Preparing to deal with Mumbai attacks-like terror sieges, the Indian Army has started training its units deployed at various places considered as potential terrorist targets, according to DD India."We..Read More
American ammunition and its supplied assault rifles are finding their way into the hands of Taliban, making the militants carry out their battle against the US forces for years, a media report said.A ..Read More
With two major infiltration bids along the Line of Control in the last month, Army today said it had "redeployed" its troops and increased surveillance capabilities to prevent the terrorists' fro..Read More
The US military has acquired additional supply routes for coalition forces in Afghanistan, the top US general for southwest Asia said Tuesday, following a slew of attacks on supply depots in Pakistan...Read More
National Security Guard (NSG) has identified key high-end equipment required to better deal with urban terror situations and has already begun the process to acquire cutting edge new technology. The N..Read More
Learning a quick lesson from the Mumbai terror strikes, the army has decided to hasten the process of procuring hi-tech equipment for its special forces."After the Mumbai terror attacks, it has been d..Read More
Taliban militants launched a rocket attack on a NATO supply depot in northwest Pakistan early Tuesday, torching one truck and damaging three others, police said. The attack on the outskirts of the cit..Read More
India and Afghanistan on Friday jointly sent a tough message to Pakistan saying that no country should allow its territory to be used for terrorism. Pakistan remained at the centre of discussions bet..Read More
Asking Islamabad to end cross-border terrorism, the Consul General of India in Toronto said all the bases of terror outfits in Pakistan must be demolished to maintain international peace and security..Read More
A group of clerics and religious scholars have issued a fatwa or edict that says jihad will be obligatory for every Pakistani citizen if India attacks the country. The fatwa was announced at a confere..Read More
ntelligence agencies have traced the origins of the fake currency that is being used to fund terror activities in India.
Intelligence Bureau officials have information that fake Indian currency is..Read More
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is scheduled to visit New Delhi this week, today spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two agreed to intensify bilateral co-operation in anti-terror eff..Read More
As a "further demonstration" of solidarity with the Indian government in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks, President George Bush has asked the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to travel to India t..Read More
Bangalore on Saturday bid a tearful farewell to Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, the NSG commando who was killed in the bloodiest counter-offensive at the Taj hotel in Mumbai.Family members, friends and ar..Read More
In the wake of the terror attacks in Mumbai, private security agencies deployed at hotels, malls, monuments and other public places across the country have demanded to be allowed to carry semi-automat..Read More
In the wake of deadly terror strikes in Mumbai, Government will bolster the strength of the country's National Security Guard and enact legislation to strengthen existing anti-terror laws, a seni..Read More
In the wake of Mumbai terror strikes by gunmen who gained access through the sea route, a high-level meeting today decided on better coordination between Navy, Coast Guard and Police to avoid recurren..Read More
American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Friday that there was mounting evidence that a Pakistani militant group based in Kashmir, most likely Lashkar-e-Taiba, was responsible for thi..Read More
In a shocking revelation on late Friday night, it has been reported that one of the terrorists holed up in hotel Taj Mahal was doing his internship there as Trainee Chef for past 10 months. The revela..Read More
A goof-up late Wednesday night by Home Minister Shivraj Patil and the airing of live footage by television channels on Thursday compromised rescue operations at the Trident and Taj hotels in Mumbai by..Read More
The Secretary General of the 26-member NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, condemned here Thursday in the strongest terms "the mindless and indiscriminate terrorist attacks in Mumbai.""Attacking innocent pe..Read More
Less than a fortnight after Pakistan promised to stop cross-border firing, its troops today shelled Indian posts, again violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu an..Read More
Having confirmed that four militants from Kerala were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month, Kerala police and its intelligence wing have stepped up effor..Read More
A report by US military intelligence has claimed that the messaging application Twitter could be used by terrorists as an operational tool. This should be a wake up call for Indian agencies as more te..Read More
In a crackdown against naxals, the CRPF has killed two Left wing extremists besides seizing over 700 kg of explosives and arresting 34 naxals in the first fortnight of this month. The CRPF sources sai..Read More
The CRPF in its operation across 18 states of the country this year has seized over 7,000 kg of explosives with the highest being reported from naxal infested states, according to the latest statistic..Read More
Four low intensity blasts took place in Agartala on Wednesday. One person is dead and over 35 injured, police said. The bombs went off in the Tripura capital within a span of about 30 minutes.The firs..Read More
With the Centre facing the heat over terrorism, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan on Tuesday admitted that intelligence was 'not good enough' but claimed there were also successes like..Read More
OC Ground Forces Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi paid an unscheduled visit to the disputed state of Kashmir last week to get an up-close look at the challenges the Indian military faces in its fight aga..Read More
With crimes and terror attacks having inter-state ramifications, the government is putting in place a hi-tech system to establish a countrywide network covering almost all the 14,000 police stations...Read More
At least five people were killed on Friday in a missile attack by a suspected U.S. drone in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, in a stepped up campaign against militants near the Afghan border.U..Read More
The Pakistan government on Saturday announced that it will suspend military operations against the Taliban in the country's north-western tribal areas in view of the holy Islamic month of Ramzan,..Read More
Militant groups that were banned during the tenure of former President Pervez Musharraf, have again become active and reopened their offices in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.The Lashker-..Read More
Cracking the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts that killed 55 persons, Gujarat police on Saturday arrested its mastermind Mufti Abu Bashir and nine others and said that the network of SIMI was behind the e..Read More
Indian intelligence agencies have uncovered at least 800 terrorist cells in the country operating with "external support," and are now looking for the brains behind them within India, National Securit..Read More
A specially-designated tribunal on Tuesday lifted the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India. In a 267-page judgment, Justice Geeta Mittal, a Delhi High Court judge, stated that the material pr..Read More
A major tragedy was on Thursday averted by alert Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) when they detected and defused a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted on Srinagar-Baltal yatra route...Read More
An "annoyed" US President George W Bush has confronted Pakistan Prime Minister over the leaking of intelligence, shared by Washington, to militants by the ISI and quizzed him on who was controlling th..Read More
The arrest of suspected Pakistani terrorist Shakil from Lucknow by the Uttar Pradesh police a few days ago has exposed the shocking vulnerability of the chief minister's office to which he had ac..Read More
In some blunt talking on Pakistan's role in fomenting terrorism in Kashmir, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has said the US should confront Islamabad on its funding of "mujahideen" g..Read More
At least 29 people were killed and over 100 were injured as 16 serial bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad on Saturday evening. Cycles were probably used to plant the bombs while some were placed on buses, G ..Read More
Pakistani troops today fired heavily at Indian forces at a forward post in Krishna Ghatti sector in Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said here. However, the Indian troops exercised restraint and..Read More
A string of nine synchronised low intensity bomb blasts today rocked the IT hub during the busy lunch hour, leaving two killed and injuring 12 others spreading terror.In a grim reminder of the terror ..Read More
A senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan surrendered to Authorities and British forces killed another leader, dealing a "shattering blow" to the militant group's leadership, the British..Read More
The Union Home Secretary, Shri Madhukar Gupta chaired here today a high level meeting to review the Naxal situation in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Apart from senior officers of..Read More
In the second major strike by Maoists in Orissa in less than three weeks, 21 policemen were feared killed in a landmine explosion and firing by the ultras in Malkangiri district on Wednesday.The van c..Read More
Lashing out at President George W Bush for his failure to "roll up" the Al Qaeda leadership, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has insisted that his administration will go into Pakistan unil..Read More
IBDEditorials.com reports that hawks in the Pentagon and CIA have managed to convince the White House to adopt a more aggressive, go-it-alone policy in response to Pakistan's failure to disrupt t..Read More
Two weeks before the suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed 41 people, Indian intelligence agencies had alerted Afghan authorities of the possibility of such an attack by the Talib..Read More
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
The Indian army said it has not suspended counterinsurgency operations against an armed terror group in northeastern Assam state. The army said its operations against the rebels of militant group Unit..Read More
The Taliban has created a "resilient insurgency" in Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday. In a report to the U.S. Congress, ..Read More
The Pakistani Frontier Corps has been heavily infiltrated and influenced by Taliban militants, according to classified US documents appeared in a daily in London on Sunday. There are "box loads" of re..Read More
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan, a forceful warning to insurgents and the Pakistani government that his country i..Read More
Around 400 imprisoned Taliban were freed in a an insurgent attack on a prison in southern Afghanistan, which left more than a dozen dead, lawmakers and escaped prisoners said Saturday.The multi-pronge..Read More
On the eve of India-Pakistan talks, an Indian soldier was killed in firing from Pakistan across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Krishna Ghati sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning - a second ..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
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately convene a meeting of all state chief ministers to discuss internal security concerns in the aftermath of th..Read More
Five major blasts rocked the pink city of 'Jaipur' on Tuesday (May 13) at 7.35 pm. The serial blasts occured in Tripolia, Manek Chowk and Chandpol Gate, while the fourth blast occured at Lak..Read More
The terror infrastructure in Pakistan is still operational and the neighboring country is harboring militants, a top army officer said on Tuesday."The terror infrastructure is intact in Pakistan for t..Read More
American commanders in Afghanistan have in recent months urged a widening of the war that could include American attacks on indigenous Pakistani militants in the tribal areas inside Pakistan, accordin..Read More
A senior Taliban commander who became a hero to Islamic militants for his role in shooting down a U.S. helicopter in 2005, killing all 16 special forces troops aboard, has been killed by Pakistani sec..Read More
Two personnel of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) were today killed and several others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of Indian road construction workers in south west Afgh..Read More
Indian Army will impart training to Afghan Army in counter-insurgency operations. It was decided during a meeting between the Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and his Indian counter-parts he..Read More
The presence of terror camps in Pakistan continues to haunt the security establishment in India, which still feels that ISI-sponsored outfits like JeM, LeT and Al-Badr are responsible for carrying out..Read More
As per the available reports, the details of estimated infiltration that took place in the State of Jammu and Kashmir from across the border, during the last five years are given below:2003 - 1373
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At least two persons are dead and nine injured after an explosion at a restaurant popular with foreigners and diplomats in Islamabad. At least three US citizens are among the injured. The explosion at..Read More
The European Union's decision to renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) plus scheme provided for Sri Lanka's exports for another three years from January 2009, despite its adverse..Read More
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff departed for Pakistan today to discuss security issues with Pakistani military officials, a senior U.S. military officer told Pentagon reporters here.Navy Adm..Read More
Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A K Antony on Tuesday said that nuclear proliferation continues to be a serious challenge for mankind. They were speaking at the t..Read More
(Strategic Intelligence Estimates.com)Our intelligence analysts have observed several trends and occurrences that indicate the United States and its NATO allies may be preparing to take significant ac..Read More
India should wake up to the consequences of the "disastrous policy" being pursued by the US in Pakistan and Afghanistan, former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on Tuesday."The US policy i..Read More
Security forces Saturday gunned down two guerrillas of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant outfit after a fierce gunfight in south Kashmir Pulwama district.Police said troops of anti-insurgency 44 Rashtri..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
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh outlining a tough approach to tackle left-wing extremism and terrorism during the conference of chief ministers last week, the Centre has agreed to recruit over 35,0..Read More
The Indian Army has vacated all the school, hospital and other official buildings in Kashmir as per the directives of Defence Minister A.K. Antony, a military spokesman said here Saturday.'We hav..Read More
Pakistan-based terror outfits have formed a strong nexus with militants in Bangladesh and are taking advantage of the porous border to carry out attacks in India, according to the paramilitary Border ..Read More
Maoists staged nationwide rallies today to press the Nepal government to enforce the motions regarding declaration of republic and proportional representation system which were adopted by the interim ..Read More
The imposition of emergency in Pakistan has not put any pressure on Taliban in Swat district. Taliban have taken over police stations in Matta, Khawazkhela and Charbagh. This scribe visited the Matta ..Read More
A suicide bomber killed some 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a group of visiting Afghan parliamentarians in northern Afghanistan, the director of the local hospital said. The suici..Read More
Taleban fighters in Pakistan's northern district of Swat have paraded 48 paramilitary troops they captured in fighting this week. The soldiers said they surrendered when their positions on a hill..Read More
Lieutenant General A.S. Sekhon, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15 Corps, has said that infiltration still posed a threat in Kashmir. Lieutenant General Sekhon said rebels continue to cross ov..Read More
66 ULFA cadre and 2 NDFB cadre surrendered with arms and ammunitions before the Assam Police. The surrender was taken jointly by General Officer Commanding 4 Corps and Director General of Police, Assa..Read More
A surrender ceremony was conducted at Laipuli under the aegis of Dah Division for the 14 cadres of various outfits including Self Styled Private Toor Moni Borgohain wife of Self Styled Lieutenant Praj..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
Defence Minister A K Antony will review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir today. Antony on Friday said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was improving compared to the past, and expressed th..Read More
Nine militants, suspected of belonging to al-Badar, were killed in a three-day long operation carried out by the Army that ended today morning in Tangmarg area of Baramulla District.The Indian Army lo..Read More
The Indian Army chief, Gen. J.J. Singh, Friday said insurgency had come down to a great extent in the northeast and peace was returning to the region."There is a groundswell of support for peace in th..Read More
Security forces on Tuesday morning shot dead five militants in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora District. According to defence sources, three militants were killed when a ..Read More
NewsBlaze reports according to the India Army perhaps as many as 5,000 well trained Islamic militants in Pakistan or in the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan are ready to attempt infiltration int..Read More
Thailand and India are conducting a joint military exercise to share anti-terrorism tactics in India's eastern state of Jharkhand, local media reported.The 17-day exercise, the first of its kind ..Read More
Chief of Army Staff, General J J Singh, will visit Russia next month. General Singh would be in Russia from September 15 to 19, and is expected to take up defence and security issues with his Russian ..Read More
Thailand will be sending an army contingent to India take tips from the Indian Army on fighting insurgency and participate in counter-terrorism training, it was reported Friday.Nearly 100 troops from ..Read More
The Assam government Monday launched a massive anti-insurgency offensive after separatists killed 36 people in the past week, most of them Hindi-speaking people, while the panic stricken migrant worke..Read More
Indian and Thai armies will be conducting a joint exercise near Ramgarh in Jharkhand next month, which will focus on counter terrorism tactics.The joint operation involving close to a total of 100 sol..Read More
Police have recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant Shabbir, who was arrested here on Friday.Joint Commissioner of Police Karnal Singh today said that dur..Read More
The US will consider the use of military force, if necessary, to stem Al Qaeda's growing ability to use its hideout in Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks, a White House aide said on Sunday.US P..Read More
The Pakistan Government has dismissed a US suggestion of striking potential terrorist targets in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Pakistan-Afghan border, terming it "irresponsibl..Read More
At least 15 people were killed and 45 injured on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Islamabad near an enclosure of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto-led Pakistan People's Party a..Read More
