Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government to take legal action against former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg and former Inter Services Intelligence chief Asad Durrani for distributing millions of rupees among politicians to rig the 1990 general election
The Indian Mujahideen earlier relied on extortions and arms smuggling but has now realised that donations are a better and safer way to collect funds for its operations, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde recently claimed that 26/11 terror strike mastermind and Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed had visited border areas in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a few days before the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.
'Some said this wild goose chase was a deliberate ploy of Chidambaram, a reluctant home minister, who believed that keeping all the agencies and forces spinning around all the while, would ensure him a safe career in an otherwise dicey charge, no matter how much enduring damage it did to the institutions.' R N Ravi, retired special director, Intelligence Bureau, assesses how India can meet the challenges of terrorism in 2013.
The more one looks into the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the more the details that emerge appear to be murky. With various agencies at war with each other and the National Investigation Agency all set to enter the fray, it appears like a case in which the truth may never be told.
The Indian government has never bothered to formulate a coherent national policy on cyber war, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The attack on an Israeli diplomat's vehicle in New Delhi in February was indicative that India will not be spared by international terrorists seeking to attack foreigners in the country, Intelligence Bureau Chief Nehchal Sandhu said on Thursday.
Former Intelligence Bureau chief and two-time governor of Jammu and Kashmir Girish Saxena has said that the terror outfits are getting desperate to vitiate the atmosphere and hit the tourism industry.
Extremist groups such as the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jaish-e-Mohammed earned over Rs 780 million by selling animal skins gathered during Eid-ul-Azha despite restrictions imposed by Pakistani authorities on the collection of hides by such organisations.
Investigators probing the terror module busted in Karnataka have claimed that the arrested 11 youths were inspired by the contents of an online magazine which glorifies activities of the Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The case of an NSG officer giving out vital information to the ISI has got the Intelligence Bureau thinking of reforms to avoid such embarrassing occurrences, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The National Investigation Agency, which has taken over the investigation now, is relying heavily on a new dossier of the Intelligence Bureau prepared with the help of the Octopus (the anti-terrorism agency of Andhra Pradesh) to study the pattern that could have led up to the blasts.
The police have stepped up security following an intelligence alert over the possibility of terror strikes on key installations and oil refineries based at Jamnagar in Gujarat, and released photographs of the suspected terrorists. The Intelligence Bureau had recently alarmed the authorities in Jamnagar and capital Gandhinagar, about possible strikes by suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists.
An alert has been sounded across the country following terrorist Ajmal Kasab's execution.
The presence of ammonium nitrate in the Hyderabad bomb is bound to raise a debate on the availability of the substance, primarily used to make fertiliser and explosives.
The debate over intelligence regarding the Hyderabad twin blasts has already commenced. While the Intelligence Bureau says that there was intelligence that was provided, the Hyderabad police say that the intelligence was not specific in nature.
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.
Goa government on Friday told the legislative assembly that the Research and Analysis wing has been informed about the terror message, allegedly originating from Spain, which threatened to blow up Panaji and the coastal belt.
Both the officers will have a tenure of two years.
A former Central Bureau of Investigation officer, who probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has claimed that a video purportedly showing the assassin Dhanu at the public meeting at Sriperumbudur on the fateful day had been suppressed by then Intelligence Bureau chief M K Narayanan, now West Bengal governor.
The sources said Hussain has been suspended from the primary membership of the AAP till police probe is completed.
Terrorist groups and drug mafias often use middlemen, who open several accounts in a bank under a number of assumed identities, says Vicky Nanjappa
The home ministry will approach the Cabinet Committee on Security after July 19 Presidential poll for approval of the revised plan for National Counterterrorism Center which will be taken out from the ambit of the Intelligence Bureau and conduct operations only when there is an urgency.
The statement by West Bengal Director General of police Naparajit Mukherjee, regarding a nexus between Naxals and the Inter-Services Intelligence is something that needs to be taken seriously, says Vicky Nanjappa.
The Union Home Ministry has decided to conduct a fresh census on the Rohingya Muslims following reports that terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayiba has taken up the cause of the community, which is fleeing the current wave of ethnic cleansing by the ruling Buddhist majority in Myanmar especially in the Arakan region.
The decision to extend the tenure of the two intelligence chiefs was taken due to the forthcoming general election by the prime minister-led Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
The Central Bureau of Investigation is probing "all angles" in the Ishrat Jahan case including the statements of some witnesses claiming knowledge of political conspiracy behind the fake encounter involving the Gujarat Police and the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau.
The Bangalore police have obtained the custody of Buela Sam, the lady from Gujarat who tried to enter the Indian Space Research Organisation on a fake identification card.
The claim by Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik -- that terror operative Abu Jundal is an agent of the Intelligence Bureau -- has come in for ridicule by the agency. An officer of the IB told rediff.com that the claim by the Pakistan minister was "utter rubbish".
The confession of two suspects throws light on the role of Pakistan's spy agency in the Karnataka terror plot and how the youths were indoctrinated by Zakir Ustaad, the mastermind of the operation. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday dissolved an inquiry commission a day after it said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's son had admitted that he made two foreign visits that were paid for by real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain and his associates. The court also ruled that there was no need for any further proceedings in the matter.
'We fail because we suspect each other. We fail because even the Hindus are fragmented. We fail because we do not behave as a united people.'
Senior Indian Police Service officer Alok Joshi will be the new chief of the Research and Analysis Wing and Syed Asif Ibrahim will be the next Director of Intelligence Bureau, the first Muslim to head it with four officers senior to him having been shifted out.
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.
The Union home ministry has alerted all the states and union territories of an impending terror attack by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba during the Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday.
A terror alert has been issued in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh about a possible sabotage of the railways by militants from Bangladesh. The alert mentions that militants from Bangladesh could try and blow up the railway line between Mysore and Srirangapatanam in Karnataka.
Geo TV reported that commercial counsellor Rajesh Agnihotri and press counsellor Balbir Singh may be expelled.
Various probe commissions have visited Assam and come up with multiple versions about the recent spate of violence, which has claimed 65 lives so far, and why it erupted.
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
Air India had stopped the practice of issuing tickets on credit to government agencies for the travel of their officials in December last year because of accruing pending bills.
