The Centre's interlocutor for peace process with various militant outfits in Assam and former Intelligence Bureau Chief P C Haldar on Monday held dialogue with the leadership of the pro-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland.
The Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Bureau states that there are specific inputs that a section of the students are planning large-scale violence and there is a level of frustration that has crept in.
There have been instances in the past where groups have carried out small blasts in order to distract investigators. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The National Investigating Agency has claimed that it has almost cracked the Delhi blasts case. It is now ascertained that it was an operation planned in the Kishtwar region of Jammu and Kashmir. But did the funding of the operation come from Kerala? Vicky Nanjappa analyses.
Even as the Home Ministry appears positive, regarding the cracking of the September 7 Delhi blast case, investigations so far have been giving out hazy details regarding the plot.
Preparations for Budget 2011-12 are in full swing. Intelligence Bureau sleuths in plain clothes are watching each and every movement of the team which prepares the Budget documents.
The email sent out allegedly by terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami claiming responsibility for the Delhi attack is under investigation.
Accepting it as a "mistake" and taking "responsibility", Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the inclusion of terror accused Wazhul Kamar Khan in the list of most wanted fugitives given to Pakistan was a "genuine error" by the Mumbai police and "oversight" by the Intelligence Bureau.
Eight powerful bombs were seized by the police from a train bound for New Jalpaiguri in adjacent West Bengal when it stopped at the Kishanganj railway station.
The interrogation of former president of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India Syed Salahuddin Salar has only gone on to confirm the fact that a major part of the terror financing for subversive activities in India come from Saudi Arabia.
The centre has convened a two-day conference of the Directors General of Police on August 24-25 to discuss internal security with the backdrop of Hindu terrorism.
Officials say that such a list, to be updated on a real-time basis, will serve as a ready reckoner in identifying those committing multiple economic offences
An Interpol notice has been issued against Dr Mohammad Shahnawaz and Asadullah Akthar, the men who are believed to have executed the Varanasi bomb blast on Tuesday. Even as investigations continue into the incident, all leads points towards the United Arab Emirates, where these men are based.
Based on intelligence reports, the Uttar Pradesh police now believe that the masterminds of the Varanasi blast may be Asadullah Akhthar and Dr Shahnawaz. The Bhatkal brothers -- Riyaz and Iqbal -- are also suspected to have helped plan the blast, said sources.According to sources in the Intelligence Bureau, all four suspects are hiding in Sharjah, where the terror attack had been planned.
Following the serial blasts in Mumbai on Wednesday, the six other cities which have been identified as potential targets of the Indian Mujahideen are Jaipur, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mangalore, Bangalore and Goa.
The recent haul of explosives at Ambala has kept investigating agencies on their toes ever since. Now, the probe agencies are not even ruling out the possibility of the Delhi high court blast being remotely linked to the seizure of 5 kgs of RDX from a car at Ambala earlier this month.
Home Secretary Gopal Krishna Pillai, who is retiring on Thursday after 39 years of service, told rediff.com in an exclusive interview, that, "No bugging took place" in the office of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
Country's intelligence agencies, Research and Analysis Wing and Intelligence Bureau, have refused to make public information related to any in-house case of sexual harassment in the last 10 years.
The Intelligence Bureau dismissed the incident stating that there was no bug but a chewing gum in the finance minister's office. But then why would the Finance Minister even write a letter to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention if there was really nothing there?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday participated in a 45-minute yoga session along with over 200 top police officers of the country gathered at Kutch for an annual conference, which has been marked by a distinctive personal touch this time.
Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta has held a series of meetings with senior government officials in New Delhi. Official sources said Panetta, who also met with Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur and Research and Analysis Wing chief A K Verma, discussed various areas of cooperation. This is the first high-profile visit by any American official after a team of the Indian National Investigation Agency had questioned terrorist David Coleman Headley in May.
Sources said the May 25 blasts now appears to have been a trial run for Wednesday's strike. There are too many similarities between the two incidents, and the same people could be involved, they said.
Minutes after the blasts rocked the Delhi high court on Wednesday, a team of the Intelligence Bureau is already picking up leads regarding some elements associated with politicians who could have carried out this attack as an attention diversionary measure.
The Delhi high court has yet again come under attack for the second time in just four months. On May 25, a low intensity blast had rocked the high court
Although during the trial, the main focus would be on the links between the ISI and terror, India would still go ahead with its own set of questions.
'One of R&AW's greatest achievements is in projecting itself as benign.' 'This work -- done in tandem with the Diaspora and the MEA -- sells a story of India as mostly the victim.'
With the Commonwealth Games fast approaching, Indian agencies have expressed concerns over an aerial attack by terrorists on the games. Home Secretary G K Pillai too had expressed a similar concern while stating that Pakistani terror groups have purchased modern paragliders from China and are capable of launching a cross border attack with such state-of-the-art equipment.
Though the Indian intelligence agencies were tipped off that the consignment of arms and ammunition would be dropped in Purulia, West Bengal they failed to avert the incident. Both the R
Investigation agencies have launched a hunt for a man who received a call from Mumbai, minutes before the December 7 Varanasi blast, which left two dead and 30 injured.
Sikh militant groups are all set to strike India with a vengeance, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Tracking the ideological journey of Times Square bomb plot accused Faisal Shahzad has led the investigators to an interesting concept known as "jihad tourism," which has made Pakistan, the most preferred destination for people wanting to embrace jihad.
A former bureaucrat has said that most business houses "maintain" MPs to influence government policies or decision making in their favour.
Abdul Nasser Madani, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, who is facing an imminent arrest in the 2008 Bengaluru blast case claimed that the National Investigating Agency (NIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) have hatched a conspiracy to finish him off politically. Madani spoke to rediff.com's Arun Lakshman from Anwarassery,in Kerala's Kollam district on Wednesday.
On instructions from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Intelligence Bureau has taken up the task of identifying a sudden quantum jump in the amount of foreign money flowing in the country through withdrawals by foreigners on credit and debit cards issued by foreign banks.
On instructions from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Intelligence Bureau has taken up the task of identifying sudden quantum jump in the foreign money flowing in the country through withdrawals by foreigners on credit and debit cards issued by the foreign banks.
The Centre has warned five states, including Uttarakhand and Maharashtra, against terrorist attacks, particularly targeting military training academies.
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh high court has asked the state home ministry to reconsider its decision, taken in 2003, to honour three senior police officers with gallantry awards, as they were given sans the minimum verification of recommendations by the state government. The bench comprising Justice G Raghuram and Justice G V Seetapathy, disposing the public interest petition of lawyer K N Rao, criticised the manner in which state government recommended the names.
The investigating agencies probing the 13/7 serial blasts in Mumbai have picked up a man by the name Riazul Sarkar from Kishenganj in Bihar.
The government on Monday ordered a probe into the leaks of recorded tapes of conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, her clients and certain journalists among others.
With the Lashkar-e-Tayiba taking a back seat as far as India operations are concerned for the time being, it looks like dreaded terror outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami -- which operates primarily out of Bangladesh -- is planning on taking the centre stage.
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