Internal Security
Border security, cyber threats, defence policy and insurgency
NIA, ED bust Maoist extortion, money laundering rackets
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) have jointly dismantled Maoist-run extortion and money laundering rackets, with ...
Personal data isn’t collected: Home Ministry on security agencies using open-source intelligence from public sources
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology (chaired by Lok Sabha MP Nishikant ...
Tribunal confirms five-year ban on NSCN (K) imposed by Centre
The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal, headed by Justice Nelson Sailo of the Gauhati High Court, confirmed the five-year ban imposed by the Centre on...
Explained: What FCRA Amendment Bill 2026 proposes, why it has sparked a row in Kerala
The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on March 26, 2026, proposing significant changes to India's framew...
Explained: What is the US’s 2,000 pound ‘bunker buster’ bomb, used to attack Iran’s Isfahan
The United States used the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) — a 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb — in combat for the first time on June 22, 2025, as ...
Next days in Iran war will be ‘decisive’, claims Pentagon chief Hegseth
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the coming days would be "decisive" in the ongoing war against Iran, signalling an imminent escalation of ope...
Defence Ministry signs ₹1,950 crore deal with BEL for mountain radars
The Ministry of Defence signed a ₹1,950 crore contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) on March 31, 2026, for the procurement of two mountain radars an...
End of Red Terror? How close India is to its Naxal-free target as Amit Shah’s March 31 deadline ends
As India reaches the March 31, 2026 deadline set by the Union Home Minister for achieving a Naxal-free India, the government has declared the goal effectivel...
A deadline, encounters, surrenders: The 2 years that dismantled Chhattisgarh’s Maoist bastions
A two-year counter-insurgency campaign in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, running from early 2024 through March 2026, has fundamentally altered the operational...
End of armed Maoism in Chhattisgarh; Bastar development now priority: Deputy CM Sharma
Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma declared the state completely free from armed Naxalism, with the remaining handful of cadres expected to surr...
How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deployed at least a dozen sophisticated naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz as part of its strategy to deter ...
‘Dweep Shakti': Three services conduct amphibious assaults, maritime dominance ops
Exercise Dweep Shakti 2026, a large-scale joint military exercise, was conducted from March 29, 2026 at Sri Vijaya Puram (formerly Port Blair), Andaman and N...
Big boost for maritime strength: Navy gets delivery of 2 warships, 1 survey vessel in one day
On March 30, 2026, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata, simultaneously handed over three indigenously built vessels to the Indian Navy — ...
Bastar close to being considered Naxal-free, possibility of revival extremely remote: IGP
Bastar Inspector General of Police (IGP) P. Sundarraj stated on March 30, 2026 — on the eve of the Centre's March 31 deadline to eliminate Maoism — that Bast...
Barring one, entire top leadership of Maoists wiped out, Amit Shah tells Lok Sabha
Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared in the Lok Sabha on March 30, 2026 — a day before the government's self-imposed deadline of March 31, 2026 — that Indi...
GRSE delivers three frontline warships to Navy
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE), Kolkata, delivered three frontline naval platforms to the Indian Navy in a single day — a first-of-its-ki...
NDA cites fall in Naxalism; Opposition flags deeper issues
Parliament witnessed a wide-ranging debate on Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) on March 30, 2026, a day before the government's self-imposed deadline of March 31, 2...
Home ministry’s AI vision: Predictive policing, dark web monitoring, and end of mule accounts
A Parliamentary Standing Committee report titled "Impact of emergence of Artificial Intelligence and related issues" was tabled in Lok Sabha on 30 March 2026...
India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report
The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology tabled its 27th Report in Lok Sabha, titled "Impact of Emergence of Artificial Intelligen...
NDA, opposition spar in Lok Sabha over efforts to free country of Naxalism
The Lok Sabha held a Rule 193 short-duration discussion on "efforts to free the country from left-wing extremism" on March 30, 2026 — one day before the gove...