The youngest son of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has called for Britain and its allies to be wiped out. Hamza Bin Ladan, 16, the youngest of the Saudi-born warlord's 18 sons, is claimed to be t..Read More
Terrorists struck for the first time in Jaipur triggering eight serial blasts in a span of 12 minutes on Tuesday evening in crowded market areas and near a Hanuman temple in the walled city leaving a..Read More
India has ordered its border forces to "a high state of vigil" after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto raised the spectre of chaos in Pakistan spilling over to its nuclear-armed neighbour.Relations ..Read More
Expressing shock and grief over the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani today said that the kind of Talibanisation of Pakist..Read More
Pakistanis show only weak support for using force against Islamic militants and overwhelmingly oppose allowing outside forces to combat al Qaeda on Pakistani territory.A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll fi..Read More
India and Bangladesh Foreign Secretary level talks ended here today with both sides agreeing to work together to fight against terrorism and insurgents in the common interest of peace and security.New..Read More
Reports are coming in of a blast at the Mecca Masjid in Old Hyderabad. The blast occurred during Friday Prayers as the mosque. Mecca Masjid is the largest mosque in Hyderabad and is located near the f..Read More
Observing that terrorism is a global phenomenon that can strike any country, India and Israel have held a meeting of thVe Joint Working Group (JWG) on counter-terorrism pledging to cooperate in the fi..Read More
Indian and Bangladeshi guards traded gunfire along the border in the northeastern state of Tripura after two Bangladeshi nationals were killed by Indian troopers when they were attempting to cross the..Read More
Ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, the Delhi Police have arrested two militants in the national Capital with explosives, a senior police officer said on Thursday.The two, identified as Mohammad A..Read More
Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed ordered on Saturday the deployment of the army across the country to strengthen law and order and 'ensure peaceful elections' next month. The home (interi..Read More
President General Pervez Musharraf today said that the Bajaur madrasa, which was destroyed in an Pakistani air strike last week, trained suicide bombers and it was under observation for a year. Chargi..Read More
Pakistan intelligence agencies have reportedly been informed of a possible terrorism strike on the country's stock exchanges by the month end.According to intelligence sources, terrorists would t..Read More
India regards Bangladesh as a sanctuary for militants operating against it and Dhaka is not cooperating with New Delhi on cracking down on them as it should be, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan..Read More
Sophisticated surveillance and tracking gadgets like thermal imagers and underground sensors have been installed along the porous Indo-Bangladesh border to prevent infiltration by Pakistan-backed terr..Read More
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel opened fire across the Indo-Bangla border at Saidpur in Assam's Cachar district after Border Security Force (BSF) pushed back a group of Bangladeshis, official s..Read More
India has asked Bangladesh to deport over 113 terrorists, including ULFA chairman Arbind Rajkhowa and general secretary Anup Chetia, currently present in that country and to dismantle 172 camps run by..Read More
India and Bangladesh agreed to develope mechanisms for joint fight against terrorism and organised crime as also to exercise "utmost restraint" along the border after four days of Home Secretary- leve..Read More
News website TamilCanadian.com reports that Pakistani agencies have started radicalizing the Muslim community in Sri Lanka hoping to create a new front against India.Pakistan's Inter-Services Int..Read More
Taking a serious note of "unprovoked" firing and shelling of some areas of Assam by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), India today lodged its protest by summoning Dhaka's envoy here. The Ministry of Extern..Read More
Indian and Bangladeshi border guards on Sunday agreed to withdraw additional troops from the trouble-torn Harinagar-Amalsid frontier in northeastern Bangladesh from Monday exchanging heavy mortar and ..Read More
Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Major General Shakil Ahmed yesterday visited the troubled Jokiganj frontier in the country's northeastern Sylhet amidst a tense situation as BSF and BD..Read More
The Border Security Force (BSF) was maintaining strict vigil in Assam's Cachar and Karimganj districts bordering Bangladesh after Wednesday's mortar attack by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) that ki..Read More
Bangladesh is deploying more troops and building bunkers along its frontier with India, a senior Indian official said today, after thursday's border skirmish in which two Indians civilians and se..Read More
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers started unprovoked firing across the Indo-Bangladesh border in lower Assam killing atleast 2 women. BDR targetted villagers in Tukaram and Bhanga.India's Border S..Read More
While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to Al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies are steadily converting strategically located Bangladesh into a new re..Read More
A bomb exploded in a village market in northwestern Bangladesh, injuring at least 15 people.Police investigators cordoned off the blast site in Atrai in Naogaon district, 195 km northwest of Dhaka, th..Read More
Kolkata: The Bangladesh Rifles on Thursday fired on the Border Security Force personnel after they foiled an attempt by a group of Bangladeshis to kidnap an Indian border guard along the fronti..Read More
Islamabad: Two Pakistani Islamist groups declared terrorist organisations by the US recently are gaining popularity in earthquake-devastated parts of northern Pakistan for their continuing reli..Read More
The situation in Pakistan's tribal bad-lands of Waziristan is fast spiraling out of control. Despite tall claims of the Pakistan army of causing heavy casualties in the ranks of the jihadis, ther..Read More
Karachi: Pakistani troops deployed to streets of this southern Pakistani city Thursday to try to curb rioting and vandalism that flared for a third straight day following a suicide bombing that..Read More
A suicide attack in the Pakistani city of Karachi ripped through Sunni Muslims celebrating the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, killing 57 people including several religious leaders, officials said.The ..Read More
Ahmedabad: Leader of Opposition in Parliament and senior BJP leader L K Advani today charged Bangladesh with not only being a source for illegal migration and infiltration but also "harbouring..Read More
Lucknow: The Islamic seminary, Deoband's Darul Uloom, has come under the terror scanner after four of its alumni were held for last month's serial bomb attacks in Varanasi. Officials..Read More
Varanasi: Police in India say they have arrested the mastermind behind last month's bomb attacks in the holy city of Varanasi.Vali Ullah, a resident of northern Uttar Pradesh state, ran a ..Read More
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia made her first ever visit to India in her current term of office from March 20, 2006 to March 22, 2006. Her 48-member official entourage included Finance Mi..Read More
New Delhi: Around 1900 Islamic seminaries have come up on both sides of the Indo-Nepal border in recent times and security agencies are keeping a close watch on 50 or 60 "sensitive" ones among ..Read More
New Delhi: Developments in Bangladesh were a "cause of concern" during the year, the Defence Ministry has said asking Dhaka to seriously address Indian concerns on illegal migration and activit..Read More
New Delhi: Edgy neighbors India and Bangladesh agreed on Tuesday to wage a joint battle against terrorism and correct a trade imbalance, during a Delhi visit by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum..Read More
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, leader of India's crucial neighbour Bangladesh, has arrived in New Delhi when both sides have a long list of concerns and a substantial deficit of trust. That things b..Read More
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is on an India visit and one of the main issues that New Delhi may bring up is the harbouring of insurgents from the north-east.For India, the c..Read More
New Delhi: India will raise the issue of insurgency and other cross border illegal activities with Bangladesh during the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia beginning today.Beg..Read More
For a long time the reaction of Muslim community to the depredations of Islamic terrorists had been muted, with the public opinion in Islamic nations generally condoning or even sympathizing, if not a..Read More
CNN-IBN Reports: National Security Adviser M K Narayanan has accused Pakistan of breeding a new form of jehadi terror aimed at fanning communal tensions within India pointing to the Varanasi and Banga..Read More
New Delhi: The controversy over publication of cartoons depicting prophet Muhammad has forced cancellation of the visit of Denmark Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to India after New Delhi ..Read More
Ahmadabad: Indian police shot dead four islamic terrorists overnight in the western state of Gujarat, the scene of bloody Hindu-Muslim violence in 2002.Police were conducting routine searches i..Read More
A number of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) terrorist outfits have warned General Parvez Musharraf that they would launch a full armed struggle inside Pakistan if restrictions on their activities cont..Read More
The reactions to publishing the satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper were largely muted among India's Muslim community. India had sought to be politically correct on issue..Read More
Kabul US forces say they have detained 11 suspected militants in Afghanistan's Kunar province following an attack in which four US marines were killed.The US military said troops backed by..Read More
Goa, Panaji: Interrogation of a terrorist arrested in Goa has revealed that a Pakistan-based militant outfit was planning to strike at busy tourist places in the state, police sources today sa..Read More
Facts: Three bomb blasts occurred in quick succession at different crowded locations in Varanasi on the evening of 7 March; they included the Sankat Mochan temple to Hanuman, opposite the Kashi Vishwa..Read More
Washington: The United States was quick to condemn the blasts in Varanasi that killed at least 20 persons and injured many, calling them "acts of terrorism"."It is quite clear that these are ac..Read More
New Delhi: Hours after the serial blasts in Varanasi - that killed at least 20 people - three suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants have been shot dead.Two of them were killed by the Special Cell..Read More
New Delhi: The Centre placed five companies consisting of 500 personnel of the CRPF at the disposal of Uttar Pradesh government to beef up security in the wake of the blasts in Varanasi.Of thi..Read More
Varanasi: A series of high intensity blasts have rocked Varanasi on Tuesday. The blasts occurred at 1830 hours IST and 10-12 people are feared dead.The first blast occurred in Sankat Mochan tem..Read More
Pune: Maintaining that the Army was always in operational fitness to meet conventional challenges on the border, General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief of Southern Command Lt Gen Aditya Singh to..Read More
Moscow: Thirteen Russian servicemen were killed and 22 others injured in a suspected terrorist blast at the military base of the Vostok special task battalion in Kurchaloi village in Chechnya l..Read More
London: Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto regretted that the international community has failed to work for restoration of democratic rule in Pakistan, which has now become a..Read More
Moscow: One of the main ideologists of radical Islam has been killed in a special operation in Chechnya, the Russian Interior Ministry said Thursday.A ministry representative said wahhabite Sup..Read More
Report of IPCS Panel Discussion held at the IPCS Conference Room on 6 January 2006 (Panelists: Matt Rosenstein, Bibhu Prasad Routray & Supriya Singh)
Chair: Amb Deb Mukherjee
Panelists: M..Read More
Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the Hindu ideology can counter terrorism which is a major threat to the world at present.Speaking at the inaugural function of the '�..Read More
Democracy provides space for dissent; in Bangladesh, terrorists and fundamentalists are increasingly occupying this space. Ever since the first suicide attack on 29 November 2005 in Ghazipur and Chitt..Read More
Kolkata: India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a to..Read More
The Interpol has sounded another warning on 21 November 2005 about the 'clear and present danger' of a bioterrorist attack by groups like al Qaeda. The Cape Town conference was the first of ..Read More
Dhaka: At least 13 people, two of them policemen and an equal number of lawyers, were killed and 50 others injured today in twin suicide bomb attacks in Bangladesh by suspected Islamic militant..Read More
Islamists were junior partner in the last Bangladesh election which has brought a ruling coalition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in power. But after hiding for four years in the garb o..Read More
Dhaka: Bangladesh has beefed up security in diplomatic areas following a purported al-Qaeda threat to blow up British, US and other Western diplomatic missions here. "We are not taking any chan..Read More
The Bangladesh army has started a fresh offensive against Islamic terrorists in the administrative regions of Bandarban, Khagrachari and Chittagong last week.While most of the terrorists escaped, thei..Read More
It is a brutal message from Pakistan via Taliban - a desperate attempt to get India to stay away from reconstruction programmes in Afghanistan - particularly the southern parts of the country borderin..Read More
According to Australia's biggest-ever counter-terrorism investigation report that was released recently, an attack was probably planned on Australia's only nuclear reactor in December 2004. ..Read More
Pattani, Southern Thailand: Suspected Islamic terrorists beheaded a Buddhist man in southern Thailand, where sectarian violence has claimed more than 1,100 lives in the past two yars, police sa..Read More
All indicators point to the involvement of some Pakistani, Algerian and Moroccan members of the London-based Hizbut Tehrir (HT) in the violence by sections of angry Muslim youth, which has rocked the ..Read More
Washington: Pakistan continues to be a sanctuary and training ground for terrorists, a report on the status of recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission on terror attacks in the US has said, ..Read More
New Delhi: Claiming a major breakthrough in the October 29 serial blasts here, Delhi police arrested a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militant, police sources said here today.The accused identified ..Read More
London: Ayman al-Zawahiri, number two in Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda global terror network, named Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as "one of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video seen..Read More
Islamabad: Tension prevailed near the eastern city of Lahore where an angry mob set ablaze three churches, Christian schools and residence of the local bishop, following reports that a youth al..Read More
On October 29, 2004, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released a new videotape, revealing the first images of the leader in more than a year. The video offered proof that bin Laden is alive and healthy..Read More
On November 9, riots erupted in Parisian suburbs and in other cities in France for the thirteenth consecutive night. The Paris region, Strasbourg, Lille, Nice, Marseille, Rouen, Toulouse, Amiens, Dijo..Read More
Jammu: The Army from Banihal in Jammu and Kashmir arrested a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant on Tuesday night, suspected to be involved in the October 29 serial blasts in Delhi.Based on specific inte..Read More
At least two people were killed and 50 injured in clashes between rival groups on Eid day in Dinajpur and Chuadanga districts of Bangladesh, police said here on Sunday.In Dinajpur, one person was kill..Read More
At least five instructors from the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen and two from the Lashkar-e-Toiba were involved in the Delhi bomb blasts, planning the whole operation, while eleven others pro..Read More
RJD MP from Bihar Syed Shahabuddin, wanted in several cases of curroption, terrorism and espionage, was today arrested from his official residence here. Shahabuddin was arrested by a Bihar Police team..Read More
A suicide car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Kashmir's main city on Wednesday, killing four civilians and wounding a dozen more, police and hospital officials said.The Jaish-e-Mohammad terror ..Read More
Police have prepared a sketch of a key suspect in New Delhi's deadly bombings, as Hindus celebrate the Diwali festival under tight security and as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hinted at a Pakist..Read More
Is India waiting for some one else to declare Pakistan a terrorist state? The fact of the matter is that India is the country worse hit by terrorism - sponsored by none other than Pakistan. Over 50,00..Read More
Three terrorists, two of them belonging to the Hizbul Mujahideen, were among the four people killed while security forces seized an explosive device in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday evening, an off..Read More
Indian police hunted for clues after three explosions ripped through the capital New Delhi, killing 61 people on the eve of the biggest Hindu festival of the year.Saturday's blasts hit a bus and ..Read More
Fighting across Afghanistan ahead of the announcement of the final results of landmark legislative elections killed 23 people, including a US paratrooper, a British soldier and two worshippers dragged..Read More
At least 22 people have been detained in connection with the serial blasts in Delhi as police launched a massive hunt to nab the culprits.Police raided scores of places across the capital, including P..Read More
United States and Britain were among a host of nations which condemned today's deadly bomb blasts here, terming it "barbaric" and a "criminal act of terrorism.""We condemn these attacks in the st..Read More
As the country coped with news of a tragic train accident in Nalgonda and a bus accident in Tiruchirappalli, terror struck Delhi with three serial blasts - setting off a high national security alert.D..Read More
Confirmed reports of bomb blasts in India's capital New Delhi just 3 days beofre the major hindu festival of Diwali. Police confirmed blasts in the hindu market areas of Pahargunj, Okhla, Govind ..Read More
On Oct. 10, just two days after an earthquake killed tens of thousands in South Asia, Islamist terrorists belonging to Hizb ul-Mujahideen and Lashkar e-Tolba killed 10 Hindu civilians in the Rajouri d..Read More
In November, 2005, Pakistan's design to destroy and dismember India will go one step further. For in November, 2005, in continuation of farcical 'Confidence Building measures', a weekly..Read More
Every year since September 11, 2001, there have been threats of potential Al Qaeda attacks during the month of Ramadan. This year is no exception, as there have been reports of an all encompassing "Gr..Read More
For the past month, agencies have been intercepting communications suggesting that about three hundred hidden terrorists are trying to set up a training camp in the hills of Tangail district, which is..Read More
Shaken by the earthquake and the reverses at the hands of security forces, terrorists in J&K are busy trying to regroup and mobilise overground workers for big strikes next summer."Terrorist groups li..Read More
Security forces apprehended two over ground workers (OGWs) of militants and recovered a cache of arms and explosives in separate incidents in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir since last night, de..Read More
Iran is providing refuge to around 25 leading members of the al-Qaeda terror group including three of Osama bin Laden's sons, a German magazine reported on Wednesday.Cicero magazine said Saad, Mo..Read More
Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded an area of northern Gaza on Wednesday in response to Palestinian militants firing a rocket into Israel's southern town of Sderot.No casualties were reporte..Read More