New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Massive gatherings have been reported at the India-Bangladesh border following an aggressive campaign launched by the newly formed BJP government in West Bengal to drive out illegal immigrants. The government has directed the administration to detect, detain and deport illegal immigrants.Many who entered the country illegally have been self-deporting themselves as they do not want to be put in detention centres. However, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has explicitly ord…
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Rome, May 23 (IANS) Pakistan’s education crisis exposes a deep governance failure, where official claims of combating extremism are undermined by allowing school materials and public narratives that reinforce the ideology sustaining it. For years, the education system in the country has remained a major concern among human rights advocates, minority representatives and education reformers, a report had detailed.Europe’s stance on human rights appears inconsistent when it overlooks the ideolo…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) The Islamic State, in recent years, has proven to be one of the leading terror outfits when it comes to the use of technology. When it commenced operations in Syria and Iraq in late 2013, the focus was heavy on creating fear. For this, it had set up Hollywood-style studios where it shot beheading videos.While some of them were real, many were fake, and these videos were shot and circulated to create a perception of how lethal the outfit is. This worked well for the outfi…
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The Indian Intelligence agencies are keeping a close watch on the resurgence of an Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Ansar al-Islam (AAI). This outfit was founded in 2021 in Iraq, and it primarily fought against the secular Kurdish factions and the US-led coalition. The original Iraqi faction has now dispersed, but its wing in Bangladesh, known as the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), is showing signs of resurgence. An Intelligence Bureau official said that the ABT remains largely non…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) When the Faridabad module was busted initially, it was being linked to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). However the probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) found that the module operated under the banner of the Al-Qaeda affiliated Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH), which is a lesser known terror outfit in India when compared to the JeM. According to the NIA, the module led by Umar Un Nabi, a doctor by profession, had used the name of the Jaish briefly to attract the youth…
Washington, May 14 (IANS) Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed sharply during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing over whether political Islam and Sharia law pose a threat to the US Constitution, with critics condemning the proceedings as anti-Muslim fearmongering. The hearing, titled “Sharia-Free America: Why Political Islam & Sharia Law Are Incompatible with the US Constitution: Part II,” quickly descended into heated exchanges over religion, immigration, constitutional freed…
Guwahati, May 13 (IANS) The Dibrugarh district administration in Assam has issued a stringent directive prohibiting the publication, circulation, possession and storage of extremist or jihadi material linked to banned organisations, officials said on Wednesday.According to an official order issued from the office of the District Magistrate of Dibrugarh, the restriction has been imposed under Section 98 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, in reference to a government notificat…
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The name of Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti has surfaced repeatedly in multiple investigations linked to terror recruitment, radicalisation, and espionage activities in India over the past several months. More than a dozen cases have reportedly been registered against him by various agencies.Bhatti, a Lahore-based gangster, has allegedly been operating out of Dubai for several years while frequently travelling between Pakistan, the UAE and other countries in the M…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Intelligence agencies are closely monitoring the manner in which terror groups would increasingly function in future. Officials say that terror modules would no longer be structured like the earlier ones. Terrorists would no longer operate under structured modules that would involve handlers from abroad and ideological mentors, they would either act alone or in very small groups.Terror modules would also increasingly have buddy pairs so that scrutiny is very less, …
Srinagar, April 29 (IANS) Jamia Siraj Ul-Uloom was declared unlawful under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) after 17 of its alumni joined terrorist ranks, police said, to put to rest speculations that the action had been taken against a Muslim seminary. Officials said on Tuesday that Jamia Siraj Ul-Uloom in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district was declared an unlawful entity under the UAPA after its 17 alumni joined terrorist ranks and were later killed in separate encounters.”As ma…