Along with the Russian nationals, local citizen Akash has also been arrested, the official said, adding that further investigation was on.
The security at the Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji airport and across Guajrat has been tightened in view of an alert sent by central agencies, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Terming the recent leak of Army Chief General VK Singh's March 12 letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "anti-national," Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday said he and the defence ministry would take the strongest possible action against those responsible for the leak under Indian law.
The details of the telephonic conversation between the militants and ISI officials came to light earlier this week during a raid by Intelligence Bureau sleuths.
Al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri's role in India would largely depend on how Pakistan's ISI plans to use him, say Intelligence Bureau sources. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
A Nepali national, suspected to be behind supplying explosive materials to Maoists in India and Nepal, has been placed under arrest in the capital New Delhi's central district area. Police officials said that the accused has been arrested with several explosive detonators and wires.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre was nothing but a ploy to take away states' powers by the United Progressive Alliance. Accusing the Centre of weakening the federal system, Modi questioned the need for a NCTC instead of anti-terror laws such as the Prevention Of Terrorism Act. Through this proposed body, the Centre wanted to use the Intelligence Bureau in states' domain, he said.
Vicky Nanjappa analyses the Indian Mujahideen's modus operandi.
Of all the chief ministers who have protested against the proposed creation of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre in the Intelligence Bureau of the government of India with effect from March 1, 2012 without consulting the state governments, only J Jayalalithaa, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has got it right, says B Raman.
The Intelligence Bureau has, according to highly placed sources, warned the Kerala government about the presence of several Bangladeshis, who are illegally staying in areas surrounding Kochi.
Indian investigators probing Monday's Israel embassy car blast, which left a diplomat and three others injured, claimed to have identified the youth who planted the explosive. Sources say that the motorcyclist who was following the SUV was an Iranian youth.
Karnataka tutor, who allegedly dialed Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani, is given a clean chit after investigators find out that he made the call by mistake and had no ill intentions, reports Vicky Nanjappa
At least seven people have been feared killed and 20 injured in two explosions near a busy bus stop at Dilsukh Nagar in Hyderabad on Thursday evening. Authorities warned that the toll is expected to rise.
With the government confirming that the majority of messages which led to the huge exodus of North Easterners from south Indian states being generated out of Pakistan, it seems to be the perfect ploy that worked very well.
After startling revelations of a possible security breach in his office came to the fore, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that investigating agencies found nothing during their probe at his office. In September last year, Mukherjee wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asking him to order a "secret inquiry" about the presence of "planted adhesives" in 16 key locations in his office, a leading English daily had reported.
The development came a day after the India-born author accused the Rajasthan police of lying about a plot to eliminate him to keep him away from the festival, a charge dismissed by the state government which said Intelligence Bureau had given the inputs and it was not concocted.
A year after the embassy attack in New Delhi, Indian agencies are determined not to let Iran and Israel use the Indian soil as their battlefield, Vicky Nanjappa reports
The author faces threat from homegrown terror outfits as well as organisations with political interest. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
In a fresh letter to the Nanavati Commission that is probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Wednesday again demanded that he be given access to certain records of post-riots period, in order to enable him file a comprehensive affidavit before the panel.
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After assessing the inputs on threat perception from various intelligence agencies, India has provided the desired security to the international stars, sources told UNI.
As the country prepares for a set of hard fought elections in the assembly segment, security agencies have upped the vigil in states such as Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The Intelligence Bureau had pointed out the large number of funds that were entering into the country from terrorist outfits in order to carry out terror attacks.
If it is opaque, then who else will speak up against it if not the concerned minister, Rijiju said.
What role did the Intelligence Bureau have to play in the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose mystery? Anuj Dhar, the author of the just published book India's biggest cover-up, says that the agency doctored a British-era document to support the Nehru government's stance on the freedom fighter's reported death, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
In a move apparently aimed at mollifying states, the Union home ministry has proposed to take out the National Counter Terrorism Centre from the ambit of the Intelligence Bureau, a sticky point over which the anti-terror body has been stuck.
A two-day conference of state police chiefs of the northeastern region convened by the Intelligence Bureau has gone underway in Guwahati with an objective to have a coordinated strategy to tackle cross-border and inter-state movement of insurgents, Maoists threat and check fake currency and arms proliferation through borders in the region.
26/11 handler Abu Jundal has been in custody of the Delhi police's special cell since June 21, but insiders say that his 'real' interrogation is yet to begin. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed are planning to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Former Intelligence Bureau joint director M K Dhar on the worst act of aerial terrorsim before 9/11.
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.
The Maharashtra ATS should wait for its turn as Jundal's arrest was coordinated by the Delhi police, RAW and the Intelligence Bureau, says Vicky Nanjappa
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa tells how the 2010 uprising in Kashmir gave the Lashkar-e-Tayiba a strong foothold in the Kashmir Valley
How did Syed Zabiuddin Ansari from Beed, son of an insurance agent and an aspiring electrician, become dreaded terrorist Abu Jundal?
The Delhi Police has arrested Abu Hamza alias Saeed Zabi alias Zabi Ansari, an Indian Mujahideen operative who is suspected to have been one of the handlers who was giving instructions to the 26/11 terrorists in Mumbai.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister said, chapter 12 of Fulcrum of evil: ISI, CIA and Al Quaeda nexus by former joint director of IB Moloy Krishna Dhar claiming his links with ISI, is not true.
Dulat, who was advisor on Jammu and Kashmir to the central government during the tenure of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, also advocated the need for starting a dialogue with Pakistan.
The Bihar government has always been extremely touchy when it came to the subject of terrorism and in the past two years they have made it clear twice.
Politicians on either side of the secular fence should tell people that Pakistan has now attacked the heartland and peninsular India after targeting the northeast, Punjab and Kashmir, says former IB official Maloy Krishna Dhar.
A few days after serial blasts rocked Mumbai on July 13 last year, Intelligence Bureau officials had suggested that the blasts could have been the result of a turf war between the Indian Mujahideen and the underworld. But going by the mammoth chargesheet in the case, filed on Friday, it appears as though some members of the underworld had helped the Indian Mujahideen execute this attack.
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