After Islamic State-linked terrorists slaughtered over a hundred people at Moscow’s Crocus Theatre last week, Putin alleged that the West had pulled the strings.
Muzammil Shareef arrested following raids in three states. The two other accused are still on the run. NIA links cafe blast to Shivamogga terror graffiti & Mangaluru cooker blast cases.
The strike in Moscow has allowed IS to position itself as the inheritor of the transnational jihadist movement once represented by organisations like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and al-Qaeda.
The attack on Crocus City Hall, about 20 km from Kremlin, comes just 2 weeks after the US embassy in Russia warned that ‘extremists’ had imminent plans for attack in Moscow.
Russia’s Federal Security Service said that members of the organisation had been planning ‘to commit a terrorist act against one of the Jewish religious institutions in Moscow.’
By Parisa Hafezi, Elwely Elwelly and Clauda Tanios DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions in Iran that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a
National Investigation Agency says that all 6 were 'Islamic State members' & conspired to further terrorist activities to 'strike fear among people and to threaten country's security'.
Arrests made barely a week after similar action carried out in Maharashtra & Karnataka. Accused were circulating documents for 'recruitment of Mujahideen', says anti-terror agency.
Killings have similar modus operandi, with targets being gunned down usually by motorcycle-borne assailants. A suspected ISI agent was also killed in a similar manner in Nepal.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Thanks Praveen Swami for the article with different perspectives. It highlighted the fact, how little we know, study or understand history.
In today’s mass media culture of echo box news consumption, such pieces provoke one to get out of the comfort zone in what one reads and make The Print stand apart.
Praveen Swami is always amazing with history of world conflicts.
Thanks Praveen Swami for the article with different perspectives. It highlighted the fact, how little we know, study or understand history.
In today’s mass media culture of echo box news consumption, such pieces provoke one to get out of the comfort zone in what one reads and make The Print stand apart.