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New Delhi, March 12 – The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted relief to the 74-year-old leader, noting his prolonged period of incarceration and the delay in the...

Kolkata, February 27 – After a prolonged dispute, the West Bengal Police agreed on Friday to hand over the case diary in the recent Beldanga violence case in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA is investigating the matter following...

New Delhi, February 27 – The arrest of Sri Lanka’s former Intelligence chief, retired Major-General Suresh Sallay, is a turning point in the investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people.This move was a bold one taken by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who won...

Mumbai, February 25 An accused in the ISIS link case, Areeb Majeed, has claimed that he was approached by two individuals posing as Indian Army officers who offered to "drop" his trial if he joined a covert operation, prompting a special court on Wednesday to seek the response of the NIA and...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the NIA for referring to alleged inflammatory speeches from the 1990s while opposing the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a bench of...

New Delhi, February 25 – A little-known group called the Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH) has claimed responsibility for the recent killing of police personnel at a border outpost in Punjab. This has led intelligence agencies to believe that there are renewed efforts to destabilize Punjab...

Toronto, February 24 Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to India, the Canadian government is seeking to revoke the citizenship of a Pakistan-born businessman, Tahawwur Rana Hussain, accused of playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.Rana, 64, is a Canadian national born in...

New Delhi, February 23 – The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday unveiled India’s first National Counter-Terrorism Policy and Strategy, titled ‘PRAHAAR’, marking a significant milestone in the country’s long-standing efforts to combat terrorism in all its forms.The MHA has introduced the...

Chennai, February 22 – The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a strong attack on the DMK government on Sunday, accusing it of presiding over a serious deterioration in law and order and failing to protect national security.State BJP President Nainar Nagenthran alleged...

Chennai, February 22 – AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami strongly criticised the DMK government in Tamil Nadu on Sunday, following reports that eight individuals, allegedly involved in planning a terror attack in Tiruppur, were arrested by the Delhi Police.In a statement posted...

Kochi, February 21 A court has dismissed the bail petition of the national in-charge of the education wing of the banned PFI after the NIA opposed the plea, alleging that he had organized armed training and propagated ISIS ideology.The NIA court judge, MK Mohandas, on Friday dismissed the bail...

New Delhi, February 16 – It appears that establishing desks in various countries to carry out covert operations is the new modus operandi of the ISI, with Indian intelligence agencies having learned that, in addition to the existing missions in each country, the Pakistani spy agency has been...

New Delhi/Srinagar, February 15 The "white-collar" terror module recently busted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police indicates that the doctors arrested in the case had been radicalized since 2016 and formed a new terror organization named "Ansar Interim" to carry out subversive activities in the...

New Delhi, Feb 11 The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the National Investigation Agency to file a report in a sealed cover before the Calcutta High Court, justifying the invocation of a UAPA provision pertaining to terror acts in a case related to repeated incidents of violence and unrest in...