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

Key conspirators, planners of 26/11 terror attacks continue to remain protected and unpunished, says Jaishankar

Key conspirators, planners of 26/11 terror attacks continue to remain protected and unpunished, says Jaishankar

The first leg of the event is being held at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in south Mumbai The first leg of the event is being held at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in south Mumbai External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on October 28, 2022 said the key conspirators and planners of the 26/11 Mumbai … Read more

Pakistan is out of FATF ‘grey list’ on terror funding

Pakistan is out of FATF ‘grey list’ on terror funding

The decision came after 4 years of efforts on curbing terror financing, 34 point action plan The decision came after 4 years of efforts on curbing terror financing, 34 point action plan Four years after it was placed on the “grey list” and penalised with severe financial strictures by the Financial Action Task Force, Pakistan … Read more

20 years of 9/11: America’s war on terror in 10 charts

20 years of 9/11: America’s war on terror in 10 charts

(This story originally appeared in on Sep 11, 2021) Exactly two decades ago today, the US was shaken to the core by the boldest and deadliest terror attack on its soil. The visually terrifying events of 9/11, which unfolded over a few hours, ended up shaping the course of America’s war on terror for the … Read more

Ambani bomb scare: Cops reach Tihar Jail to question terror convict on mobile phone recovery

Ambani bomb scare: Cops reach Tihar Jail to question terror convict on mobile phone recovery

A team of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell on Saturday reached Tihar Jail to question Tehseen Akhtar, who was arrested in 2014 when he was heading proscribed terror group Indian Mujahideen, in connection with the recovery of a mobile phone from his barrack, officials said. The mobile phone, according to police, is suspected to have … Read more