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| Thursday morning brief |
May 24 2018 |
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| An Uttarakhand native has been accused of bugging Indian diplomat’s house in Pakistan and giving information to ISI. Ramesh Singh, 35, worked as a cook at the house of an Indian defence attaché and bugged his house with the help of Pakistan's ISI to get sensitive information, police said. He was arrested from his house in Pithoragarh’s Garali village in a joint operation by UP’s Anti-Terror Squad, military intelligence and Uttarakhand police. His elder brother worked with the Indian Army. <a href=”https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/cook-bugged-indian-diplomats-house-in-pakistan-gave-info-to-isi/articleshow/64296167.cms”>Read more</a><br /> |
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A US government employee in China has suffered brain injury caused by sound. The Trump administration has sounded an alarm about possible sonic attacks against its citizens after a US government employee in China reported unusual “sensations of sound and pressure,” and, on his return to America, was diagnosed with a mild traumatic brain injury. The case, the first that Washington has reported out of China, is reminiscent of a wave of so-called “sonic attacks” on US diplomats in Cuba that resulted in the withdrawal of a large number of American personnel.
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| The government has decided to set up a social media communication hub to monitor online content across all 716 districts of India. The monitoring <a href=”https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/govt-to-hire-social-media-monitors-for-all-716-districts/articleshow/64296350.cms”>mechanism</a>, once in place, will be able to read, contextualise and respond to content in most Indian and foreign languages across India, and will get a “360 degree view of the customers by integrating customer relationship management data with social profiles”. Sources in the government said the Information and Broadcasting ministry has sanctioned Rs 20 crore for the project.<br /> |
| Army major who tied a civilian to his jeep as ‘a human shield’ last year was briefly detained with a minor woman in a hotel. Though J&K police refused to disclose the Army officer’s identity, Major Gogoi’s name was recorded in the <a href=”https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/human-shield-major-briefly-detained-with-woman-in-hotel/articleshow/64294392.cms”>hotel</a>’s register. “The person, named Leetul Gogoi from Tinsukia in Assam, had booked a deluxe room through an online website, Booking.com, for one night at 8.34 am on Wednesday. He arrived at 10.30 am at our hotel along with the woman,” the hotel manager told TOI.<br /> |
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