Foreign Security Team

Sandworm, a group linked to Russia's foreign military intelligence agency might be behind a recent cyberattack in Ukraine, said cybersecurity company ESET. The hacking team allegedly deployed SwiftSlice . Once executed, the SwiftSlicer deletes shadow copies, recursively overwrites files in the system and non-system drives and then reboots the compu...

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced a slate of veteran diplomats and policy-makers who will make up his national security and foreign policy team, saying: "America is back, ready to lead the world."

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Indian team walked out a meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization hosted by Russia after Pakistan used a doctored map as a background for its representative. The map showed Indian territories as part of Pakistan. The Indian side's move was a protest against Pakistan's blatant violation of norms, the...

European Union MPs whose visit to Jammu and Kashmir has been criticised by the opposition today said they were not here to interfere in India's politics and "fully supported the country in its efforts for lasting peace and end of terror". The European lawmakers were addressing select media - many, including local Kashmiri newspapers were kept out -...

Bangladesh will play three One-Day Internationals on July 26, 28 and 31 at the Premadasa International Stadium in Colombo.

Domestic equity benchmarks (Sensex and Nifty) surged along with the Indian rupee (INR) on the back of strong foreign fund inflows. The Nifty 50 index reclaimed its crucial psychological level of 11,500 as both the indexes continue to trade at over six month highs. The foreign institutional investors have been buying shares since the start of this m...

Sushma Swaraj and her team at the Ministry of External Affairs are giving "top priority" to Indian students who have been arrested in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, in what authorities have called a "pay-to-stay" in America scheme. Of the 130 foreign students arrested, 129 are from India.

In his first Cabinet meeting of the year, President Donald Trump stuck a dagger in a major initiative advanced by his foreign policy team: Iran's leaders, the president said, "can do what they want" in Syria.

The US is planning a major overhaul in the definition of employment and specialty occupations under H-1B visas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The move will have an adverse impact on Indian IT (information technology) companies and small and medium-sized contractual firms, mostly owned by Indian-Americans, according to a report by ...

After hastily withdrawing their new messaging app amid glaring security flaws, billionaire Acharya Balkrishna and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are about to have another go at it. Mr Balkrishna, who collaborated with Baba Ramdev to build an Indian consumer goods empire, plans a formal release of the Kimbho messenger app within weeks as he tries to create a...

The Donald Trump administration in the US has announced additional H-2B 15,000 visas for foreign workers. These 15,000 visas will be in addition to 66,000 visas already issued for fiscal year 2018, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security under the US government. The additional work visas will be with an aim to assist the US ...

SWIFT system is used by banks, brokerage institutions, trading houses, securities dealers, asset management companies, clearing houses, depositories, exchanges, corporate business houses, foreign exchange brokers.

At least 20 foreigners were killed when terrorists attacked an upscale cafe in Dhaka this week, immediately creating doubts over England's tour of Bangladesh later this year

A team of the National Investigation Agency today began a mission onboard a research vessel off Kerala coast to recover objects allegedly dropped in the deep sea from a foreign dhow or a shipping vessel which was seized by security officials in July this year.

Former military dictator and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, reveals a copy of US journalist Mark Siegel's statement recorded in the murder case.

Sandworm, a group linked to Russia's foreign military intelligence agency might be behind a recent cyberattack in Ukraine, said cybersecurity company ESET. The hacking team allegedly deployed SwiftSlice . Once executed, the SwiftSlicer deletes shadow copies, recursively overwrites files in the system and non-system drives and then reboots the compu...

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday introduced a slate of veteran diplomats and policy-makers who will make up his national security and foreign policy team, saying: "America is back, ready to lead the world."

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and the Indian team walked out a meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization hosted by Russia after Pakistan used a doctored map as a background for its representative. The map showed Indian territories as part of Pakistan. The Indian side's move was a protest against Pakistan's blatant violation of norms, the...

European Union MPs whose visit to Jammu and Kashmir has been criticised by the opposition today said they were not here to interfere in India's politics and "fully supported the country in its efforts for lasting peace and end of terror". The European lawmakers were addressing select media - many, including local Kashmiri newspapers were kept out -...

Bangladesh will play three One-Day Internationals on July 26, 28 and 31 at the Premadasa International Stadium in Colombo.

Domestic equity benchmarks (Sensex and Nifty) surged along with the Indian rupee (INR) on the back of strong foreign fund inflows. The Nifty 50 index reclaimed its crucial psychological level of 11,500 as both the indexes continue to trade at over six month highs. The foreign institutional investors have been buying shares since the start of this m...

Sushma Swaraj and her team at the Ministry of External Affairs are giving "top priority" to Indian students who have been arrested in the United States for enrolling themselves in a fake university, in what authorities have called a "pay-to-stay" in America scheme. Of the 130 foreign students arrested, 129 are from India.

In his first Cabinet meeting of the year, President Donald Trump stuck a dagger in a major initiative advanced by his foreign policy team: Iran's leaders, the president said, "can do what they want" in Syria.

The US is planning a major overhaul in the definition of employment and specialty occupations under H-1B visas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The move will have an adverse impact on Indian IT (information technology) companies and small and medium-sized contractual firms, mostly owned by Indian-Americans, according to a report by ...

After hastily withdrawing their new messaging app amid glaring security flaws, billionaire Acharya Balkrishna and yoga guru Baba Ramdev are about to have another go at it. Mr Balkrishna, who collaborated with Baba Ramdev to build an Indian consumer goods empire, plans a formal release of the Kimbho messenger app within weeks as he tries to create a...

The Donald Trump administration in the US has announced additional H-2B 15,000 visas for foreign workers. These 15,000 visas will be in addition to 66,000 visas already issued for fiscal year 2018, according to a statement by the Department of Homeland Security under the US government. The additional work visas will be with an aim to assist the US ...

SWIFT system is used by banks, brokerage institutions, trading houses, securities dealers, asset management companies, clearing houses, depositories, exchanges, corporate business houses, foreign exchange brokers.

At least 20 foreigners were killed when terrorists attacked an upscale cafe in Dhaka this week, immediately creating doubts over England's tour of Bangladesh later this year

A team of the National Investigation Agency today began a mission onboard a research vessel off Kerala coast to recover objects allegedly dropped in the deep sea from a foreign dhow or a shipping vessel which was seized by security officials in July this year.

Former military dictator and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, reveals a copy of US journalist Mark Siegel's statement recorded in the murder case.