'Ram Singh was under suicide watch and such prisoners are never left alone. It is impossible for him to have committed suicide,' Professor S A R Geelani, who spent several years in Tihar Jail, tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
Rana's confession would put Pakistan in a spot of bother, as once he starts speaking in court the names of several persons associated with the 26/11 attack and the planning behind it will come out in the open. The onus would then be on Pakistan to bring these persons to justice.
Vicky Nanjappa analyses the Indian Mujahideen's modus operandi.
This island nation has become a launching pad for Jihadis, and this creates a lot of problems for the security agencies across the world. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The Al Qaeda is Pakistan is revamping its leadership and infusing young blood as it feels that Pakistan has softened his stand on India. With Badaruddin Sirajuddin Haqqani taking over the operations the terror outfit is expected to wreak more havoc in Kashmir, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
An arrest in this case is imminent, but it may not take place immediately, says Vicky Nanjappa
Hyderabad has surpassed Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and Kerala as a breeding ground for Indian terrorists.
Vicky Nanjappa talks to the family of 46-year-old nurse Jacintha Saldanah, who was found dead in her hospital quarters in central London
Bandh demanding statehood for Telangana, protests on streets and shutdown in the state is what Andhra has been witnessing for years now. But what is it that makes Tuesday's agitation different? Vicky Nanjappa analyses
As B S Yeddyurappa is all set to launch his party on Sunday, the BJP's focus is on legislators who will attend his rally defying orders from the party. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Vicky Nanjappa analyses the options before the United Progressive Alliance to save its government in Andhra Pradesh and amicably resolve the Telangana statehood demand
May 18 marks five years since the blast at Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid. However, there has been no breakthrough in case with the investigation going on at a snail's pace. Lateef Mohammad Khan, convenor of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, which has been fighting the case of the Muslim youth who were falsely implicated in the blast, says that the police is trying to pin the blame on two sects of the community while shielding the real culprits. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The terror attack on a car of the Israel embassy -- which injured a diplomat, her driver and two others on Monday afternoon in Delhi -- is suspected to be the handiwork of militant group Hizbollah. The attack comes in the wake of similar attempts at terror strikes on Israeli diplomats and properties in Georgia and Bangkok. Till date, say intelligence agencies, the presence of Hizbollah has been minor in India, with no specific input about a terror attack being planned.
The police, however, say that the sticker bomb technique has not been used by any of the India-based modules, and hence there is a doubt of a foreign agency being involved, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The arrest of alleged terrorist Abdul Rehman has raised some crucial questions about the actual level of security and monitoring in Indian prisons
Ajmal Kasab was hanged, but there are four other trials that need to be expedited to bring the real masterminds of the 26/11 attacks to justice. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The fact that the likes of Sajid Mir are roaming free in Pakistan is worrying. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Cama Hospital and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus were never part of the original 26/11 terror attack plan drawn out by the Al Qaeda. It was only when the ISI decided to hand over the plan to the anti-India Lashkar-e-Tayiba that the Mumbai attacks became bloodier. Vicky Nanjappa reports
India is all set to get its new Intelligence Bureau chief S Asif Ibrahim, who will become the first Muslim to hold that post. However, there could be a debate on the issue of seniority since there are officers from the 1976 batch who were overlooked for this post. Ibrahim is part of the 1977 batch, says Vicky Nanjappa.
The now-deported Israeli couple Shneor Zalman and Yaffa Shenoi were in India on a multiple entry visa and were residing at the Rose Street at Fort Kochi in Kerala. Meanwhile, the police and the Intelligence Bureau continue to question the local handler who was helping out the Israeli couple. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
It is too premature to point a finger at former Air Chief Marshal SP Tyagi. India's mind-boggling acquisition procedure is so complex that no foreign agency can handle the deal without involving a middleman, Air Marshal (retired) B K Pandey tells rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa outlines the final moments of Ajmal Kasab who was hanged to death in the Yerwada Jail in Pune early Wednesday morning
Pakistan is flushing Tamil Nadu amd Karnataka with counterfeit currency to fund terror activities in the country, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
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
Intelligence Bureau sources point out that any terror group would find it easy to set up base in the state. The headache zones in the state are Binanipuram, Malapuram and Kozhikode
SIMI conducts its activities under the cover of nearly 12 different outfits in Kerala. The IB believes Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kondotty near Mallapuram are hubs of SIMI activity.
Another angle which investigating agencies are seriously probing is Joshi's affiliation with the SIMI. Investigating officers say during his stint with the SIMI, Joshi mingled with them all the time. In fact he had become a part of them and this had started to worry his group members.
Riyaz Bhatkal is the emerging face of the Pune blasts case and the police forces of three different states have been alerted by the Intelligence Bureau about the same. Even as the police of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala try and find out more about this man, let us explore the phenomenal rise of this dreaded terrorist.
Hospitals in Mangalore on Sunday struggled to cope with scores of grieving family members who turned up to collect the bodies of their loved ones. Touching scenes of grief and disbelief were witnessed at Wenlock Hospital and others, where the bodies of the Air India plane crash victims were kept after the tragedy.
TRS leader K T Rama Rao, son of party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao, says that the people of Telangana have been back-stabbed. In this interview with rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Rao says that the day Telangana is formed the industrialists (read aides of Jaganmohan Reddy) who have been influencing the Congress for their own selfish needs will find themselves in a cell next to the jailed YSR Congress chief.
Though millions of BlackBerry users may be worried about the Indian government snooping on them, only the phones of certain terror suspects would be tracked, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The former external affairs minister S M Krishna is in retirement mode and is not cut out for the heat and dust of state politics. He even lacks the clout that he enjoyed in the Congress when he was chief minister, reports Vicky Nanjappa
'There is an evaluation committee which is involved in these matters. The committee comprises six persons and there are persons from the armed forces and also the finance wing. My information suggests that two persons in this committee have allegedly manipulated this deal,' MV Mysura Reddy, member of the parliamentary defence standing committee, tells Vicky Nanjappa
Post Osama, Lashkar-e-Tayiba's clout is expected to grow with the support of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence and fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Vicky Nanjappa reports
A case very similar to Fasih Mehmood, a Saudi Arabia-based engineer hailing from Bihar arrested in that country by Indian police for his alleged role in the 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts in Bangalore, is doing the rounds. While the family of Fasih Mehmood had alleged that he had gone missing after the Indian agencies had picked up him up from Saudi Arabia, this time it is the family of a doctor who are making similar allegations.
Several senior leaders and dignitaries including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Puttaparthi on Wednesday to pay their last respects to Sathya Sai Baba.
Many in the Telangana region have shown some interest in the RLD and depending on how honest they are to the cause they would think of supporting them, says Vicky Nanjappa.
While the Cauvery issue has brought life in Karnataka to a standstill on Saturday, the tussle will continue before the Supreme Court on Monday with both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu battling it out, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Recent seizures of large amounts of fake currency notes from the national capital is keeping the intelligence agencies on their toes, says Vicky nanjappa
The death penalties awarded in the Dhananjoy Chatterjee and Bachan Singh cases will be referred to by the prosecution in the Delhi gangrape before they give their verdict. Vicky Nanjappa reports
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