Threats to Punjab police establishments, artists alarming

Chandigarh: Tension brews in Punjab in the...

THE CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE AND INDIA AS A CIVILISATIONAL STATE

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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...

CBI sat on Agusta case for three years

The Central Bureau of Investigation was sitting on the Agusta Westland case since March 2013, when it lodged an FIR, and woke up only...

Bihar doctors illegally removed 700-plus women’s wombs

The Bihar government has requested the Central government to cancel the registration of at least 30 doctors and 50 private hospitals in the state...

Congress leader’s role will be probed in Agusta deal

The role of a senior Congress leader, who dons multiple hats, is likely to be investigated in the multi crore AgustaWestland helicopter scam. Sources familiar...

‘Satish Verma, Salim Ali conspired against IB in Ishrat case’

Former Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajendra Kumar wrote a letter—accessed by The Sunday Guardian—to the Ministry of Home Affairs on 22 May 2014, stating...

Family hopes to prove Purohit’s ‘innocence’

With Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar directing the Army to provide Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, in prison for the past eight years for his...

Pak cyber group steals 16GB of Indian military data

A Pakistan based cyber group has targeted Indian military personnel and has stolen 16 gigabytes worth of data that includes scanned pictures of passports,...

Whistleblower scientist gets transferred to remote location

Senior officials of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) are taking every possible step to harass a senior scientist who complained to Prime Minister...

‘Cong poll prospects dismal in UP, Punjab’

The Congress is not expected to do well in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, said an initial assessment by election strategist Prashant Kishor’s Indian...

Pak army, ISI foment trouble in Kashmir

Elements in the Pakistan government, including the Pakistan army and the spy agency ISI, have renewed their efforts to spread disturbance and unrest in...

Three RAW officers defect to the West

Three officers belonging to the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external spy agency, have “willingly disappeared” and are now likely to be in...

NDA will market its two years of ‘good work’

With the Narendra Modi government set to complete its second year in office on 25 May, the government has started preparing its report card...

Ishrat Jahan encounter was our duty: Vanzara

Retired Gujarat cadre IPS officer, D.G. Vanzara, who was recently released from prison after eight years, had carried out a series of encounters in...

No action to be taken against whistleblowers: Parrikar

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has issued a stern order prohibiting disciplinary action by any department in the ministry against officials who write to him...

All accused set free in 29-year-old case in Bihar

All 29 people accused of burning to death a Deputy Superintendent of Police in Bihar have been set free by a trial court in...

Inhuman treatment of interviewees by CRPF in Bihar

Close on the heels of candidates being stripped to their underwear in Bihar during last month’s written exams for clerical positions in the Indian...

Ministry of Law opens key post to public

The Ministry of Law & Justice has for the first time invited applications for filling the post of Secretary in the ministry from the...

Divided cong stumbles in Chhattisgarh

A divided Congress party in Chhattisgarh is unable to emerge as a strong opposition, even though issues like the arrest of journalists and civil...

CBI not getting accommodation to probe Vyapam

The Madhya Pradesh government is sitting on the CBI’s request to provide government accommodation to its sleuths probing the Vyapam scam for the past...

Jihadi online forums intensify plot to exploit ‘turmoil’ in India

Jihadi recruiters are keeping a close eye on the developments in India and are smartly using some incidents to recruit and instigate terrorists to...

Bihar board pass percentage expected to fall

The Bihar School Examination Board is expecting a drastic fall in the pass percentage of the 10th board and 12th board students who appeared...

Spectre of failure haunts Nitish’s liquor ban

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s scheme to ban the manufacture and trade of country made and foreign liquor in the rural areas of the...

2012 cyber attacks on MEA, military personnel still continuing

A cyber attack suspected to have originated in Pakistan in 2012, and which was detected only in February this year by a US cyber...

Manoj Sinha may lead U.P. BJP

Manoj Sinha, Union Minister of State for Railways and three-time MP from Ghazipur, UP, is likely to be appointed as BJP’s state chief in...

Bank seniors ignored red flags on Kingfisher

Directors and chairmen of nationalised banks ignored the red flags raised by their internal assessment teams on giving loans to Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines,...

Home Ministry will probe NIA role in Ishrat cover-up

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) wants to take a look at the role played by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Ishrat...

Bihar Congress wants a change in state leadership

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is all set to change the leadership of the Bihar unit of Congress with the term of the...

Top Cong leaders wanted Ishrat’s LeT link erased

The second affidavit filed by the Home Ministry in the Ishrat Jahan case, in which it dropped the reference of the slain woman being...

JNU bent rules to give hostel rooms to Umar Khalid, D. Raja’s daughter

The allocation of hostel rooms to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students Umar Khalid and Aparajita Raja, who according to their fellow students participated in...

Phones go silent in Sikkim as errant BSNL loses power

The telecommunication network in Sikkim has collapsed after the Sikkim government disconnected electricity connection to 27 out of the 43 BSNL exchanges in the...

Haryana had prior information on Jat violence

The Haryana government had prior intelligence input that the Jat protesters were planning to carry out mass scale destruction before the protests eventually turned...

Delhi police’s flawed intelligence exposed in JNU row

Questions are being raised about the Delhi police’s failure in tracking down five Jawaharlal Nehru University students who went underground after allegedly taking part...

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