BJP in need of new tribal leadership in Jharkhand

The BJP’s struggle in Jharkhand highlights the...

Nine months on, no word on Navy veteran Purnendu Tiwari

New Delhi: Former Indian Navy Commander Purnendu...

Beyond the Separate Self: Transcending the Illusion of Separation

As humans, we often find ourselves trapped...

Abhinandan Mishra

Hundreds of Mahadalits convert to Christianity in Bihar

Several cases of conversion to Christianity have come to light in Bihar’s Buxar district, where Mahadalit families belonging to the Musahar caste in at...

Notice served to 22 constructions in Landour

The chief executive officer of the Landour cantonment board near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand has served notices to 22 properties and resorts, being run allegedly...

MSME loans turn into non performing assets

The steady rise in loans given by commercial banks to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), turning into non-performing assets (NPA) has left officials...

Huge Doctor shortage hits AIIMS’ regional chapters

The six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospitals that were developed in different parts of India on the lines of AIIMS Delhi...

‘Bahadur Ali presser cost NIA IG his post’

Within 59 days of being given a one-year extension as the Inspector General (IG) (Investigations) of National Investigation Agency (NIA), Sanjeev Kumar Singh was...

Bacteria from Antarctica or cow dung? DRDO’s bio-toilet claim questioned

Some scientists working with the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) have questioned the veracity of the claim that the DRDO uses bacteria brought from...

ISI using hawala route to spread social unrest in India

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has renewed its effort to spread social unrest in India by channelling money through the hawala route to groups based...

New MHA policy for Kashmir valley will ignore separatists

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), in consultation with all the “legitimate stakeholders” of Kashmir valley, is working on formulating a new policy to...

Bihar’s top girls’ college turns fashion police

Girl students have been barred from wearing jeans and leggings in the prestigious Magadh Mahila College of Patna—the alma mater of noted dignitaries, high...

I-T will monitor social media of tax evaders

The Income Tax department has asked its officials to track suspected tax evaders by skimming through various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...

LeT poster boy Abu Dujana is next target of security forces

The security forces who successfully encountered Burhan Wani recently, are now focusing on neutralising another terrorist, Abu Dujana, who is presently a commander in...

Agencies worried ISIS may target India on 15 August

The ISI is planning a major terrorist strike in India on 15 August, Independence Day and 12 terrorists from three different nationalities including Indian...

Alcohol emergency in ‘totalitarian’ Bihar

Not informing the police about one’s neighbour storing or consuming liquor in his/her house will land one in jail in Bihar. Apart from this,...

No action by CBI on ‘illegal’ Landour cantonment constructions

The CBI is yet to act on a complaint made by an estate officer belonging to the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO), alleging that...

Prisoners offer tulsi leaves for penance

Apart from serving their time inside the prison, convicts in Beur central prison near Patna are seeking penance for their crimes through an age...

Stone pelters in Kashmir will continue protests to ensure bad press for Army

Stone-pelters in Kashmir are unlikely to “back down” as they are buoyed by the negative publicity that the Central armed forces in Kashmir have...

Burhan Wani called me: Hafiz Saeed

Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, while responding to this newspaper’s queries from Islamabad, said that Hizbul...

Underperforming babus face Naqvi’s wrath

Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has curtailed the powers and responsibilities of some IAS officers who have been “under-performing”, while...

Terror head Hafiz Saeed turns politician

Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Muhammad Hafiz Saeed, who carries a reward of $10 million on his head for his involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai...

Children of Kashmir’s ‘liberators’ lead plush lives abroad

Intelligence officials want the government to highlight the hypocrisy of Kashmir’s separatist leaders, who while playing with the careers and lives of the ordinary...

Men from Zakir Naik’s foundation planned terror attacks: Vanzara

Former IPS officer D.G. Vanzara has revealed to this newspaper that the Anti Terror Squad (ATS) of Gujarat had found credible leads in 2006...

Minority Ministry babus asked to tour remote villages

With Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in charge of the Ministry of Minority Affairs, “babus” are all set to relinquish the comfort of their office rooms...

CBI unlikely to find foul play in Vyapam deaths

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is going to file its status report on the Vyapam scam in the Supreme Court next week,...

ISIS’ Hyderabad men were making chemical bombs

The five alleged ISIS sympathisers, who were arrested from Hyderabad last week, were working to prepare chemical weapons using urea and nitric acid. They...

Command for cyber security still pending

A plan to set up a dedicated tri-service command for cyber security in India is being deliberated upon by the Ministry of Defence (MoD),...

Suresh Soni likely to get post back

RSS’ Suresh Soni, who was removed from the influential post of coordinator between the RSS and BJP in October 2014, is likely to be...

Now Bihar universities face probe for irregularities

Following the revelation that the Bihar School Examination Board was manufacturing toppers in matriculation and intermediate examinations in exchange of speed money, universities in...

Riot survivor will return to Gulbarg Society

Gulbarg Society riot survivor Feroz Khan Pathan has decided to return to his house number 18, which he fled 14 years ago in 2002...

Reliance will produce defence equipment In MP

The production of defence equipment by Reliance Defence Technologies Pvt Ltd, which is in the process of setting up one of India’s largest defence...

Nitish Kumar hopes to win many UP seats

JDU president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has set his eyes on next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections where he is aiming to...

North Waziristan is ISI’s terror factory to target India

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has developed the Miramshah area in North Waziristan as a common training ground for various terror groups active in India....

Terrorists increasingly using the Iran route to enter India

Terrorists and new recruits from India who go to Pakistan for arms and explosive trainings are now entering Pakistan through Iran and are taking...

Kishor pushing for Cong support for Brahmins

Poll strategist Prashant Kishor Pandey, who is managing the Congress’ election strategy in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, wants more representation for Brahmins. However, it is...

MEA issues advisory to Indians in Afghanistan

In the wake of the recent kidnapping in Kabul of Judith D’Souza, an Indian official with an NGO, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...

Kairana on IB radar for ISI links

Kairana in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district has been on the radar of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for a long time for the alleged association...

MHA team was not tricked: Rajendra Kumar

Rajendra Kumar, former special director of Intelligence Bureau (IB), who was part of the delegation of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that had...

Militants will target forces, not civilians

In a significant change in strategy, terrorist groups in the Kashmir valley are working to target security forces and their establishments while making sure...

After Mumbai 1993, Dawood now targets Delhi

Pakistan based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has asked his associates in Maharashtra to carry out bomb blasts in Delhi, targeting the New Delhi railway...

People angry with hoodlum rule in Mathura

The locals of Mathura town are extremely unhappy with the way some Uttar Pradesh officials continued to turn a blind eye towards the encroachers...

Whistle blower harassed despite Parrikar assurance

A whistle blowing official with the Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO) is facing harassment by his seniors, who have been transferring him frequently, despite...

‘Aurangzeb, not Babur, demolished Ram temple’

The demolition of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and subsequent building of the Babri mosque happened during the reign of Aurangzeb in 1660, long...

Mathura cops were clueless

Mathura police personnel who had gone to clear Jawahar Bagh here of protesters, reportedly members of a cult, were caught off guard about the...

ISI closely monitoring Jaish chief Masood Azhar

Jaish-E-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar and his brother Abdul Rauf Ashgar are under the preventive custody of Pakistan government, specifically the ISI, which has...

IIM-A will study Prabhu’s Twitter strategy

The way in which Ministry of Railways, under Suresh Prabhu, has been successful in utilising a social media platform like Twitter to redress railway...

Central police forces short of 66,000 personnel

The Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) are grappling with a shortage of around 66,000 personnel, which is leading to inadequate deployment in critical installations...

Siwan’s don was holding janata durbar in jail

Former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP, Mohammad Shahabuddin, who is serving a life imprisonment in connection with a murder case, was running his own “janata...

Two teachers for 3,000 in Madhubani

Close to 3,000 students studying in a college in Khutauna town of Madubani district, Bihar are being taught by only two teachers as against...

CBI ‘sits on’ allegations against Praful Patel in Air India matter

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), since 2011, has been sitting on an inquiry into the alleged bribery of Air India officials by an...

MHA scraps coastal boat tender

After sitting on the security agencies’ demand for 150 patrolling ships for coastal security for more than five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs...

Nitish Kumar turns religious

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s recent visit to temples in Varanasi and also the river Ganga, where he offered prayers, has surprised his old...

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