Substantial rise in infiltration: Army chief

From The Daily Excelsior
NEW DELHI, Apr 28:Infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, helped by Pakistani establishment, has risen substantially, with March recording the highest influx as compared to the corresponding month in the last seven years.
Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor today said there was information about more militants preparing to infiltrate into India and [...]

Maoist rebels hijack train in Jharkhand

From Deccanherald.com
Maoist rebels on Wednesday morning hijacked a train carrying over 300 passengers at the Heyagarha station in Jharkhands Latehar district, about 135 km from here. The train, bound for Mughalsarai (in Uttar Pradesh) from Barkakhana (in Jharkhand), was released about four hours later. Latehar Deputy Commissioner Sarvendu Thathagat said the train was taken over [...]

Maoist strike in Jharkhand, Bihar, WB, seize train

From Daily excelsior.com
LATEHAR/PATNA/KOLKATA, April 22: Striking on the second phase poll eve, Maoists today seized a train carrying nearly 700 passengers in Jharkhand’s Latehar district for over four hours and bombed a BDO’s office and shot a driver after setting ablaze trucks in Bihar.
Suspected naxalites also killed three CPI-M workers in West Bengal.
The Maoists took [...]

A concerned India sending two emissaries to Sri Lanka

From Sindhtoday.net
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) With the killings of Tamil civilians continuing in Sri Lanka, India Thursday underlined the need for “an immediate cessation of all hostilities” and announced that it will send two special emissaries to Colombo.
“We are very unhappy at the continued killing in Sri Lanka. All killing must stop. There must [...]

Indo-Nepal borders sealed as naxal-hit LS seats go to poll

From PTInews.com
Patna, Apr 22 (PTI) The Indo-Nepal border along Bihar’s naxal-infested Lok Sabha constituencies has been sealed and shoot-at-sight orders remain in force as the stage is set for the second phase of polling for 13 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats tomorrow.
“We have sealed the Indo-Nepal border along the naxal-hit constituencies of Valamikinagar, east [...]

In young India, politics remains a grey area

From Deccan Chronicle
Ever since the first House was constituted in 1952, women and young people have not fared too well when it comes to entering the Lok Sabha. All parties wax eloquent about having younger MPs and more women. Hav-ing younger people in Parliament, and more women, is likely to impact the issues that take [...]

Terror bid by Dawood foiled

From Deccan Chronicle
March 30: The state police and intelligence agencies have unearthed a conspiracy by the Dawood Ibrahim gang to assassinate prominent national politicians and disrupt the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The police has arrested five gangsters owing allegiance to Dawood’s right hand man Chhota Shakeel including Rashid Malbari in connection with the plot.
Director-general [...]

No headway in Pakistan; FBI looks to India for early trial

From PTI.com
After failing to make headway in Pakistan on its probe in the Mumbai terror strikes, the FBI team is working overtime with Indian investigators and legal officials to expedite the trial in a bid to put pressure on Islamabad to take action against genuine culprits.
A US team, which arrived here on March 24, has [...]

Terror threat to India still high

From Deccanchronicle.com
Like in the case of most large countries, gauging India’s threat perception is a complex matrix involving military, political, economic and intelligence variables. But there are specific compulsions as well that need to be taken into account. The most pertinent of these in the Indian case is this country’s unstable neighbourhood — with Pakistan [...]

Kasab accepts govt lawyer

By Jigna Vora From The Asian Age
March 23: Looking straight into the camera and at times smiling and showing no signs of remorse, the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, on Monday admitted to the special judge that he was from Faridkot in Pakistan. Notably, he responded in English when Judge M.L. Thahiliyani [...]