The decks have been cleared for the setting up of an airbase near Bhilai in Chhattisgarh, which is expected to enable swifter air support for anti-Naxalite operations. The government has cleared hurdles in land acquisition for establishing the first Army and Indian Air Force bases in the Naxal-infested state, significantly increasing the military’s presence in the troubled region.

The Centre is looking at the option of introducing a fresh exercise exclusively for “caste Census” in 2011.

India is doubtful that Pakistan will act against its own retired or serving Army officials, accused in the 26/11 terror attack case, as such a move could prove to be a spoiler for Pakistan if the conspirators decide to “spill the beans’’ on the role of Pakistani state actors in 26/11. Government sources said that Major Abdur Rehman, alias Pasha,

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the West Bengal government on Tuesday agreed on a broad range on points for the setting up of a Gorkha Interim Authority, which is temporarily being called the Gorkhland Autonomous Authority (GAA). While the standoff between the GJM and the West Bengal government over the jurisdiction of the

Runaway couples in Haryana can finally breathe easy as the state government has said that it is the “personal’’ responsibility of district police authorities to give protection to all major persons wh

The war of words between India and Pakistan which erupted during foreign minister S.M. Krishna’s visit to Islamabad in July does not seem to end. His counterpart Pakistan foreign minister S.M. Qureshi seems to have found a new target in the Indian home secretary after Mr Krishna’s termed home secretary G.K. Pillai’s remarks on Pakistan Army’s role in 26/11 as “ill-timed”.

The Union home ministry has shelved its proposal for allowing direct entry of fresh Indian Police Service (IPS) recruits into a Central agency after the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) turned it down citing technical concerns.

The Centre is putting emphasis on the baton rather than the bullet in dealing with the separatist violence in Jammu & Kashmir.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on home affairs has given its nod to the Code of Criminal Procedure (amendment) Bill, 2010, which aims to streamline the powers of arrest of the police. The bill entails a significant amendment to Section 41 of the CrPC making it “compulsory’’ for the police to record in writing its reasons for

The Union home ministry has issued an advisory to all Naxal-affected states and the railways asking them to deploy an adequate number of security personnel in sensitive areas and strengthen security measures to guard the railway tracks against Maoists attacks during the martyrs’ week or “Shahid Saptah” being observed by the