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Shishir Gupta

Author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (2011, Hachette) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (2014, Hachette). Awarded K Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 by Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA) and the 2011 Ben Gurion Prize by Israel.

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BRICS meet in Brazil would be new PM’s first global summit

Although the May 16 election results will decide as to who will be the next Indian PM, the first multilateral summit-level talks for the new Indian premier will be the Sixth BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

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Updated on May 09, 2014 01:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

‘Chennai blasts to avenge 2012 Assam violence’

Counter-terror agencies have zeroed in on banned terror outfit Students Islamic Movement of India’s (SIMI) Ranchi module for the twin blasts on the Guwahati-bound train at Chennai railway station last Thursday, and believe the attack was possibly to avenge violence against Muslims by Bodos in Assam in 2012.

Updated on May 07, 2014 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Snoopgate probe: Retired Allahabad HC judge tapped

The move to appoint Srivastava to look into the so-called Snoopgate controversy comes 12 days before the results of a general election widely expected to go against the ruling Congress-led UPA. No judge will be part of snoopgate probe: Jaitley

Updated on May 05, 2014 11:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Modi to hold rally in Amethi; will Cong return the favour?

Breaking the unsaid rule of keeping off a political rival’s turf, Narendra Modi will hold a rally in Rahul Gandhi’s constituency, Amethi, on May 5. The decision was taken after the BJP’s UP in-charge Amit Shah spent all of Friday in the Gandhi family bastion.

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Updated on May 05, 2014 08:44 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Probe on as Chennai blasts hint at Simi, IM hand

The twin blasts aboard Bangalore-Guwahati Express in Chennai on Thursday was once again a grim reminder for Indian security agencies that one cannot afford to rest on past laurels as counter-terrorism is a never-ending exercise.

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Updated on May 02, 2014 08:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Inside Amit Shah's 'social media war room', election activities are monitored in UP

The ‘social media war room’ of BJP at party’s state unit headquarters in Lucknow’s Lalbagh monitors Twitter, FB and a constant flow of news. A team tracks the smallest of households the BJP has touched and much more.

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Updated on May 01, 2014 04:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Lucknow

BJP plans big bang for last-phase Kashi polls

After Wednesday’s seventh phase of elections, the centre of gravity for BJP’s election campaign will move to Varanasi. Not surprisingly, because the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will be fighting the battle of the ballot there on May 12.

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Updated on Apr 30, 2014 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Lucknow

Pitch national, Badal and BJP step it up for Jaitley

Surrounded by fields of wheat ready to be harvested, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) patriarch and Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal at a well-attended rally in rural Anjala on Wednesday asked farmers to vote for the BJP’s Amritsar candidate, Arun Jaitley, as it was a question of Badal’s personal prestige. “We may get our heads cut, but we stand by friends,” Badal, 86, thundered.

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Updated on Apr 18, 2014 09:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Ajnala/amritsar

Just asked people to take revenge by voting, Shah asserts

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh in-charge, Amit Shah, on Wednesday rejected the allegation that he spoke of 'revenge' for the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots during his meeting with Jat leaders in Bijnor in western Uttar Pradesh last week.

Updated on Apr 10, 2014 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Key ministries draw up plans for work under new govt

Though the formation of a new government is more than a month away, key departments on Raisina Hill and India’s allies globally have started preparing for the next occupant of 7, Race Course Road.

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Updated on Apr 07, 2014 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

India to get mine-resistant vehicles from US

Govt will approach US for purchasing MRAPs on security forces.

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Updated on Mar 31, 2014 01:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

‘Real threat to Modi comes from SIMI, not IM’

After a spate of arrests of Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists, the counter-terror agency is now hot on the heels of Haider, the leader of Ranchi module that conducted July 2013 Bodh Gaya and Oct 2013 Patna serial blasts.

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Updated on Mar 29, 2014 09:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Why PM's Pak visit remained on the cards

Since the time he took over as Prime Minister in May, 2004, there have been umpteen speculations on Manmohan Singh's plans to visit Pakistan, particularly in the vociferous media of the two estranged neighbours.

Updated on Mar 24, 2014 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Antony freezes defence buys ahead of polls

It will take at least two months for the new government to take over at the Raisina Hill, but the defence ministry has already pulled down the shutter on major capital acquisitions, brushing aside suggestions by major defence contractors to commit on either the $20 billion Dassault Rafale fighter deal or the purchase of six more C-17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft from Boeing.

Updated on Mar 19, 2014 11:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Antony pulls down shutters on acquisitions

Defence ministry has already pulled down the shutter on major capital acquisitions, brushing aside suggestions by major defence contractors to commit on either the $20 billion Dassualt Rafale fighter deal or the purchase of six more C-17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft from Boeing.

Updated on Mar 19, 2014 08:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Tamil Nadu residents under intelligence lens for jihad in Syria

Alarm bells are ringing in the internal security establishment with confirmed reports of Singapore-based Tamil Nadu expatriates’ radicalisation for Islamic jihad against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.

Updated on Mar 19, 2014 07:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Jaish, Hizbul launch terror pads in PoK, India worried

Five days after a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen militants in an inter-group clash at Tral in Jammu and Kashmir, the home ministry is concerned over reports of launching pads being prepared for cross-border infiltration in areas of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

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Updated on Mar 16, 2014 01:13 AM IST
Agencies | By, New Delhi

Come clean on ties with Agusta: India to Dassault

South Block sources said the ministry wanted to seek prior clarification from Dassault during the negotiation stage as it did not want to face legal or operational hurdles for spare parts after the 126-aircraft deal had been signed.

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Updated on Feb 28, 2014 01:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

South to north, how Modi is helping NDA win allies

Narendra Modi's growing pan-Indian support, particularly in the northeast, has forced the BJP to rethink reviving an electoral alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad and move fast on sealing a mutually beneficial deal with the Telugu Desam Party.

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Updated on Feb 24, 2014 02:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

India, Pak ally S Arabia to forge strong defence ties

The two countries will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on defence cooperation on February 28 during the three-day Delhi visit of Saudi Arabian crown prince and defence minister Salman bin Abdul Aziz al Saud.

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Updated on Feb 22, 2014 12:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

US visa not on agenda when Modi meets Powell in Gujarat

The recently confirmed meeting between Narendra Modi and US envoy to India Nancy Powell will take place in Gandhinagar with the focus on how to take the bilateral ties forward without any conversation on US visa for the BJP's PM candidate. POLL: Will US recognition of Modi help him in the Lok Sabha polls?

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Updated on Feb 11, 2014 01:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

US may end 9-year boycott of Modi, envoy asks for meeting

The US has signalled it may end its nine-year boycott of BJP’s PM candidate Modi. US ambassador Nancy Powell last week asked and received permission from South Block to meet the Gujarat CM, say Indian and American sources. POLL: Will US recognition of Narendra Modi help him in the Lok Sabha elections?

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Updated on Feb 11, 2014 04:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByShishir Gupta and Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, New Delhi

Chinese troops trespass on eve of special talks

On the eve of India-China special representative talks on boundary resolution, troopers of Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) transgressed into Chumar area of Eastern Ladakh, resulting in a two-hour face-off with the Indian troops on February 9.

Updated on Feb 11, 2014 01:31 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Planning, lots of hard work make Modi rallies a success

If BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s schedule for the entire month is to go by, he will literally live his life in a suitcase. The Gujarat CM is expected to address 24 rallies in February from Passighat in Arunachal Pradesh to Sujanpur in Jammu.

Updated on Feb 10, 2014 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Drugs seized at LoC were for Punjab

Investigations into the recent Rs 100-crore Afghan drugs haul at a Line of Control (LoC) crossing at Salamabad in Kashmir has revealed that 114 kg of “brown sugar” truck shipment was meant for a dealer in Amritsar with the supplier being a former Hizbul Mujahideen extremist based in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

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Updated on Feb 05, 2014 09:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByShishir Gupta & Toufiq Rashid, New Delhi/ Srinagar

Ulfa chief traced to China, but Beijing denies his presence

A week before Paresh Barua, the leader of the anti-talk faction of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), was sentenced to death in absentia by a special court in Chittagong over a 2004 arms haul case, he was traced to Ruili in Yunan province of China.

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Updated on Feb 02, 2014 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Post-Khobragade, Indo-US talk eco, defence

Even as the Devyani Khobragade affair moves to court, India and the United States are working to move defence and economic relationships forward. Next month will see a series of nuts and bolts meetings between Indian and US officials, designed to get bilateral relations out of their present rut.

Updated on Jan 31, 2014 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByShishir Gupta and Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, New Delhi

Vijay Goel headed to RS, Delhi BJP to get new chief

The Delhi unit of the BJP is set to have a new chief with the current state-unit president Vijay Goel expected to be elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan in the February 7 biennial polls.

Updated on Jan 31, 2014 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

BJP to name 38 candidates in UP first list in mid-Feb

With opinion polls indicating a clean sweep for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the party is expected to announce its first list of candidates for 38 seats in the Poorvanchal, Bareilly, Lucknow and Varanasi belt around February 14.

Updated on Jan 29, 2014 01:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi

Menon meets Japan NSA today, China on agenda

India and Japan are set to take their fast growing ties a step further with a first ever meeting between their national security advisors (NSA) on Monday, and the subject of China’s growing assertiveness is expected to be top of the agenda along with bilateral defence and security ties.

Updated on Jan 27, 2014 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, New Delhi
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