3 held for Mumbai cocaine seizure

Friday 16 June '06

Nearly two weeks after the largest consignment of cocaine of 200 kg was seized in Mumbai, the police achieved a breakthrough yesterday evening...

Tainted BSF DIG’s medal will have to wait

Thursday 15 June '06

K C Padhi, the BSF DIG who has been arrested in Srinagar for his alleged involvement in a sex scandal, will not be awarded the prestigious Police Medal for meritorius service till the time investigations into the case are completed.

But Centre says talks with ULFA as per schedule

Monday 12 June '06

The series of blasts in Assam over the past few days notwithstanding, the crucial round of talks between the Centre and the ULFA-appointed Peoples’ Consultative Group will be held on June 22 as decided earlier.

India, Nepal cautious on security issues

Saturday 10 June '06

India and Nepal are moving cautiously on security related issues and New Delhi has assured the neighbour that it will assist in the training of its police force.

Narayanan’s presence sought during ULFA talks

Friday 2 June '06

The Peoples’ Consultative Group, which is acting as the facilitator in the peace process between the Centre and militant group ULFA, today asked National Security Advisor M K Narayanan to be present during the third round of talks.

Tehran jails Iranian scholar on return from Delhi: ‘foreign contact’

Tuesday 30 May '06

Ramin Jahanbegloo, a prominent Iranian political philosopher and the current occupant of the prestigious Rajni Kothari chair in Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies here

Truce extended, but Bodo rebels told to mend ways

Sunday 28 May '06

More than two years after it was evicted from Bhutan, the Assam-based militant outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland was today told by the Centre to be ready for hostilities if it did not mend its ways.

‘Illicit Myanmar drugs pour into N-E’

Thursday 25 May '06

NCB official says after crackdowns on drug barons in Thailand and Laos, drug traders in Myanmar have shifted their attention to N-E

It’s Hurriyat’s own loss, says Narayanan

Tuesday 23 May '06

The refusal of the Hurriyat Conference to participate in the Srinagar roundtable would be their own loss, said National Security Adviser M K Narayanan here today.

Nagaland CM suggests interim deal with NSCN

Saturday 20 May '06

As the crucial round of peace talks between the Government and the NSCN(I-M) begins today in Amsterdam, the Nagaland government...

Netaji’s dead but didn’t die in crash, says report; long live the mystery

Thursday 18 May '06

The Justice M K Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry has concluded that he is dead but that he didn’t die in a plane crash in Taipei in August, 1945

No consensus yet on curbing rights violation in army

Saturday 13 May '06

The Centre’s efforts at evolving a standard operational procedure for the paramilitary and the armed forces aimed at curbing human rights violations have suffered a setback due to lack of consensus.

Next round of Naga talks to focus on charter of demands

Wednesday 10 May '06

The Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim will on May 18 and 19 participate in a crucial round of talks focusing on the charter of demands placed forward by the militant outfit

Anti-riot action plan: Govt to learn from failures

Saturday 6 May '06

Stung by repeated communal riots and non-implementation of commission reports, the Centre has finally decided to evolve a ‘‘plan of action’’ to prevent recurrence of such incidents.

Massacre: Sonia, Patil to reach J-K today to take stock

Tuesday 2 May '06

Rattled by the massacre of Hindus in J-K and wary of an adverse fallout, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is slated to visit the state tomorrow to take stock of the situation.

Indians’ security in Afghanistan under review

Monday 1 May '06

The government has decided to review the security needs of Indians working in Afghanistan following the beheading of engineer Kasula Suryanarayan today.

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister to visit India

Saturday 29 April '06

Strain in Lanka-LTTE peace process on agenda

NSCN(K) ceasefire extended

Saturday 22 April '06

The Centre’s five-year-old ceasefire agreement with the Nagaland-based National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang) (NSCN-K) was extended by another year today.

Floating outposts on Bangla border: Global bids invited

Friday 21 April '06

Under Home Ministry pressure, the Mazagon Dock Limited has invited global bids for building floating border outposts to be stationed along the highly porous Indo-Bangladesh riverine border in Assam.

Demand on Centre to relax forest laws to take on Naxals

Friday 14 April '06

Efforts may soon be underway to relax forest laws in the Naxal-affected states to tame the Maoists. Following a demand by the chief ministers of the concerned states today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to “look into the matter”.