IS tweets originate in City; police launch manhunt
A team of state intelligence department officials from Kolkata is likely to leave for Bengaluru on Saturday. ���Most terror. the official added. Despite sending around 140 tweets per day, exclusively on IS activities, the Bangalore Police and central.
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: MOSSAD in South Asia
Then the Jews could make a financial killing off the physical killing. As noted. The TELO was tied in with the inner circle of Indias RAW (the intelligence agency) -- unknown to the overall Indian government. At one point the. In 1987, the Hindustan Times reported that in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, the troops seized large quantities of arms with Israeli markings, meant for the Tamils... There are many pictures of politicians and celebrities doing this hand sign and t.
Give Us Our Daily Slingshots
Its a measure of the cynical and populist politics of our time that Rahul Gandhis remark about Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) looking for recruits among riot-affected Muslim youths of Muzaffarnagar should be met with so much hostility.
The ���See-Saw��� battle between the UN SG and the SL Govt.
A diplomatic tussle is going on at present between the United Nations Secretary ���General (UNSG) and the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the release of the report compiled by the three-member advisory panel appointed by Ban Ki moon. This is not a fresh development but. On the one hand it avoided Sri Lanka being placed on the UN security council agenda and undermined pressures to launch an international probe , on the other. FLEXIBILITY.
Whose Agenda? US Strategic Interests, India, and Sri.
The first, titled Sri Lankas Killing Fields (June 2011), containing particularly shocking footage of war crimes, was screened at gatherings of representatives of different countries. The second... A UN staff members February 9 mission report said ���Estimates by UN agencies based on reliable [emphasis added] first-hand information, but not yet made public, suggest that at least 5,000 civilians, many of them young children, have been killed and injured ��� [including] at��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.09.09
3. PARTNERS IN PROLIFERATION -G PARTHASARATHY. 4. INDIA NEEDS TO DEVELOP OFFSHORE WIND FARMS. 5. MEAT OF THE MATTER-SUMIT S PAUL. HINDUSTAN TIMES. 1. A NEEDLESS CONTROVERSY. 2.. In the initial euphoria that followed the decimation of the LTTE and the richly deserved death of V Prabhakaran at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army, much was promised by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to not only resettle the affected civilians��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.02.10
Besides, Mr Rajapaksas recent electoral victory is a reflection of the fact that the people of Sri Lanka now want nothing more than unhindered inclusive growth and that they look up to their President to make this happen. Thus, if Mr Rajapaksa.. A classic example is Maoist leader Kishenji, who has the temerity to call journalists on cell phones at random, but eludes the security agencies in times of advanced communication and signal intelligence. The Manmohan��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.01.10
Even before these disturbances, the Chinese have been paying attention to creating in their intelligence agencies a capability for cyber intelligence and counter-intelligence and disruption through cyber covert actions... HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. WINNING ISNT EVERYTHING. This is an election that could have gone any way. It was fought between two war heroes, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his former army chief Sarath Fonseka.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.04.10
But it laments the fact that it was denied access by the US government to intelligence officials, including Michael Hayden, a director of the CIA who had alleged an Al- Qaeda- Baitullah Mehsud hand in Benazirs assassination.
Sonia Gandhi wanted Colombo to decimate LTTE before.
To cut a long story short, the Tamil Nadu civil society group had a series of meetings with Rajapaksas team of officials and ministers in Sri Lanka and Chennai to carry forward the progress made so far and agreed upon many steps to... with Sri Lanka, Foreign Secretary, High Commissioner in Colombo, chiefs of intelligence agencies, including RAW are Malayalees whose antipathy to Tamil, the only living language to be declared a classical language, is well-known.
Take the battle into the enemys camp
The second is that you use intelligence to discover terrorist plots and then foil them. This too, is. Even if you take the line that the 26/11 terrorists did not have official sanction, nobody can deny that the Pakistanis have used assassination as.
Niranjan Jyoti issue - Stop misuse of Parliament for political grandstanding
Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Niranjan Jyoti expressed regret in Parliament for using abusive language at a party rally in the national capital. The Opposition parties have stalled Parliament over the issue. Opposition parties.
transcurrents �� Need for Increased Alertness Against LTTE
There are some indications of Western re-thinking on their attitude to the Rajapaksa government because of its brazen dismissal of all concerns regarding the human rights situation in the Tamil areas... No wonder Indian Army hates bureaucrates and politicians as kurtawallahs.please read karan thapars article in hindustan times today,about Armys view on civilian counterparts. 35. Indian Tamil.. It is not RAW but Mother India that should take the upper hand!
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.04.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. TACKLING THE CONTRADICTIONS; POWERPOINT PASTA; OBSERVER AS ABSORBER - RAVNI THAKUR; YANKING THE GROUND FROM UNDER OUR FEET - SAMAR HALARNKAR... Ms Gupta, who was picked up by the police from her Delhi residence last week and questioned by a team comprising members of different intelligence agencies, is also being investigated for her role, if any, in the 2008 bombing of our Embassy in Kabul.
India needs to take relook at dealings with neighbours: Sri Lankan President.
COLOMBO: In the strongest reaction yet to Indias contentious support to a US sponsored resolution at the UNHRC against Sri Lanka earlier this year, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has broken his silence by calling upon the Indian government to have a.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.04.10
Mr Chidambarams assertion that intelligence agencies functioned within the law, and were fully accountable to the government would have been easier to accept had he told us precisely what the government did to ensure this was so. Most democratic.. For instance, under the Jalayagnam project, a flagship programme of the YSR government, he asked the officials to release funds to only those irrigation projects which could be completed within the scheduled time.
LankaWeb ��� The force is still with Mahinda Rajapakse
The adulation for the defeated President is unprecedented. Ministers of his.. Politics is all about power and if the mechanism to hand over power to the electoral victors is denied then that marks the beginning of the end of democracy. The accusations made.. The pre-dawn discussion at Temple Trees centred on the one time Commander of the Army, who Rajapaksa described as the ���best in the world��� after the Tiger guerrillas were militarily defeated. Until then, the��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.01.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. THE COMPANY DELHI KEEPS. The national capital region (NCR) has, according to a news report, overtaken Maharashtra in the number of registered companies. Delhi and Haryana house 209,000... Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa convincingly defeated his main rival, former army commander, General Sarath Fonseka, by 58 per cent (6.0m votes) to 40 per cent votes (4.2m) ��� a margin of 18 points ��� in the islands��.
New book claims Indian role in Nepal palace massacre
Shah says given the meetings held between Nepals political party leaders and the Maoists in India, it was inconceivable that the Indian intelligence agencies did not know about them. Besides supporting these meets, he says India actively trained Nepal.
Waste of life
Had the Soviet Union not disintegrated and the EC given some real teeth in conducting elections, Basus criminal CPI would still be in total control of WB, what with the intimidation of the masses by his cadre of murdering goons and the complicity of a.
Intel agencies deny RAW officials hand in Rajapaksas defeat
If the expulsion of such a high-ranking Indian official had taken place, it would have sparked off a major diplomatic row, a senior security official told Hindustan Times. Intelligence sources also pointed out that the senior-most RAW official posted.
Indias Congress party concedes election defeat
NEW DELHI (AP) ��� A spokesman for Indias ruling Congress party has conceded defeat in the national election, saying the nation voted ���against us.��� Shakil Ahmed, a party spokesman, told The Associated Press on Friday that trends from the official vote .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.11.09
The ability of a sympathetic citizen to inform the beat policemen or a neighbourhood intelligence mole about the presence of shady newcomers who are asking uncomfortable questions and looking to win over people for strange... This means that in a real- time scenario, the absence of emergency medical care ��� vital for such situations ��� would have probably cost us human lives despite the police, fire and administration officials reaching the spot on time. It must be��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 04.05.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE - BEAT THEM AT THEIR GAME. THE VERDICT ON AJMAL AMIR KASAB WILL MAKE INDIA ONLY MORALLY STRONGER AGAINST TERROR. Few eyebrows will be raised at he various guilty verdicts.. Though Indian intelligence agencies have reportedly denied any involvement of foreign covert agencies in the Mayapuri radiation leak, Hazmat terrorism can become a new hybrid with NBCR terrorists targeting communities with��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 07.07.11
Indeed, as in Chhattisgarh, so also in Jammu they provide crucial real time intelligence and guide regular security forces through alien territory.. But Mr Rajapaksa now seems to be having second thoughts on his past assurances.. So here are no less than three senior American officials ��� one of whom, Gen Petraeus, has just become head of the CIA-saying that Hizbullah (my preferred transliteration) has been at war with the United States, killing and wounding��.