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Basics:  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is the intelligence agency of USA meant for combatting external threat. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is the one which is responsible for combating internal threat. MI5 (Military intelligence 5) works for UK the same way the CIA works. MI6 works the way FBI works. IB (Intelligence Bureau) is India's intelligence agency which keeps and eye on internal threat. RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) is India's intelligency agency taking care of external threat. CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) is the criminal investigation body of India. NIA (National Intelligence Agency) is a federal agency to combat terror in India. Story goes like this: Before 9/11 United States CIA had Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) for terrorist threat. It was actually meant for external threat. On the same ground, Bajpayee Govt. formed CTC under an executive order as a part of IB and named it Multi Agency Center (MAC). As IB its...

What makes SOPA and PIPA especially toxic is the threat they pose to all dimensions of a website's existence - physical presence, findability and revenue stream. With 4.5 million signatures on a Google petition and one million messages sent to the United States Congress via the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in a single day, January 18, advocates of a free Internet have mounted a determined bid to stall new legislation that can chill free speech. The global chorus against two Bills that are winding their way through the American legal system is growing. The two draft laws in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, now known around the world by the acronyms SOPA and PIPA (for Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act), have raised a storm on the Internet. They are seen as updated versions of the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA) which could not make progress in the Senate earlier. In a small victory for opponents, key movers of the Bil...