Steering clear of controversial issues like action against 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, New Delhi set the ball rolling for furthering the peace dialogue and reducing the “trust deficit” with Islamabad at the talks between home secretary G.K. Pillai and Pakistan’s interior secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhary, which ended here on Tuesday.

The Centre has issued a notification transferring the 2006 Malegaon blast and 2008 Mecca Masjid blast cases from the CBI to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

A group of ministers (GoM) on Thursday recommended that the ministry of extermal affairs may soon write to the US department of justice to press for the extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation

India will soon be handing over to Pakistan “inquest’’ reports of the nine slain Pakistani terrorists in the 26/11 attack and the “search memo’’ of the boat in which the 10 terrorists travelled to rea

In the light of the Supreme Court verdict setting aside the appointment of P.J. Thomas as CVC, the government is finalising fresh set of guidelines for the appointments of the CVC and vigilance commissioners. The guidelines suggest that the appointment for the head of the country’s top anti-corruption watchdog will not be restricted to civil servants.

A section of CPI(M) leaders in Delhi are upset over the party state secretariat's decision to drop Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan from contesting in the Kerala assembly polls.

Union home secretary G.K. Pillai flew to Kolkata on Friday to resolve the tricky situation arising out of differences between the home ministry and the Army over handling of clashes between rival factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim in the border districts of Tirap and Changlang in eastern Arunachal Pradesh.

The government is fast-tracking efforts to enact legislation to tackle sea piracy that will empower Indian forces facing danger outside the country’s territory.
Government sources said the committee of secretaries (CoS) headed by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandra-sekhar met recently to discuss the issue. A proposal to bring

The Union home ministry has written letters to the CBI and state governments concerned asking them whether they would like to hand over all “Hindu terror” cases, including the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008, the Ajmer Dargah blasts case of 2007 and the 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts case, to the National Investigation Agency.

The Union home ministry has written letters to the CBI and state governments concerned asking them whether they would like to hand over all “Hindu terror” cases, including the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008, the Ajmer Dargah blasts case of 2007 and the 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts case, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).