Last May, CISF first spotted a suspicious black-grey pigeon, with rings on its feet and markings on its wings, idling at Pir Pao pier. Last week, the bird was finally set free.
Evan Gershkovich, 31, may be first US journalist to be picked up by Russia for espionage since Cold War, but there have been other similar accusations between both countries in past.
Symptoms first appeared to affect US officials in Havana in 2016, then in India, China, Europe & Washington. There was even speculation about use of microwaves & soundwaves.
The 61-year-old, once served as Iran's deputy defence minister, was arrested in 2019. UK PM Rishi Sunak called the execution "a callous and cowardly act carried out by a barbaric regime".
Titled ‘America’s Throwaway Spies’, the report probes the US intelligence agency's approach towards civilians it hires as spies, and how 'flawed' systems often lead to their capture.
Since the 1990s, America has charged almost 700 people with links to China for economic espionage. But Xu Yanjun’s story is the first one that has made this link explicit.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping’ by Roger Faligot will be released on 29 April on ThePrint’s SoftCover.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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