The Centre on Saturday said the Odisha government was rightly talking to the Maoists for the safe release of an abducted Italian and a member of Legislative Assembly and any decision on using force to rescue them has to be taken by the state.
China claims that the Buddhist town of Tawang and some other areas of Arunachal Pradesh are part of it. But India has always rejected these claims.
The Centreal Reserve Police Force operations, will have to acquire an intelligence-based strategy to combat Maoists who have organised themselves as a "regular fighting army", Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday directed Home Minister P Chidambaram to do everything necessary after serial blasts rocked Mumbai, and keep him updated.
Union Home Ministry and Delhi government have not submitted their report to the National Human Rights Commission on the police action against Ramdev's supporters at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, prompting the rights body to issue a fresh notice to them.
Separatists and their wide network must be neutralized for peace in the Valley
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by firing mortar shells and small arms along the LoC in Poonch around 8 am on Monday.
Speaking in the Delhi Assembly, the chief minister appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah that if required, the Army should be called in to control the situation in the riot-affected areas.
Parvaiz had left home after an argument with his father, who wanted him to join a college while the son was interested in religious studies.
Hindustan Motors is planning to launch two variants of the popular car - a sub-4 metre sedan and a new generation Amby.
According to the company's filing to bourse, in consideration of the demerger HMFCL will issue and allot to the shareholders of HML, one equity share of Rs 5 each in HMFCL credited as fully paid up for every 13 equity shares of Rs 5 each fully paid-up held by them in the capital of HML.
Dismissing Bharatiya Janata Party criticism on the Union home minister attending a Bollywood music launch hours after serial blasts in Patna, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said Sushilkumar Shinde "has a life beyond Patna".
The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be a shadow group of LeT, claimed responsibility for the killings. IGP (Kashmir) Kumar said police have seized a vehicle used in the attack and that such killings were being executed at the behest of Pakistan.
At least 20 Indians have been arrested in London and Leicester for immigration-related offences after United Kingdom Border agency's raids last week, official sources said on Tuesday.
As a consequence of this designation, US citizens are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with Salahuddin and all of Salahuddin's property and interests in property subject to United States jurisdiction are blocked.
Qari Yasir was involved in last year's Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel died, police and army officers said.
After the operator crashed the remote-controlled aircraft into a jail wall.
Providing official secret information to a journalist is a 'criminal act' and both the giver and the receiver will have to go to jail, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday referring to the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami doing the rounds of social media.
"Four policemen, three Central Reserve Police Force personnel and four civilians were injured in the terror attack."
Kishor posted a tweet 'thanking' Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi for their 'formal and unequivocal' rejection of the NRC. He also reassured the people of Bihar that the CAA and NRC will not be implemented in the state. However, JD-U's ally BJP got rankled by Kishor's move and made contrary claims.
Ajay Pandita, sarpanch of the Larkipora area in Anantnag district and a member of the Congress party, was shot at by terrorists in his native village at around 6 pm, a police official said. He said Pandita was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to injuries.
Police suspect that Khurshid was an important functionary in the Lashkar-e-Tayiba set up.
The report said the company, which was involved in transactions with and buying properties from the late Iqbal Memon alias Iqbal Mirchi, gave Rs 10 crore to the BJP in 2014-15. Mirchi was a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim.
The Indian 4x100m women's relay team broke the 18-year-old National record to finish in 4th position at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing on Wednesday. The 4x100m women relay team comprising Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, HM Jyoti and Merlin Joseph clocked 44.03s to finish the race, breaking the 18-year-old record of 44.43s created by the quartet of Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, EB Shyla and PT Usha on July 22, 1998 in Fukuoka, Japan.
Breaking his silence over stiff opposition to his pet project National Counterterrorism Center, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday wrote to 10 non-Congress chief ministers, saying countering terrorism is a shared responsibility and Centre will continue to work with states to fight the menace.
Wreckage was found on Sunday following a privately-funded underwater search and a body recovered on Wednesday and taken to southern England.
Government sources say they believe the company gave a false picture of what it proposed to do with the money from the sale.
Accusing the Opposition of 'misleading' people on the amended citizenship law, Shah on Tuesday threw the challenge for the debate to Rahul Gandhi (Congress), Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati.
Shah said that the NPR will not affect the nationality status of any citizen of the country.
The team probing the incident examined 808 suspects and 118 witnesses to collect strong evidence against the accused, the CID said in a release.
The Centre does not want to keep the military in Kashmir 'for long' but a decision on removing the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act will be taken only after some time, says Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
Three more arrests have been made by the Customs investigators in connection with the 'spot-fixing' scandal involving Pakistani cricketers.
Three terrorists of the Hizbul Mujahideen terror outfit including a divisional commander were killed in a south Kashmir encounter in Srinagar on Monday.
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With its ultras in Jammu and Kashmir constantly on the run in the wake of stepped up operations by security agencies, the Hizbul Mujahideen has asked its POK-based leadership to sneak into India and strike in a big way.
C K Birla group company Hindustan Motors has reported 50 per cent erosion in peak net worth and accumulated losses of the company stood at Rs 132 crore (Rs 1.32 billion).
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In a major success, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday afternoon arrested the chief operational commander of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit in the Hazratbal locality of Srinagar. Talking to media persons in Srinagar on Monday evening, the inspector general of police Kashmir zone, B.Srinivas said that Muzaffar Ahmad Dar alias Gaznavi alias Mohammad Ali, was currently functioning as the chief operational commander of the HM outfit.
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