KP Singh, India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, said last week in a potentially controversial disclosure that relations between Nepal and India were under threat due to new relations between Maoists in the two countries. Singh also claimed at an annual meeting of Director Generals of Police and top officials from the Indian IB and paramilitary forces that Left groups in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Orissa have recently started acquiring more sophisticated weapons. Home Minister LK Advani, who was also at the meeting said that not everything was okay with India's law enforcing agencies, especially in terms of credibility and trust.