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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicNational Investigation Agency

Topic: National Investigation Agency

Deported by India in 2010, ‘mastermind’ of Pathankot attack — Shahid Latif ‘killed’ in Pakistan

Latif & JeM founder Masood Azhar were charge-sheeted by NIA for conspiring to carry out attack on Pathankot airbase. He was deported to Pakistan after completing jail term.

How ‘radicalised’ BTech grads arrested in ‘Pune IS module’ case were ‘prepping for terror attacks’

Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, Mohammed Arshad Warsi & Mohammed Rizwan Ashraf arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell. NIA had earlier announced a cash reward for info on Shahnawaz.

Delhi Police arrest terror suspect wanted by NIA in Pune IS module case

Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, a resident of Jharkhand, had completed BTech in mining from Nagpur. He was radicalised online & became involved in Pune IS module, according to cops.

‘Transnational conspiracy’: NIA arrests Manipur man in connection with ethnic violence

Agency claims Myanmar & Bangladesh-based militants conspired with militant leaders in India to indulge violence with intent to divide ethnic groups, wage war against govt of India.

Agencies searching for three suspected IS operatives in Delhi, among them, an ‘IED expert’

All of them are wanted in Pune IS module case, in which several arrests have been made in last few months. NIA offered Rs 3 lakh reward for information on them earlier this month.

NIA raids gangs in 6 states operated by ‘jailed criminals & pro-Khalistan terrorists’ abroad

On Wednesday, probe teams swooped down on associates of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Canada-based Sikh separatist Arsh Dalla and Davinder Bambiha, who was killed in an encounter in 2016.

‘US-based lawyer, SFJ founder, Sikh extremist’ — Gurpatwant Pannun, who is charged with sedition in India

Pannun faces more than 16 criminal cases in Punjab, including 3 of sedition. Known to operate from Canada & US, he resurfaced with purported video calling on Canadian Hindus to 'go back' to India. 

After Nijjar’s property, NIA confiscates house & land of US & Canada-based Sikh extremist Pannun

NIA has accused Gurpatwant Pannun’s organisation, Sikhs for Justice, of 'misusing the cyberspace to radicalise gullible youth and to instigate them to undertake terrorist crimes and activities'.

From militancy victim to a life of crime — who was Sukhdool Singh, gangster slain in Canada

Absconding gangster had alleged links to Sikh separatists and designated terrorist Arsh Dalla. Sukhdool had fled to Canada on forged documents in 2017.

Face of protest at BHU, ‘hardcore’ Bhagat Singh disciple — meet Akanksha Azad, now in NIA crosshairs

President of Bhagat Singh Students’ Morcha, who has led several agitations, is being grilled by NIA & was raided earlier this month as part of agency’s ‘crackdown on CPI (Maoist) cadres’.

On Camera

Tariffs, chips, and China — how Trump’s trade playbook affects India

Trump’s OBBB is framed to augment domestic semiconductor production and enhance trade protection, even at the expense of certain social programs such as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans, as well as a projected ballooning federal deficit from US$2.8 to 3.3 trillion

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

Indian firm joins hands with US manufacturer to locally develop all-terrain vehicles for armed forces

Under joint venture, JSW Sarbloh Motors will indigenise and manufacture TX range ATVs in Chandigarh. The first India-assembled unit is expected by early 2026.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?