Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Leaders of the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir's separatist Hurriyat Conference are divided on the efficacy of the "quiet" talks with the central government. The executive ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The government Thursday discussed the issue of allocation of third generation (3G) spectrum as well vacation of airwaves by the defence ministry for commercial use, but ...

New Delhi, Nov.19 (ANI): Home Minister P. Chidambaram administered the National Integration Pledge to the officers and staff of the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with the Quami Ekta Week ...

Agartala/Aizawl, Nov 19 (IANS) The central and Tripura governments have asked Mizoram to resolve the long-standing deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to the state, Tripura Chief Minister Manik ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Thursday angrily refused to answer a question from the media about the outcome of a meeting of the Group of Ministers on ...

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Faced with a protest by farmers and almost all opposition parties over sugarcane pricing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday held an emergency meeting on the issue ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (ANI): The National Integration Week will be observed in India from Thursday. The National Integration Week is observed from November 19-25 every year to foster and re-inforce the ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 16 (IANS) The three-day security talks between the home ministers of India and Nepal, scheduled to have started in New Delhi Tuesday, have been postponed indefinitely due ...

New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Cultural programmes, NGOs taking street children on a trip to the zoo and distributing warm clothes, an award ceremony to encourage talented kids - Children's Day ...

New Delhi, Nov. 14 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil met children at her official residence in New Delhi on Saturday on the occasion of the 120th birth anniversary of India's first Prime ...

New Delhi, Nov. 14 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil met children at her official residence in New Delhi on Saturday on the occasion of the 120th birth anniversary of India's first Prime ...

New Delhi, Nov. 14 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said that Indian intelligence officials who had gone to the US to gather information from the FBI about the US ...

By Ritu Sharma New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Armoured vehicles, surveillance radars, handheld imagers, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), biometrics and software solutions... those are the buzzwords as India revamps its homeland security ...

Mumbai/New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Mumbai police have questioned Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt's son Rahul for his alleged friendship with David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan-born US national who is in FBI ...

Jammu, Nov 12 (IANS) Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Thursday said the Kashmir issue can only be resolved if "people of all religions, regions and ethnicity are included" in the ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) If Maoist guerrillas halted their violence, the government would respond in 72 hours and order a review of all corporate memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in Jharkhand, ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Thursday reiterated that oil marketing companies had to ensure gasoline was blended with 5 percent ethanol. "The cabinet decided to ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Thursday authorised the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to make an additional investment of $70 ...

Kathmandu, Nov 12 (IANS) The home ministers of India and Nepal would discuss greater security cooperation to combat cross-border terrorism in South Asia next week when Nepal's Home Minister Bhim Rawal ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (ANI): The National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Thursday has registered a case against suspected terrorist Pakistan born US citizen Headley and his aide Canadian born Tahawwur Hussain Rana ...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) India's National Investigative Agency (NIA) has registered a case against David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan born American national who is in custody in the US for ...

Rayagada (Orissa), Nov 12 (ANI): About fifty armed Maoists entered a village and killed four people in Orissa's Rayagada district on Wednesday. Maoists entered a house in Pandratola village, about 350 ...

New Delhil, Nov.11 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday issued an alert warning for four cities of three States along with Delhi over probability of multiple terror attacks. Ministry of Home Affairs ...

New Delhil, Nov.11 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday issued an alert warning for four cities of three States along with Delhi over probability of multiple terror attacks. Ministry of Home Affairs ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (ANI): The Home Ministry on Wednesday clarified that it has not taken any decision to reduce the security provided to Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi. In ...

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) Asserting that they were ready for a ceasefire, the Maoists Tuesday night said the central government should come out with a written proposal for dialogue, and rebutted ...

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday admitted terror threats, but asserted that it would not affect the industrial development of the country. "We are not ...

New Delhi, Nov.10 (ANI): Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Tuesday confirmed that the key Lashkar-e-Toiba militant David C Headley visited India many a times before the Mumbai terror attack occurred on 26/11 last ...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) As the 26/11 attack anniversary draws closer, a business forum Monday noted that terrorism has the capability to "create unforeseen global crisis" and suggested that ...

Chennai, Nov 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday suffered a jolt in Tamil Nadu when its National Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP S. Thirunavukkarasar joined the Congress. The Congress announced ...