#Socialmediacurbs What do you think Section 66A does better? Fight cyber crime or curb free speech? The law prescribes 3-years jail for anyone causing “annoyance or inconvenience” on the social media. Does constantly posting animal videos qualify as annoying and culpable? Does the cyber cell of the police have the expertise to judge whether an…