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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Sikh militant groups are all set to strike India with a vengeance, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
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.
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
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.
The Centre has warned five states, including Uttarakhand and Maharashtra, against terrorist attacks, particularly targeting military training academies.
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.
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 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.
The Central government-appointed interlocutor for facilitating peace talks with the banned United Liberation Front of Assam P C Haldar, the former chief of the Intelligence Bureau, arrived in Guwahati for a three-day visit on Wednesday.
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.
Ravi Inder Singh, a 1994 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, who was working as Director in the sensitive Internal Security division, was under surveillance of the Special Cell of Delhi Police and was arrested on Monday evening following which searches were carried out at his office and residence, sources said.
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.
The Pakistan government has turned down United States' request to hand over the Taliban's second-in command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was recently captured in Karachi.Pakistan has already made it clear that it would only hand over Baradar to Afghanistan if Kabul requests it to do so.Mullah Baradar is regarded as second only to Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban's supreme commander in Afghanistan.
Vicky Nanjappa analyses how the death of Sajid Batcha could impact the ongoing Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the 2G Spectrum scam
Interestingly, both the agencies wrongfully cited section 24 of the RTI Act for denial of response to the petitioner.
Chief of Army General VK Singh and heads of the Intelligence Bureau and Research and Analysis Wing will also attend the meeting where Chidambaram would give his ministry's assessment of the situation in the valley. The CCS would also discuss the request for army assistance sought by and Kashmir Chief Ministe Omar Abdullah to help control the vloatile situation in the state
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.
Union Minister of State for Home, Mulapally Ramachandran told rediff.com that he had directed Joint Director ,State Intelligence Bureau, M Harisena Verma to probe a survey conducted by a Kochi based organization for Washington based Princeton Survey and Research group.
Although the American move is diplomatic in nature, IB sources said it could step up the pressure on Pakistan to act against Cheema and his agents of terror.
The Department of Telecom and the Intelligence Bureau are working together on the final MNP guidelines to ensure seamless tracking of mobile numbers by security agencies.
The chiefs of intelligence agencies of India and Pakistan held a meeting in Islamabad as part of cooperation to fight terrorism and deal with security issues.
The fight for chief ministership in the next United Democratic Front government has begun in the Congress party ,albeit in a subtle and subdued way. The recent report of the Intelligence Bureau that the Congress-led UDF would win around eighty five seats and head the ruling coalation has set the ball rolling in the Congress party for the post of chief minister.
Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan in a startling revelation told the media that Inspector General of Police Tomin Thachankery "had made contacts with certain terror suspects while he was in Qatar".
With just days to go before United States President Barack Obama arrives in India, a major controversy has erupted over American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, who had allegedly surveyed locations in Mumbai that were targeted by the 10 Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists on November 26, 2008.
Reliance Infra claims the run by the market operator has caused a loss of Rs. 300,000 crore to infrastructure stocks.
Vicky Nanjappa looks at how the police and Intelligence Bureau plan to tackle the menace of match-fixing and betting during the World Cup.
The three faces of terror in Pakistan who will lead from the front are -- Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin Haqqani.
In a statement issued on Thursday night, Canada has said the language used while denying the visa "doesn't reflect the policy of the Canada government."
