Vijayawada, June 19 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday charge sheeted a second accused in a 2025 Andhra Pradesh case involving the recovery of explosives intended for use in terror acts. In the charge sheet filed before the Special NIA Court in Vijayawada, accused Shaik Mansoor alias Mohammed Ali alias Vijayakumar has been named under relevant sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, the NIA said in a statement.A close…
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Hyderabad, June 18 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday charge sheeted a key CPI (Maoist) operative in a Special Court in Hyderabad for inciting a mob at the funeral of a deceased member of a proscribed terrorist organisation last year. In the charge sheet filed before the NIA special court at Nampally, Hyderabad, Gade Innaiah alias Gade Inna Reddy has been charged under relevant sections of BNS, 2023 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, the NIA said in a sta…
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) The Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) has been vigorously pursuing its activities, with the prime focus being on South India and its digital footprint increasing, even as Indian agencies are probing the encrypted messages shared between the cadres of this outfit.The Indian agencies that have been probing the financial trail have learned that funds are being pumped in large numbers from several nations abroad.An Intelligence Bureau official said that the revival of the HuT is extreme…
Bengaluru, June 12 (IANS) A suspected terrorist and accused in the Bengaluru’s 2008 Madiwala bomb blast case died on Friday due to hart attack before the court could pronounce its judgment in the long-pending case. It can be noted that the 2008 Bengaluru serial bomb blasts were a series of seven coordinated low-intensity improvised explosive device explosions that struck the city, including a fatal blast at the Madiwala police checkpost bus stand on Hosur Road.The attacks tragically killed two p…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The Dawood Ibrahim syndicate is reportedly assembling a fresh network of sharpshooters across northern India and neighboring states to execute targeted killings of high-profile individuals, intelligence agencies have revealed.An Intelligence Bureau official said that, unlike similar networks in the past, this one is not being pieced together to target high-profile politicians or prominent public figures. Instead, its objective is to carry out targeted killings of indivi…
Imphal, June 11 (IANS) A 24-hour total shutdown called by the United Naga Council (UNC) to protest the killing of six Naga civilians severely disrupted normal life across Naga-inhabited areas of Manipur on Thursday. The UNC, the apex body of the Naga community in Manipur, called the shutdown from 6 a.m. on June 11 to 6 a.m. on June 12 in protest against the killing of six villagers who were abducted by armed groups belonging to different tribal communities on May 13.Their mutilated bodies were r…
Kohima/Imphal, June 10 (IANS) Hours after the release of 14 hostages belonging to the Kuki community on Tuesday, following nearly four weeks in captivity, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio appealed to the concerned groups to ensure the safe release of six Naga villagers who remain in captivity. Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh welcomed the safe release of the 14 hostages, describing it as a positive and humanitarian gesture. A police official in Imphal said that while the 14 membe…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted searches at multiple locations in Punjab and Haryana in connection with three terror-gangster network cases linked to Pakistan-based terrorist Shahzad Bhatti. NIA teams carried out coordinated searches at 18 locations across nine districts in the two states. Several individuals were examined to gather relevant information, while digital devices, documents, and data related to communication networks, financial t…
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) On June 9, 2024, Narendra Modi took the oath of office for a historic third term as Prime Minister, following the victory of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the general elections. During the 2014 campaign, Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, had emphasised on the need to fight terror. In fact, it was a major issue at that time as India was witnessing bomb attacks almost on a daily basis. It was the Indian Mujahideen which carried out one audacious at…
Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) Kailash Mishra, a former Trinamool Congress candidate for the Bally Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Howrah, has been arrested by the West Bengal Police in Madhubani in Bihar, officials said on Sunday. Mishra, a close associate of Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, had contested the elections from the Bally seat. According to the officials, several criminal cases were registered against him at various police stations in West Bengal during the 2021 Assembly elections. Ac…