- After Chennai blasts, US flays India over poor coordination among agencies and absence of full command and control in forces hands
- US State Department report says India vulnerable to Pak based terrorists and elsewhere
- No national policy to deal with radicalisation and violent extremism still in place
- Indo-Pak and Bangladesh borders still very porous as also maritime boundaries and areas along Nepal borders, as per the report
- Modern education in madrassas and terming terror funding as a crime have helped counter radicalisation but loopholes remain
- India’s track record on protecting whistleblowers in terror funding cases especially employees of institutions flayed
Exams Perspective:
- Whistleblowers Protection Act
- LoC
- National Investigation Agency (NIA)
- Terrorism in India
- Measures to Counter Terrorism