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Post 26/11, NSG aims for corner shot weapons, ‘through-the-wall’ radars

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....
MoD clears IAF’s rules of engagement with Naxals

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...
Dalai Lama India’s honoured guest, PM tells Wen Jiabao

Monday 26 October '09

Rebuffing Beijing’s wish that New Delhi bar the Dalai Lama from travelling to Arunachal Pradesh, Prime MInister Manmohan Singh has told Chinese Premier Wen...
Punjab Governor likely to lose UT charge

Monday 19 October '09

With Governor S F Rodrigues’s term coming to an end next month, the Centre is understood to be planning to revive the pre-Operation...
Centre may offer political package to Nagas by year-end

Thursday 15 October '09

The Centre is considering a political package aimed at finding an “acceptable and honourable settlement” to the decades-old political conflict in Nagaland....
‘ISI officer’ electrocuted in Delhi, body taken to Pakistan

Tuesday 13 October '09

M 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....
Anti-Naxal operation on track, forces on standby

Monday 12 October '09

The 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....
CBI catches up with Sajjan Kumar

Sunday 11 October '09

Twenty-five years after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the UPA government is set to give permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation....
3,000 CRPF personnel airlifted to Gadchiroli for poll duty

Sunday 11 October '09

Around 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....
MEA alerted Immigration against Chinese paper visas in Jan 2009

Sunday 4 October '09

The controversy of Beijing giving paper visas to Kashmiris has turned intriguing as the Ministry of External Affairs...
Defence Ministry nod likely to arm pilots in Naxal ops

Saturday 3 October '09

The 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...
Govt to tighten norms for business visas

Tuesday 29 September '09

Beijing has been told that Chinese workers should apply for employment visas; about 3,000 applications already in....
Meanwhile, new responsibility comes Ministry way: tracking terror funds

Monday 28 September '09

The Government has decided to designate the Home Ministry as the sole counter-terrorism authority and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee....
Govt issues look-out notices against Chinese workers of Balco plant

Sunday 27 September '09

Workers fled after chimney collapse; Beijing expresses concern over Indian action....
Centre plans aerial surveillance of metros

Sunday 13 September '09

The 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....
India must pitch for UNSC seat, top diplomat says at envoy meet

Monday 31 August '09

At the Heads of Mission conference last week, one of the seniormost diplomats in the country made a case for concerted efforts by India....
NSC meet discusses China, agrees India needs to keep an eye in long term

Monday 3 August '09

After virtually agreeing there was no need to “demonise” Beijing as a potential threat, the National Security Council meeting last Saturday....
New base in Raipur sets stage for military help in Naxal war

Friday 31 July '09

With 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.
No unilateral end user inspections, US wrote

Sunday 26 July '09

While the Opposition is calling the end user monitoring agreement (EUMA) with Washington a “sellout”, the US has given in writing....
Chavan pushes for Virk extension

Sunday 26 July '09

With Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan making a case for continuity post 26/11, the Home Ministry may give a three-month extension....
Kargil, in hindsight

Sunday 26 July '09

On 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....
Pak says top 26/11 accused not giving voice samples

Wednesday 22 July '09

The Mumbai 26/11 dossier handed over by Pakistan this month revealed that prime accused Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi....
UPA to name 3 troubleshooters for J&K, Nagaland, Gorkhaland

Tuesday 14 July '09

The UPA government is activelyconsidering appointing interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir, the Gorkhaland agitation and has decided to replace its Nagaland....
Hawk Geelani wants to visit ailing son in Pak, Centre may OK

Sunday 12 July '09

The Centre is considering letting Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 77, travel to Pakistan to meet his ailing...
All set for a quiet launch of India's first indigenous N-sub

Wednesday 8 July '09

More 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.
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