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    • Exclusive: Salakaar director Faruk Kabir on crafting a spy thriller: 'This film is beyond nudity, abuse or vulgarity, it's a pure thriller'

      As Independence Day nears, filmmaker Faruk Kabir readies Salakaar, a gripping series blending emotion, realism, and responsibility—echoing his signature style seen in powerful films like Khuda Haafiz.

    • The women spies who fooled the Nazis with simple tricks

      Women spies sometimes fooled people simply by picking clothes to match their cover story - for example, an apron for a farmers' assistant - or appearing calm when stopped. Indeed, more drastic and constant changes to appearance could backfire, as they did in the case of Indian princess and British spy Noor Inayat Khan.

    • Meet Ajit Doval, the undercover spy who became India’s NSA | James Bond Of India

      National Security Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ajit Doval is the brain behind India's security and military apparatus. He is likened to the 'James Bond’ from India, where he has spent four decades of his life away from the limelight, quietly serving the country. US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti had also lauded NSA Ajit Doval, calling him an "international treasure". So, what’s his story? Watch to find out.

    • World's spy chiefs meet in a secret conclave in Singapore

      Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit for several years

    • Beluga whale with harness, suspected to be a 'Russian spy', spotted in Sweden

      Hvaldimir is moving swiftly away from the areas where beluga whales are commonly found, such as the Arctic Ocean and the frigid waters around Norway and Greenland.

    • US says Russian jet caused spy drone crash over Black Sea, Moscow denies collision

      The Russian defence ministry offered a different account and Moscow's ambassador to Washington said his country "views this incident as a provocation" involving a U.S. MQ-9 drone and Russian Su-27 fighter jet.

    • Chinese spy balloons have targeted several countries, including India: Report

      US officials have briefed its friends and allies including India on the finds of the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down by a fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.

    • What are spy satellites? | Know all about India's spy satellites, RISAT

      On 19th December 2022, North Korea successfully launched the first-of-its-kind spy satellite. But does India have any spy satellites? Radar Imaging Satellite or RISAT is a series of India’s spy satellites built by ISRO. In 2009, India launched its first spy satellite RISAT-2 in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. RISAT -2 was equipped with a sensor known as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that takes radar images. Watch to know more.

    • Missing Chinese Woman: A spy story that never was!

      After a thorough investigation, police found that it was a simple case of a lady who had inadvertently overstayed in the country on an expired visa.

    • Honeytraps: Lonely, junior personnel are a clearer mark for spy agencies in the age of social media

      Experts say the advent of social media - led mainly by Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram - has facilitated contact with individuals on a scale not evidenced before; counterintelligence needs to focus more on reorienting training courses; lonely men posted at remote locations are principal targets.

    • WikiLeaks sentence hearing turns to damage done by Manning

      An official from the US State Department will be testifying on Bradley Manning's leaks of classified diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks website hurt US' ties with other nations.

    • Snowden hazes US attempts to push China to curb cyber theft

      Snowden's disclosures of American electronic surveillance around the world give China an argument to counter US complaints that it steals private intellectual property (IP) from US companies and research centers.

    • Infiltration grave threat to the country: Gill

      Infiltration poses a grave threat to India's security and needs to be tackled immediately, former Punjab DGP K P S Gill today said.

    • Not so simple: US spy agency trying to go mobile

      Troy Lange knows that just mentioning cellphones is enough to give security officers heartburn at the National Security Agency. Lange, as the NSA's mobility mission manager,

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