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Topic: Jihad

The forgotten story of how jihad plans failed in Ayodhya

Abdul Karim ‘Tunda’ hoped to unleash fire and blood across India, but lacked both the means and the men to do it.

NIA busts ‘Ballari module’ with arrest of 8 ‘IS operatives’ after raids in four states

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.

UK’s Left has taken the genie of jihad out of the bottle. Palestine is the focal point

Pro-Palestine protests this month have confirmed the comfort that sections of UK's political Left draw from the revolutionary potential it detects in Islamic fundamentalism.

Gaza’s Islamist wave can fuel jihadism in India—Don’t forget the ‘Silk Letter Movement’

Elegantly written on yellow silk, sewn into the waistcoat of a new convert to Islam, Shaikh Abdul Haq, the words were to be carried...

Terror as family business? Why Kokernag ambush may have roots in India’s war against Lashkar

Muhammad Riyaz, killed in Rawalkote last week, believed to have been targeted by Indian agents. He 'played key role in facilitating movement of Lashkar cadres & weapons in Pir Panjal range'.

Jihadist hate can thrive in prison. The story of a cook, a guitarist & a Sufi shows how

Fifteen years ago, the man now alleged to have indoctrinated 5 Karnataka jihadists, Kannur-born Tadiyantavide Naseer, had recruited the Kerala men to fight and die in Kupwara.

Pakistan was broke in 1953 too and Nehru had a deal on Kashmir. Then this happened

For all the talk of jihad-without-end over Kashmir, leaders of Pakistan knew the country needed to reduce military expenditures. That meant seeking peace.

Lashkar-e-Toiba’s last man standing in its south Kashmir jihad heartland is an ill-trained child soldier

Shopian: Late most afternoons, nine-year-old Jazim Farooq Wani would skip past the lush fruit orchards studded along the Rambiara river in the small south...

Kashmiri jihad has disappeared. Its only hope now is for New Delhi to make big mistakes

Since 2001, jihad in Kashmir has often been perched on the edge of the abyss—only to claw its way back because of the failure to build a democratic political order.

‘Jihad can be done with pen’ — how Jaish children’s magazine is indoctrinating youngsters

January issue of magazine Musalman Bacchey includes artwork by a child of an assault rifle & articles suggesting children can support jihadism without participating in armed violence.

On Camera

India’s diplomatic failures aren’t just Trump’s fault. It’s the price of Modi’s narcissism

The Modi govt first put all its eggs into the US basket when the unipolar moment was clearly over. It subsequently overcorrected, accommodating an aggressive China.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.