Sometime back the nation’s elite intelligence and security agencies noticed a new phenomenon among terror outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir. There was a sudden drop in communication, either via wireless or email, between terrorists operating on both sides of the border. A detailed probe indicated that subversive elements had switched over to Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as their preferred mode of communication.

The Naxals through their two intermediaries, B.D. Sharma and Prof. Harg-opal, have for the first time spelt out the reason for kidnapping Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon.

The two interlocutors on th

The Naxals, through their two intermediaries — B.D. Sharma and Prof. Hargopal — have for the first time spelt out why they kidnapped Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon, and this has been conveyed to the state government after their return from detailed deliberations with the Maoists in the jungles of South Bastar.

There has been a significant movement forward in talks between the Naxal and government-appointed mediators, raising hopes that the kidnapped Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon may be released soon.

In a fresh twist to the ongoing hostage crisis, the Chhattisgarh government has in an important move decided not to accept the two main demands of the Naxals to release the eight hardcore jailed Maois

Investigations into the sensational kidnapping of Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon has revealed that the Naxals have put in place a formidable intelligence network not just in Chhattisgarh but even in

It’s not as if the sensational kidnapping of Sukma collector Alex Pal Menon Sukma has taken the security agencies completely by surprise.

In fact, the Intelligence Bureau’s multi-agency centre here

It’s not as if the sensational kidnapping of Sukma collector Alex Pal Menon Sukma has taken the security agencies completely by surprise.

Credible information, developed over the last few months by field operatives of Central intelligence agencies in the Northeast, Bangladesh and Burma has confirmed that Ulfa top commander Paresh Baruah

In what is being viewed as a new modus operandi adopted by the Naxal outfits, “that can have long-term lethal consequences,’’ the Maoists are now pressuring the contractors working in areas under thei