Intelligence Bureau officials are not ruling out the role of Lashkar-e-Tayiba behind the attack. Sources in the Intelligence Bureau said that while this blast bears the signature of the Indian Mujahideen, they could have very well got the help of the Lashkar to execute this attack.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that 7 IEDs were used and the explosive device was wrapped in cloth bags and tiffin carriers. This bears the signature of the Indian Mujahideen, a member of the NIA who is also investigating the case says.
Intelligence Bureau (IB) will interrogate actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu on Wednesday, who has been sent to seven-day police custody for his alleged role in the violence that took place at the Red Fort and other parts of the national capital on Republic Day, according to Delhi Police sources.
'As per the report available..., 35 persons have succumbed to injuries inflicted on them during riots (till Tuesday)...22 persons have died due to severe injuries'
Intensifying operations against the Naxals and chocking the flow of funds to them were the two key issues discussed at a high-level meeting chaired by Union home mAmit Shah and attended by six chief ministers and top officials of four other states here on Sunday, sources said.
Ravi, shifted from Nagaland, said he saw his new role more as an opportunity than a challenge.
The Kerala high court on Wednesday upheld the Centre's decision to deny security clearance to Malayalam news channel Media One saying it was of the view there were certain aspects, in the intelligence reports about the channel which affect public order or national security.
Ilyas Kashmiri, a former member of the Pakistan special services group, had played a very crucial role during the Mumbai terror attacks, according to reports by the Intelligence Bureau.
The central government on Monday issued a Gazette notification to extend the tenure of defence secretary, home secretary, director of Intelligence Bureau, and secretary of Research and Analysis Wing for a period of two years.
The Intelligence Bureau has picked up at least 18 alerts ahead of President Obama's visit. IB sources say six of these alerts are specific in nature.
Attorney General K K Venugopal on Wednesday defended The Tribunals Reforms Act of 2021 in the Supreme Court and said that many times the top court through its judgments had waded "into the policy domain" and it should "keep in mind separation of powers".
Apprehending a "credible threat" from Maoists during the two-day bandh call given by them, railways on Tuesday said it has formed a special task force to meet any eventuality following an alert issued by the home ministry and intelligence bureau.
The CPI (Maoist) on Sunday vowed to avenge the death of its top leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in an encounter with police in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh.
Beware! Use of words such as 'attack', 'bomb', 'blast' or 'kill' in tweets, status updates, emails or blogs may bring you under surveillance of security agencies as the government will soon launch 'Netra', an internet spy system capable of detecting malafide messages.
Shops and schools remained closed and streets wore a deserted look as sporadic violence continued since Monday with mobs running amok, looting shops and setting properties on fire.
Amid a raging controversy over Rahul Gandhi's statement that Pakistani intelligence agencies had contacted Muslim youths in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar as part of their sinister designs, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday denied having any such input from intelligence bureau.
The P V Narasimha Rao government in the 1990s had been on the verge of bringing to India the ashes, believed to be the mortal remains of Subhas Chandra Bose now kept at the Renkoji Temple in Japan, but was dissuaded from doing so due to an intelligence report.
Vice President Dhankar's and Law Minister Rijuju's recent interventions have the danger of destabilising the Constitutional equilibrium, cautions N Sathiya Moorthy.
A fresh terror alert has been issued, this time it is Kolkata. Based on the interrogation of some Indian Mujhaideen cadres who are in custody, the Intelligence Bureau has informed the Ministry of Home Affairs that the outfit is targeting the eastern city.
'Is the idea of a committed judiciary once again being floated, though surreptitiously, unlike in the past when it was direct?'
'It is our constant effort to keep issues, which might snowball into law and order problems, under check,' says Director General of Kerala Police Jacob Punnoose.
The probe into the alleged fake encounter case of Sadiq Jamal of 2003 in Gujarat will enter yet another phase with the Central Bureau of Investigation all set to question former Special Director of Intelligence Bureau Sudhir Kumar in connection with the case.
Anti-nuclear activist S P Udayakumar has sent a legal notice to the Union home ministry seeking action against an official for allegedly defaming him by "leaking" a secret report recently.
He discussed with the chiefs of Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and Military Intelligence and other senior officials the modalities of the MAC related to the functions, powers and duties, which the MAC, established in the Intelligence Bureau, will now takeup.
Rup Narayan Das reveals the towering Odisha leader's role in improving national security after the 1962 War with China.
The dossier on the 26/11 attacks which will be taken to the United States of America by Home Minister, P Chidambaram is sufficient to nail Pakistan and the role it played in the deadly attacks on Mumbai, according to sources in the Intelligence Bureau.
The National Democratic Alliance government relies very heavily on information put out by the Intelligence Bureau, which led to the controversy over the appointment of senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam and Raghu Raman, former CEO of NATGRID.
The Intelligence Bureau believes that Nasir is aware of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) network in the country. The HuJI has been held responsible for the Hyderabad, Ajmer and Uttar Pradesh blasts.
Datta Padsalgikar, a Maharashtra-Cadre 1982-batch IPS officer, on Sunday took charge as the new Mumbai Police Commissioner.
An intercept picked up by the Intelligence Bureau suggests that Subhan, whose code name is Kasim, had crossed over into PoK via Nepal after the serial blasts in New Delhi.
After an Intelligence Bureau report warning the PMO against non-profit bodies, the home ministry is likely to order an SIT probe into their functioning, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami, which has been maintaining a low-profile for some time, is planning a second terror attack on Ajmer, according to Intelligence Bureau sources.Intelligence Bureau sources told rediff.com that the HuJI, an offshoot of the dreaded Laskhar-e-Tayiba, plans to send across a double message through this operation. The police crackdown on the Bangladeshi immigrants following the Jaipur blasts has not gone down too well with the outfit.
'I must respectfully decline the invitation in view of the recent coverage of the BBC of certain incidents of violence in Delhi,' Vempati said in his letter to British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Director General Tony Hall.
During the meeting, top security officials briefed the home minister about the prevailing situation in the country, including along the Indo-Pak border, a home ministry official said.
The IB says the latest e-mail shows that the Indian Mujahideen was behind Friday's blasts too, and the Bengalaru police is trying to ascertain the similarities between the two blasts.
The NSA visited the affected northeastern parts of Delhi, including Jaffrabad and Seelampur, where he met police officers and gave them necessary directives, besides meeting leaders of different communities to assuage the tensed situation, the officials said.
A head constable was among four people killed and at least 50 others, including several paramilitary and Delhi Police personnel, were injured as violence spiralled over the amended citizenship law in northeast Delhi on Monday.
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".
Police in Delhi have been put on alert after they received inputs from the Intelligence Bureau about the possibility of a terror strike in the near future by Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Harkat-ul-Jihadi-al-Islami militants.
The National Security Advisor and Intelligence Bureau chief worked their sources in Saudi Arabia and Syria to persuade the ISIS terrorists to talk to the Indian government.
