Internal Security
Border security, cyber threats, defence policy and insurgency
Canada moves to revoke Tahawwur Rana’s citizenship ahead of Carney’s visit to India: report
Canada's Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) notified Tahawwur Hussain Rana — a Pakistani-born businessman who holds Canadian citizenship — o...
‘Dark chapter’ over, Chhattisgarh budget sets Naxal hotbed Bastar on path to ‘education cities’ & tourism
Chhattisgarh presented its ₹1.72 lakh crore budget for 2026–27, marking the first state budget explicitly framed as a "post-Naxal" development plan for the B...
Japan to deploy missile systems on island near Taiwan by 2031: Defence Minister
Japan's Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi announced in February 2026 that Japan plans to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missile systems on Yonaguni Islan...
U.S. says China 'massively expanded' nuclear arsenal
New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, officially expired on Febru...
Bihar visit: Amit Shah to review Seemanchal demographic shift, border security concerns
Union Home Minister Amit Shah undertook a three-day visit to Bihar to chair the first-ever high-level review of demographic changes, illegal infiltration, an...
Watch: U.S. and Iran moving closer to war? | Explainer
Following Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in mid-2025, a fragile ceasefire has left the US-Iran relationship at one of its most volatile points in d...
Centre approves construction of 5,000 houses for internally displaced persons in Manipur
Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan approved the construction of 5,000 houses for internally displaced persons (IDPs) ...
‘No leader of this rank has surrendered in Maoist history’: Who is Devuji, the man who set up a guerrilla force
Thippiri Tirupathi alias Devuji, the de facto General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) — the highest-ranking active leader of the banned ou...
Forced to fraud: Inside cyber-scam factories trapping Indians in Southeast Asia
Investigations have revealed the full scale of Southeast Asia's industrialized cyber-fraud operations, which specifically target Indian victims through "digi...
Pakistan strikes 7 terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan, Kabul warns of necessary and measured response’
Pakistan's military conducted air strikes early on February 22, 2026, targeting seven camps and hideouts belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and aff...
ED flags eight priority areas, including IBC misuse and cyber fraud
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) held its 34th Quarterly Conference of Zonal Officers (QCZO) in Guwahati from February 19-21, 2026, chaired by ED Director Ra...
In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence announced on February 21, 2026, its formal decision to bid for the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Project Grayburn — the pr...
In manifesto, scientists oppose ‘militarisation’ of quantum research
Over 250 quantum scientists globally published a manifesto on arXiv (January 13, 2026) under the title "Quantum Scientists for Disarmament," urging the scien...
Eight persons with alleged links to Pakistan, Bangladesh terror outfits arrested from Bengal, Tamil Nadu
Eight individuals, all Bangladeshi nationals with fake Indian identity documents (Aadhaar cards), were arrested from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur di...
Army personnel, dismissed cop among six arrested for links to Pakistan-backed drug cartel in Punjab
Faridkot Police (Punjab) busted a well-organised Pakistan-backed heroin trafficking network in an intelligence-led operation, arresting six individuals inclu...
Indian Coast Guard detains Iranian-crewed vessel; smuggled cigarettes worth crores seized
On February 21, 2026, the Indian Coast Guard intercepted a suspicious foreign boat approximately 115 nautical miles west of Dwarka, Gujarat, inside India's E...
From posters in Delhi to raids in Tamil Nadu & Bengal: How cops busted Pakistan-based terror plot in India
On February 8, 2026, CISF personnel reported pro-Pakistan posters pasted at Janpath Metro Station in Delhi and surrounding areas, bearing images glorifying s...
'Women, children killed': India strongly condemns Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan during Ramadan
Pakistan conducted overnight airstrikes on multiple locations in Afghanistan's Nangarhar and Paktika provinces, targeting sites it claimed were camps of the ...
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago
Reports revealed that OpenAI internally debated alerting Canadian police about a user whose ChatGPT conversations raised serious red flags about planned mass...
MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Indian Air Force (IAF) reached a pragmatic agreement on the Tejas Mk1A fighter jet procurement: HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics ...