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N Srinivasan arrives home in Chennai

Press Trust of India | Friday May 31, 2013

Srinivasan landed in Chennai shortly after BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale and Treasurer Ajay Shirke quit from their respective posts in a bid to put pressure on him.

Chhattisgarh attack: Three specific intelligence inputs on Maoists were shared, say sources

Reported by Uma Sudhir; edited by Mala Das | Tuesday May 28, 2013

There was "specific intelligence" about the presence of Maoists in the area in Chhattisgarh where a convoy of top Congress leaders was ambushed last week, sources in the state intelligence have told NDTV. 24 people, including two senior party leaders...

Send Sarabjit home on humanitarian grounds, India requests Pakistan again

Edited by Sindhu Manjesh (with PTI inputs) | Wednesday May 1, 2013

The Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Sharat Sabharwal, has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary today and requested Islamabad to immediately release Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds.

BJP leader Vani Tripathi says five drunk men attacked her car in South Delhi

Edited by Mala Das | Friday April 5, 2013

A woman leader of the BJP says she was sexually harassed by five drunk men while driving home in a busy part of south Delhi on Thursday night. Not a single person offered to help, she said.

Narendra Modi has his way, controversial aide Amit Shah appointed BJP general secretary

Reported by Rohit Bhan; edited by Mala Das | Sunday March 31, 2013

Narendra Modi's growing influence in the BJP is apparent not only in his being appointed today to two key panels, including becoming the only Chief Minister in the party's highest decision-making body, the parliamentary board today. The Gujarat CM ha...

Hizbul Mujahideen takes responsibility for attack on CRPF camp

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi (With inputs from agencies) | Wednesday March 13, 2013

Terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen has taken responsibility for attack on a paramilitary camp in Srinagar. Home Secretary RK Singh had earlier said that the two militants who entered the camp dressed in cricket uniforms and killed five jawans were mos...

Militants who posed as cricketers to attack CRPF camp were from Pakistan: government

Edited by Janaki Fernandes | Wednesday March 13, 2013

Two militants who entered a paramilitary camp in Srinagar dressed in cricket uniforms and killed five jawans were most likely from Pakistan, said Home Secretary RK Singh.

Home Secretary expresses regret over gaffe of naming for Bhandara rape victims

Press Trust of India | Monday March 4, 2013

Home Secretary R K Singh has expressed his regret to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde for the gaffe of disclosing the names of the victims of the Bhandara rape incident in Rajya Sabha over which the Minister faced huge embarrassment.

Hyderabad bomb blasts: Centre's top investigative team reaches site

Edited by Samira Shaikh (with PTI inputs) | Friday February 22, 2013

Hyderabad bomb blast: A team of top officials from the National Investigation Agency or NIA and the Intelligence Bureau has reached Hyderabad, where two blasts have killed at least 14 people and injured 119 yesterday evening.

Afzal Guru prayed this morning before hanging: jail officials

Edited by Surabhi Malik (With Inputs from IANS) | Saturday February 9, 2013

Afzal Guru, who was executed this morning in the Delhi jail where he had been kept since 2001 woke up at 5 am and offered namaaz (prayers), said officials.

Afzal Guru to be buried at Tihar Jail: sources

Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Saturday February 9, 2013

The government has refuted reports that the family of Afzal Guru was not informed that he would be executed this morning in Delhi for his role in the attack on Parliament in 2001.

Firm on demand that Pak must hand over all 26/11 plotters: Home Minister

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Wednesday January 30, 2013

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today reiterated that India remains firm on its demand that Islamabad must handover 26/11 mastermind Hafeez Saeed and all other plotters of the Mumbai attacks to New Delhi. Mr Shinde was reacting to US Secretary of S...

The SRK controversy: we can protect our own, says India to Pakistan

Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Tuesday January 29, 2013

India is capable of securing its citizens, Home Secretary RK Singh said on Tuesday in response to Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik's statement that the Indian government should provide security to actor Shah Rukh Khan.

'Amanat' case: Sheila Dikshit welcomes Justice Verma's rap for Delhi police chief

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Thursday January 24, 2013

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has welcomed former chief justice of India JS Verma's statement that he found shocking the Union Home Secretary's praise of Delhi Police chief Neeraj Kumar over the Delhi gang-rape probe.

Shocked Delhi Police Commissioner got a pat on the back: Justice Verma

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday January 24, 2013

The Justice JS Verma committee, a group of three legal experts set up amid massive protests over last month's gang-rape of a student on a Delhi bus, has proposed sweeping changes to existing laws for sexual crimes but has not recommended the death pe...