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Thursday, January 15, 2026
TopicNational Investigation Agency

Topic: National Investigation Agency

Bail must be given if prosecuting agency can’t offer speedy trial, rules Supreme Court

Top court gave bail to Mumbai-based Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh, who was arrested four years ago for allegedly carrying counterfeit Rs 2,000 notes.

NIA’s latest arrest in Rameshwaram Cafe blast is ex-convict in 2012 LeT conspiracy case

Shoaib Ahmed Mirza was in touch with prime accused in Rameshwaram Cafe blast case since 2018 & was allegedly facilitating his communication with a ‘foreign handler’, it is learnt.

SC sends 8 PFI men back to jail, points to ‘manifest error’ in Madras HC order granting them bail

The bench held in the garb of fighting for rights of minorities, PFI pursued ‘strong communal and anti-national agenda to establish an Islamic rule in India’.

NIA says NSCN-IM sent Myanmar groups to ‘destabilise’ Manipur, outfit counters with ‘proxy war’ claim

NIA has said a ‘China-Myanmar module’ of Naga group NSCN-IM sent Meitei insurgents to stir trouble in Manipur. Now NSCN-IM claims Indian support for Kuki rebels in Myanmar.

As Gautam Navlakha gets bail, a look at Bhima Koregaon case & other suspects

New Delhi: While granting bail to human rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the Bhima Koregaon case of 2018, the Supreme Court Tuesday said that...

Delhi L-G recommends NIA probe against Kejriwal over allegation of $16mn funding from ‘Khalistani groups’

In letter to home secy, Saxena cites complaint from World Hindu Federation that also alleged a clandestine meeting took place in 2014 between Kejriwal & 'pro-Khalistan' Sikhs in New York.

UK grocery store owner, Pakistan link — who’s Inderpal Singh Gaba, arrested for Indian mission attack

NIA said this week that Gaba, an Afghan Sikh, was arrested for carrying out 'unlawful activities' as part of a 'larger conspiracy'. However, his lawyer has called the arrest ‘arbitrary’.

NIA freezes assets of key aide of Pakistan-based Sikh separatists in 2021 Jalalabad blast case

The probe agency has identified Surat Singh as an important agent of a terror network involved in smuggling narcotics, explosives, arms and ammunition from Pakistan.

Rameshwaram Cafe blast accused held near Kolkata in joint op but Bengal cops & Amit Malviya lock horns

According to agency, Mussavir Hussain Shazeb placed IED in café while Adbul Matheen Taha is the 'mastermind' who planned blast. Both arrested from Kanthi in Bengal’s East Medinipur.

‘Kicked my father,’ says son of TMC worker held by NIA in Bhupatinagar blast case. NIA version differs

NIA denies allegations, says officials were assaulted by a crowd & 1 suffered minor injury. Meanwhile, Bengal Police says NIA 'provided no opportunity to render assistance for such a raid'.

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A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.