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Cops charged 2 men with reviving Indian Mujahideen, SIMI. Why Delhi court has ordered their release

In Feb 2018, Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Qureshi, booked him in a case related to SIMI. On the other hand, Aziz was arrested along Indo-Nepal border on 13 Feb the same year.

Banned outfit SIMI still actively recruiting & raising funds, Modi govt tells SC

SIMI activists in regular touch with 'masters based in other countries', said MHA. An outfit that aims to 'establish Islamic rule in India' can't be allowed to subsist, it added.

PFI ban is no quick fix for jihadi threat. See how SIMI ban birthed Indian Mujahideen

The toxic influence of Islamism represented by PFI shows a complex matrix of deeply embedded political and social problems. The fight needs political action, not just police.

‘It’s a typo’, say MP Police after order clubs Muslims & Sikhs with LTTE & JKLF as threats

Katni SP says clerk missed typing 'aatankwadi' after the words Sikh and Muslim. Order was issued ahead of MP Governor Mangubhai C. Patel’s visit to district on 7 December. 

Who’ll bring back lost years & honour, ask 127 Muslim men branded terrorists in Gujarat in 2001

On 6 March 2021, a Surat court acquitted 127 Muslim men labelled SIMI terrorists and charged under UAPA back in December 2001.

Indian Facebook friend of Sri Lanka suicide bomber was district head of SIMI offshoot: NIA

Mohammed Azarudeen, the Coimbatore-based ‘recruiter of an ISIS module’ who was arrested last week, organised events of the Wahdat-e-Islami Hind.

Now linked to Sri Lanka terror, here’s how south India became a hotbed of radicalisation

Since the 1990s, groups such as Al-Ummah, PFI & Indian Mujahideen have emerged in southern India and been accused and convicted of radicalisation and terror.

One of India’s murkiest jailbreaks & killing of 8 Muslim men remains wrapped in mystery

The SIMI under-trials were shot dead in 2016. Judicial probe report was submitted 7 months ago. But Madhya Pradesh’s BJP govt is sitting on it.

Ban Kerala’s PFI for ‘role in acts of terror’: NIA tells home ministry

NIA has alleged PFI was involved in murder, terror attack plots and forced conversions

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.