C D Sahay, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, spoke of the events that led up to the Parliament attack.
The Pakistani police on Thursday pointed fingers at India after three terror attacks in the eastern city of Lahore, but Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there should not be any speculation on the issue without evidence.
President Pranab Mukherjee has sent a condolence letter to B S Raghavan, brother of Bahutkumbi Raman, one of India's foremost security experts, who passed away in Chennai on last Sunday evening after a prolonged battle against cancer.
The Research and Analysis Wing started trailing diplomat Madhuri Gupta and listening to her phone calls after one of its officials in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad reported her undue interest in certain matters that did not concern her responsibilities, sources said.On Tuesday, the Delhi police confirmed the arrest of Gupta, a promotee officer of the ministry of external affairs, on the charge of passing strategic secrets to Pakistan.
India had sought consular access to Jadhav.
Pakistan and its media famously blame India for almost anything that goes wrong in their country
The Pakistani media has blamed Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the match fixing scandal and says that India wants to oust Pakistan from international cricket.
Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has once again blamed Indian intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for fanning the ongoing armed insurgency in Balochistan.
Dossiers about Indian involvement in subversive activities in Pakistan will be presented before the UN, Aziz said.
Emraan Hashmi, Sobhita Dhulipala and Vineet Kumar take us on a thrilling undercover mission in the Web series, Bard of Blood.
The Ram Pradhan Committee report on the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai has revealed that the Maharashtra intelligence chief never received inputs of Central spy agencies prior to the mayhem unlike the Director General of Police's office, which received alerts from the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing.
Will the revelation that Rs 90,000 crore lies at the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, given birth to more Ghaznis and Ghoris? History would show at that point of time these emperors looted temples since they were rich.
The Intelligence Bureau and Research and Analysis Wing are downplaying their team's failure to meet David Headley, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative currently in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's custody.
A team of Indian investigators will travel to the United States next week to question David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for plotting terror-attacks overseas, including India.
Former R&AW chief A S Dulat, India's foremost expert on the Kashmir issue, argues that the central government should offer Kashmiri separatists a solution in line with the accord signed by Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Abdullah in 1975.
The Pakistani authorities have arrested three men allegedly working for the India's Research and Analysis Wing intelligence agency during a raid in the north-western Pakistan district of Abbottabad , according to a media report. The Personnel from an intelligence agency raided a hideout in Abbottabad district on Tuesday and arrested the three men identified as Muhammad Sharif, Ghulam Muhammad and Abdul Ghaffar, The News daily reported on Wednesday.
Intelligence sharing is fine, but India needs to protect personal privacy.
Sources in the security establishment claim the ongoing opposition in the Research and Analysis Wing to Avdhesh Bihari Mathur's promotion is due to a corporate angle attached to it.
Sleuths of the Intelligence Bureau, the Research and Analysis Wing and the Delhi police have turned the Parliament premises into a virtual fortress to ensure that nothing goes wrong during the visit by United States President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to address the joint session of the House on November 8."Technically, you cannot call it a joint session. At best, it can be termed as President Obama's speech to the members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha," said an official.
Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez has blamed India's intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the recent riots in Punjab province.The Daily Times quoted Pervez as saying that the recent anti-Christian riots in Gojra and Sheikhupura were orchestrated by the RAW.He added that various American and Western organisations were trying to create 'an Islamic brigade' in Pakistan by supporting the Indian spy agency.
"The government of India did not do anything to secure my release. But for my elder brother Anand Vir, advocate Arvind Kumar Singh and the honourable Supreme court of India, I would have still be rotting in Pakistani jails. The agencies, which hire you, disown you the moment you are arrested. The Indian high commission in Pakistan did not help either. They took their own sweet time for giving me temporary travel documents," he said.
'There is no harm in our giving a try to the idea of an informal, clandestine one-to-one liaison relationship between the ISI and R&AW. We should not have any illusions that it would result in a sharing of actionable intelligence. Intelligence agencies share actionable intelligence only when they have common State and non-State enemies. India and Pakistan do not have common enemies.'
Pakistani security officials have claimed arresting an agent of Indian intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing from Qila Saifullah district in Balochistan.
A BTech and PhD in police, human rights and social justice, Singh joined the federal anti-money laundering investigations agency in 2009 on deputation from Uttar Pradesh where he was serving as a state police service officer.
Interview with C D Sahay, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing, on Headley and terror.
He was permanently absorbed into the ED cadre in 2014 and has headed some high-profile investigations into the 2G spectrum allocation case, the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the money laundering cases against former Union finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti Chidambaram, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, the Aircel Maxis and VVIP choppers case.
The central government on Monday issued a Gazette notification to extend the tenure of defence secretary, home secretary, director of Intelligence Bureau, and secretary of Research and Analysis Wing for a period of two years.
A team of Indian intelligence officials left the US disappointed after a week-long stay here as they could not question American national David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at the behest of Pakistan-based Lashkar-Tayiba.
The Karachi police has claimed to have recovered Indian made arms and ammunitions from the five Lashkar-e-Jhangvi operatives, who were nabbed during a raid conducted by the Criminal Investigation Department. Officials said they have recovered 150 kg of Indian-made RDX, two suicide jackets and five AK series rifles from the militants, who may have links with the Indian spy agency, the Research and Analysis Wing.
The country's external intelligence gathering agency Research and Analysis Wing is in a fix as six of its senior officials have gone on leave after they were superseded by an IPS officer who came from the Intelligence Bureau.
Inspired by the Al Qaeda's women fidayeens, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba is also training a group of female cadres in a camp in Pakistan, to carry out terror strikes in Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata. A group of five women, trained by the LeT, will conduct a reconnaissance of Indian cities and gather information to carry out the strike.The women recruited by the LeT are in the age group of 19 and 23 years.
In the wake of the arrest of Madhuri Gupta, a promotee officer posted in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, another senior embassy staffer has been recalled on suspicions of spying. The Pakistani daily reported that the senior official had not been arrested, but quietly recalled to New Delhi, and has been put on 'compulsory wait'.The Research and Analysis Wing had kept a watch on the official and his activities had been under the scanner for the last six months.
'We need to fight our own battles and stop riding piggyback on the US,' C D Sahay, former chief, Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency, tells Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
India's external intelligence gathering agency, Research and Analysis Wing, is in the news again but for wrong reasons as seven of its Additional Secretaries have gone on protest leave after they were superseded by an IPS officer junior to them from the Intelligence Bureau.
He discussed with the chiefs of Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and Military Intelligence and other senior officials the modalities of the MAC related to the functions, powers and duties, which the MAC, established in the Intelligence Bureau, will now takeup.
A senior Indian Police Service officer deposed before a special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Friday as a prosecution witness in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case, in which L K Advani and other Sangh Parivar leaders have been accused of inciting violence.
What Dr Singh has achieved as a statesman is that he has set out to define a new paradigm in which India-Pakistan relations will be discussed. For the first time in the history of the two nations he has laid the grounds for India and Pakistan to work together to solve the common problems, including that of terrorism.
India will become one of the first countries to ink an extradition treaty with Saudi Arabia, when Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh-led delegation would meet Saudi leaders later this week.
Piqued by a woman RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) officer attempting self-immolation before the Prime Minister's Office to protest at alleged sexual harassment, Dr Manmohan Singh has got set up a 3-member complaint committee to entertain such complaints against the top bureaucrats at the Centre.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has admitted that a file pertaining to investigations into the allegations of siphoning of secret funds of the Research and Analysis Wing by one its former chiefs during his tenure has gone missing.
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