The recent blasts in Mumbai and Delhi are a "grave reminder" of the great challenge that terrorists posed to India's national security, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday.
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.
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 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.
The CBI filed two charge-sheets in the encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
According to a senior source in the Intelligence Bureau, when a minor blast occurred outside the Delhi high court on May 25, an intelligence input was received that a Sikh militant group may try to do something in New Delhi to bring attention to Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar's mercy please before President Pratibha Patil.
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.
Facing demands for his dismissal, Army Chief Gen V K Singh on Thursday said the leak of his letter to the prime minister presenting a grim picture of the force's defence preparedness should be treated as "high treason" and the source of leakage dealt with "ruthlessly."
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed are planning to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Intelligence veteran Anil Choudhary gives insight into why NTRO, which reports to the prime minister's office, failed to come up to expectations. He also suggests how India could tighten its security apparatus.
Intelligence veteran Anil Choudhary gives insight into why NTRO, which reports to the prime minister's office, failed to come up to expectations. He also suggests how India could tighten its security apparatus.
The arrest of Al Qaeda operatives in Spain and Thailand has once again revealed the burgeoning nexus between terror outfits and criminal gangs across the world.
Defence forces, who were last month excluded from the list of agencies eligible to procure jammers, have now been included, in addition to central armed police forces like Central Reserve Police Force, Central Industrial Security Force and Indo Tibetan Border Police.
With Parliament's winter session is to begin on November 18, the Union home and law ministries want to complete the process of formation of the board of trustees in time, reports R Rajagopalan.
Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa brings forth the different contours of the proposed NCTC, and also explains the raging debate over its formation.
Police asked to develop de-encryption software to improve gathering of technical intelligence on terror groups, who were using it to avoid detection.
Former Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Mathur on Thursday took over as the new chief information commissioner in the Central Information Commission.
Hussain has been booked in the murder case of the IB staffer in northeast Delhi amid violence over the new citizenship law last week.
Vicky Nanjappa analyses the Indian Mujahideen's modus operandi.
In a worrisome trend, researchers have found that candidates with less or poor general aptitude are getting attracted to jobs in the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) among other agencies and suggested changes in selection procedures.
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.
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.
There may be a lot of confusion over the arrest of Naqqi Ahmed Washi Ahmed Shaikh in connection with the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, and it would be a while before this issue has some clarity. However, the biggest setback in all this is for the Intelligence Bureau, because this man was an informer for them. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
There have been contradictory reports on the cause of accident.
Along with several illegitimate businesses that Dawood Ibrahim operates, he also runs some legitimate ones that the Pakistan government is well aware of. This can happen only with the complete support of the establishment say Intelligence Bureau officials. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Aamir, 25, who worked as a driver, and his brother Hashim, 16, set out from Ghaziabad on Wednesday to check on their elder brother Shairuddin in Gokalpuri, one of the focal points of the violence. The two never reached Shairuddin's place.
In a notice, issued under section 91 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on January 13, the SIT had directed Bhatt to produce the original and/or office copy of the alert fax message, which he had attached to his letter of January 4 to the Nanavati Commission, with a copy to the agency.
Though the numbers of infiltrators have come down considerably, security forces cannot afford to relax yet, finds out Vicky Nanjappa.
Air India on Tuesday enhanced the ambit of discount on tickets to paramilitary personnel by extending the benefit to their family members.
Noted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai on Sunday accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of using public funds to "bribe her lawyers" in an attempt to derail proceedings of the public interest litigation filed in the Supreme Court by her on the post-Godhra 2002 riots case.
The investigations into the four incidents of terror -- Jama Masjid in New Delhi, 13/7 blasts in Mumbai, the German Bakery in Pune and Chinnaswamy blasts in Bengaluru -- may appear as though they are taking longer than usual to crack.
In a sensational claim, a former Pakistan army general has said that Osama bin Laden had been kept in a "safe house" of Intelligence Bureau in Abbottabad with "full knowledge" of the then ruler Pervez Musharraf and possibly current Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.
Dawood Ibrahim, the second most wanted terrorist in India after Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed, is hiding in Pakistan, according to the Indian administration. But Pakistan has denied reports about granting refuge to Dawood. The Intelligence Bureau has now prepared a fresh dossier on the underworld don -- the mastermind of the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai -- and handed it over to the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA is reportedly tracking the underworld don.
The police says that the Karnataka Forum for Dignity is one of the fastest growing outfits in South India with nearly 40,000 members
A question that India would like to ask Pakistan is regarding a man by the name Muzzamil Bhat. Pakistan has been silent on the whereabouts of this man, who imparted training to all the 10 terrorists who carried out the 26/11 attacks. Vicky Nanjappa finds out why.
Several reports put out by both the home ministry and also the Intelligence Bureau show that the seas continue to be the biggest cause for concern and that there is a long way to go before they are secure completely.
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.
Riazul Sarkar, the man arrested in Bihar in connection with the Mumbai serial blasts, may have links with the Harkat-ul-Jihadi based in Bangladesh, according to sources in the Intelligence Bureau. But the agency doesn't have too many relevant details about the alleged link, they said. Riazul's remand may be extended since the National Investigation Agency wants to question him. Riazul, who is fluent in Kannada and Bengali, furnished a false address to the investigators.
The National Investigating Agency was attending to a very important task last week when three blasts rocked Mumbai city. The NIA was studying the modus operandi and the regrouping of the Indian Mujahideen, which is the prime suspect in the investigations today.
The Bhakra Dam is on the hit list of Pakistan-based militant outfits Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jamaat-ud Dawa, an Intelligence Bureau report has warned, prompting the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh governments to step up vigil.
