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New Delhi: In a significant development, the US has designated The Resistance Front, a proxy of Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) that was behind the Pahalgam attack, as a foreign terrorist organisation. In a statement issued by the Department of State on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this action demonstrates the US' commitment to enforcing President Donald Trump's call for justice for the Pahalgam attack. Twenty-six people were killed in the April 22 attack in P ...Read More >
Jaipur: Former CM Ashok Gehlot acknowledged Thursday that BJP's campaign focusing on the 2022 Kanhaiya Lal murder case contributed to his govt's electoral defeat in 2023.The case involved the brutal killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Udaipur, who was beheaded inside his shop on June 28, 2022, by two assailants who filmed and shared the act on social media. The accused, Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari and Ghaus, were arrested within four hours after the crime.The murder occurred against a backdrop of es ...Read More >
Washington DC [US], July 18 (ANI): US Department of State on Thursday (local time) designated The Resistance Front (TRF), group behind the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, as a terrorist organisation. In a statement issued by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the statement acknowledged the fact that the organisation claimed responsibility for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir which claimed the lives of 26 civilians. The US, therefore, accorded the TRF as a Foreign T ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The Indian government expressed regret on Tuesday over the reported demolition of the ancestral property of celebrated filmmaker and writer Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh and expressed its willingness to extend cooperation in its restoration. "We note with profound regret that the ancestral property of noted filmmaker and litterateur Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, belonging to his grandfather and eminent litterateur, Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhur ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Using social media to disseminate radical ideology, even if there is no physical act of terror, can attract UAPA provisions, the Delhi high court said, declining the bail plea of an operative of "The Resistance Front (TRF)", a terror outfit.HC underscored that the accused posted photos of terrorists and incited people to commit heinous acts and, if released, there is a high possibility of him tampering with the evidence as he is digitally adept.Expanding on the definition of Section 1 ...Read More >
Evidence collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including intercepted conversations and emails between Tahawwur Rana, David Coleman Headley and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) planners in Pakistan, forms the key basis of conspiracy charges filed earlier this week by the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, according to officials familiar with the development. The federal agency on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet calling the Pakistani-born Canadi ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi's Patiala House Court has reserved the decision on the demand to release terror funding case accused Kashmir MP Engineer Rashid on custody parole to participate in the upcoming session of Parliament. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jeet Singh has reserved the decision after hearing the arguments of both the sides. Engineer Rashid has demanded custody parole to participate in the monsoon session of Parliament starting from July 21. The lawyer appearing on behalf of Engineer R ...Read More >
PRNewswire Chandigarh [India], July 15: Chandigarh University, India leading private university, in collaboration with job platform Apna and investment firm Venture Catalysts (VCats) have launched Campus Tank, India first university-led Startup launch-pad for young innovators below the age of 30 to pitch their ideas and get funding of $1 Million to launch their startups along with expert venture guidance, strategic ecosystem alliances and immersive startup incubation. APNA which is India larges ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistani-Canadian national and Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana on Tuesday filed a petition in a Special NIA court seeking permission to speak with his family members over phone from jail at regular intervals, a lawyer said on Tuesday. The Special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Judge at Patiala House Court, before whom Rana raised the demand, sought a response from the jail authorities and the anti-terror agency on whether he should be allowed ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sought time on Tuesday to respond to a plea moved by Tahawur Rana, who is seeking regular telephonic conversations with his family. Jail authorities have filed their response. Earlier, he was allowed to talk to his family. Special NIA judge Chander Jit Singh listed the Matter for hearing on July 25. Meanwhile, the court has allowed a plea of Rana seeking a direction to provide a bed and a mattress in Tihar Jail. The jai ...Read More >
New Delhi: The dastardly April 22 terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam was a closely guarded conspiracy hatched by Pakistan's spy agency ISI and terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) on direct instructions from the country's political and military leadership, reported TOI, citing sources in the security establishment. The terror attack claimed 26 lives, most of whom were tourists.Described by sources as a joint ISI-LeT project similar in nature to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the conspira ...Read More >
New Delhi: Ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting to be held in Tianjin, India has made it clear in not so a subtle message to China that Beijing should not adopt double standards when it comes to combating terrorism. "Tomorrow, we will be meeting in the format of the SCO, whose primary mandate is to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A departmental inquiry has been ordered against Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Chan Pasha, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly aiding Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist T Naseer, currently lodged in Bengaluru Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara. Addressing the media after the monthly parade at the City Armed Reserve Parade Grounds (South) in Adugodi, City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh confirmed that a departmental inquiry had been initiate ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a blunt warning that has confirmed the worst fears of Indian security establishment, a senior Nepalese govt advisor has cautioned that Pakistan-based terrorist organisations were likely to exploit Nepal's geography to launch attacks on India.During a seminar on challenges to regional peace and security in South Asia in Kathmandu, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, principal political advisor to the president of Nepal and former minister of industry, said Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist gr ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Friday delivered a sharp rebuke at the distorted reportage of 'Operation Sindoor', by the foreign media and also dared it to come up with any credible image of damages on the Indian side. NSA Doval, speaking at the 62nd convention of IIT-Madras, saluted the Indian armed forces for executing the precision military strikes on Pakistan's terror factories in just 23 minutes and lambasted the international media for it ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Senior BJP leader CT Ravi said on Thursday that the Congress government is not serious about combating terror. The State Intelligence wing was not aware of the use of mobile phones in Bengaluru Central jail for terror acts until the National Investigation Agency (NIA) made the arrests, he said. The NIA on Tuesday arrested prison psychiatrist Dr Nagaraj, assistant sub-inspector (City Armed Reserve police) Chand Pasha, and the mother of an absconding accused, Anees Fathima, in a 2023 c ...Read More >
Hyderabad: BRS senior leader T Harish Rao on Wednesday strongly condemned Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's "baseless and misleading" statements regarding irrigation and water rights in Telangana. Harish Rao accused Revanth Reddy and his Congress government of "mortgaging Telangana's rightful share of water resources and attempting to mislead people with fabricated data and staged presentations." Expressing outrage over the Chief Minister's closed-door meeting with Congress legislators at Praja Bh ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency Wednesday filed the first supplementary chargesheet against Mumbai attacks accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana in the larger conspiracy case, citing additional evidence collected by its sleuths on his role as a facilitator of co-accused David Headley's multiple trips to India for reconnaissance of 26/11 targets on directions of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba masterminds.After the supplementary chargesheet against Rana - extradited from US in April this year - w ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report on a comprehensive update on terrorist financing risks, released this month, has for the first time mentioned the role of 'states' as terror sponsors, something India has been harping on while seeking to designate Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism.India had identified state sponsored terrorism from Pakistan as a source of terrorist financing risk in its money laundering/terror financing risk assessment in 2022. The findings of the FAT ...Read More >
New Delhi: A new report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Tuesday flagged misuse of ecommerce platforms, social media and online payment services to fund terror activities. "Serious and evolving terrorist financing risks have been highlighted with a warning on gaps in countries including India and their abilities to fully understand terrorism financing trends and respond effectively," the latest report stated. "Today's report outlines current and evolving methods employed by terroris ...Read More >
New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary charge sheet at the Patiala House Court in Delhi against Tahawwur Rana in the 26/11 Mumbai terror case. The agency is probing a larger conspiracy case involving David Coleman Headley and Pakistan's ISI behind the attack. The 26/11 attacks, orchestrated by Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed over 170 lives and left hundreds injured. Special NIA judge Chanderjit Singh has put the supplementary charge sheet for consideration on ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The arrest of a psychiatrist and two others by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed a disturbing underbelly of the Bengaluru Central Prison: An illegal mobile phone racket allegedly fuelling terror and crime from within the jail.Preliminary investigation revealed that Dr Nagaraj, the prison's psychiatrist, had earned nearly Rs 1 crore by selling and renting mobile phones to hardened criminals, who used the devices to orchestrate extortions, abductions, murders, and even ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jul 9 (PTI) BJP leader R Ashoka on Wednesday called for the deportation of Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals in Karnataka and urged the state government to cooperate with central agencies like NIA to dismantle networks supporting terror activities, without indulging in "vote bank politics". The Leader of Opposition in the Assembly remarks follow the arrest of three people, including a prison psychiatrist and an armed reserve police personnel, by the NIA following extensive searches ...Read More >
Mumbai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed its first supplementary chargesheet against Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, before the NIA Special Court at Patiala House, New Delhi. The move comes after Rana's extradition from the United States in April this year and fresh evidence uncovered during interrogation. The court is expected to take cognizance of the chargesheet in the coming days, paving the way for the trial to formally commence. On ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Special NIA Court in Bengaluru on Wednesday handed over the custody of three arrested accused persons in a prison radicalisation case to the custody of the National Investigation Agency for six days. The accused Anees Fathima, Chan Pasha and Dr Nagaraj S. were produced before the court today by a team headed by Dy SP Susheela. The judge passed the order handing over the custody of the accused to the NIA till July 14. The NIA on Tuesday had arrested these ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF has for the first time introduced the concept of state sponsored terrorism in its latest report, highlighting that such funding is a longstanding threat to international peace and security, stability of regional financial, and political systems. State sponsored terrorism means a state actively financing terrorist activities as part of its state policy. Before this, India had raised and identified sta ...Read More >
Bengaluru, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The BJP on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress-led Karnataka government after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested three individuals -- including a prison psychiatrist and a City Armed Reserve (CAR) policeman -- in connection with the 2023 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) prison radicalisation case. The arrests were made following extensive raids across Bengaluru and Kolar districts. Those arrested include Dr. Nagaraj, a psychiatrist at Parappan ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): Global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF has for the first time introduced the concept of state sponsored terrorism in its latest report, highlighting that such funding is a longstanding threat to international peace and security, stability of regional financial, and political systems. State sponsored terrorism means a state actively financing terrorist activities as part of its state policy. Before this, India had raised and identified sta ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) A court here on Wednesday extended till August 13 the judicial custody of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Rana. Rana was produced before the Patiala House Court through a video conferencing facility upon the expiry of the previously granted judicial custody. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a supplementary charge sheet against Rana, a former officer of the Pakistan Army's Medical Corps, following an initial charge sheet filed against ...Read More >
Tahawwur Rana NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended till August 13 the judicial custody of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who was extradited from the United States in April.Special judge Chander Jit Singh passed the order. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) produced Rana through video conference after the expiry of his judicial custody granted earlier, news agency PTI reported.Also Read | 'Being interrogated for 8-10 hours daily; asked for pen, paper and ...Read More >
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