Security

WASHINGTON - US military officials are still using private detectives to track Taliban guerrillas in Pakistan and Afghanistan in defiance of defence department norms, The New York Times has reported.

NEW YORK - A vehicle with two gas canisters inside it has been spotted near Union Square here, a media report said.

SHILLONG - The Border Security Force (BSF) troopers Thursday seized explosives from a bus near the Bangladesh border in southern tip of Meghalaya, an official said.

NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday reiterated that the government does not envisage using the army or the air force to tackle Maoists and urged business and industry captains to partner in the development of the country's hinterland.

AIZAWL - India has decided to further tighten security along Mizoram's international border with Myanmar and Bangladesh to check trans-border movement of terrorists and smugglers, officials said here Wednesday.