A top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander was among two militants shot dead by army troops during an encounter in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian Navy has captured a hijacked Iranian flagged vessel off the Mumbai coast following intelligence inputs that it may be carrying arms, ammunition and contraband, officials said on Monday. The ill-fated vessel Nafis-I was intercepted on Sunday and all persons on board have been detained, they said, adding it is not yet clear as to how many of them were pirates. Two AK-47 rifles and a pistol concealed in an empty fuel tank of the ship have been found.
Three militants were killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in a village at Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday.
To win the war against the Maoist insurgency, the underlying issues of tribal alienation needs to be addressed first, writes Shyam G Menon.
In a major breakthrough, the joint forces killed top-ranking Maoist leader Sasadhar Mahato and arrested a person at Kapgari in the Jamboni police station area in West Midnapore district.
Three militants of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed in a fierce encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area in Pulwama district on Thursday evening.
Army troops on Saturday busted a hideout of Lashkar-e-Tayiba in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district and recovered a cache of army, ammunition and explosive material.
After lying low for the last two years since one of its factions declared unilateral ceasefire, United Liberation Front of Asom militants attacked a tea planter and a garden employee and torched vehicles in upper Assam along Arunachal Pradesh.
Terrorist attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and consistently exploiting India's gaping security loopholes -- both on terra firma and in cyberspace. Yet, India's seriousness about electronic surveillance as a preventive measure appears to be woefully inadequate.
'Force One,' the specialised commando battalion raised after the Mumbai attacks, will be deployed as part of the tight security arrangements being made for the winter session of the Maharashtra Legislature, commencing in Nagpur from Tuesday.
In the latest standard operating procedures (SOP) regarding flying drones, the Central government has given powers to the local police to book a person under 121 and 121A apart from other IPC sections, depending on the nature of offence/threat and distance from the prohibited vital installation/area.
Sahim Salim spends a day in Ayodhya and assesses the mood of the residents of the town before and after the verdict.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday in a major success recovered a huge haul of arms and ammunition from a militant hideout in north Kashmir.
Following last year's terror attacks, the Mumbai police on Tuesday launched two more bulletproof boats - Koyna and Kaveri, touted to "be the fastest high-speed interceptor boats in Indian waters" at the Gateway of India.
Two Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists were killed in a fierce encounter with security forces in Beri-Rakh forest in the border district of Poonch as the operation to track down militants in the area entered the third day on Thursday.
The 26-year-old scholar was on Monday expelled by AMU following reports that he may have joined the terror group after his photograph, showing him with an AK-47 rifle, appeared in social media.
The ungainly barricades surrounding the Taj Mahal and Trident hotels, the indifferently manned metal detectors at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the strong smell of fresh paint at Nariman House and a bullet lodged on the cracked surface of a table at Leopold Cafe.
At least 11 militants have been killed and three women civilians injured in separate incidents of firing in three districts of Imphal East, Thoubal and Chandel in Manipur, official sources said.
The Supreme Court stayed the death sentence awarded to underworld don Aftab Ahmed Ansari for the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002 on Tuesday.
Five militants were killed in a day-long fierce gunfight in frontier north Kashmir Kupwara district on Saturday.
Seven suspected militants were killed in an encounter with Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur's Imphal East district, the police said on Sunday. The incident happened on Saturday at Andro, about 25 km from Imphal, in the district.
The terrorists were nabbed in a joint search operation launched Friday night by the 52 Rashtriya Rifles and Special Operation Group, Baramulla.
Terrorist fired on a joint 'naka' of police and the Central Reserve Police Force at Pantha Chowk area late on Saturday night.
One woman passenger was killed and two fight stewards injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a Pakistan International Airlines flight while landing at the Peshawar airport late Tuesday night.
A 26/11 survivor who saw the massacres at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus recounts a tale of horror.
The judge rejected the argument saying there is no bona fide argument or evidence that Kasab did the act under duress or because of pressure from the LeT or its chief Hafeez Saeed. "There was no duress, no pressure on Kasab. Rather, when they were in Karachi their travel got delayed. At that time Kasab was anxious to attack India."
A thick security blanket has been thrown in areas in the vicinity and checkpoints and security bunkers have been set up at all major junctions in the city.
Three days before the anti-terror court pronounces its verdict, 23-year-old Vaishali Omble, daughter of the slain policeman, told PTI that her family will never forgive Kasab, who altered their lives forever.
Andhra Pradesh police has foiled yet another attempt to supply arms to the Naxalites in the state by seizing a big cache of arms and ammunitions in the Medak district.
A mysterious consignment of 10 AK-47 rifles along with telescopes landed here in a cargo plane three days ago and now security agencies are hot on trail of a man from Uttar Pradesh.
The sectarian killings by hit-and-run groups have revived and sharpened communal fears among the victims while the Poonch encounter reveals how deep the terrorists have dug in without getting noticed in the porous border area, notes Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir affairs.
"They can go on and on," says a security person outside the Taj Mahal Hotel in South Mumbai, talking about the amount of ammunition that the terrorists are carrying on them.
The operation to fully sanitise the Pathankot base, which was attacked by six terrorists last Saturday, is in its final phase.
Gangster Abu Salem has denied in his statement before the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court in Mumbai that he went to the house of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.
Hatrick Hodi Maga may rank as one of the worst gangster films of Shivaraj Kumar and its director PN.Sathya. A weak plot, inept narration and a horrible comedy subplot will get on your nerves. Shivaraj Kumar is ordinary and the film's heroine Nicolette Bird is wasted. Jessie Gift has delivered weak music for the film.
Rashid Malabari's interrogation has revealed that the D-Company wanted to eliminate Varun Gandhi with the help of henchmen from Ghaziabad. Sources told rediff.com Malabari said Chotta Shakeel promised to arrange for men and also an AK-47 rifle from Ghaziabad to carry out the task.
The CBI said the ground where Ranbir's body lay was deeply penetrated by bullets of AK-47 rifles. The deep penetration indicated that bullets riddled the body while it lay on the ground.
Two personnel of the Border Roads Organisation were killed and another injured as National Democratic Front of Bodoland insurgents fired at them in upper Assam's Dhemaji district, on Monday night.
At least four Hindi-speaking people were shot dead and two others injured by militants from the banned outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam on Tuesday.Heavily-armed NDFB ultras fired from AK-47 rifles on a group of people near Naharani tea estate at Rangapara in central Assam's Sonitput district at 9.30 am, killing the four, police said. Besides two women, a man and a boy from the same family were shot dead by the militants.
A person was seriously injured in an explosion while making a bomb inside his residence at Sivasagar town in eastern Assam. The police also recovered a huge cache of explosives and ammunition from a rubber plantation in Goalpara district of western Assam on Tuesday.
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