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]CIA’s new recruitment website aims to diversify spy agency
While the CIA has been diversifying for years, intelligence agencies still lag the federal workforce in minority representation.
Published on Jan 04, 2021 10:34 PM IST
Washington | Associated Press | Posted by Deepali Sharma
SHO suspended after illegal liquor factory unearthed in Punjab’s Rajpura
Show-cause notices to SP, two DSPs and CIA in-charge for laxity in checking spurious liquor trade
Updated on Dec 09, 2020 07:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patiala | Vishal Rambani
Can you ace CIA’s analytical skills test? It involves pic of a snowy day
Taking to Twitter, the organisation invited people to put their analytical skills to test.
Published on Dec 03, 2020 08:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Trisha Sengupta
Former head of CIA calls assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist ‘criminal and reckless act’
John Brennan said he did not know who was to blame for the murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Updated on Nov 29, 2020 01:51 AM IST
Washington | Agence-France-Presse| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi, Washington
Liquor vend shooting: Contractor booked for fabricating evidence
The Yamunanagar police CIA found that the contractor had fired at his own shop
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times/Ambala | Bhavey Nagpal, Ambala
Spectator by Seema Goswami: Page-turners
Here’s a list of the books that have kept me entertained over the last month
Published on Oct 18, 2020 07:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Seema Goswami
₹3.67 lakh recovered from Ludhiana man who cheated acquaintance of ₹31 lakh
Police had lodged an FIR under sections 420, 506 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code at the Daresi police station on August 15 and Lal had been arrested
Updated on Aug 18, 2020 10:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | HT Correspondent
Former CIA officer charged with giving China classified info
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was arrested last week after an undercover operation in which prosecutors say he accepted an envelope with $2,000 in exchange for his past espionage activities.
Published on Aug 18, 2020 06:09 AM IST
Washington | Associated Press | Posted by Prashasti Singh
Cricket betting racket busted in Jalandhar, Rs1.23 cr seized from ‘architect bookie’
Seized laptop, mobile phones of accused being scanned by cyber cell, income tax department informed about cash seizure, says police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar
Updated on Jul 26, 2020 07:06 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Jalandhar
Iran executes former defence ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy
Occasionally Iran announces arrests and convictions of alleged spies for foreign countries, including the U.S. and Israel.
Published on Jul 14, 2020 04:46 PM IST
Tehran | Associated Press | Posted by Anubha Rohatgi
CIA failed to protect agency’s top-secret hacking tools, leading to historic data loss: Report
The report describes the spring 2016 theft as the largest data loss in agency history — compromising at least 180 gigabytes to as much as 34 terabytes of information, or the equivalent of 11.6 million to 2.2 billion pages in Microsoft Word.
Updated on Jun 17, 2020 01:34 PM IST
Washington, United States | Associated Press | Posted by: Shivani Kumar
CIA accused of 11-year long cyber espionage against China
Qihoo - a major cybersecurity vendor said the CIA had targeted China’s aviation and energy sectors, scientific research organizations, internet companies, and government agencies.
Updated on Mar 04, 2020 11:08 AM IST
Reuters | Reuters
Pak doctor who helped CIA track Osama Bin Laden launches hunger strike in jail
Shakeel Afridi has been languishing behind bars for years since his fake vaccination programme helped US agents track and kill the Al Qaeda leader in 2011.
Updated on Mar 02, 2020 06:43 PM IST
Islamabad | Agence France-Presse
Everything you wanted to know about Ana de Armas, the No Time To Die actor
She will appear as CIA operative Paloma in the 25th James Bond film.
Published on Feb 28, 2020 06:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rohan Naahar
Faridkot RTA booked for issuing back-dated licence
Sangrur Four months after Rajinder Singh, of Kanakwal Bhanguan village of Sangrur district, lodged a police complaint alleging that back-dated licences were being issued from Regional Transport Authority (RTA) office, Faridkot, police have added the name of secretary of the office, Hardeep Singh and assistant transport officer, Gurnam Singh to the First Information Report (FIR).
Published on Feb 14, 2020 11:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Sangrur | Avtar Singh
194 kg heroin haul: SAD leader Masih appears before STF, quizzed for 4 hours
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Subordinate Selection Service Board (SSSB) member Anwar Masih on Friday appeared before the Punjab Police’s anti-drug special task force (STF) to join probe into the case involving the seizure of 194-kg heroin from his residence in the Sultanwind area of Amritsar city last week.
Published on Feb 07, 2020 11:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Amritsar | HT Correspondent, Amritsar
Tarn Taran police accused of teen’s illegal detention
A 40-year-old woman, Amandeep Kaur, from Amritsar’s Ranjit Avenue locality on Wednesday alleged that her son was tortured and kept in six-day illegal custody by the crime investigation agency (CIA) wing of Tarn Taran district police. Tarn Taran police, however, say they had brought her son for questioning in a drug case and he was released immediately as no drugs were recovered from him.
Published on Feb 05, 2020 09:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Amritsar | HT Correspondent, Amritsar
Hours after arrest, 25-year-old snatcher gives police the slip
Deepak Kumar of Mohalla Preet Nagar of Shimlapuri was taken to the police station at Gill Road for further interrogation. The accused requested the police personnel to allow him to answer nature’s call and they agreed. The accused, however, fled while their backs were turned
Published on Feb 04, 2020 10:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Wanted gangster nabbed in Panipat
Published on Jan 28, 2020 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Karnal | HT Correspondent, Karnal
New CIA unit formed to focus on snatching, vehicle lifting cases in Ludhiana
In view of the increasing number of snatching and vehicle lifting cases in the city, the Ludhiana police commissionerate has formed a new unit of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA, Staff 3) to deter such incidents. Police have also identified 20 areas in the city, which are prone to snatching and vehicle lifting incidents.
Updated on Jan 03, 2020 11:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ludhiana | HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Graft case against Samana inspector: Complainant records statement before vigilance
Patiala Nearly a month after an inspector with the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) in Samana, Vijay Kumar, was booked for corruption, the complainant Rajwinder Pal, recorded his statement before the vigilance bureau on Thursday. Rajpura Congress MLA Hardial Singh Kamboj, one of the four MLAs who had spoken out against their own government, claiming non-cooperative attitude of officers in the district administration and police officials earlier this year, accompanied him.
Published on Dec 26, 2019 11:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Patiala | HT Correspondent
Gangster Gopi ‘Shooter’ running drug racket from Amritsar jail: Cops
Officials say this emerged during the questioning of a man arrested with heroin and a country-made pistol
Updated on Nov 26, 2019 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Tarn Taran
Batala police forms SIT to probe murder of Akali leader
Former cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia and local SAD leader Ravi Karan Singh Kahlon had threatened a dharna in front of the SSP office if police did not arrest the accused in 48 hours
Published on Nov 25, 2019 01:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Batala
Didn’t tap phones of Congress MLAs, say Patiala police
SSP says tapping cannot be done without permission of home dept; adds that its paperwork is cumbersome
Published on Nov 22, 2019 09:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Navrajdeep Singh, Patiala
Saudi king hosts CIA chief for talks
The meeting in Riyadh was attended by a number of Saudi officials including Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and intelligence chief Khalid al-Humaidan.
Updated on Nov 08, 2019 06:26 AM IST
Riyadh | Agence France-Presse
Woman ASI, her friend held with heroin in Tarn Taran
The team chased and apprehended the duo and checked the plastic bag she had thrown only to find the contraband in it.
Published on Oct 29, 2019 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondents, Tarn Taran/patiala
Undertrial dies in hospital, kin allege custodial torture
Pika alias Pike of Sulchani village in Hisar district was arrested in a drug case from Lakhan Majra area about two weeks ago and was lodged under judicial custody.
Updated on Oct 29, 2019 10:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Rohtak
Drug smuggler who escaped from custody on Sept 6 held
Accused had faked chest pain after which he was taken to Rajindra hospital; a cop took him to a nearby dhaba for dinner from where he escaped with an aide
Published on Oct 23, 2019 10:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent, Patiala
7kg heroin recovered along border
Fazilka police have recovered 7kg heroin after the arrest of two persons. Fazilka senior superintendent of police Bhupinder Singh said following a tip-off, one Satnam Singh, a close aide of drug smuggler Mehal Singh, was arrested by the CIA staff on Tuesday with 260 grams of heroin
Published on Oct 12, 2019 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | HT Correspondent
Man dies during clash, villagers in Haryana blame it on police firing
The clash had broken out during a raid to arrest an accused in a case under the Narcotics Act.Fifty-five-year-old Jagga Singh was killed in firing when the police team was attacked by villagers. Videos of the clash went viral on social media.
Updated on Oct 10, 2019 07:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, BATHINDA | Sachin Kumar