

Friday 6 November '09
One year after 26/11, counter-terror force NSG, after successful trials, is all set to acquire state-of-the-art corner shot weapons....Sunday 1 November '09
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ruled out an offensive or proactive role for the Indian Air Force in anti-Naxalite operations but...Monday
26 October '09Rebuffing Beijing’s wish that New Delhi bar the Dalai Lama from travelling to Arunachal Pradesh, Prime MInister Manmohan Singh has told Chinese Premier Wen...Monday
19 October '09With Governor S F Rodrigues’s term coming to an end next month, the Centre is understood to be planning to revive the pre-Operation...Thursday
15 October '09The Centre is considering a political package aimed at finding an “acceptable and honourable settlement” to the decades-old political conflict in Nagaland....Tuesday
13 October '09M K Afridi, political counsellor at the Pakistan High Commission and believed by Indian intelligence officials to be a senior ISI staffer, died of electrocution at his home in Vasant Vihar, south Delhi, on Sunday night....Monday
12 October '09The Centre has firmed up its plans in coordination with the states affected by Left-wing extremism to launch anti-Naxal operations immediately after the Maharashtra Assembly elections are over on October 13....Sunday
11 October '09Twenty-five years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the UPA government is set to give permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation....Sunday
11 October '09Around 3,000 CRPF troops were urgently airlifted to Gadchiroli late Saturday evening from Jharkhand in IL-76 aircraft to ensure security in the area in the run-up to the Assembly polls next Tuesday....Sunday
4 October '09The controversy of Beijing giving paper visas to Kashmiris has turned intriguing as the Ministry of External Affairs...Saturday
3 October '09The Defence Ministry is all set to give the nod to the Indian Air Force’s request to arm its pilots on heli-borne reconnaissance, transportation and medical...Tuesday
29 September '09Beijing has been told that Chinese workers should apply for employment visas; about 3,000 applications already in....Monday
28 September '09The Government has decided to designate the Home Ministry as the sole counter-terrorism authority and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee....Sunday
27 September '09Workers fled after chimney collapse; Beijing expresses concern over Indian action....Sunday
13 September '09The Home Ministry plans to approach the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for approval and large-scale funding to turn Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai....Monday
31 August '09At the Heads of Mission conference last week, one of the seniormost diplomats in the country made a case for concerted efforts by India....Monday
3 August '09After virtually agreeing there was no need to “demonise” Beijing as a potential threat, the National Security Council meeting last Saturday....Friday
31 July '09With Defence Minister giving the green signal for a new Army brigade HQ in Chhattisgarh, the stage is being set for the military to join counter-Naxalite operations.Sunday
26 July '09While the Opposition is calling the end user monitoring agreement (EUMA) with Washington a “sellout”, the US has given in writing....Sunday
26 July '09With Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan making a case for continuity post 26/11, the Home Ministry may give a three-month extension....Sunday
26 July '09On this day, 10 years ago, the last of the Pakistani intruders returned home from Kargil. SHISHIR GUPTA looks at the lessons learned, and subsequently unlearned, from Kargil....Wednesday
22 July '09The Mumbai 26/11 dossier handed over by Pakistan this month revealed that prime accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi....Tuesday
14 July '09The UPA government is activelyconsidering appointing interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir, the Gorkhaland agitation and has decided to replace its Nagaland....Sunday
12 July '09The Centre is considering letting Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 77, travel to Pakistan to meet his ailing...Wednesday
8 July '09More than two decades after it was conceived, India’s first indigenously built N-submarine is set for a quiet launch towards the end of this month.