Relate J-K troop deployment to ground reality, says Manmohan

Wednesday 25 April '07

The Third Roundtable on Kashmir set the tone for the road ahead by endorsing recommendations to boost relations across the Line of Control, rehabilitate victims of militancy

J&K govt still against pullout

Saturday 21 April '07

With troop presence in urban J-K already down to the bare minimum, there are indications that the coming days could see more visible steps in this direction.

...but Govt sets table

Thursday 19 April '07

Even as separatist groups decided to stay away from the third roundtable, the government moved ahead with its groundwork amid indications that recommendations of working groups set up last year could lead to some key decisions.

See if statute has answers: Govt

Tuesday 17 April '07

With the Centre’s talks with the NSCN (IM) entering a crucial phase, the coming days are expected to see a threadbare examination of the Indian Constitution to determine if some of its provisions could form the framework for a possible solution to the Naga issue.

Anti-Naxal strategies set to get finishing touches

Tuesday 10 April '07

With the Naxalites professing their objective to target mining hubs in Jharkhand and development works, including irrigation projects planned in Bihar...

More Bangla militants active against India could face heat

Sunday 1 April '07

The hanging of six Islamic militants, including Siddiqul Islam aka Bangla Bhai, in the run-up to the SAARC summit being held here on April 3...

PDP celebrates, gets Centre to name panel for troop review in J&K

Saturday 31 March '07

The Centre today announced that an expert panel, headed by Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt, would look at troop deployment in Jammu and Kashmir and determine if there was need to “relocate and reconfigure” them.

Panel likely to examine troop-cut

Friday 30 March '07

The Centre moved towards formalising a response to the PDP demands of troop reduction in Jammu and Kashmir with Jammu and Kashmir

All fine on the J-K front

Sunday 25 March '07

With PDP lea- der and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the second time in three days today...

PDP may agree to relocation of troops from safe areas

Saturday 24 March '07

A day after Mufti Mohammed Sayeed met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, discussions today centred around setting up...

Mufti to press for special panel on troop-cut

Wednesday 21 March '07

PDP supremo Mufti Mohammad Sayeed is likely to press for “conspicuous concessions” at his meeting with PM Manmohan Singh tomorrow in order to climb down from the threat to withdraw support to the Congress-led government in Jammu and Kashmir.

As PM firefights to save J&K coalition, Governor calls PDP demand ‘obnoxious’

Tuesday 20 March '07

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s last-ditch effort to save the Congress’s coalition with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir got off to a rocky start today with Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad

US feels F-16 is right choice for IAF

Saturday 17 March '07

With India moving closer towards some heavy-duty purchase of fighters for the Air Force...

Pattern shows Naxals gunning for Salwa Judum

Friday 16 March '07

With special police officers accounting for 34 of the 54 killed in Chhattisgarh early this morning, speculations are rife that the Naxalites might have begun implementing their recent resolve to stamp out peoples’ movements directed against them.

Murder leaves uneasy posers for local admn

Tuesday 6 March '07

The killing of Jamshedpur Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MP Sunil Mahato's may just throw up some uncomfortable questions for the local administration.

Pak to get train info from cops

Tuesday 6 March '07

The first meeting of the Indo-Pakistan Joint Anti-Terrorism Group, which begins in Islamabad tomorrow, will be more a formality with not much on the table.

BSF, BDR plan to mend fences

Friday 2 March '07

India and Bangladesh have taken the first tentative steps towards reducing tension on the border with the Border Security Force

Coast Guard to push for Rs 200-crore boat deal

Thursday 22 February '07

With coastal security emerging as a serious concern, the Indian Coast Guard is in the process of acquiring a fleet of modern...

Decision: red, green channels for scholars, their subjects

Friday 16 February '07

The government today moved a step closer to clearing the bottlenecks for foreign research scholars and, in the process, institutionalising another blacklist.

Govt brainwave: red & green channels for scholars, subjects

Wednesday 14 February '07

Trust the government and its bureaucrats to come up with a solution to make it easier for foreign scholars to do research in India.

MHA relaxes SEZ security norms

Friday 26 January '07

The Home Ministry has liberalised norms for security clearance of Special Economic Zones, which have become a contentious issue in the political arena.

Stressed paramilitary looks to Art of Living

Thursday 25 January '07

Central paramilitary forces will soon be putting their personnel through the Art of Living programme in an effort to mitigate stress, which is being blamed for the growing incidence of suicide and fratricide.

Mirwaiz in Delhi, but no date with PM

Thursday 18 January '07

The moderate Hurriyat leaders, which is in Delhi en route to Islamabad for talks in Pakistan, have to wait some more time before they get to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

UPA takes forward NDA idea: National I-D card project rolls this March, 18 lakh in first lot

Tuesday 16 January '07

A number that’s unique to you, your photograph, your fingerprint. All will be rolled into a smart card to give you your identity wherever you are in India.

ITBP may get new role to combat insurgency

Friday 12 January '07

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) may soon get to play an active role in anti-militancy operations with the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) today approving creation of 20 new battalions for the force.