The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether intelligence agencies Research and Analysis Wing, Intelligence Bureau and National Technical Research Organisation can be brought within the supervisory mechanisms of Parliament and other Constitutional bodies.
Who calls the shots in the Indian Mujahideen after the arrest of its key operative Yasin Bhatkal? Vicky Nanjappa finds out
The two Union Territories of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh will come into existence on October 31.
Govt had asked ISPs to block 500 websites but this could not be done due to technical issues.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday targeted its former ally Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the serial blasts in Bodh Gaya, questioning why his government had not acted on specific intelligence inputs that the Buddhist temple may be targeted by terrorists.
BJP leaders in Gujarat feel that though Narendra Modi and the party will fight the allegations politically, there is no denying that the legal fight will have some political price attached to it. Sheela Bhatt reports
To curb the menace of illicit fund flows, the government has set up a high level panel that will look into trade-based money laundering activities which particularly involve manipulation of invoices.
'The suppression is mounting and people may react.'
No statement has been recorded by the accused police officer, GL Singhal, in the Ishrat Jahan case under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, sources have told rediff.com
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday grilled Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar regarding his alleged role in the conspiracy to carry out the fake encounter in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed nine years ago.
Amid a tussle between Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation on the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, the Bharatiya Janata Party appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to deal with the issue 'apolitically and objectively' and stop the 'misuse' of the two agencies by the government.
The probe in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case has drawn clear battle lines between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Intelligence Bureau after the CBI named IB official Rajinder Singh in its charge-sheet.
Branded as the face of modern day terrorism, Zarar Ahmed Siddibaba alias Yasin Bhatkal of the banned Indian Mujahideen arrested on Wednesday night gained cult status in the homegrown terror network after the 2008 Delhi serial blasts.
Sources in the Intelligence Bureau and the National Investigation Agency claim that the Naxals had precise information about the movement of the Congress convoy, which came under attack on May 25, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Water is going to be a central part of the government's 2024 election campaign. And Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's work will be crucial for it.
The home ministry is expected to make some amendments in the National Counter Terrorism Centre. They will inform states about operations before undertaking operations, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Amid blame game continuing over the Naxal attack killing 27 people, the Chhattisgarh Congress on questioned the shifting of a Central Reserve Police Force camp from Darbha region just seven days prior to the attack.
After facing flak from the Supreme Court, the government has re-appointed senior Indian Police Service officer Ravi Kant in the Central Bureau of Investigation to complete the probe in the high-profile coal blocks allocation case.
Vacancies to the top seven security and investigative agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation, Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing, National Investigation Agency, Sashastra Seema Bal are waiting to be filled up.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir sought response from the Centre and the three intelligence wings for bringing the agencies under the oversight of Parliament and the Comptroller and Auditor General.
The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert about a possible terror attack being planned by Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed on the Red Fort in national capital New Delhi.
The Intelligence Bureau has issued an alert about a possible terror attack being planned by Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder and 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed on the Red Fort in national capital New Delhi.
A regiment of 30,000 fighters for the Pakistan army in India depends largely on the money that is generated through skin trade and drug smuggling, a report of the military intelligence bureau has said. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
In this exclusive interview with Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, former Intelligence Bureau special director Ravindra Narayan Ravi discusses various security issues daunting India, and also states that the National Investigation Agency could not pursue with professional vigour its very first case due to political interference as it was forced to soft-pedal the case against dreaded terrorists.
In the backdrop of increasing violations along the Line of Control, Intelligence Bureau officials have said out that Pakistan's most notorious jihadi and Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed has ordered an all-out war on India. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The government on Wednesday denied two premier organisations of the country -- the Central Bureau of India and Intelligence Bureau -- were fighting with each other over the issue of prosecuting IB officials in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case saying the "mudslinging" was happening only in the press.
Amar Bhushan, former special secretary with the Research and Analysis Wing, says that the country's leadership is to be blamed for Pakistan media lapping up the IB-CBI tussle and an officer's latest revelations on 'India's role in 26/11 attacks'
The Research and Analysis Wing has access to information that indicates a link between the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Tsarnaev brothers who carried out the Boston bombing.Investigations have revealed that the Tsarnaev brothers were trained at Chechnya by LeT militants.
As the debate rages on whether Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices were operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba or not, there is increasing proof to show that she indeed had links with the outfit. Although the extent of her links is still unknown, she was considered to be a suicide bomber in the investigating and intelligence circles.
The fight between the Intelligence Bureau and the Central Bureau of Investigation will be given a quietus with the latter deciding not to include the name of the IB officer alleged to be involved in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau, Rajinder Kumar, has denied any involvement in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
MHA said the four men were on 'routine, covert' duties in the high security area.
The review committee confirmed tapping of nearly 9,600 telephones and 1,100 emails by various security and police forces throughout the country.
Last month, the DRI had claimed to have busted over Rs 1,000 crore hawala racket in Punjab.
A Mumbai magistrate on Friday rejected a Gujarat government plea seeking transfer of the nine accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case to a jail in the neighbouring state, as they faced danger to their lives from the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
Given Narendra Modi's trust in him, Praful Khoda Patel is unlikely to back down in Lakshadweep.
The police should have been alert in preventing the Hyderabad blasts rather than look for culprits once the damage is done, said Ajit Doval, former director of the Intelligence Bureau.
There are three angles of investigations being taken by the Intelligence Bureau and the Hyderabad police in the twin blasts that have killed at least16 people in a busy market in Hyderabad.
