Kochi, Feb 18 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Malappuram native who had been absconding for nearly four years in connection with an alleged arms training case linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).Kochi, Feb 18 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Malappuram native who had been absconding for nearly four years in connection with an alleged arms training case linked to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI).Moitheenkutty, a resid…
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Srinagar, Feb 17 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out searches at the house of a retired government employee in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city in connection with a terror-related case registered in 2024.Official sources said NIA carried out searches at the house of Gulam Nabi Bhat in the Mehjoor Nagar area of Srinagar city this morning.The J&K Police and CRPF assisted the NIA sleuths during the search operation.More details about the raid and official st…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IAN) The security forces are on course to meet the March 31 deadline set by Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, to wipe out each and every Maoist from India. While operations on the ground continue and are at the fag end, the forces have also embarked upon a mission to ensure that the ideology too is wiped out completely.A security official part of these operations said that this is an equally important step in the battle against the Maoists.Sometimes, the ideology can be more dan…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Six operatives of the banned terror outfit People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) have been sentenced to ten years of rigorous imprisonment each by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Ranchi, Jharkhand.The verdict, delivered on Friday, deals a setback to the outfit’s activities in the region, particularly in terror financing, arms procurement and extortion rackets that have affected parts of central India.The convicted individuals — Gulab Kumar…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that the government has cancelled 12 lakh SIM cards for the cyber security, blocked IMEI of 3 lakh mobiles, and arrested 20,853 accused till December 2025. Delivering the keynote address at the National Conference on “Tackling Cyber-Enabled Frauds and Dismantling the Ecosystem”, organised by the CBI and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), HM Shah said that multiple government agencies are working together in a c…
Jaipur, Feb 9 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said on Monday that Ayurveda has deep roots in the soil of Rajasthan and the state holds immense potential for the production of medicinal plants. He said the state’s hills, forests, and rich biodiversity testify to Rajasthan’s centuries-old association with Ayurveda. The state government, he added, is working on a priority basis to promote Ayurveda and encourage its wider adoption among the public.The Chief Minister was addressing …
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The waters in Punjab are being tested by the Khalistani elements once again, and this could be a sign of what is coming next. After provoking and planning attacks in India from abroad, these terror groups want to intensify operations after they realised that their movement is hardly gaining any traction in Punjab.Soft attempts are being made to test the waters, and on January 26, a Khalistani flag incident was reported at the Golden Temple. An Intelligence Bureau officia…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) a last opportunity to file its rejoinder in its appeal seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the Kashmiri separatist leader and chief of the banned JKLF, who is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case.A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja allowed four weeks’ time to the anti-terror agency to place its rejoinder on record and listed the matter for furt…
Chaibasa/Ranchi, Jan 23 (IANS) Security forces scored another success in the ongoing anti-Naxal operation in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest as a woman Maoist was killed in a fresh encounter on Friday morning, officials said. The exchange of fire took place between the remote villages of Kumdi and Hinjodiri under the Kiriburu police station area in Naxal-affected West Singhbhum district.With this, the total number of Maoists killed in the operation has risen to 16.On Thursday, 15 Maoists, including…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday gave freedom to the Union government to order a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the violence and tension for two days last week at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, reportedly over the alleged murder of a local migrant worker from that district in Jharkhand.The Division Bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen also directed…