News4u-News Desk-China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported monday.

The ”Black Hawk Safety Net” website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported this weekend, citing police in Huanggang, just east of Wuhan.

Hacking from China has received international attention since Google Inc threatened to quit China last month after a serious hacking attempt originating from China, resulting in the theft of its intellectual property.

China has denied involvement in the hacking episode and said it does not condone hacking.

The website was shut in late November and three of its members arrested on suspicion of criminal activity, the newspaper reported, without saying why the news was only released now.

Wuhan happens to be home to the Communication Command Academy, which trains hackers, according to US congressional testimony by cyber expert James Mulvenon in 2008.

The popularity of hacking in China, and hackers’ use of multiple addresses and servers, in Taiwan and elsewhere, makes it hard to prove how or by whom they are coordinated.

Would-be hackers in China do not have to look far to figure out how to do it, thanks to a healthy hacking industry and sites such as Black Hawk Safety Net (www.3800hk.com), which was unavailable Monday.

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News4u-News Desk-Over 1,000 officers and sailors of the Navy, forming part of the Sagar Prahari Bal, a new naval force formed to protect naval bases and coastline will commence their three week training at INS Dronacharya in Kochi from 11th January next, a Naval officer said today.

The Cabinet Committee on Security had recently approved the formation of the SPB for Force Protection Duties, Flag Officer Commanding in Chief of the Southern Naval Command, Vice Admiral K N Sushil told reporters on board INS Krishna in Kochi.

The navy personnel, who will undergo the training are below 25 years of age, he said.

The force will be equipped with Fast Interceptor Crafts, small arms and will also be suitably trained for a wide spectrum of coastal security tasks, Sushil said.

In the first week, small arms training will be imparted, after which there will be a capsule on navigation, to be followed by a consoldiated training on fast interceptor crafts.

A week-long training will also be held on INS Shivaji where the entire crew will be ‘cross trained’.

As the nodal agency for coastal security in Kerala, the Southern Naval Command in collaboration with other security agencies, was determined to provide comprehensive security for the state, he said.

A major exercise on coastal security was conducted in October involving various agencies including police, customs and coastguard and a similar exercise was being planned for Lakshadweep Islands in the near future, he said.

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News4u-News Desk-The Obama Administration has raised the issue of existing terrorist training camps inside Pakistan with the leadership of the country and expressed its concern on it, a US official has said.

The State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said on Monday that the US has also briefed Pakistan about the information it has gained from recent arrest of individuals in the United States in connection with the terrorist activities.

“We have, of course, raised our concerns, and we have briefed the Pakistani authorities about some of the information that we have gained from some of these suspects that have now been indicted,” he said, but did not divulge specific details.

The spokesman was responding to a question asked in reference to the series of arrests in recent months of those trained in terrorist camps inside Pakistan.

“I don t have any real specific information that I can share with you,” Kelly said.

India has also been briefed on this issue, he acknowledged.

Kelly said: “I don’t think we should ever be satisfied when it comes to the problem of dealing with this kind of vicious terrorism that we are seeing in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The authorities in Pakistan themselves are taking the challenge very seriously. How can they do otherwise when they see these kinds of horrible attacks almost every day?

“One of the hallmarks of this administration and our approach to this problem has been more of an integrated approach, not just looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan in isolation, but looking at the problem of extremism, violent extremism, in general, in the border areas,” he said.

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News4u-News Desk-Government plans to set up 500 Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes in each district of the country under the proposed ‘National Rural Livelihood Mission’.

The Mission, being designed to replace the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna (SGSY), aims at reducing poverty in rural areas through promotion of diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities as the SGSY has failed to yield the desired results.

As per the proposed NRLM, Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) will be the replication of “successful” Rural Development and Self-Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI), a rural development ministry official said.

RUDSETI, which was an innovative initiative taken jointly by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Education Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank way back in 1982 to motivate unemployed youth to take up self-employment as an alternative career, has now emerged as a “successful model”, he added.

Setting up of RSETIs across the country on lines of RUDSETI is expected to be a success in bringing more BPL households in the network of swarojgari (self- employed) groups by providing training to the beneficiaries under the proposed NRLM, official said.

“Several evaluation studies of SGSY have shown that the scheme was relatively successful in alleviating rural poverty wherever systematic mobilisation of the poor into swarojgaris (self-employed) groups and their capacity building and skill development was taken up in a process-intensive manner,” he said.

NRLM also proposes to use the existing infrastructure facilities at district and block levels such as Polytechnics, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, Jan Shikshan Sansthans, Khadi and Village Industries Boards and State Institutes of Rural Development for capacity building and orientation programmes, official said.

It also seeks to provide training to a “large number of trainers” who would further train people down below, he said adding, “This would lead to a cascading effect and benefit the poor people right at the lowest level.”

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News4u-News Desk-Government plans to set up 500 Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes in each district of the country under the proposed ‘National Rural Livelihood Mission’.

The Mission, being designed to replace the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna (SGSY), aims at reducing poverty in rural areas through promotion of diversified and gainful self-employment and wage employment opportunities as the SGSY has failed to yield the desired results.

As per the proposed NRLM, Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs) will be the replication of “successful” Rural Development and Self-Employment Training Institute (RUDSETI), a rural development ministry official said.

RUDSETI, which was an innovative initiative taken jointly by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Education Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank way back in 1982 to motivate unemployed youth to take up self-employment as an alternative career, has now emerged as a “successful model”, he added.

Setting up of RSETIs across the country on lines of RUDSETI is expected to be a success in bringing more BPL households in the network of swarojgari (self- employed) groups by providing training to the beneficiaries under the proposed NRLM, official said.

“Several evaluation studies of SGSY have shown that the scheme was relatively successful in alleviating rural poverty wherever systematic mobilisation of the poor into swarojgaris (self-employed) groups and their capacity building and skill development was taken up in a process-intensive manner,” he said.

NRLM also proposes to use the existing infrastructure facilities at district and block levels such as Polytechnics, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, Jan Shikshan Sansthans, Khadi and Village Industries Boards and State Institutes of Rural Development for capacity building and orientation programmes, official said.

It also seeks to provide training to a “large number of trainers” who would further train people down below, he said adding, “This would lead to a cascading effect and benefit the poor people right at the lowest level.”

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News4u-Sports Desk-New Delhi, The Delhi Ranji team’s training camp, being held in the backdrop of a looming players’ revolt, continued to be hit by absentism with as many as nine players skipping the preparatory camp on the second day.

While seven players, including stars like Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir and Ishant Sharma, were among the absentees on the first day, two more players decided to stay away from the camp today.

Paceman Ashish Nehra and Vartik Tihara, son of DDCA’s Sports Committee head Vinod Tihara, were the players who gave a miss to the camp today.

Others missing from the camp include Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas and Chaitanya Anand.

After Virender Sehwag’s outburst against “nepotism and corruption” in the DDCA, some senior players including prolific batsman Gambhir have also threatened to switch allegiance if their grievances were not addressed.

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News4u-Bureau Report-Rajan–Two suspected Hizbul Mujahideen militants, who were arrested in Delhi, had met the outfit’s chief Syed Salahuddin in terrorist training camps in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir where he asked them to carry out terror strikes in India, police claimed.

Javed Ahmed Tantray and Ashiq Ali Bhatt, the alleged militants belonging to Jammu and Kashmir who were remanded to police custody till 17^th August by a court on Friday following their arrest from central Delhi’s Daryaganj at around 11 PM on Thursday night, had met Salahuddin several times after their first introduction in 2003.

“(A few months back) Salahuddin told them that they will be given some important assignment in India in near future,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) P N Aggarwal told reporters at New Delhi on Friday.

The arrests came hours after the government made public intelligence inputs about possible terror strikes in three cities– Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata — ahead of Independence Day celebrations.

According to Aggarwal, the arrested men got their arms training in terror camps in Boi and Mansura in PoK.

“Ali and Ahmed had met Salahuddin several times. A few months back, Salahuddin and Hizb Deputy Commander Khalid Saifulla met them in their camps and told that they will be tasked with some important assignment in India in near future. After around 15 days, Shahid, their Hizb contact, told them to get ready to leave for India,” Aggarwal said.

According to police, Ali and Ahmed had met Shahid their contact in Rawalpindi on 29^th July.

“Shahid gave them Rs 40,000 and sent both of them to Nepal by Pakistan Airlines. An unidentified man received them in Kathmandu who took them to Pokhra and later they reached Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. On August three, they boarded a train to Jammu,” a senior police official said.

In Jammu, they contacted one Faiyaz who arranged a car for them to travel to Delhi besides arms and ammunition. “They were asked to contact Shahid in Pakistan once they reach Delhi,” the official claimed.

Aggarwal said one of the militants after reaching Daryaganj, contacted Shahid from a telephone booth who instructed them to meet one Rizwan in Sarai Kale Khan and follow his directions.

“We sent a team to Sarai Kale Khan but we could not find anyone,” he said.

On the sequence of events that led to the arrests, police sources said they received an input at around 4 PM on Thursday that two militants were on their way to Daryaganj from Jammu.

“Three teams were deployed at Singhu border, Bypass and Daryaganj. We spotted them at the border and we tailed them to Daryaganj. They parked their car in Mahavir Vatika and one of them made a call to Shahid,” Aggarwal said.

Police caught the duo when they were about to leave from the parking area.

Two AK-47 assault rifles, four magazines containing 120 rounds, cash worth Rs 24,410 and two fake identity cards were seized from their vehicle, Aggarwal said.

Asked whether police had recovered any parking slip, which is normally issued before entering the Mahavir Vatika parking lot, from the arrested, Aggarwal replied in the negative.

During interrogation, Aggarwal said Ali told police that that he came in contact with terrorists in 2003.

Three militants Khatib, Ilyas, Gazi and Umar Farooq allegedly motivated him to join Hizb.

“He was indoctrinated to carry out terror strikes in a jungle in Kathua. He was given the code name Faisal. Later he was introduced to one Ehsan who took him to PoK for training along with 60 others,” Aggarwal said. Ali was trained in a camp in Boi.

After completing his training in 2004, he stayed in the camp and visited several places in Pakistan like Islamabad, Karachi and Rawalpindi besides Muzaffarabad.

Javed told interrogators that he came into contact with terrorist elements in 1997 when three militants Riyaz, Tarique and Dilawar “motivated” him into joining Hizb.

“Ahmed took training in Mansura camp and was taught to fight against the Indian Army and police,” Aggarwal said.

After the arms training, he also learnt driving. Ali is an illiterate while Ahmed had studied till Class X.

Asked about the car in which they were travelling, Aggarwal said it was bearing a fake registration numbers.

“We found that the vehicle number (HR 36C 3036) was that of scooter in Haryana. We suspect that the car was stolen,” he said.

Aggarwal, however, said the police did not know their planned targets in Delhi.

“We do not their targets. The arrested militants were asked to contact Rizwan for further directions,” he said.

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News4u-News Desk-Some recent encounters in Kashmir valley indicate that militant training camps across the border are still in existence, BSF Director General M L Kumawat said on Saturday.

“Pakistan needs to take a decisive action against them. In case Islamabad is serious about taking action against terrorist outfits in their own country, they must dismantle these camps,” he told reporters in Jammu.

Asked about the number of such camps and locations across the border, he said “we need not go into their numbers and locations.”

The fact remains that these training camps are there and they need to be dismantled by Pakistani authorities, he added.

Pointing out that Pak rangers had built a number of structures including bunkers and observation posts across the border after the Mumbai attack, he said “we did not react to these developments as it would have given Pakistan an excuse not to deal with terrorists in that country”.

BSF is the largest border guarding force in the world with 2.25 lakh personnel and 30,000 more men would be added soon to guard the frontiers.

He said the government has sanctioned setting up of 500 Border outposts (BOPs) — 300 in the eastern and the rest in the western sector. Of these, 33 will be upgraded and modernised in Jammu frontier.

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News4u-News Desk-Buldana (Maha): President Pratibha Patil on Friday called for injecting dynamism in judicial process and said judiciary should focus on training and reforms.

People have strong faith in judiciary, which should be made more transparent, people oriented and influential, she said here in Marathwada region of central Maharashtra.

Patil was speaking at a function organised in connection with the centenary celebrations of the district court.

Outdated laws should be modified or replaced by new ones. At the same time, judiciary and its various organs should be strengthened, the President said.

“The Bar and the Bench are equal partners in judiciary and both should contribute in strengthening the image of the entire judiciary.”

Patil lauded Maharashtra Government for launching the ‘Mahatma Gandhi Tanta Mukta Gaon Yojana,’ a scheme aimed at resolving disputes at the village level.

Women lawyers should handle the cases of discrimination against women, prevention of child marriages and dowry, she said.

Governor S C Jamir, Union Minister Mukul Wasnik, Maharashtra Law Minister Radha Krishna Vikhe Patil and Buldana District Guardian Minister Rajendra Shingne were present on the occasion.

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News4u-News Desk-Lalgarh (WB), Two days after attacking the Dharampur camp of the joint forces, the Maoist ultras again raided the same camp tonight besides another at Andharjora in Lalgarh region tonight, police said.

At about 11.30 pm, the Maoists simultaneously attacked the two camps where the state police and paramilitary forces, engaged in the operation to flush out Maoists from Lalgarh, are staying.

The encounter is still on and casualty, if any, was not known, the sources said.

The Maoists had raided Dharampur camp under Lalgarh police station in West Midnapore district on the night of July 13.

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