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K’taka home minister junks BJP claims of phone tapping at Guv office| India News

K’taka home minister junks BJP claims of phone tapping at Guv office| India News

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Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on Thursday rejected accusations from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the State government had intercepted communications linked to the governor’s office, calling the charge baseless and unnecessary. K’taka home minister junks BJP claims of phone tapping at Guv office Parameshwara, speaking to reporters and responding to questions in the Legislative Assembly, said the government had neither engaged in phone tapping nor had any reason to do so. The BJP’s claims, he suggested, reflected the opposition’s own past conduct rather than the present administration. “We have not tapped anyone’s phone and will not do so in the future. Also, we do not need it. The BJP makes hundreds of allegations every day from dawn to dusk. But, there is no need to answer all of them,” he said. The controversy followed remarks made earlier in the Assembly by law and parliamentary affairs minister HK Patil during a discussion on the governor’s recent address to a joint session. Patil had said governor Thaawarchand Gehlot appeared to be receiving instructions from …

Ahead of WWDC: How Swiggy, LightX, and others are tapping into Apple Intelligence framework | Technology News

Ahead of WWDC: How Swiggy, LightX, and others are tapping into Apple Intelligence framework | Technology News

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Widely perceived as having fallen behind in the high-stakes AI race, Apple is expected to make a fresh bid to catch up with competitors at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) slated from June 9 to June 13. The iPhone-maker’s AI reboot includes letting third-party developers build on top of its smaller, in-house AI models, according to a report by Bloomberg. The new framework will also let developers integrate its flagship AI offering, Apple Intelligence, across their apps. While Apple looks to ramp up its AI push to win over users, major Indian developers have said that they are already collaborating with the tech giant to integrate existing Apple Intelligence features in the application layer. Story continues below this ad Online food delivery platform Swiggy has said it relies on Apple’s machine learning-based Translation API that was announced in iOS 18 last year. “Apple’s in-app translations let you translate from English to any language without using any third-party libraries. So, for our food menu, which is very textual, we used Apple’s APIs to translate those …

Telephone tapping case: Prabhakar Rao will be proclaimed offender if he fails to appear before court by June 20

Telephone tapping case: Prabhakar Rao will be proclaimed offender if he fails to appear before court by June 20

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A local court here might announce T. Prabhakar Rao, the absconding accused in telephone tapping case, as proclaimed offender if he does not appear before the court by June 20.  The Fourteenth Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate passed a direction to this extent. Retired IPS officer and former chief of Special Intelligence Branch, Mr. Rao held several key positions in police department. According to police department, he ‘fled the country’ on learning that the telephone tapping case was registered. However, Mr. Rao in his communication to the police department in the affidavits he had filed in the courts maintained that he had gone to U.S. for medical treatment for serious ailment and was ready to cooperate with the investigators. The Telangana High Court had rejected his anticipatory bail petition following which he had moved the Supreme Court.  In January, the investigators filed a petition in the trial court requesting it to declare Mr. Rao as a proclaimed offender under Section 82 of Criminal Procedure Code. Mr. Rao was accused of eavesdropping on the calls of politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, …

Congress stages walkout in Rajasthan Assembly over Minister’s phone tapping charge

Congress stages walkout in Rajasthan Assembly over Minister’s phone tapping charge

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Representational view of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in session The Opposition Congress MLAs staged a walkout in the Rajasthan Assembly on Thursday (February 20, 2025) after the government’s statement on an allegation of Cabinet Minister Kirodi Lal Meena that he was under surveillance and his phone was being tapped. Minister of State for Home Jawahar Singh Bedham refuted the charge in his statement. Speaking after the Zero Hour, Mr. Bedham said a statement from Mr. Meena had appeared in the media, in which he talked about his phone being kept on surveillance. “I assure the House with full responsibility that Mr. Meena’s phone has not been intercepted by the government. Mr. Meena has also publicly denied having made the charge,” he said. Mr. Meena’s remarks at a public event at Amagarh temple near Jaipur had led to an embarrassment to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and caused a turmoil in the State Assembly for the entire day on February 7. The maverick leader had earlier tendered resignation from the State Cabinet in June 2024. The …

Govt snooping on me, tapping my phones, alleges Rajasthan cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena | India News

Govt snooping on me, tapping my phones, alleges Rajasthan cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena | India News

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BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena has accused the Rajasthan government, in which he is a Cabinet minister, of snooping on him and tapping his phones. In an undated video from Amagarh temple in Jaipur, the minister is heard saying, “I was hoping that things would change and that when we come to power, we will crack down on the corrupt. The issues on which I protested against the previous (Congress) government, and because of which you supported us and we formed the government, work was not done on those issues (under the current BJP government).” He said he flagged to the current government issues related to corruption, including the 2021 sub-inspector exam paper leak. Story continues below this ad “Maine jab kaha ke woh pareeksha radd karo, toh sarkar ne meri baat nahi maani. Ulta sarkar ki taraf se – jaisa pichle raj main hua karta tha – chappe chappe par mere liye CID lagai jaati hai aur mera telephone bhi record kiya jaata hai. Lekin main koi bura kaam karta nahi, isliye main darta …

Tapping into Neeraj Chopra frenzy, India to host javelin’s 10 best throwers at Invitational meet later this year | Sport-others News

Tapping into Neeraj Chopra frenzy, India to host javelin’s 10 best throwers at Invitational meet later this year | Sport-others News

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Aiming to bag a series of big-ticket Track and Field events over the next few years, even as the country prepares to bid for the 2036 Olympics, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) is to host an invitational javelin competition for the top 10 athletes in the world headlined by Neeraj Chopra, the reigning Olympic silver medallist and world champion. On the sidelines of the Annual General Body Meeting of the AFI, its outgoing president Adille Sumariwalla said it makes sense to conduct the invitational competition comprising the world’s best athletes because of the popularity of javelin in the country post Chopra’s Tokyo Olympics gold. “The top-10 javelin throwers in the world. JSW is part of organizing (along with) a foreign firm and AFI. Together we are creating this new competition. Since there is so much interest in javelin throw. August 7 has been called the national javelin day, the day Neeraj won his gold medal. So this is going to be an invitation competition where the best javelin throwers in the world will come …

Newsmaker | KCR’s nephew arrested in phone tapping case: Who is T Harish Rao? | Political Pulse News

Newsmaker | KCR’s nephew arrested in phone tapping case: Who is T Harish Rao? | Political Pulse News

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A troubleshooter for the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and a popular grassroots leader from the family of party chief and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, former Telangana minister T Harish Rao found himself in the middle of the biggest political controversy of his life as he was booked in a case of alleged illegal phone tapping. The complainant, G Chakradhar Goud, who unsuccessfully contested the 2023 Assembly elections as a BSP candidate from Siddipet, has accused Harish of using state intelligence to monitor his movements and those of his associates and family members. Denying the allegations, the BRS leader has accused Telangana CM Revanth Reddy of “foisting many false cases against him”. The seven-time MLA from Siddipet is the nephew of KCR and was one of the faces of the Telangana statehood movement, facing arrest several times. Harish’s most dramatic arrest came in March 2011 during the statehood agitation when he was arrested from a speed boat in the middle of the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad for his involvement in the “million march” …

BRS Leader Harish Rao Charged In Phone Tapping Case In Hyderabad

BRS Leader Harish Rao Charged In Phone Tapping Case In Hyderabad

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Harish Rao is the nephew of BRS President and former Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. (File) Hyderabad: The phone tapping case in Telangana took a dramatic turn on Tuesday with the police booking former minister T. Harish Rao and others. A case against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and others was registered at Panjagutta Police Station in Hyderabad on a complaint by G. Chakradhar Goud, a real estate businessman. The complainant, who is also the founder of Farmers First Foundation, alleged harassment, threats, and unlawful phone surveillance. Panjagutta Police registered a case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 120(B) (Criminal conspiracy), 386 (Extortion), 409 (Criminal breach of trust), 506 (Criminal intimidation) and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act. Goud stated in his complaint that Harish Rao developed a grudge against him due to his charitable activities, including financial support to families of farmers who had committed suicide. The complainant alleged threats, fabricated cases, and unauthorised surveillance of his phone by Harish Rao and associates. A key leader of the BRS, Harish Rao is …

Former BRS MLA called for questioning in phone tapping case

Former BRS MLA called for questioning in phone tapping case

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The Jubilee Hills police have sent notices to former Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA Chirumarthi Lingaiah in the phone tapping case on Monday (November 11, 2024). Officers will be questioning Lingaiah at the Jubilee Hills ACP office. Sources said that he will be questioned about new evidence which came to light in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report. Evidence showed that there was an alleged line of communication with Mekala Thirupathanna, a suspended additional superintendent of police, named as an accused in the case. The can of worms about the phone tapping case opened with the arrest of Former DSP of Special Intelligence Branch Praneeth Rao on March 13, 2024 by the Panjagutta police from his residence in Srinagar Colony of Rajanna-Sircilla district. He was nabbed following a complaint from his superior, D. Ramesh, Additional SP with the SIB. Published – November 11, 2024 04:31 pm IST Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view …

Ashok Gehlot’s Ex-Aide Hands Lokesh Sharma Over Evidence To Crime Branch In Phone Tapping Case

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Ashok Gehlot’s former advisor Lokesh Sharma had submitted a seven-page written statement, Jaipur: Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD Lokesh Sharma on Thursday said he has handed over evidence to Delhi Police’s crime branch in support of his claim that Gehlot provided him call recordings of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to circulate to media during the political crisis of 2020. Mr Sharma reached the crime branch office in New Delhi on Thursday and handed over a pen drive, laptop and phone for investigation. Delhi Police questioned Mr Sharma on Wednesday last week in connection with a phone-tapping case lodged on a complaint by Mr Shekhawat. Sharma had submitted a seven-page written statement, describing the sequence of events on July 16, 2020 when he got the pen drive allegedly containing call recordings from the then CM for circulating them to the media. “I have provided all evidence in support of my statement. Now Ashok Gehlot should be summoned for interrogation,” he said. Sharma, in April this year, had publicly alleged that an audio clip of …