Grave threat: British spy chief confirms MI5 crushed Chinese plot to attack UK securityMI5 successfully disrupted a Chinese intelligence scheme targeting Britain’s national security in the previous week, disclosed Director Gen...
16 Oct, 2025, 09.52 PM IST
UK distances new spy chief from 'Nazi' grandfatherThe British government responded to reports about Blaise Metreweli's grandfather. He was allegedly a Nazi spy. Metreweli is the incoming he...
28 Jun, 2025, 02.27 PM IST
Three suspected Russian spies arrested in BritainThree individuals, Bulgarian nationals, have been charged with identity document offences as part of a national security investigation, fol...
15 Aug, 2023, 08.57 PM IST
British spy chief says Russian soldiers are disobeying orders in Ukraine"It's clear he misjudged the resistance of the Ukrainian people. He underestimated the strength of the coalition his actions would galvanis...
31 Mar, 2022, 10.39 AM IST
How plausible is a Delhi jail scene from a John Le Carré novel? Quite, actuallySenior bureaucrats, all capable and undoubtedly patriotic, were of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and therefore, British-trained and part ...
23 Oct, 2021, 09.34 PM IST
'Flattered' Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin denies SolarWinds attack: BBCThe United States and Britain cast Russia as a dangerous former superpower which they say has poisoned enemies with nerve agents and radioa...
18 May, 2021, 03.57 PM IST
How India is behind Russian espionage's growth into its transnational formIt is a reminder that Russian espionage may be a global concern now, but India was the reason it grew into its truly transnational form.
01 Apr, 2018, 07.00 AM IST
British spies penetrating ISIS to thwart attacks: MI6 chiefA "highly organised" ISIS external cell was planning to unleash more violence on the West and that Britain's intelligence services had disr...
09 Dec, 2016, 06.18 PM IST
British top spy agencies briefed Angela Merkel on ISIS threatGermany is not a member of the "five eyes" intelligence sharing community which comprises the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
24 Dec, 2015, 03.51 PM IST
UK pulls out spies as China, Russia crack Snowden files: British mediaChina and Russia have cracked the over one million encrypted files leaked by fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing Britain to w...
14 Jun, 2015, 03.23 PM IST
26/11 attacks shows limitations of high-tech surveillance: ReportAccording to the report, the Snowden documents show that months before Mumbai, British intelligence began spying on the online communicatio...
22 Apr, 2015, 04.37 PM IST
Hacking of SIM card by spy agencies raises fears of sensitive documents being leakedExperts suggest a multinational consensus or treaty that strikes a balance between national security concerns and privacy.
25 Feb, 2015, 02.34 PM IST
Deadly 'near-misses' in spycraft history resulted in 26/11Citing classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, it said although electronic eavesdrop...
22 Dec, 2014, 01.35 PM IST
British PM David Cameron orders spy chiefs to hunt down 'Jihadi John'The Prime Minister has stepped up the hunt for British aid worker Alan Henning's murderer, who appears in IS beheading videos and has a Bri...
05 Oct, 2014, 02.36 PM IST
UK says its electronic spy agency legally allowed to track activities of Facebook, Twitter and Google usersOffice for Security and Counterterrorism chief Charles Farr said data sent on those services is classed as "external" rather than "internal...
17 Jun, 2014, 10.26 PM IST
In global intelligence, you also spy on friendsWhile nothing prevents individual security agencies from spying on enemies, nothing prevents friendly intelligence services from spying on ...
20 Jun, 2013, 08.48 AM IST
- ‘It wasn’t easy getting help from government departments to study Subhash Chandra Bose’
Tapan Chattopadhyay spoke about how Netaji shook up the British Raj, the Indian National Army (INA) - and why many remain ignorant of Bose`...
30 Jan, 2012, 09.14 AM IST