76 rebels killed in YemenSANA’A - Seventy-six rebels were killed and around 150 injured in clashes with government troops in the restive northwestern Yemeni province of Saada Tuesday, a military statement said. Choppers to patrol Delhi skies on special occasionsNEW DELHI - Patrolling by choppers during special occasions like upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games would soon become a regular feature in the security drills conducted across the national capital, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Tuesday. What incursions? Listen to your leaders, Chinese envoy tells mediaNEW DELHI - Days after the Indian government asked the media to eschew “hype” over reported Chinese incursions, China’s ambassador Zhang Yan Tuesday met Home Secretary G.K. Pillai here and tried to clarify the picture. Delhi’s bad habits need to change: ChidambaramNEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday told citizens of Delhi that they needed to change some of their bad habits if visitors to the Commonwealth Games next year are to have a good impression about the host city. Make foolproof arrangements for free and fair polls, states toldNEW DELHI - The Election Commission has asked the directors general of police (DGPs) and principal secretaries (home) of Maharashtra and Haryana - where elections are scheduled next month - and also of their adjoining states to make “foolproof arrangements” for ensuring peaceful and free and fair polls”. Home minister, navy chief assess coastal securityNEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday met Indian Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma to assess the coastal security scenario in the aftermath of the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Russia’s defence budget to be $36 bn in 2010MOSCOW - Russia’s defence budget will rise by 8 percent in 2010 to reach $36 billion, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday. Iran military plane crashesTEHRAN - An Iranian military aircraft crashed in the south of Tehran Tuesday in a military parade marking the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. ‘Security threat’ shuts down US facilities in South AfricaJOHANNESBURG - In a surprise move prompted by an “undisclosed security threat”, the US government shut down all its facilities in South Africa Tuesday. Appeasement, temporary peace can’t end Maoist violence: MarwahNEW DELHI - Economic and social injustices are the main cause of Left extremism in India but that should not become an excuse for rationalising violence. Also, buying temporary peace is no solution, says internal security analyst Ved Marwah in his new book. More US troops is `right approach’ says Afghan President
Why the China threat story sells in India (Comment)It’s the season of China-bashing in India. In bad old socialist days, the ruling party in India was quick to conjure up the “foreign hand” to distract public attention from a host of domestic crises. Now, it’s the turn of market-driven media to manufacture “external threats” to spike their TRP ratings. Senior militant commander arrested in PakistanISLAMABAD - A senior commander of the banned militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been apprehended in northwest Pakistan’s Swat region, media reports said Monday. Russia, US enter fresh round of START negotiationsGENEVA - US and Russian officials Monday began a new round of talks on a follow-up to the Cold War-era Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on nuclear arms limitation that expires at the end of this year. Import substitution should be the mantra: ChidambaramCHENNAI - It is an “old mindset” that secrecy would be compromised if the Indian private sector is involved in the supply of defence equipment, which was hampering import substitution, union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Monday. Santhanam sticks to guns - 1998 thermonuclear test was a dud (Lead, with Images)NEW DELHI - Rebutting National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan’s assertions, K. Santhanam, the scientist who was involved in India’s nuclear tests in 1998, Monday reiterated that the thermonuclear device exploded by India had not worked according to design expectations and showed photographs of the site that had no crater. Stepped-up security at railway stations during Durga puja: officialKOLKATA - Security arrangements at all major railway stations across West Bengal would be stepped up during Durga puja festival following an intelligence input from the central home ministry warning of some untoward incident in the state during this period, a senior police officer said Monday. US commander for Afghanistan seeks more troops, warns of failureWASHINGTON - The top US military commander for Afghanistan has warned that he needs additional troops within the next 12 months or the conflict will “likely result in failure”, the Washington Post reported Monday. Iran ‘fundamentally’ opposes nuclear weapons: KhameneiTEHRAN - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Sunday rejected the West’s charge that his country wants to develop nuclear bombs, saying Tehran is “fundamentally” opposed to such weapons. Three terror suspects arrested in USWASHINGTON - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials have arrested three terror suspects - a father and son in Colorado and a man in New York, according to reports Sunday. Yemen army thwarts rebel attack as ceasefire collapsesSANAA - Government troops thwarted an attack by Shia rebels in the capital of the restive northwestern province of Saada Sunday after a shaky truce collapsed, a military source said. Benazir asked Khan to give Iran n-know-how: reportLONDON - Late former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto had asked the country’s now-disgraced nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan to provide nuclear weapon know-how to Iran, a British newspaper reported Sunday. Two Hamas gunmen killed in GazaGAZA - Two militants, members of the Hamas movement, were killed Sunday in Israeli artillery shelling on east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, medics and witnesses said. Three killed in Maoist-hit West Bengal districtKOLKATA - Two activists of anti-Maoist Committee in West Bengal’s Belpahari region were shot dead by suspected Leftist rebels late Saturday night, police said Sunday. Russia upgrades marine patrols off Abkhazian coastMOSCOW - Russia intends to significantly upgrade marine patrols off the coast of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Sunday. Indian troops move to China border, army says it is routineTAWANG - India has moved hundreds of troops to the Chinese border along the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, but an army officer said Sunday that this was a routine winter exercise. China policy: Is foreign ministry at odds with security establishment? (Lead, superseding earlier story)NEW DELHI - Is India’s security establishment at odds with the foreign policy establishment over the threat perception vis-a-vis China? India has thermonuclear capabilities: NSANEW DELHI - India has thermonuclear capabilities, National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan has emphasised, saying the scientists who raised doubts about the 1998 nuclear tests in Pokhran had personal motives to do so. China policy: Is foreign ministry at odds with security establishment?NEW DELHI - Is India’s security establishment at odds with the foreign policy establishment over the threat perception vis-a-vis China? Going by recent reports it would seem so, bolstered as they are by daily caveats on television by retired armed forces personnel and strategic experts who appear to think that the government is underplaying the Chinese “threat”. Austerity measures not to compromise security: MukherjeeBANGALORE - Austerity measures the government has introduced are not at the cost of security for top leaders, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee clarified here Saturday. |
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WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has endorsed a US military call for more troops in the conflict-torn country, calling it “the right approach”.
