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Monday, May 13, 2024
TopicIslamic State

Topic: Islamic State

NIA detains 10 in probe into new ISIS-inspired terror group

The NIA conducted searches across UP and New Delhi in connection with its probe into a new terror module called Harkat ul Harb e Islam.

Son of Kashmir cop arrested in Delhi was ‘planning terror attack’ back home

Jamsheed Jahoor, an engineering student in UP, was arrested with Parvez Ahmad Lone late Thursday. Police say they belong to the Islamic State in J&K.

Delhi police arrests two suspected terrorists

The special cell of Delhi Police arrested two suspected terrorists on Thursday night.

Pope ‘won’t say a word’ on charge he didn’t act on abuse, and mass grave in Sri Lanka

Another American aid cut for Palestinians, and a beloved politician passes away.

Why is warfare almost exclusively male?

Countries have now opened military combat roles to women in response to changing attitudes as seen in the case of Kurdish women fighting Islamic State.

Telegram app and ‘girlfriends’: How 8 IS suspects kept in touch, planned meetings

NIA says the 8 men apprehended from Hyderabad had girlfriends across the world and used their accounts communicate.

Islamic State has survived over 100,000 bombs & missiles and is far from defeated

More than 60,000 ISIS paramilitaries and 6,321 civilians have been killed, but the outfit’s war continues.

350 Nawaz Sharif supporters arrested ahead of former PM’s arrival for arrest

Imran Khan has promised to protect minorities, and seventh-century Buddha statue in Swat restored.

How tech companies are successfully disrupting terrorist social media activity

The difficulty social media companies face is that if a terrorist group is blocked from one platform they get active in another one.

Militants killed in Anantnag encounter are members of ‘Islamic State of J&K’, say police

DGP S.P. Vaid said while there was no IS presence as such in J&K, local militants got influenced by its ideology online.

On Camera

A showdown in Kerala Congress expected after LS elections. K Sudhakaran at the heart of it

Congress would be in more trouble if Sudhakaran lost the election—and his KPCC post. That would set off tongues wagging that he could very well leave the party for BJP.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Pensionless Maha Vir Chakra awardee who trained Mukti Bahini continues to fight for rights

Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.