India will get a federal investigating agency soon as the union cabinet has approved the formation of a National Investigating Agency (NIA) to probe and prosecute terror-related and other crimes. The cabinet meeting which held on December 15 also approved the proposal of amending the Unlawful ...

The Taj group has taken a noble step by setting up a welfare fund called Taj Public Service Welfare Trust (TPSWT) to provide relief to all the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai atrocities. The TPSWT will extend its helping hands to all the families of the terror victims. Apart from these, the trust will ...

Talking at a special meeting of the Security Council on terrorism Indian Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday (9th December) to blacklist terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa and other such organizations. He also urged the UNSC to help India in ...

A case has been filed at the Mumbai high court to ban the services of Google Earth as it is suspected that the Mumbai attackers had taken the assistance of the online satellite imaging tool to devastate the city on November 26. The demand of banning Google Earth and similar services came from an ...

The security forces of Pakistan have arrested one of the suspected planners of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. According to the official of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the security forces have nabbed Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in a raid on a camp used by Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters outside Muzaffarabad, the capital ...

The Panjab University has announced to introduce a new course on intelligence and internal security system by next year. Under the proposed course, the students will acquire knowledge to counter global terrorism. The one-year post-graduate diploma course in ‘homeland security’ will be ...

Bureau of Civil Aviation issued a hijack warning for Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai airports, following warnings from intelligence agencies.  After receiving inputs from intelligence agencies about possible aerial strikes by terrorists, airports were put on high alert as the reports suggested ...

According to a report of American intelligence agencies, the terrorists who pounced on Mumbai on 26/11 were trained by former officers from Pakistan's Army and its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. However, the intelligence agencies couldnot come with valid evidences to establish a ...

US Senator John McCain, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed a military strike against Islamabad since there was no hard evidence against Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attack. He was hopeful that the government of Pakistan would cooperate in probing the heinous attack on India’s financial ...

When the centre is looking forward to setup an all-important “federal police agency” to contain terrorism in the country, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, a key ally of the BJP led National Democratic Alliance, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed the move saying that the central ...

The post-attack moments have not been going respectable for the Congress-NCP led coalition government in Maharashtra. In a latest reprimand, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has said that the Government of Maharashtra has been callous on ensuring proper maritime ...

Fresh reports on Mumbai attack send a clear indication that intelligence agencies had precise information at least 10 months ago that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning an attack on one of the prominent five-star hotels of Mumbai.
The reports state that on September 18, Research and Analysis Wing ...

A powerful bomb blast inside a passenger train in Assam claimed three lives and injured another 30 people on December 2. As per the official source, the explosion took place inside a carriage of an Inter City passenger train at the Diphu railway station which is about 300 km east of Guwahati. The ...

Orissa railway stations are likely to get high tech security gadgets as the East Coast Railway authorities have proposed for the project. The newly proposed plan is taken to shun any kind of terrorist attack. It is very essential to install high tech security gadgets at railway stations, especially ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party, incensed over the latest acts of the terrorists, said that it will not allow any official of the Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency to land in Mumbai to probe the recent terror attack. BJP general secretary Gopinath Munde on Sunday ...

A day after the Congress Working Committee showed “the exit” to anti-incumbent Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Monday morning (December 01) resigned from his chair. Patil termed the abdication as a decision taken as per his conscience ...

The recent terror attacks on Mumbai are all set to claim another victim - BlackBerry services. It is very likely that the e-mail services of BlackBerry will come under the government’s scanner once again. The intelligence authorities' failure to intercept the satellite communication mode, ...

Bollywood actor Ashish Chaudhary lost his sister Monica Chhabaria and her husband to the terror strike on Oberoi Trident Hotel. The actor had been waiting for the news on his sister and brother-in-law since Wednesday night, the night Mumbai shook with terror. Monica and her husband had gone to ...

Indian commandos have successfully eliminated militants present in the iconic five star hotel Taj Mahal which was under terrorist's captive for more than 59 hours. The terror attacks in Mumbai on Wednesday (November 26) night jolted the city by claiming 155 lives besides injuring scores of others. ...

The commandos fighting the terrorist at Taj Mahal Hotel have recovered a Mauritian identity card, credit and debit cards of banks and explosives from the terrorists, a senior marine commando said.
According to the commando, a bag filled with material was recovered from the hertiage building of the ...

To coordinate with Indian intelligence and security agencies about the planning and evidence collected on the attacks, the United States of America is sending a delegation of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and forensic scientists to Mumbai, a media report in New York said on Friday (November ...

Keeping the state of Mumbai terror attack in mind, the authorities on Thursday (November 27) beefed up the security arrangements at the Somnath Temple and its adjoining premises. Two companies of State Reserve Police Force have been deployed metal detectors placed at all entry points in the temple. ...

India’s National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) that the terrorists involved in the on-going terror attack on Mumbai were members of Lashkar-e-Toyeba and originated in neighbouring ...

Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar were among the 11 police officials killed fighting the terrorists on Wednesday night. Karkare, a 1982 batch IPS officer, suffered three bullet injuries in his chest as ...

India's financial capital, Mumbai again experienced one of the diabolic terror attacks which killed about 100 people besides injuring 287 on Wednesday (November 26) night. Dead include 6 foreign tourists and three top police officers. ATS chief Hemant Karkare is also among those killed. The ...

One of the key accused in Mumbai train bomb blast, Rahil Shaikh has been reportedly nabbed in London by the Interpol. According to source, the Interpol has asked India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit the details of the all the accused of the Mumbai bomb blast that killed 187 ...

An Indian Navy warship deployed in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a vessel of the Somali pirates. A statement released by the Indian Navy on Wednesday (November 19), said that INS Tabar retaliated in self defence and opened fire on the mother vessel. As a result of the firing by INS Tabar, fire ...

A powerful bomb blast exploded at Zakir colony on Hapur Road of Meerut. The blast which took place at 4 pm killed at least 5 people and injured 10 others. 

According to media reports the explosion occurred at a scrap-dealer's shop in Meerut’s crowded Fatehpur locality. Although the ...

The serial bomb blasts of Assam that took place on October 30 were claimed to be executed by lesser-known outfit called Islamic Security Force-Indian Mujahideen (ISF-IM). The group itself claimed the responsibility of the blast through a SMS to a local news channel of Assam. At least 12 serial bomb ...

India and Nepal are likely to hold a high level meeting on terrorism in New Delhi today. The home secretaries of both the nations are supposed to discuss various issues in this two-day meet. Besides terrorism, issues like trans-border crime, border management, security etc are supposed to be raised ...