After taking decision to recruit 20,000 more armed women personnel in paramilitary forces in the next three years, the Union home ministry is now concentrating on further enhancing the operational efficiency of the Central security forces.

As aviation regulator DGCA began probing the Faridabad air crash that claimed ten lives, the preliminary probe pointed towards technical malfunction and high velocity winds as the major reasons for the accident.

The government on Wednesday ruled out recalling the 50 most-wanted list given to Pakistan after two fugitives figuring in it were traced in India.

A day after the Faridabad air crash that claimed 10 lives, the government on Thursday created an independent panel to probe major aviation accidents, separating the role of a regulator and an investigator which was being performed by the DGCA alone so far.

With crucial revelations coming from David Coleman Headley’s testimony about Mumbai terror attack, New Delhi feels its worst fears have come true about Pakistan’s ISI “working very closely” with terror outfits in that country and being behind a sustained “hate campaign” against India.

Disgraced CWG OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused of irregularities in TSR scam, on Thursday tried to shift the blame for award of the contract to OC CEO Jarnail Singh insisting that he was aware of the contract and was informed at all stages of decision.

The question of what India hopes to get in return for pouring billions of dollars in aid into Africa was answered on the concluding day of the second India-Africa summit when the co-chair of the India-Africa Forum issued a ringing endorsement of India’s quest for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council.

CBI on Thursday opposed the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura, an accused in 2G spectrum allocation scam case, saying that instead of following the government's policy, he had followed the policy of the then telecom minister A. Raja.

The BJP top brass has convened a meeting of its seniormost leaders from Uttarakhand, including chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Thursday.

India has conveyed its concern to the United States over the way an Indian diplomat's daughter was arrested in New York.