New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The reported detention of a California resident — claiming to have earlier served the US Navy — while attempting to cross into Nepal this month without travel documents comes four months since the arrest of an alleged American trainer in military warfare and six Ukrainian nationals point out the vulnerability and uncharted agendas in this part of the world. In another unconnected incident, the mysterious death of Terrence Arvelle Jackson, a serving officer of the US A…
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New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s plea seeking that proceedings in the case related to the arrest of seven foreign nationals accused of providing terror training in Myanmar be conducted at its headquarters.Considering security concerns, the Patiala House Court permitted the anti-terror agency’s request and directed that all future hearings in the matter be held at the NIA headquarters, with the accused to be produced before t…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The arrest of an American mercenary, Matthew Aaron VanDyke, and six Ukrainian nationals by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed a larger agenda against the northeastern states of India.While the accused persons have confessed that they were training Myanmar-based ethnic armed groups, the NIA is now looking for their local facilitators. Such an operation could not have taken place without local help, an official said.While the agency has arrested seven pe…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The recent arrest of an alleged trainer in military warfare in India and last year’s espionage-linked death in Bangladesh point to a larger vulnerability and competing intelligence agendas in the region, despite being separate incidents, tied coincidentally only by the identical citizenship of the perpetrators. India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) apprehended Matthew Aaron VanDyke, an American citizen, alongside six Ukrainian nationals on March 13 at airport…