The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the recovery of a vehicle laden with explosives from outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani‘s residence in Mumbai, on Sunday seized a white Innova car, a police official said. It is not clear if it was the same Innova that was following the explosives-laden Scorpio before the latter was … Read more
The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a charge sheet against 11 alleged members of an ‘al-Qaeda-inspired module’. NIA has alleged in the charge sheet that they were planning to carry out terror attacks in India on instructions of their handlers based in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The 11 accused are: Murshid Hasan, Mosaraf Hoseen, Mainul … Read more
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday offered to amend the three contentious farm laws at their 10th round of talks with protesting unions but farmer leaders stuck to their demand for a complete repeal of the Acts and alleged that the Centre was avoiding discussion on a legal guarantee for MSP. Farmer leaders said there … Read more
Mumbai: BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case of 2008, appeared before a special NIA court here on Monday. Thakur remained in the box reserved for accused persons at the back of the courtroom along with four other co-accused in the case, which is being probed by the National Investigation … Read more
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal has alleged that miscreants at Lailapur border outpost abducted one of the state residents, Intazul Laskar, who died on Monday morning in a hospital in Mizoram. Sonowal has sent details of the incident to Union home minister Amit Shah. Sonowal’s colleague, environment minister Parimal Suklabaidya handed over a cheque … Read more
New Delhi: Maharashtra is the fifth state to withdraw general consent for CBI operations within its territory, a move that came in the backdrop of the central agency taking over a Lucknow police FIR to investigate alleged TRP manipulations by TV channels when Mumbai police was already probing the matter. The move comes amidst the … Read more
NIA on Wednesday made references to wanted don Dawood Ibrahim while opposing the bail plea of an accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told the court that one of the accused in the Kerala gold smuggling case, Ramees, may have been harboured by members of the D-Company in Africa. … Read more
In early July, customs officials at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport intercepted a diplomatic consignment from UAE containing 30 kg of gold valued at about Rs 15 crore. While the yellow metal is smuggled into the country fairly regularly, the use of diplomatic baggage set off alarm bells in various agencies, including at the National Investigative … Read more
WASHINGTON: Chinese government-linked hackers have been targeting U.S. election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday, indicating a more active level of alleged Chinese interference. O’Brien’s comments appeared to go beyond a statement released on Friday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence … Read more