Whistleblower Crackdown

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden threw shade at China via Twitter, saying that Bitcoin got even stronger after the Asian super-power imposed a blanket ban on crypto-activities and made it a punishable offence.

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Saturday criticised Russia - the country that has granted him asylum - calling its crackdown on human rights and online freedom "fundamentally wrong" and said he would prefer not to live in exile.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.

A provincial civil services officer, Rinku Singh Rahi, who launched his hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday demanding a probe into charges of corruption in state-run schemes was whisked away by the police from the dharna site and admitted to the psychiatric ward of the medical college in the city.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden threw shade at China via Twitter, saying that Bitcoin got even stronger after the Asian super-power imposed a blanket ban on crypto-activities and made it a punishable offence.

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Saturday criticised Russia - the country that has granted him asylum - calling its crackdown on human rights and online freedom "fundamentally wrong" and said he would prefer not to live in exile.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.

A provincial civil services officer, Rinku Singh Rahi, who launched his hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday demanding a probe into charges of corruption in state-run schemes was whisked away by the police from the dharna site and admitted to the psychiatric ward of the medical college in the city.