Union Budget 2024 Key Points: India's first Budget was announced in pre-independent India, on April 7, 1860, when Scottish economist and politician James Wilson - of the East India Company - presented it to the British Crown. Post Independence, India's first budget was presented on November 26, 1947 by then Finance Minister R K Shanmukham Chetty.
After seven years of marriage, Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert have decided to part ways. The couple were together for 10 years and have two daughters named Junie and Rue. In September this year, Taylor announced separation from her husband.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been indicted for allegedly leaking classified documents, a charge that could lead to a prison term of up to 14 years. Khan, who has faced numerous legal cases since being ousted from power, claims that these charges are an attempt to prevent him from contesting elections in 2024.
Former US President Donald Trump is continuing his legal battle against Orbis Business Intelligence over the negative charges made in Christopher Steele's dossier. Trump's lawyer claims that they expect to prove the falsehood of the allegations and show a violation of Trump's data protection rights. Orbis is seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed, arguing that the report was never intended for public release.
In a letter to all departments - the department of military affairs, defence production, ex servicemen welfare, finance and DRDO - the ministry has asked senior officials to sensitise staff on the provisions under OSA as well as the Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules.
A secret arms sales agreement between Pakistan and the United States helped facilitate a bailout from the IMF earlier this year, according to The Intercept. The arms sales were intended to supply the Ukrainian military, indicating Pakistani involvement in a conflict it had been pressured to take sides on.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has established a federal authority, the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority, indicating that it may be moving towards allowing gambling in the country. The authority will oversee a potential national lottery and commercial gaming operations. Kevin Mullally, former executive director of the Missouri Gaming Commission, has been appointed as CEO.
The ministries have also been asked to take proper permission of department in-charges if offices are kept open beyond work hours or over the weekends. The rooms should be opened in the morning in the presence of authorised persons and then locked in the evenings in the presence of an officer or section-in-charge. Sections handling sensitive information should not be left unattended during lunch hours, as per the directive.
The files related to the parliamentary investigation into the collapse of Credit Suisse will remain closed for 50 years, according to newspaper Aargauer Zeitung. Historians have raised concerns about the length of time the files will remain unaccessible and have urged for their protection to be lifted sooner, emphasising the importance of these files for scientific research. The investigation will look into the actions of the Swiss government, financial regulator, and central bank before the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS in March and is only the fifth of its kind to be conducted in Switzerland.
Over the next month, the ship's crew covertly laid an underwater fiber-optic cable to the military base, an operation code-named "Big Wave," according to four people with direct knowledge of the mission, as well as a Reuters analysis of satellite imagery and ship tracking data.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday had booked Vivek Raghuvanshi, a freelance journalist for allegedly collecting sensitive information about the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and the army and sharing them with intelligence agencies of foreign countries, officials said. The CBI also alleged Raghuvanshi collected "sensitive" and "minute" details of DRDO and army projects.
The business world has eased on the reality as well as the idea of disruption.
A US Air National Guardsman was charged on April 14 with leaking classified documents online in what is believed to be the most serious US security breach since more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables appeared on the WikiLeaks website in 2010.
The airman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers was reportedly posting sensitive information on a much larger Discord chat group months earlier, with around 600 members, according to The New York Times. The newspaper revealed that information posted, which was available to the public after being listed on a YouTube channel, included details about Russian and Ukrainian casualties, Moscow's spy agencies' activities and updates on aid provided to Ukraine.
Questions still linger on the true capabilities of the one that flew over the continental United States in January and February, according to previously unreported top-secret intelligence documents.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Teixeira "in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information."
Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, has been identified as the leader of an online group where classified US intelligence documents were leaked over the past few months. Investigators want to talk to him about the leak of the documents to the private online group. Federal investigators have been searching for days for the person who leaked the top-secret documents online but have not identified Teixeira or anyone else as a suspect. The documents were never meant to leave their small corner of the internet.
The Pentagon says the breach poses a "very serious risk to national security," and the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the matter.
As part of debates about Ukraine, according to one member of the chat, an unidentified poster shared documents that were allegedly classified, first typing them out with the poster's own thoughts, then, as of a few months ago, beginning to post images of papers with folds in them.
Classified documents containing sensitive information have been leaked online, prompting US officials to consider the potential American source of the information, although they have not ruled out pro-Russian sources. The documents touch on topics including the war in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa. Although it is still unclear who leaked the documents, the Pentagon has referred the issue to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. The leak has been described as possibly one of the most serious security breaches since more than 700,000 cables were released on WikiLeaks in 2013.
The report added that Infosys won ECE contracts worth more than $135 million as it also sought to win other contracts from Services Australia and other government departments.
Some companies subject employees to semi-automated, near-constant assessments of perceived trustworthiness, at times using behavioral science tools like psychology.
The spokesperson said that Negi, a police officer who was promoted to the IPS batch of 2011, was arrested in connection with a case registered by the NIA on November 6 last year.
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