

Saturday 24 January '09
US president Barack Obama's administration on Friday appointed Richard Holbrooke as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan...Saturday 24 January '09
In a significant move to cut bureaucratic delays, the Prime Minister has cleared a proposal to use search-cum-selection methodThursday
22 January '09In view of the heightened security threat to Indian installations in Pakistan, especially in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks....Tuesday
20 January '09Key US security officials have revealed how their agencies are drawing important lessons from 26/11 to strengthen their own anti-terror mechanism.Friday
16 January '09As it waits for a major economic package for the tourism sector from the Prime Minister, the Tourism Ministry has asked all state governments to take all steps possible at their end to halt the slump in incoming tourist traffic for the last few months...Thursday
15 January '09Abdul Malik, a 22-year-old Bangladeshi, has been held in police custody for the last 15 days for having entered India illegally...Tuesday
13 January '09In a strong diplomatic signal to Pakistan, the US today imposed sanctions on A Q Khan and a dozen members of his worldwide illicit nuclear trade network...Monday
12 January '09The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to report some significant new information about the evolution and composition of the moon ...Monday
12 January '09In a poor reflection of the country’s resolve to strengthen its internal security apparatus, hundreds of vehicles of the security forces...Saturday
10 January '09The choice for the head of recently established National Investigation Agency has zeroed in on three IPS officers...Friday
9 January '09Home Minister P Chidambaram has deferred his plans to travel to the United States this weekend, ostensibly to deal with the crisis...Thursday
8 January '09The sacking of Pak National Security Advisor Mahmud Ali Durrani for admitting that Ajmal Kasab...Tuesday
6 January '09While the Indian foreign policy establishment was completely focused on trying to step up international pressure on Pakistan...Monday
5 January '09As the air strikes against Hamas in Gaza entered its second week, Israel’s Ambassador to India has made it clear Israel would continue the strike...Tuesday
30 December '08Amid controversial remarks by senior Congress leaders claiming terrorists in Mumbai had demanded the release of some of their colleagues...Tuesday
30 December '08With a war of words fuelling speculation of an impending military conflict between India and Pakistan...Friday
26 December '08In an unprecedented exercise to secure Indian airspace, the Government has ordered that all possible security loopholes be plugged at every airport and airstrip...Friday
26 December '08With many states reluctant to spare money for setting up ‘tourist police’...Sunday
14 December '08In its bid to deflect attention from its responsibility to act firmly against terrorists operating from its soil...Thursday
11 December '08Jamaat-ud-Dawa’h, considered to be front organisation for the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, on Wednesday warned India and Pakistan of dire consequences if banned by the Government of Pakistan under international pressure.Wednesday
10 December '08Even as India continues to remain on a high alert, a number of countries, which had issued grim travel advisories to their citizens in the immediate aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai, have begun revising and moderating these warnings.Monday
8 December '08Dismissing reports that Pakistan had decided to hand him over to Indian authorities in connection with the investigations into last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai...Saturday
6 December '08Tourism Minister Ambika Soni has offered the Archeological Survey of India’s expertise in restoring the badly damaged Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai...Monday
1 December '08As Minister of State for Home in charge of Internal Security in 1987, he had successfully piloted significant amendments into the now defunct TADAMonday
1 December '08The four and half years of Shivraj Patil's tenure were laced with about 20 major terrorist strikes, hundreds of deaths of innocent civilians in internal violence, and an alarming increase in the spread of Naxal activities, to mention just a few elements of internal security.