Local land records also say the land at Kalapani and Lipulekh belongs to the residents of two villages on the Indian side of the border, an official recently said.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress party and the United Progressive Alliance government of conniving with terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen, suspected to have played a key role behind the serial blasts at his Patna rally last month.
While officials of the National Investigation Agency are finding it hard to extract any information from Yasin Bhatkal, the wily chief of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, his aide Asaddulah Akthar is singing like a canary.
This was the motto of the Karachi project - a covert programme conceptualized by the Inter Services Intelligence in 2003 and kicked off by Indian Mujahideen terrorist Yasin Bhatkal five years later.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal wanted to fight North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces in Afghanistan as an 18-year-old when the US launched its campaign against Taliban following the 9/11 attacks, investigators have said.
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A largely behind-the-scene operative, Yasin Bhatkal is today on the watch list of the Interpol with a red corner alert issued against him.
A dossier on the terrorist, who regrouped the Indian Mujahideen, reveals that investigators have announced a bounty of Rs 15 lakh on any informationon him, Vicky Nanjappa reports
Ariz Khan, who has been awarded death penalty for the murder of Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma in connection with the sensational 2008 Batla House encounter case was allegedly associated with the Indian Mujahideen.
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Singh said the National Investigation Agency, which recently took over the case, will investigate the case, amid conflicting versions by Delhi Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police on his arrest from near the Indo-Nepal border.
The home ministry on Thursday issued a notification facilitating the National Investigation Agency to take over the case related to the arrest of suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liyaqat Shah amid conflicting versions by Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir police.
A mild earthquake shook parts of Uttarakhand early on Wednesday. A slight intensity quake measuring 3.2 on the Richter Scale hit areas located along Uttarakhand-Nepal border in Pithoragarh district at around 10:00 AM this morning, MeT office Director Anand Sharma told PTI.
It seems that like in the late 1980s, Pakistan feels that its support to the IM is giving diminishing returns and they have decided to jettison them. It is not unlikely that an American nudge and pressure to do this has been a significant factor in all these happenings, says Colonel (retd) Anil Athale
The bomb had exploded atop a bus stop in Dadar. The main objective of Bhatkal behind hatching the conspiracy and planting the bomb was to trigger communal conflagration in Mumbai, IM member Nadeem Sheikh said in his 25-page confession.
In a statement on Tuesday, the AIMMM said that Shah was stopped and interrogated by the Seema Suraksha Bal at the India-Nepal border and later handed over to security agencies from Delhi.
Arrested Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal and his associate have "without any remorse" acknowledged that they carried out many bomb blasts so as to "send a message", a top district police official who interrogated the terror mastermind, said.
Delhi Police on Sunday released the sketch of a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist linked to a fidayeen attack plot, unfazed by controversy over arrest of an alleged operative four days ago from Indo-Nepal border in the case
National Investigation Agency will get CCTV footage disc, related to arrest of suspected militant Liyaqat Ali Shah, analysed from Electronics Corporation of India Ltd as the discs seized by Delhi Police were found to be damaged.
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Tourists, businessmen and officials from India visiting Nepal are facing a new problem, following the Nepal government's ban on exchange of Indian currency in the denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000.
He was a member of Azamgarh (Sanjarmur) module of the IM and was based in Nepal where he was teaching at a school.
Around $1 million (Rs 6.63 crore) was seized from two persons here as police intensified vehicle checking in Bihar which is gearing up for the assembly elections, the police said on Thursday.
The United Democratic Madhesi Front said that in view of the severe shortage the country is facing, the blockade has been called off. However, the agitation will continue.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said that the open Indo-Nepal border is emerging as a possible ingress point for anti-national elements because of strict vigil on the country's borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections came to a close on Thursday evening, with top leaders of different political outfits unleashing their horses in the 10 districts running along the Uttarakhand and Nepal border, where the seventh and final round of polling will take place on Saturday. Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow.
Shannu Khatun, 35, is a beggar who has to earn a living for her family including her physically challenged husband, eight-year-old daughter and twin sons. She sold one of her sons for Rs 62 to a Nepalese couple at Forbesganj Railway Station.
A woman in Bihar's Araria district sold off one of her four-month-old male twins for Rs 62 to a Nepalese couple, the police on Sunday said.
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rocked parts of West Bengal in the early hours of Wednesday, the meteorological department said in Kolkata.
The Delhi Police on Friday filed a charge sheet in a court against suspected top Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehsin Akhtar, Zia-Ur-Rahman and three others for allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory in the national capital from where a huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered.
On his first official visit after becoming the prime minister of Nepal, Baburam Bhattarai on Saturday said all "misunderstandings" have been "dispelled" and a "new chapter" has been opened up in Indo-Nepal ties. The Nepalese prime minister also assured New Delhi of developing a mechanism to check the Fake Currency Notes circulation on Indo-Nepal border.
Mystery shrouds the death of three tigers in a row in the Terai forests of Uttar Pradesh over the past few days.
A few days ago India and Nepal decided to set up a hotline between the two home secretaries to share real-time information pertaining to cross-border crimes and terrorist activities.
Bihar Member of Legislative Assembly Zakir Anwar alias Zakir Mian is among the criminals of Indian origin wanted by the Nepal police.
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Suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Salman had given intelligence agencies warning about the outfit attempting to make an 'explosive' comeback.
At least 11 people were killed -- six in India and five in Nepal -- after a powerful earthquake with a 6.8 magnitude rocked Sikkim and other parts in the northeast on Sunday leaving. In, India around fifty people have been injured and there has been extensive damage to property. The quake also jolted Bangladesh, sparking panic among the people, though there was no immediate report of any casualty.
Five Indian Air Force aircraft have been pressed into service for relief operations in quake-hit Sikkim where at least two persons died in the tremors.
A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district on Wednesday awarded six months imprisonment, together with a fine of Rs 50,000 each, to three Chinese nationals, including a woman, who had strayed into the Indian territory from the Indo-Nepal border at Rupaidiha.
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