Bengaluru, July 19 (IANS) Officials of the NCB discussed strategies to enhance inter-agency coordination and strengthen enforcement measures during the quarterly state-level Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting for Karnataka held here, an official said on Sunday. The meeting was convened to tackle emerging narcotics threats by implementing a comprehensive strategy against narcotics-related crimes, the official said in a statement.The meeting, chaired by NCB DDG (South Western Region), brou…
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Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) One more person has been arrested in connection with the house explosion in Rajarhat in Kolkata on Friday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two, police said on Sunday.The arrested accused, identified as Shahenshah, is a broker who allegedly helped the main accused, Mohammad Shamim, secure a rented room in the house using a fake identity. Mohammad Shamim was arrested on Saturday from Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district. According to the police, Shahensha…
Jaipur, July 19 (IANS) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) convened the quarterly State-Level Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) meeting for Rajasthan in Jaipur to strengthen coordinated efforts among enforcement agencies in combating drug trafficking and implementing a comprehensive strategy against narcotics-related crimes, officials said on Sunday.The meeting was jointly chaired by the Deputy Director General (Western Region) of the NCB and the Inspector General of the Anti-Narcotics Task Forc…
Srinagar, July 16 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Thursday carried out a raid in connection with a terror-related case in Srinagar city.Officials said the State Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted a search operation in the Rainawari area of Srinagar in connection with an ongoing investigation into a terror-related case.The officials said the raid was carried out at the residence of Asim Farooq, son of Farooq Ahmad Budoo, a resident of Kralyar in Rainawari locality o…
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…
Ranchi, July 13 (IANS) In a major success for the security forces, Ravindra Ganjhu, a regional commander of the banned CPI-Maoist carrying a reward of Rs 20 lakh, was arrested by police and the CRPF in Jharkhand’s Latehar on Monday, police officials said. According to the police, Ganjhu was apprehended near his native village, Hesla, in the Chandwa police station area of Latehar. A reward of Rs 15 lakh had been announced for him by the Jharkhand Police, while the NIA had put an additional bounty…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two key absconders in connection with the targeted killing of local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Praveen Nettaru by cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in Karnataka in 2022, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Nasir and Naushad were nabbed respectively from Kochi (Kerala) and Hosur (Tamil Nadu) on Saturday in a meticulous operation carried out across the two states based on credible information from the…
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The nature of radicalisation in South India is undergoing a significant shift, with security agencies increasingly concerned about individuals and small groups propagating extremist ideologies without any formal links to terror organisations.This emerging pattern has left the security agencies worried, and individuals or smaller groups running radicalisation networks are hard to track.Recent investigations by various agencies and the raids that have taken place in the s…
Jodhpur, July 8 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted a search at the Jodhpur residence of Zeeshan, an alleged handler of the banned terrorist organisation ISIS, as part of its ongoing investigation into a terrorism-related case.The search lasted for nearly two hours, during which the agency seized a motorcycle from the premises. The vehicle was later deposited at the Sadar Bazar police station.Zeeshan was arrested in March 2026 in connection with alleged terroris…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out coordinated searches across multiple states in connection with an online terror radicalisation case involving an alleged conspiracy to establish an Islamic state in India through violent jihad and anti-national activities inspired by the ideologies of the terrorist organisations ISIS and AQIS.According to an official statement, NIA teams conducted simultaneous searches at 20 locations in Andhra Pradesh, Tel…