A section of Pakistan's Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) website was hacked on Friday, with a media report describing this as the handiwork of 'Indians".

IB sources in Gadchiroli told this newspaper that a major attack on security agencies was being planned by the Naxals since the last two months.

The growing threat of nuclear terrorism and the possibility of nuke materials falling into the hands of non-state actors has prompted the array of world leaders who gathered here for the Second Nuclear Security Summit to call for concerted efforts to tackle it both at the national and international levels.

India has yet again sought membership of four elite nuclear clubs — all multilateral export control regimes. This time it made its pitch at the Second Nuclear Security Summit here.

A Chandigarh court on Tuesday ordered that Balwant Singh Rajoana, on death row for assassinating former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, be hanged on March 31 as scheduled.

The 12 deceased killed in Gadchiroli Naxal attack were from the 192 Battalion.
The bus was part of a fleet of the CRPF vehicles that were en route to a civic action programme in Gatta village.

The national progress report presented by India at the Second Nuclear Security Summit here says, “India has adhered to NSG guidelines and has expressed interest in full membership of the NSG and other international export-control regimes.”

The neighbours met in Seoul, South Korea, after all. But if Pak Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was hoping that his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh would readily accept his invite to visit Pakistan, it was not to be. Instead, Dr Singh told his Pakistani counterpart that “something solid needs to be done before we can celebrate”.

The Congress government in Uttarakhand on Monday cleared a major hurdle with the election of its candidate Govind Singh Kunjwal as the Speaker of the Assembly by a good margin of eight votes over Bharatita Janata Party nominee Harbans Kapoor ahead of chief minister Vijay Bahuguna’s trust vote.

The Orissa government and Maoist interlocutors Monday resumed talks to free Basusco Paulo, the e second Italian being held hostage in the forests of Kandhamal, nearly 350 km from here.