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India's anti-terror intelligence hub cleared
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January
2012
New Delhi. An ambitious plan of Home
Minister P. Chidambaram to set up an intelligence
hub that will integrate and analyse inputs
on terror threats in India was finally accorded
government approval Jan 12 after hanging fire
for almost two years. |
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Securing India’s borders: Critical infrastructure
and human lives important |
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December
2011
New Delhi. Securing India’s critical
national infrastructure, borders, airports,
commercial ports and communication centres
to some of the largest oil and gas installations
and pipelines that run across some of the
most inhospitable terrain in the world, has
become a priority for today’s India. |
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Intergrated C41SR for Homeland Security |
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December
2011
Security is critical, be it against
terror attacks, pilferage of national resources
or even domestic riots with damage to critical
local infrastructure. |
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BSF reiterates its commitment to Anti-Maoists
Operations |
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December
2011
New Delhi. Two battalions, six new MI-17
choppers and one ‘Dhruv’ Advanced Light Helicopter
will be deployed by Border Security Force
to combat Maoists in anti-naxal areas in Chattisgarh
and Odisha. |
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BSF celebrates 46th Raising Day |
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December
2011
New Delhi. The Border Security Force
(BSF) celebrated its 46th Raising Day Dec
1 at its Chhawla camp here with Home Minister
P. Chidambaram taking the salute. |
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UAE, India sign Security Agreements |
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November
2011
New Delhi. India and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) signed an important “Agreement
on Security Cooperation” Nov 23, enhancing
existing cooperation particularly against
terrorism. |
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Kayani refused to take away Lakhvi's mobile:
report |
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November
2011
Washington. Pakistani Army chief General
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani rejected a US request
to take away the cell phone Zaki-ur-Rehman
Lakhvi, a mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror
attacks, was using in jail. |
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ITBP turns 50 – And with elan |
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November
2011
New Delhi. It was a perfect morale booster
for the men working zealously on the difficult
terrains of the sensitive Indo- China border.
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Chidambaram asks police officers to outsmart
adversaries |
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November
2011
Hyderabad. Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram
says the police needed to equip themselves
on par with their adversaries in the changing
times. |
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Super Black Cat commandos by 2015: NSG chief
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October
2011
Manesar (Haryana). India's elite counter-terrorism
force, the National Security Guard (NSG) will
have Super Black Cat commandos after the force's
modernisation by the end of 2015, says its
chief. |
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India calls for UN reforms, unrelenting war
against terror |
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September
2011
United Nations. Declaring that India
stands ready to play its part in meeting global
challenges from economic downturn to terrorism,
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday sought
key reforms at the UN and global financial
institutions. |
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Reliance partners with Siemens for Homeland
Security |
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September
2011
Mumbai. Reliance Security Solutions
Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries
Ltd., (RIL) and Siemens Ltd. have signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop
Homeland Security Solutions for Safe, Secure
and Smart Cities and Highways in India. |
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Raytheon to supply security simulator to Indian
firm |
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September
2011
New Delhi. US defence major Raytheon
Company has signed a contract with Indian
firm BCL Secure Premises to supply a virtual
security training simulator (VIRTSIM). |
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US declares Indian Mujahideen foreign terror
outfit |
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September
2011
New Delhi. As Indian agencies work hard
to establish if terror module Indian Mujahideen
(IM) has a role in the Sep 7 Delhi High Court
blast, the US has designated the outfit as
a foreign terrorist organisation for its involvement
in a number of attacks across India since
2005. |
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India’s homeland security market to double
by 2018 |
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July
2011
New Delhi. Counter-terrorism, trans-national
crime, coastal security, cyber security, mega
city policing, countering illicit financing
,money laundering and innumerable such grave
issues, were brain stormed to find solutions
to prevent and combat at India’s biggest homeland
security event, INDESEC. |
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Bill on intelligence agencies reforms soon |
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July
2011
New Delhi. The government will soon
decide on the legislation that seeks parliamentary
supervision of intelligence agencies for their
better and efficient functioning, former home
secretary G.K. Pillai said July 29. |
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Government sets up Task Force for Security
Review |
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July
2011
New Delhi. Seasoned bureaucrat Naresh
Chandra has been entrusted with the task of
reviewing the country’s entire gamut of defence
preparedness and management. |
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India to set up new agency to trace black
money |
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June
2011
New Delhi. India will soon set up a
directorate of criminal investigation in its
income tax department to deal with issues
related to tax crimes and trace black money,
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee says. |
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Pakistan must destroy terror camps: Antony |
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May
2011
Kannur (Kerala). For better relations
with India, Pakistan will have to dismantle
the terror camps on its soil, Defence Minister
A.K. Antony has observed. |
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US firm signs up DRDO for explosives detection
kit technology |
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April
2011
New Delhi. India's Defence Research
& Development Organisation (DRDO) has got
a shot in the arm for its efforts to market
its world-class products globally with an
American firm signing it up for technology
transfer of an explosive detection kit (EDK). |
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Government may tighten phone tapping norms |
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April
2011
New Delhi. The government is likely
to make phone tapping norms more stringent,
including prohibiting it for detecting income
tax evasions, after recommendations from a
panel headed by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar.
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Assam Rifles Celebrates 176th Anniversary |
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April
2011
New Delhi. Assam Rifles, the oldest
Para-Military force in the country, celebrated
its 176th anniversary here last Saturday April
9. |
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Global Security Leadership Summit recommends
formal training |
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January
2011
New Delhi. The mission was a Safe India
and the aim threat assessment and response.
The success or failure of a security strategy
relies upon the deployment of an appropriate
solution. |
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K Subrahmanyam: The man who worked tirelessly
to make India secure |
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January
2011
Committed, courageous and consistent
in his abiding engagement with national security
and the global strategic environment for almost
50 years, K Subrahmanyam , KS or Subbu, as
he was better known, who passed away Feb 2,
will be long remembered for his singular and
distinctive contribution to 'Bharat Raksha,'
the defence and protection of India and its
core interests. |
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Elements in Pakistani state back terror: India
|
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January
2011
New Delhi. Ahead of bilateral talks
in Thimphu, India asked Pakistan Jan 27 to
tackle the 'Frankenstein monster' of terror
it has created and said "some elements" in
the Pakistani state were backing terrorists. |
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Blackberry says 'No' to India |
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January
2011
New Delhi. BlackBerry maker Research
In Motion (RIM) flatly said Jan 27 that it
could not share access to corporate accounts
with the Indian Government. |
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'Eventual solution' to terrorism lies with
Pakistan, says US |
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January
2011
Washington. The United States will continue
to engage with Islamabad as it looks at Pakistan
as part of the "eventual solution" to the
problem of terrorism originating from there,
a senior administration official has said. |
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Saudi Arabia captures 'Israeli spy' vulture
|
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January
2011
London. A vulture tagged by Israeli
scientists was "arrested" on suspicion of
being a Mossad spy after the bird strayed
into Saudi Arabian territory, according to
a media report. |
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'Pakistan negotiating drone deal with US'
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January
2011
Islamabad. Pakistan, which wants American
drones for taking on militants, is still working
on a deal with the US to acquire its own fleet
of the surveillance aircraft, a media report
says. |
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US seeks to scan travellers at Pakistani airports
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January
2011
Islamabad. The US has sought data of
all passengers flying out from Pakistan and
proposed to deploy American security officials
at Pakistan's airports to thwart terror attacks
on its soil, a Pakistani Foreign Office official
has revealed. |
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India's UN envoy Hardeep S Puri has no problem
with pat down searches |
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January
2011
Washington. As a "global citizen" India's
permanent representative to the United Nations,
Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, has no problem with
the controversial 'pat down' searches at US
airports and seeks no exemption for himself.
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No civilised state can hide terrorists: Russian
president |
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December
2010
New Delhi. Without naming Pakistan,
visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Tuesday said "no civilised state can hide
terrorists". |
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Link Research on Security to Real Life Problems:
Antony |
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November
2010
New Delhi. Lauding the work of the Institute
of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), India’s
premier think tank in his Presidential Address
at the 45th Foundation Day Function on November
11, Defence Minister A K Antony adviserd that
research work should be linked to everyday
life’s problems. |
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“Terrorism in South Asia Could Spread to Other
Regions,” India Warns |
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November
2010
New Delhi. Almost all states of the
South Asian region were engaged, directly
or indirectly, in acts of terrorism and had
been found to play one ground against another
rather than find solutions. |
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Flag-lowering ceremony at Wagah border to
become history |
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October
2010
Islamabad. The traditionally hostile
flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border
post between India and Pakistan will become
a relic of the past after almost five decades
from Nov 1 as authorities from both sides
have agreed to do away with the show-piece
event of aggression. |
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BlackBerry allows interim data interception
|
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October
2010
New Delhi. BlackBerry maker, Research
in Motion (RIM), has temporarily agreed to
allow lawful interception by security agencies
of its messenger services, sparking hopes
the issue would be permanently resolved by
January-end. |
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Secrecy vital for Britain's safety, says MI6
chief |
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October
2010
London. Britain will be at risk if its
secrets are compromised, the chief of the
country's Secret Intelligence Service MI6
has said in a veiled attack on the courts,
which have demanded evidence from agents during
a string of human rights cases. |
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US checking report if FBI ignored tip on Headley
|
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October
2010
New Delhi. The US says it was looking
into a media report that the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) had a tip about Daood
Gilani aka David Coleman Headley's links with
a terror group in Pakistan three years before
terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008. |
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FBI in Training Exchange with CBI and NIA
|
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October
2010
New Delhi. The US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the
Ministry of Home Affairs, concluded on October
1 a five-day law enforcement exchange focusing
on interview and interrogation techniques.
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North Waziristan: The world's terror hub |
| |
September
2010
The US is finally coming in the open
to say that Pakistan’s notorious ISI is protecting
and propping terrorists, and that North Waziristan
is among the main hubs for training them.
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India asks Pakistan to end illegal occupation
of Kashmir |
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September
2010
New York. With Pakistan trying to rake
up the Kashmir issue at the United Nations
General Assembly, India has asserted that
Islamabad is in illegal possession of certain
parts of the state and asked it to first vacate
it before advising New Delhi. |
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Homeland security promises good business at
INDSEC 2010 |
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September
2010
New Delhi. A post 26/11 rush for homeland
security procurement and a steep rise in interest
by industries other than defence seemed evident
at INDSEC 2010, with minster, buyers, sellers
and the common man sharing the same concern
for security of soft targets. |
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BlackBerry: To be or not to be? |
| |
August
2010
New Delhi. Canadian BlackBerry smartphone
developer RIM (Research in Motion) is in news
these days due to serious security concerns
by various countries. |
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Shortfall of 1,350 IPS officers |
| |
August
2010
New Delhi. There is a shortage of 1,350
Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. |
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India's rising clout worries China as it builds
military might: US report |
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August
2010
Washington. China remains concerned
about strategic ramifications of India's rising
economic, political, and military power even
as it quickly modernises its own military,
according to a new US defence department report.
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Solution on Blackberry security soon but no
intention to snoop: Minister |
| |
August
2010
New Delhi. Minister of State for Communications
Sachin Pilot Wednesday hoped a solution wil
be found soon to access encrypted e-mails
and SMS messages sent on Blackberry devices
under certain situations but assured this
was only to address legitimate security concerns
and not invade a citizen's privacy. |
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UAE to suspend Blackberry services from Oct
11 |
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August
2010
Abu Dhabi. United Arab Emirates (UAE)
telecom authorities have decided to suspend
Blackberry services from Oct 11, citing security
concerns. |
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'Pakistan's ISI aids insurgency in India,
Afghanistan' |
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July
2010
Washington. Thousands of secret US military
records leaked by a whistleblower site reveal
that Pakistan's spy service ISI was actually
aiding the Afghan insurgency with a wing operating
against Afghanistan and India given broad
functional autonomy. |
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Red Terror: Army must not be Deployed |
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July
2010
New Delhi. The Home Secretary, Mr G
K Pillai, announced during a recent visit
to Chhattisgarh that it has been decided not
to deploy the army to fight the Maoists. |
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UN peacekeeper from India killed in Congo |
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May
2010
New Delhi. An Indian soldier from the
United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC) was killed May
24th when his patrol went to the aid of national
army forces caught in an ambush by unidentified
gunmen in the east of the country. |
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China’s Campaign of Cyber War |
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April
2010
New Delhi. China economic growth and
its military capabilities stemming out of
the economic propensity have propelled it
towards expanding its strategies in the realm
of cyber warfare. |
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Antony asks Forces to gear up for cyber warfare |
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April
2010
New Delhi. Taking stock of the increased
cyber attacks, Defence Minister A K Antony
has asked the top brass of the Armed Forces
to coordinate closely with various national
intelligence agencies and prepare crisis management
action plan to counter cyber attacks and cyber
terrorism. |
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US offers latest ASTOR airborne radar to India |
| |
March
2010
New Delhi. After F 35 JSF, F 16 Super
Viper, F 18 Super Hornet and P8I aircraft
and other weapon systems, the US has now offered
another sophisticated system to India, the
Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR). |
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Coast Guard Prepares for the ‘Bigger Battle’ |
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February
2010
New Delhi. Countries invariably pay a
heavy price for forgetting important lessons
of history. From the French, to Portuguese
to the East India Company, all entered India
through the vast coastline. |
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Indian Peacekeepers receive UN Medal for good
service in Congo |
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February
2010
North Kivu. India is the largest contriibutor
of peacekeepers to MONUC (United Nations Organization
Mission in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo) with more than 4,500 soldiers deployed
across North Kivu province. |
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Homeland Security concerns take a leap post-26/11
|
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January
2010
New Delhi. 26/11 not only changed the
way Indians think but also forced them to
think on the organizational perspective of
how to function in the future. |
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India works on to-do list to revamp homeland
security (One year after 26/11) |
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November
2009
New Delhi. Armoured vehicles, surveillance
radars, handheld imagers, unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), biometrics and software solutions...
those are the buzzwords as India revamps its
homeland security to make sure that there
is never another 26/11. |
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Indian Fake Currency Notes (IFCN) and ISI
|
| |
November
2009
New Delhi. The Madhya Pradesh Police
recently arrested two gangsters Ateeq Ahmed
and Rajesh Gupta, both Nepalese nationals,
along with fake currency notes of INR 500
denomination of Indian currency. |
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Chidambaram’s next priority: Modernising security
systems |
| |
October
2009
New Delhi. Impressed with what US security
agencies have done to counter terror after
the 9/11 attacks, Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram
is keen on replicating some of its best practices,
including creation of a national tracking
system and a security database, to secure
the country’s mega-cities against terrorist
attacks. |
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Taliban, and its terror in Pakistan |
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September
2009
The Swat valley is correctly known as
the Switzerland of Pakistan; it has beautiful
mountains, lush green pieces of grass land,
pristine lakes and enormous natural beauty.
The valley which is a part of the NWFP province
is just 140 km away from Islamabad, the capital
of Pakistan. |
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Does India have a Security Strategy? |
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July
2009
New Delhi. Business houses and business
leaders attach great importance to strategy,
but no one in India took serious heed of India’s
doyen military thinker K Subrahmanyam and
the late Gen K Sundarji. Both of them stated,
separately and on different occasions, that
India’s best kept secret is that India has
no strategy at all. |
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International Concern over Pakistan’s Expanding
N-arsenal |
| |
June
2009
New Delhi. Expressing concern over Pakistan’s
rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal, General
Deepak Kapoor, the Indian Chief of Army Staff
(COAS), has called on the international community
to prevail on Pakistan to cap its warheads
at present levels. |
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Citing
Mumbai, Obama creates top job for cyber security
|
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June
2009
Washington D.C. Citing the use of GPS
and internet phones in the Mumbai terror attack
as “the future face of war”, President Barack
Obama has created a cyber security czar to
secure America’s digital infrastructure. |
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Terror
weighs heavily on Government’s mind |
| |
January
2009
New Delhi. The Indian government wants
to tackle terror with an iron hand. |
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Peace
March at Wagah Border |
| |
December
2008
To mark the Human Right Day and the 60th
Anniversary of Universal Decleration of Human
Rights, Ms Shalini Dewan, Director of the
UN Information center for India and Bhutan,
accompained by Punjab Government Officials,
led a candle-light procession of over 2000
people on December 10. |
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Russian
Navy goes on long-distance tours of duty |
| |
December
2008
A battle group from the Russian Pacific
Fleet sets out on a tour of duty. The Admiral
Vinogradov large ASW ship, the Pechenga and
Boris Butoma tankers, as well as the Foty
Krylov tugboat are participating in the joint
Russian-Indian INDRA-2009 naval exercise.
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Terrorists
attacking Mumbai have Global Agenda |
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December
2008
Washington. Whenever New Delhi points
a finger at Pakistan in the aftermath of a
terrorist attack in India, a weary world seems
to say, “Here we go again!” The old enmity
between the two countries can tire spectators
who often quickly dismiss Indian accusations
of Pakistani malfeasance as little other than
political recriminations. |
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India’s
Coastal Security |
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December
2008
Bangalore. A few days before India’s
financial capital and commercial hub Mumbai
was held hostage by a terrorist group that
managed to sneak into the city from Karachi
in Pakistan, India’s Defence Minister A K
Antnoy had expressed his concern over the
poor security and inadequate surveillance
of India’s long coastal stretch. |
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Some
Day it will be Enough is Enough for Pakistan
|
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December
2008
Mumbai. India and Pakistan may have just
about returned from a military precipice.
But it is going to be very long before India’s
anger and Pakistan’s give-theproof brinkmanship
can show any sign of ebbing. |
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China’s
South Sea Fleet Gains Strength: Indicators,
Intentions & Implications |
| |
October
2008
China. The Chinese Navy is organised
into three fleets: The North Sea Fleet (NSF)
adjoining the Yellow Sea, the East Sea Fleet
(ESF) facing the East China Sea and potentially
responsible for any military operation against
Taiwan, and the South Sea Fleet SSF) responsible
for securing China’s maritime interests in
the South China Sea (SCS) and beyond. |
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The
assault on Marriott Hotel |
| |
October
2008
Latest medical researches have shown
that stem cells gone bad can be the cause
of cancer. The new President of Pakistan,
Asif Ali Zardari, said after Saturday’s blast
in Islamabad that terrorism is like cancer
and that he was bent upon eradicating it from
the body politic. |
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‘Jihadistan’
in Hindu Kush - the rise of a terrorist state |
| |
August
2008
A recent Washington Post article speaks
of the surge in Al Qaeda media propaganda
emanating from an online web network known
as as-Sahab (translation “the clouds”) and
produced in their “in-house propaganda studio”,
located, not surprisingly in “a secure base
in the ungoverned tribal areas of western
Pakistan”. |
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Back
to Disarmament |
| |
July
2008
THE Centre for Strategic and International
Studies, Delhi, and the Indian Council of
World Affairs held a joint conference to commemorate
the 20th anniversary of the ‘Action Plan on
Disarmament’ presented by then Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi to the UN General Assembly’s
Special Session on Disarmament on June 9,
1988. |
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Nations
must unite in war against terror: Antony |
| |
February
2008
New Delhi. With 187 of the world's 343
non-state armed groups operating in Asia,
the countries of the region as also the global
community must unite to find ways and means
to cooperate in the war against terror, Defence
Minister AK Antony has said. |
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National
Security is Human Security |
| |
November
2007
New Delhi. A call for redefining the
role of national security, to take it closer
to the people and to meet threats and challenges
that the new century is posing marked the
42nd Foundation Day of Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses (IDSA). |
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International
Space Security Conference |
| |
November
2007
New Delhi. Space is a realm currently used
for scientific, commercial, and military purposes.
Satellites make weather reporting possible,
allow people to call and transmit data overseas
instantaneously, and facilitate the fl ights
of precision-guided munitions (of the type
used in the Gulf War and in Afghanistan) to
their targets with great accuracy. |
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Secrets
of RAW |
| |
August
2007
This is a commentary on a recently released
book by a former offi cer in India's external
spying agency. There have been views and counter-views
and occasionally, some of RAW operatives have
spoken out of hand. Strangely, one RAW offi
cer, posted in a Gulf mission some years ago,
tried to denigrate his successor by alleging
that he was using the diplomatic bag to smuggle
gold. |
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