New Delhi: With states stoutly opposed to NCTC in its current form, Home Minister P Chidambaram has assured that the matter of re-location of the anti-terror body outside the Intelligence Bureau (IB) would be re-examined. In his concluding remarks at the Chief Ministers conference, which were released officially on Sunday, the Home Minister sought to clarify on the decision of placing the NCTC within the IB. "...I may recall, when...
01:55 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: The government may ask Army Chief General VK Singh to go on leave till May 31, the day he retires as it triple to tide over the crisis precipitated by the General levelling bribery allegations against serving as well as retired Army officers and writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mentioning that the Army was ill-equipped to fight a war and defeat the enemy. Sources say...
11:30 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai and also most vulnerable to a possible terror attack was on top of the list of sensitive buildings surveyed and video-taped by 26/11 terror attacks planner David Coleman Headley. Headley surveyed the BARC complex for a possible terror strike. Intelligence agencies have now reported, despite stepped-up security after the Mumbai terror attacks, at least 25 intrusions have...
06:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012
On February 16th, the Defence Ministry raised an alarm about a possible bug that was found inside AK Antony's office. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Defence Ministry on Friday denied the reports of bugging in its office, saying that there were just routine checks in the offices of the Raksha Mantri and other offices in South Block. "Nothing has been found in these checks," said Defence Ministry officials. The Home Ministry too said it was not aware of any bugging incident in the Defence Minister's office. "The MHA (Ministry of Home Affairs)...
03:48 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony's office is said to have been 'bugged', reports claimed on Friday. The bugging came to notice on February 16, following which Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma took up the matter with the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Reportedly, officials of the Military Intelligence detected the bug during a routine check. Their hand-held detectors indicated presence of a monitoring device in Antony's office. The MI personnel were immediately...
01:25 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Department of Telecom (DoT) has asked telecom operators Idea Cellular and Vodafone to provide Intelligence Bureau (IB) identification of subscribers using Internet on their mobile phones. DoT officials said instructions have been issued to Idea and Vodafone to provide the requisite information to IB at the earliest. The security agency had sought details of some mobile numbers by providing the corresponding IP addresses to Vodafone but the...
12:24 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote a letter to the Chief Ministers of six states on Tuesday, convincing them that the NCTC will, in no way, affect the allocation of powers between the states and the Union. In his letter, Singh wrote that the primary purpose of the NCTC was to coordinate counter-terrorism efforts throughout the country and would be more like the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in its functioning,...
07:59 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) faced a fresh crisis on Friday after eight chief ministers came out against a proposed powerful counter-terror intelligence hub, saying it infringed on the rights of states. The Congress, which leads the UPA, tried to play down the issue after ally and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee joined three chief ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal...
10:22 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: The National Counter Terrorism Centre will be formed by March 1, the Home Ministry said on Monday. While it will be a part of the Intelligence Bureau initially, options of making it a statutory body are open. The NCTC will be the designated authority for all cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. It will be mandatory for all Central and State Intelligence and security machinery to cooperate...
05:56 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Islamabad: A senior intelligence official was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city on Tuesday, police said. The gunmen fired at Intelligence Bureau Assistant Director Sirajuddin at Dora Road in Peshawar this evening as he was going home from a mosque after prayers. The gunmen escaped after the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident. Several intelligence operatives have been gunned down across northwest Pakistan...
10:46 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: An Intelligence Bureau (IB) dossier with details of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) Politburo and central committee members has finally revealed some of India's most wanted. CNN-IBN has accessed the IB dossier which has the photographs and details of India's most wanted Maoist leaders. The following are India's most wanted - the Politburo and central committee members of CPI (Maoist), who for more than 30 years now...
06:02 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee being spied upon? That's what Mukherjee suspected. A suspicion borne out of discovery of bugs from his office - a place believed to be one of the most secure zones in the country. Pranab even shot off a letter to the Prime Minister asking for a discreet enquiry. Something which is now being used by the Opposition to dub this as a huge...
07:04 AM, Jun 22, 2011
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said investigative agencies found nothing during their probe of the alleged security breach at his office in the North Block. Commenting on the reports of a possible breach of security in his and other senior officials' offices, Mukherjee told reporters on the sidelines of function, "In respect of news item, IB investigated into it and they found there is nothing." According to...
12:16 PM, Jun 21, 2011
Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad has been put on high alert after Intelligence Bureau (IB) report on terror strikes in the city. The Ahmedabad police commissioner has also confirmed that security has been tightened. The Police Commissioner said that security has been tightened following the IB report that says that the Prime Minister's residence received an anonymous letter stating that blasts will be carried out in 17 places in Ahmedabad this year. ...
01:22 PM, May 22, 2011
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