In a major revamp of police forces to counter terrorism and insurgency, the government, in one of the biggest such orders, is purchasing 57,500 AK series weapons at a cost of 340 euros per weapon from a Bulgarian manufacturer of firearms and military equipment.

The entire conspiracy of the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast will unravel with arrests of key persons declared wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) like Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dang

Security forces have stepped up vigil in Jammu and Kashmir following infiltration attempts by cross border outfits and the proposed BJP’s “Ekta Yatra” where the party plans to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area on Republic Day.

To expedite investigation in “Hindu terror” cases, the Centre has decided to opt for “video-conferencing’’ of accused persons whose linkages are surfacing in more than one case. These involve Hindu extremists whose names have surfaced in terror cases such as the Ajmer, Mecca Masjid, Malegaon and Samjhauta blasts, which are being probed by different agencies.

Swami Aseemanand alias Nabh Kumar Sarkar alias Jatin Chatterjee. The face of Hindu terror. He first appeared before the Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Deepak Dabas on December 16, 2010.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to question Pragya Singh Thakur in connection with the Samjhauta blast case.

The Union home ministry is in a bind over its own survey conducted amongst serving and retired servicemen who have favoured continuation of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in

Despite an apparent “bourgeois trend’’ at the highest level of the party, the CPI(M) in a fresh document on the rectification campaign has blamed “association with bourgeois parties” for “corrosive effect” on its cadres. The document, “Organisational Tasks and Rectification”, went on to claim that the new entrants are “still to acquire the basic outlook of the party and they are yet to be grounded in the class and mass struggles”.

India is considering sending a commission to Pakistan to collect critical information related to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack which that country has failed to deliver in response to more than a dozen dossiers sent by New Delhi in the last two years.

Young officers of the rank of Captains and Majors in the Army can apply to become police officers if the home ministry’s proposal for limited recruitment into the Indian Police Service (IPS) is cleare