The government is trying to build a consensus to amend the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), which gives the armed forces legal immunity for their actions, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on

The face of airport security in the country is set to undergo a massive overhaul once a foolproof security mechanism planned by the government and security agencies.

A confidential home ministry not

It is not just your BlackBerry and mobile phones, the government also wants to snoop in on your Twitter and Facebook accounts.

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Communicati

Police in three Rajasthan districts have been told to be on high alert after intelligence agencies caught frequencies of a satellite phone being used to make calls across the border to Pakistan, infor

Calling fake encounter killings as nothing but 'cold blooded brutal murder', the Supreme Court said police personnel involved in such incidents should be awarded death sentence and hanged.

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Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of witnessing the highest number of fake encounters with nearly 120 people being allegedly killed by police in such incidents in past three years.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may be the premier agency probing corruption, but 76 of its own officers are in the dock on a wide variety of charges.

Minister of State in the Prime Ministe

A palatial bungalow, lakhs in cash and jewellery, two luxury cars and a well-stocked bar with the best of international liquor brands - CBI sleuths stumbled upon all this and more during a recent raid

As India assumes the month-long presidency of the UN Security Council, the international community has “very high expectations” from it, New Delhi’s envoy to the United Nations, Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.

A youth, suspected to be involved in killing of a businessman, died in police custody in north Kashmir prompting the state government to suspend three policemen following the incident, which was terme