Exchange of sweets between border guards of India and Pakistan along the LoC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir, a regular feature during Eid festivities, did not take place on Wednesday.
Terror groups are building a base in south India and using the sea route to smuggle in arms and drugs.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone providing information on Zishan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana, the two persons who were killed in an encounter along with Ishrat Jahan in June 2004.
BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said in a letter that sparing such "rowdy elements" is tarnishing the image of the institution and it is the inaction and tolerance of bar bodies that encourage these advocates, which would ultimately result in "contempt proceedings by the high courts or Supreme Court".
The two Union Territories of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh will come into existence on October 31.
Amid the prevailing tension between India and Pakistan over ceasefire violations along their border, Pakistani Rangers refused to accept the sweets offered by the Border Security Force on the occasion of Eid.
When it comes to spying, our netas are habitual offenders. Vicky Nanjappa digs up past records of prying politicians that date back to the 80s.
A large population was forced out of their homes due to heavy shelling and firing.
From a flat stomach to a flawless skin, from a sharp brain to eyesight, from strong joints to strong memory, hyper local fruits play a role in everything, said Rujuta Diwekar.
Pakistani troops heavily shelled 15 border outposts and hamlets along the international border overnight, leaving three persons injured, one of them seriously in Jammu district.
Four Pakistani rangers were killed in Border Security Force's strong retaliation after a jawan of the force lost his life in heavy firing from the other side on a patrol on Wednesday along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district.
The software facilitates spoofing of caller id and is difficult to identify to locate or identify actual caller.
Indian troops did not retaliate to the 'deliberate provocation' to avoid civilian casualties across the border.
For Dawood Ibrahim, match-fixing was a sort of 'clean job' as no force or killing were required and only a few players here and there had to be 'fixed' and the money shared, says a new book on the subject.
The sources said Hussain has been suspended from the primary membership of the AAP till police probe is completed.
Former Union Home Secretary G K Pillai on Thursday said that the affidavit submitted to the Gujarat high court in 2009 about Lashkar-e-Taiyba links of Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices, who were killed in an alleged fake encounter in 2004, was changed at the "political level".
Snooping is one of the oldest peccadilloes of man, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Ajit Doval is now India's all-powerful security boss. This concentration of power disrupts our layered security system. Will it not weaken whatever remains of the power and authority of the home, defence and finance ministers? asks Shekhar Gupta.
The NSCN-IM is no longer the force it used to be. Once the 'de facto government' of Magaland, it gradually reduced to an extortion racket. But missteps by the Centre could give it a new lease of life.
Former Intelligence Bureau chief and two-time governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Saxena has said that the terror outfits are getting desperate to vitiate the atmosphere and hit the tourism industry.
It is no secret that Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the most coveted target of terror outfits operating within India.
It was Haldar who had played a key role in making a peace process possible with a faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam. He is also negotiating with other tribal outfits in the region on behalf of the government of India.
Firing from across the border took place in several areas along the Line of Control and the International Border, drawing effective retaliation from the Indian troops, the officials said.
Jaishankar noted that it would be difficult to say what will happen in the future as there are a lot of "contradictions and frictions" out there today.
A huge cache of explosives, which was seized by the Patna police during raids conducted over the weekend, was sent by Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami to the Maoists operating in Jharkhand, say Intelligence Bureau officials."The huge consignment of explosives, firearms, live cartridges and chemicals were brought here from Bangladesh, through the bordering districts of Kishanganj and Purnia, to supply to Maoists," said IB sources.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi written on February 25, but kept secret so far, Thuingaleng Muivah, the general secretary of the group and chief Naga negotiator in the talks with the government, also spoke about the framework agreement (FA) signed in 2015 and its proposal that the state should be allowed to have a Constitution and national flag.
'I don't know if I became an actor, I was just trying to book jobs and survive.'
David Headley, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative who was arrested by the FBI in October, is proving to be an important link in unraveling the terror network. Intelligence Bureau agents have informed the Mumbai police that Headley made several visits to the city. The Mumbai police is now probing Headley's links with the 26/11 terror attacks.
The government is keen to close the sale before March 31, 2021, to help meet a record Rs 2.1 lakh crore target which Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has set from divestment proceeds in the Budget for 2020-21.
Crossing into the country from Bangladesh seeking a livelihood, illegal immigrants are being handed out valid documents by political parties in West Bengal and Assam, transforming them into a crucial vote-bank. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
After a two-day lull, Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice on Sunday by resorting to heavy firing with automatic and small arms along International Border and Line of Control in Jammu and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir, forcing Indian troops to retaliate.
It is regrettable that the IB has tried to devalue the expertise available both within the concerned ministry and in the scientific community by its allegations. Governments and NGOs in many western nations have not been accused of being 'anti-national' when they put their foot down on questionable practices by cash rich agri-business companies, says Rashme Sehgal.
India and Pakistan have agreed to strictly observe all agreements on ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) and other sectors, according to a joint statement on Thursday.
In an escalation of cross-border military confrontation, 8 civilians were on Tuesday killed and 22 injured in Jammu region due to Pakistani shelling, prompting a strong retaliation by the Indian army in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed and 14 posts were destroyed.
Violating the ceasefire, Pakistani troops on Sunday fired on border out posts along the International Border in Jammu district.
The Centre on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Intelligence Bureau had no "material" (records) regarding the Rs 16,000 crore Scorpene submarine deal.
The Union government will implement the much awaited Conditional Access System before July 14 this year helping to streamline the cable TV industry.
Pakistani Rangers and BSF troops exchanged fire along the International Border in Samba sector of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior BSF officer said.
The three heavily-armed terrorists killed by the Border Security Force in Samba district had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir to carry out a chain of terror attacks by blowing up running trains and tracks with chained IEDs and hard to detect liquid explosives, a top force official said on Wednesday.
Intelligence agencies have traced the origins of the fake currency that is being used to fund terror activities in India. IB officials have specific information that fake Indian currency is being printed in Karachi, Quetta and Lahore, under the patronage of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.IB officials have already warned the Centre about fake currency making inroads into the Indian economy through Nepal and Bangladesh.
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