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Friday, April 10, 2026
TopicNational Investigation Agency

Topic: National Investigation Agency

Prashant Bose, one of Maoists’ oldest leaders, dies in Ranchi 5 years after arrest

Bose was lodged at the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi along with his wife Sheela Marandi and other aides who were arrested by the Jharkhand Police in November 2021.

The Myanmar ‘plot’: 6 Ukrainians, 1 American arrested for ‘aiding insurgents, direct link to terrorists’

NIA also told Delhi court the 7 had entered Mizoram illegally before crossing over to Myanmar. The 7 foreign nationals were taken into custody Friday & booked under UAPA.

7 foreigners in NIA custody under UAPA for ‘meeting ethnic groups in Myanmar, drone delivery from Europe’

The foreign nationals—6 Ukrainians & 1 American—are said to have been arrested at the airports of Lucknow, Delhi and Kolkata.

GoPro used to recce Pahalgam before terror attack ‘traced to Chinese distributor’. NIA to approach China

GoPro camera used by terrorists to recce terror attack site was activated at Dongguan, China, a year before the terror attack. NIA now set to seek records via a Letter Rogatory.

NIA drops human trafficking charge in US deportation case, 2 Karnal ‘agents’ get bail

Ravi Kumar and Gopal Singh were arrested in August last year by NIA, which took over the case from the Haryana Police on the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

‘Chacha Chaudhary’ for peers, oversaw CBI’s Delhi excise probe—new NIA chief Rakesh Aggarwal

An IPS officer from the 1994 batch of the Himachal Pradesh cadre, Rakesh Aggarwal will head the NIA until his retirement in August 2028.

NIA court junks plea by Dubai-based ‘sponsor’ of Khalistan outfit. ‘Accused can’t seek fresh probe’

The court was deciding a plea filed by Jasmeet Singh Hakimzada, allegedly a close associate of Harmeet Singh, the head of the Pakistan-based outfit KLF.

Decade after FBI exposed US-based Kashmir lobbyist was on ISI payroll, NIA court cracks down on assets

US-based Ghulam Nabi Shah alias Fai has been in legal trouble in both India and US, which convicted him of conspiracy & tax evasion. FBI laid bare his links with Pakistan’s ISI.

‘Conspiracy traced to Pakistan’—NIA charges 7 in Pahalgam terror attack case, TRF handler ‘key accused’

The agency has named TRF, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as the organisation that carried out the attack and charged its Pakistan-based handler Sajid Jatt as a prime accused.

Allahabad HC delivers split verdict in 2016 killing of NIA officer. Here’s how the two judges differed

While Justice Rajiv Gupta ruled in favour of acquittal of the accused, Justice Harvir Singh partially affirmed 2022 order of trial court, convicting & sentencing them to death.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation proposal to be shared with defence ministry in a week or so—CDS Gen Anil Chauhan

Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.