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A senior Border Security Force official said that Pakistan Rangers had resorted to heavy firing using small arms and few mortar shells in the in the Kanachak and Pargwal sectors.
Funds are instrumental in the success of a terrorist operation and India's war against terror will not be complete unless it acts upon this crucial aspect.
Davinder Singh was being treated at par with the terrorists and jointly interrogated by all security agencies. He was ferrying the terrorists in a car. One of the arrested terrorists is Naveed, a former police constable who deserted the force in 2017 to join the Hizbul Mujahideen.
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan will meet Leader of the Opposition L K Advani on Friday to apprise him about the Malegaon probe. Intelligence Bureau Chief P C Haldar will also be present at the meeting, the sources said.
Delhi metro has been put on high alert following an Intelligence Bureau warning of possible terror strikes. The alert, which has been shared with the Delhi police, suggests that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Jhangvi will carry out the strikes.
Heavy firing exchanges erupted along the International border after Pakistan again violated the ceasefire by targeting Indian posts to push in a group of militants in Akhnoor sector of Jammu district, where one intruder was killed.
Sources claimed that in the meeting, it was also discussed to close the Red fort from 20th January to 27th January and a clarification was sought from Delhi Police.
As per reports, Pakistan has fired 3000-4000 mortar shells targeting Indian villages and border towns in which 12 people have been killed.
Shelling and firing by Pakistani troops was "very heavy" in 2018, virtually making the 2003 India-Pakistan border truce "redundant", said officials.
However, now Intelligence Bureau sources tell rediff.com that terror modules were being set up in Belgaum, which borders Maharashtra. The arrest of Liyakat Ali Sayeed in Belgaum on May 14 has helped the police get a better picture of the terror operations, which were being planned in the border district of Karnataka.
The Border Security Force on Wednesday said Pakistan's border guarding force was deliberately targeting civilian areas and its Army directly supporting the troops in the shelling on these areas and Indian posts along the International Border.
Intelligence Bureau sources said a crude bomb with a timer was used to carry out the blast. Terrorists have been known to use bombs with timers, they added. It may be noted that the material used in the bomb and the materials seized from Mohammad Ghouse, a terror suspect who was arrested by Hubli police recently, have been found to be similar.
Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens' associations, including NGOs, in social and political decision-making and development planning. Instead, our paranoid government bullies and terrorises them, says Praful Bidwai.
He said the force, which guards over 6,300 km of India's land border with Pakistan in the west and Bangladesh on the east, is faced by four main challenges on the security front.
Doval, a Kerala cadre IPS officer of the 1968 batch, will serve in the post till January 31, 2005.
Even though Dawood Ibrahim is under the protection of Pakistan's ISI, the Indian government can bring the underworld don back to India using diplomacy and back channels, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
A top police official said that Pakistan is trying to infiltrate terrorists along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir even during the winters when most of the passes and mountainous areas along the border are covered in heavy snow.
Arjun Kapoor doesn't know the difference between restrained and reactionless.
Al Qaeda will use women to carry out deadly attacks across the country, warns Intelligence Bureau.
What if there were elections tomorrow? An intelligence report.
Bollywood's proud parents attended a screening of short films written and directed by the IB film students of Singapore International School at the Light Box Preview Theatre in Santa Cruz, a western suburb of Mumbai, on Saturday.
"There is no freedom to the judges to even file a complaint," a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Surya Kant said, adding that police or the CBI is not helping the judiciary if such complaints are filed.
The Gujarat government had carried out fake encounters only to raise Chief Minister Narendra Modi's profile so that he becomes a "hero" in the eyes of people who believe acts of terror are done by Muslims, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has alleged.
After nine days of heavy firing and mortar shelling from across the border, firing de-escalated along the 192-km long border in Jammu frontier overnight with Pakistan opening fire on four border out posts in Kathua district.
BSF Inspector General Rakesh Sharma said it was not possible to build a wall along the border keeping in view the topography of the area.
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.
Unique Identification Authority of India said the alleged data breach took place on a website that does not belong to it.
Intelligence Bureau sources told rediff.com that earlier there were 180 camps in and around PoK, but at the moment it has come down to just 40. While some of the camps have been busted by security agencies, the rest have been voluntarily closed down with a purpose.
Violating the ceasefire for the 14th time in the past 12 days, Pakistani troops on Friday targeted two border out posts along the International Border in Jammu sector drawing retaliation from Indian troops.
As many as 313 fidayeens, out and about in Pakistan, plan to strike in India during the Lok Sabha elections.
However, it said the high-speed facility which was restored on a trial basis in central Kashmir's Ganderbal and Jammu region's Udhampur on August 16 would continue till this month-end as there has been no report of its misuse in the two districts.
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.
'I would have expected that, once firmly ensconced in the director's chair by 2:15 am, the not-director of the CBI would have called for pen and paper and hand-written a few clean chits.' 'Clean chits over Rafale; clean chits to the PM's secretary in the coal bribery case; a clean chit to Hasmukh Adhia on whatever claim Subramanian Swamy has cooked up about him...' says Mihir Sharma.
Several politicians from West Bengal are under scrutiny for sheltering Jammat-e-Islami and Chaatra Shibir operatives, says a Intelligence Bureau note to the Home Ministry. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The year 2019 witnessed a total of 3,168 ceasefire violations against 1,629 in 2018.
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.
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