Parallel investigations into terror attacks in the country during 2005-2008 by Islamists and Hindu extremists are singularly instructive to an average Indian. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 13/7 Mumbai blasts, 26/12, Ajmer Sharif, CIA, Delhi HC blast, Delhi police, German Bakery blast, Indian Mujahideen, inside story, Intelligence Bureau, Kamal Chouhan, Malegaon 2008 blast, National Investigation Agency, NIA, Samjhauta blast, Shishir Gupta, Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Yasin Bhatka
When Home Minister P Chidambaram spelt out the new security architecture for India in his path breaking December 23, 2009 Intelligence Bureau endowment lecture, he envisaged a counter-terror body which would not only create actionable intelligence but investigate terror attacks and even have the capability of vacating them. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 7:07 am
Filed under India · Tagged 9/11 attacks, Chidambaram, CISC, coalition, hindustan times, Intelligence Bureau, M K Narayanan, National Investigation Agency, NCTC, news, NSG, RAW, Shishir Gupta
After General VK Singh had taken over as Chief of Army Staff in 2010, a retired Lieutenant General, whose name figures in the Adarsh Society Housing scandal called on him at the office ostensibly to discuss developments in Kashmir. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Adarsh Society Housing, AK Antony, Avadesh Prakash, Booze Brigadier, CBI, corruption, Deepak Kapoor, General VK Singh, hindustan times, Ketchup Colonel, news, Rao Inderjit Singh, Ration General, Thamburaj