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India on Friday hoped that it will get direct access to Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley, arrested by American authorities in

Your phone can be tapped if the government thinks you are evading tax. Home minister P Chidambaram clarified in Parliament on Thursday that government agencies were fully authorised to tap the phones of suspected tax evaders. The law did not say that tapping should be restricted only to persons who were a threat to national security.Chidambaram said the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) and other enforcement agencies were empowered to intercept phones to detect cases of tax evasion. Howe…

Pakistan has set free at least six top Taliban militants,including the extremist outfit’s second in command Mullah abdul Ghani Barader’s

Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met his Pakistani Counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani to punish perpetrators of Mumbai attacks.

Madhuri Gupta, an IFS-B office who was second secretery in the mission, was arrested here last week after she was