Tag: Spy

Chinese spy vessel Yuan Wang 5 arrives in Sri Lanka despite India, US concerns

The research and survey vessel, which has been dubbed as ‘spy ship’ was earlier scheduled to dock at the Chinese-leased Hambantota Port on August 11.

August 16, 2022

Shanta Kumar seeks thorough probe into Chinese spy case

“It is the responsibility of our governments to ensure his safety and his security should be reviewed again in view of the arrest of Chinese spy,” he added.

August 18, 2020

Russia sentences former US marine to 16 years in prison for espionage

Paul Whelan, 50, has been held in a Moscow jail since his arrest in December 2018 and his trial was held behind closed doors because of the accusations of seeking to obtain state secrets.

June 15, 2020

Iran to execute spy who helped US in targeting General Qasem Soleimani

Soleimani, who headed the Quds Force, the foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed in January in a US drone strike in Baghdad.

June 9, 2020

Went to Pakistan ’17 times in 18 years’: Rajasthan Police arrests Delhi man who was ISI spy

Mohammed Parvez allegedly honey-trapped Indian Army soldiers through fake identity to collect confidential and strategic information and passed those to the ISI, which gave him financial support.

March 26, 2019

US arrests man for trying to spy for China

A former US intelligence officer has appeared in court in Seattle charged with attempting to spy for China.

June 5, 2018

In the spy ring~II

While mentioning KGB, MI-5, MI-6, or FBI we get a glimpse of the shady underworld of spying and counter-espionage. Take the instance of Hanssen (https:// www.history. com/news/history-lists/6-daring-double-agents) who after joining the FBI in 1976, volunteered to spy for GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency three years later. In 1980, after Hanssen’s wife reportedly caught him...

April 27, 2018

In the spy ring~I

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They are a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs? ~ John le Carré, The...

April 26, 2018

8 facts about Nargis Fakhri that prove her to be a diva

Nargis Fakhri was born on October 20, 1979 in Queens, New York to a Pakistani father and Marie Fakhri, a Czech woman. The actress describes herself as a “global citizen” because of her ethnicity in Pakistani, Czech and American culture. Nargis started her career as a model and appeared as a contestant in The CW...

October 20, 2017

Pakistan Minister’s remark on swap offer on Jadhav a lie: India

India on Friday termed as an “imaginary lie and story” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif’s claim that an offer was received to swap Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav for a terrorist behind the Army Public School attack in Peshawar in 2014. “You have already seen a press release issued by the Afghan National Security Adviser’s...

September 29, 2017

Paul Feig: Karan Johar is pretty incredible

Ghostbuster director Paul Feig has praised Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar and said that he is “pretty incredible”. Paul, who has also helmed films like The Heat and Spy, on Monday shared a magazine cover, where Karan is seen along side Bollywood actresses Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor and author-entrepreneur-film producer Twinkle Khanna. Wow, what an amazing cover. Karan,...

September 26, 2017

Don’t hang Kulbhushan Jadhav, rules ICJ

Overruling Pakistan's objections, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday said that Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav cannot be executed before 'the final decision'. The verdict came 10 days after India approached the UN's top court for "provisional measure" of protection — an interim relief — in the Jadhav case. Judge Ronny Abraham, President of the court,...

May 18, 2017

Tehran didn’t seek access to Jadhav: Iran’s envoy to Pakistan

Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost has said that Iran did not ask for consular access to alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court. During a reception at the Italian Embassy on Thursday, Honardoost clarified his country's position on the issue, saying Iran has nothing to...

May 12, 2017

Senior Taiwanese officer arrested for spying for China

A senior military official who once headed Taiwan's Air Defence Missile Command was arrested for alleged espionage in favour of China, the Taiwan Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Major General Hsieh Chia-kang, deputy chief of the Army's command for the defence of Matsu, a small island off the coast of China's Fujian Province, has been...

May 10, 2017

SpaceX launches spy satellite for US

SpaceX launched a spy satellite for the US Department of Defence on Monday, officials said. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the classified NROL-76 satellite, lifted off at 7.15 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, the same pad that supported numerous Apollo and space shuttle launches, the company's live...

May 1, 2017