Delhi court convicts four IM operatives for hatching terror conspiracy

Delhi court convicts four IM operatives for hatching terror conspiracy

A Delhi court on July 10 convicted four Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives for hatching a criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Indian government by carrying out terrorist attacks across the country. The case pertains to arrests made by the National investigation Agency (NIA) in 2012. The conviction was announced by Special Judge Shailender Malik, … Read more

IS conspiracy: 5 techies planned to pursue robotics courses to carry out terror attacks in India

IS conspiracy: 5 techies planned to pursue robotics courses to carry out terror attacks in India

The site where some youths carried out a trial blast in Shivamogga district of Karnataka in September 2022. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its first supplementary chargesheet on June 30 against nine persons in the Islamic State (IS) conspiracy case of Shivamogga district in Karnataka. The accused had carried … Read more

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

‘Deeply pained’, says Mamata Banerjee on Poonch terror attack

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference at Nabanna, in Howrah on April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said she was deeply pained by the deaths of five Indian Army soldiers in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. She extended her … Read more

BJP successful in controlling terror in J&K, insurgency in Northeast: Amit Shah

BJP successful in controlling terror in J&K, insurgency in Northeast: Amit Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah addressing the ‘Dikshant Parade’ of the IPS probationers of the 74 RR batch at SVPNA, Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@AmitShah After eight years, the BJP-led government at the Centre has been substantially successful in controlling terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, insurgency in the North-East and Left wing extremism, Union Home … Read more

Countries that use cross-border terror to serve narrow political purposes must be held accountable: Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj

Countries that use cross-border terror to serve narrow political purposes must be held accountable: Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj

India’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ruchira Kamboj. File | Photo Credit: AP Countries that use cross-border terror for narrow political purposes must be held accountable, India has said in the UN Security Council, in a veiled reference to Pakistan, and underlined the need for nations to stand together against the common threat of terrorism … Read more

Rajouri attacks | Terror has no place in civilised society, says Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge

Rajouri attacks | Terror has no place in civilised society, says Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Terrorism has no place in a civilised society, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on January 3 while expressing his anguish at the two back-to-back terror attacks in Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir in which six people were killed. Among the six killed in the attacks … Read more

Mangaluru auto rickshaw blast: Bomber identified as Mohammed Shariq, a terror accused on the run

Mangaluru auto rickshaw blast: Bomber identified as Mohammed Shariq, a terror accused on the run

Autorickshaw involved in the blast kept near Padil-Pumpwell Main Road in Mangaluru on Sunday. The moving autorickshaw caught fire, after a minor blast reportedly occurred from a bag being carried by the passenger in the city on November 19, 2022. | Photo Credit: MANJUNATH HS The Karnataka police have now confirmed the identity of the … Read more

Coimbatore car blast | Terror probe, politics and more

Coimbatore car blast | Terror probe, politics and more

Two decades after serial explosions claimed 58 lives, Coimbatore turned tense the day before Deepavali when a car blast on a busy street left one man — the main accused — dead. Wilson Thomas and S. Vijay Kumar piece together the details of the investigation of a suspected terror plot Two decades after serial explosions … Read more

Internet and social media platforms now toolkits of terror groups: EAM Jaishankar 

Internet and social media platforms now toolkits of terror groups: EAM Jaishankar 

Focus on online recruitment, drones, crypto currency as CTC highlights terrorists use of new technologies. Focus on online recruitment, drones, crypto currency as CTC highlights terrorists use of new technologies. Terrorism is still one of the “gravest threats” to humanity said External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, highlighting terror threats from the use of emerging technologies … Read more