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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicNational Investigation Agency

Topic: National Investigation Agency

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.

In a first, judge holds court at NIA HQ in Anmol Bishnoi case after he cites threats from Pakistan

Days before his 11-day NIA custody was to end, Anmol Bishnoi, asked for protection from Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti. He was recently deported from the US.

Delhi blast: NIA makes 7th arrest—another Al Falah employee who ‘harboured’ bomber Umar

The accused, identified as Soyab, is a resident of Faridabad's Dhauj village, where Al Falah medical college is located, and is accused of ‘providing logistical support’ to the bomber.

Gangster Anmol Bishnoi brought back to India. What dossiers reveal about ‘proxy for brother Lawrence’

Anmol Bishnoi, following his deportation from the US, has been put in the NIA’s custody for his involvement in his brother Lawrence Bishnoi’s terror-syndicate.

On Camera

India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Saudi crude rerouted via Red Sea to India as Hormuz tensions rise; Russian imports surge

Around 6 million barrels of Saudi oil headed to Indian ports via the kingdom’s west coast, while Indian refiners ramp up Russian purchases amid a temporary US waiver.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.