Gauhati HC bans buffalo and bulbul fights

New Delhi: The Gauhati High Court has...

Delhi’s perennial air crisis: Time for sustainable solution

Severe and “Hazardous” two words that flashed...

Rahul invites ire during Winter Session

Congress seems to believe criticising Adani and...

Abhinandan Mishra

‘Indian efforts more focused on cyber defence, not warfare’

While Russian intelligence agencies might have allegedly used the internet and the social media to influence the United States election, Indian intelligence agencies operating...

BSF, CRPF refuse to disclose how many took VRS

The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have refused to share information on how many of its personnel have...

Vivek Tankha emerging as Congress candidate for MP CM

Senior lawyer and Congress Rajya Sabha member Vivek Tankha is emerging as the consensus candidate for the post of Chief Minister in the party’s...

Nadda helps save co-passenger’s father’s life

The life of a Rishikesh based 84-year-old retired school teacher, who had suffered a stroke and brain haemorrhage, was saved after Health Minister Jagat...

BJP changes tack, goes local in UP polls

Making a shift in strategy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to give prominence to local leaders in the campaign for Assembly elections...

I-T makes serious charges of graft against AAP’s Health Minister Jain

The Income-Tax Department has alleged that Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Kumar Jain has purchased close to 200 bigha of agricultural land in the vicinity...

Indira made Congress a one-woman party: CIA

As per a declassified report on India prepared by India based analysts of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1982, which was made accessible...

Serious fraud investigation into Mallya gets stalled

The probe started by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) into the alleged irregularities committed by top public sector bankers while disbursing loans to...

BSF reluctant to reveal ‘action’ for Pathankot lapse

The Border Security Force (BSF), which had come under fire for the alleged lapses on the part of some of its officials after the...

ISIS not getting many recruits from India

The spread of ISIS in India, which at one time had reached alarming proportions, has come down drastically in the last one year due...

‘Purohit was gathering intelligence, as Army documents show’

The family members of Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Prashad Shrikant Purohit, who has been in judicial custody for eight years now, are hopeful that...

Soldiers agree food is of poor quality, not sure about corruption

Soldiers in the Indian Army and the country’s paramilitary forces have told The Sunday Guardian that jawans posted on the field or in the...

Pak senators question protection given to Masood Azhar

Pakistani senators have objected to the continued protection being given by the Pakistani state to Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, the prime accused in the...

‘Pakistan is deliberately pushing Afghanistan as a new ISIS hotbed’

A senior Taliban leader has termed Pakistan’s assessment that Islamic State (IS) is gaining strength in Afghanistan as “motivated” and brought into existence to...

‘Centre, J&K giving minority benefits to majority Muslims for decades’

A public interest litigation filed in the Supreme Court has claimed that the National Commission of Minorities under the Ministry of Minority Affairs and...

SPG will scale up PM’s cavalcade

The Special Protection Group (SPG) responsible for the security of the Prime Minister and previous PMs and their immediate family members is going to...

PM Modi stressed to UAE need to corner Dawood

The government had submitted relevant documents listing the details of property owned by fugitive criminal Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his associates to the Government...

MHA issues tender for 225 patrol boats

The six-year-old demand of the security agencies seeking patrolling boats to secure India’s coastal borders may finally be met after the Ministry of Home...

BJP will contest UP without CM candidate

The BJP will be contesting the Uttar Pradesh polls without a Chief Minister face, functionaries within the RSS said. According to them, both the...

Shivraj will stay in MP

The BJP has shelved any near plans to shift Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to the Centre, which was being mooted by...

‘Minor punishments cannot be used to deny promotions’

With the objective to stop officers from being victimised by their seniors on minor pretexts or with the intention to push them to deviate...

Cross border infiltration likely to increase

Intelligence agencies have warned the security establishment that incidents of cross border infiltration and Pakistan sponsored terror strikes are likely to increase in the...

Post demonetisation, terror groups use foreign currencies

Handicapped by demonetisation, terror groups have adopted newer ways to fund terrorism in India and are accordingly using foreign currencies to pay to their...

Declare or perish: PM sends a stern message to BJP MPs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has instructed his party leaders and BJP MPs to declare to the authorities before 31 December all unaccounted cash and...

Sepoy Chandu Chavan is a forgotten file, family members worry

“He has become a file and that file has been forgotten by the government”, laments Chinda Dhondu Patil, the 70-year-old grandfather of the 22-year-old...

CBI ‘probed’ Bansal’s suicide, but sitting on findings

Even after over two months of the twin suicides of Corporate Affairs Ministry official B.K. Bansal and his son Yogesh, who killed themselves after...

Nitish can always join hands with BJP: Sushil Modi

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s top leadership in Bihar has advised Janata Dal United chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to join hands with...

Atomic energy department saw 70 unnatural deaths in eight years

At least 70 people, including scientists and engineers working with the various establishments and research laboratories of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) have...

Foreign firms trying to Make in India also eyeing arms sales to Pakistan

Indian security agencies have raised concerns over certain international defence companies who are pushing for increased arms sales to Pakistan on the one hand...

BSF takes ‘security’ cover, refuses to reply to RTI query

Security agencies, which are averse to sharing details of their officials indulging in corruption or violating human rights, are denying information sought under the...

Leaders across political parties lose crores in demonetisation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move of demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes has shocked and upset leaders across the political spectrum, apparently...

Experts support the writing off of loans

Bankers and financial experts have welcomed the move of the State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest public sector bank, to “write-off” loans worth...

CISF debuts on Twitter

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), under its new Director General O.P. Singh, who took over the helm of the agency less than two...

Gold traders will be next government target

In continuance with the demonetisation of currency that was announced on Tuesday night, the government has taken a slew of measures to make sure...

Police was afraid of confronting the jailed SIMI men

Not just officials of the Bhopal Central Jail, even court staff would avoid confronting the jailed 29 SIMI activists who were lodged in the...

Rs 287 cr spent to run Rajya Sabha

A huge amount of Rs 287 crore (Rs 2,872,156,362) of taxpayers’ money was spent on the functioning of the Rajya Sabha in 2014-2015. In...

Prisoners guarded prisoners in Bhopal

A handful of guards — around 30, or fewer than that — helped by jailed convicts, were responsible for guarding the 3,000 plus inmates...

BSF inquiry into Pathankot lapses headed nowhere

A board of inquiry, which was initiated by the Border Security Force (BSF) against two of its officers for their alleged lapses that led...

Verma has a list of those honey trapped: Allen

Q. What is your relation with Abhishek Verma and how long have you known him? A: I was introduced to Abhishek Verma over the phone...

I am determined to enter politics: Abhishek Verma

Controversial “arms dealer” Abhishek Verma spoke to The Sunday Guardian on a host of issues in an exclusive interview. Excerpts: Q. What is your present...

People in politics, defence may be involved in spy case

The Delhi police and various intelligence agencies that are investigating the Pakistan spy ring busted this week are ascertaining the probability of the involvement...

Delhi police chief in race for top job in CBI

The race is on for the post of Central Bureau of Investigation director, as the tenure of incumbent Anil Sinha ends on 30 November....

Sunil Arora likely to become Prasar Bharati chief

Former bureaucrat Sunil Arora, who is presently working as an advisor to Prasar Bharati, is likely to become the CEO of the body, a...

Rajinder Kumar questions inaction on Ranjit Sinha and Company

Former Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Rajinder Kumar has questioned official lethargy in taking action against bureaucrats, legal officers and police officers...

‘Masood Azhar’ caught on tape vowing a Kashmir jihad

The chief of Jaish-E-Mohammed, Maulana Masood Azhar, who is wanted for his role in the Pathankot terror strike, has said that if it was...

Classes disrupted, NIT Srinagar students worry about future

Students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar are facing the prospect of losing a semester, as their college has not opened...

PMO monitors ministers’ social media presence

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has been monitoring the social media activities and accounts of Union ministers 24x7, on the basis of which it...

Pak intensifies black propaganda against India

The Pakistan government is working to launch an all out “soft” war against India by hiring international lobbyists, strategic communication firms and journalists to...

‘Progress Panchayat will be an annual feature’

“Progress Panchayat”, the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) flagship programme and a part of its Muslim outreach bid, will become a regular annual feature of...

Sheila unlikely to contest UP elections

Sheila Dikshit, Congress’ Uttar Pradesh chief ministerial candidate and former Delhi Chief Minister, is unlikely to contest in the Assembly elections in the state...

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