Homeland Security
Bangladeshi miscreants pelt stones at BSF Jawan
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2011
Dr. Manoj Kumar Mohapatra, First Secretary, High Commission of India in Dhaka said that Reports have been received of the deaths of three Bangladesh nationals as a result of firing on the Indian...
Network Centricity comes to fore in Exercise Sudarshan Shakti
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Exercise Sudarshan Shakti, a joint exercise of Southern Army and South Western Air Command has entered its crucial phase. The training was progressively structured to build on from the smallest...
Police killed Ishrat Jahan in Cold Blood
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a senior officer of the Bihar IPS cadre, has concluded that Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old girl from Maharashtra, and...
A Future View of Terrorism
By: S. Sanyal | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 21 Nov , 2011
We can no longer overlook the fact that terrorism has come to stay in our midst and that the actors of terrorism are none other than some of us who suddenly decide to step out and move away from...
Three Years After 26/11 New Delhi unable to control terror
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2011
The 26/11 terrorist strikes led to five important decisions by the Government of India— to decentralise the deployment of the National Security Guards (NSG) by setting up regional...
The snows of hope
By: Lt Gen Kamal Davar (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2011
Notwithstanding the separatists and their masters, Pakistan’s infamous Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) engineered grenade blasts in the last month, come the next few weeks, the beautiful...
Three cheers for AFSPA
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2011
By no stretch of imagination, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah can be considered a competent administrator. His record in office has been pathetic, to say the least. Yet, he does...
Convergence of Terror
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Nov , 2011
The insurgencies that impacted the Indian landscape till early this decade were generally in isolation. Though, they, like all insurgencies had external links, but the internal linkages between...
Withdrawing AFSPA – A welcome move?
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2011
Omar Abdullah’s decision to withdraw AFSPA from some parts of J&K should be taken as a welcome move. However it would have been far better for him to have first discussed this issue, within...
Terrorism: The Indian Drama
By: Raunaq Rathore | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 25 Oct , 2011
Hyderabad has been once again rocked by twin blasts. Innocent lives have been lost. Our national pride has been dented. Somehow, such tragedies draw a familiar and set piece response from all of...
Why India is unable to prevent terrorist attack?
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 26.4 Oct-Dec 2011 | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
The fact that the terrorists could target Delhi High Court twice within months with ease, displays the unprecedented helplessness of the state. Since the High Court is adjacent to the Parliament...
What does recovery of explosives in Ambala portend?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2011
Acting on an alert from the Delhi Police, the Haryana Police are reported to have seized a car containing concealed explosives ( about 5 KGs), five detonators and two timers which had been...
Terrorism and Indian Ambivalence
By: Raunaq Rathore | Issue: Vol 23.2 Apr-Jul 2008 | Date: 14 Oct , 2011
Well over five decades, India has been combating insurgencies, militancy, and terrorism. Its security forces have been extensively employed to firefight such situations- erupting after years of...
Tactical Shifts in the Terror Profile
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 08 Oct , 2011
From June 08, India has been victim of a new phase of terrorism and enhanced ISI activities. This spurt in ISI sponsored terrorism was presumably initiated by Lt Gen Nadeem Taj to divert...
CIA successes mounting against Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has kept up its run of successes against Al Qaeda with the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni origin, and Samir Khan, a US citizen...
Reign of Terror: How safe are we?
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
Post-26/11, reacting to the elaborate security arrangements near Hotel Taj, Mumbai someone exclaimed with great flourish, “Why all this? Lightning does not strike at the same place twice.”...
Indian Mujahideen objective, an Islamic Caliphate across South Asia, says USA
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2011
The Secretary of State designated the Indian Mujahideen (IM) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated...
Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by...
Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...
India’s Southern Security
By: Lt Gen SC Sardeshpande | Issue: Vol 22.3 Jul-Sep 2007 | Date: 11 Sep , 2011
A general review of media reportage on India’s southern security, relating to Sri Lanka in recent months reveals following salient aspects:- Sri Lankan Govt’s (SLG) argument of finding...