The raids, taking place mainly in South India, was termed by the NIA as the 'largest ever' investigation process 'till date'.
Intelligence Bureau sources point out that any terror group would find it easy to set up base in the state. The headache zones in the state are Binanipuram, Malapuram and Kozhikode
Police escorted the rally all the way, at one point standing in a row to prevent the rallyists from entering a side road where stood a huge mosque. Across the road, an old Muslim woman asked her Hindu neighbour what the rally was all about. The latter shrugged her ignorance, looking on in bewilderment at the young men with their saffron flags, all of them wearing Bajrang Dal T-shirts.
The Students Islamic Movement of India has changed its name. The new name for the outfit is SIM -- Students Islamic Movement -- according to Abu Basher, the alleged mastermind of the Ahmedabad and Bengaluru blasts. Basher told the Hyderabad police who interrogated him at Gujarat that it was a conscious decision to refer to the organisation as SIM. "We do not want to have any boundaries and hence by adding India, the organisation would seem restricted," he said.
Thirteen years after 56 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in Gujarat's Ahmedabad, a special court in the city has concluded the trial against 77 accused, while reserving its verdict in the matter.
Special judge AR Patel will hear the arguments of the defence on Tuesday, special public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said.
Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa, one of Pakistan's largest and oldest seminaries and dubbed as a 'university of jihad' by its critics for helping sow violence across the region for decades, has educated more Taliban leaders than any school in the world and its alumni now hold key positions in Afghanistan, according to a media report.
China is trying to promote insurgency in India by helping sectarian forces, including Islamic terrorists and Maoists, carry out their nefarious activities against India, a senior intelligence official has revealed.
The National Investigation Agency has received clues that banned Islamic outfits like the Students Islamic Movement of India were carrying out extremist activities under bogus names in several parts of Kerala.
Police used batons and teargas shells to disperse the violent mob, but denied firing at them.
The Students Islamic Movement of India was formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, in April 1977. SIMI had originally emerged as a student's wing, which aimed to 'liberate' India from the 'western materialistic culture'. Its founder president was Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiquie.
The Taliban had promised an 'inclusive' government that represents Afghanistan's complex ethnic makeup, but there is no Hazara member in the cabinet.
British-born controversial Jewish writer Susan Nathan, who has been residing in Kozhikode since 2009, has been deported to Israel on court orders, official sources said on Thursday.
Some important simple truths about the issue may be more helpful than high sounding debates, asserts Mohammad Sajjad.
Officials said both the factions of the Hurriyat are likely to be banned under Section 3(1) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, or the UAPA, under which "if the Central Government is of opinion that any association is, or has become, an unlawful association, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare such association to be unlawful."
A senior leader of the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami group has been arrested in Bangladesh for allegedly instigating violence in March during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country, police said on Sunday.
The outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India and the Maoists have recently conducted a secret meeting in Kottayam district of Kerala, according to highly placed sources in the Indian intelligence agencies.
The Central intelligence has sent a warning note to the Kerala police on the possible regrouping of the banned Islamic organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India.
Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence is having close liaison with some pro-Naxal overground organisations through banned Students Islamic Movement of India in West Bengal and helping them to instigate people against the government, a top police officer of the state said on Thursday.
'There is far more goodwill towards India from across the board in Afghanistan'
An IB report on SIMI's recruitments says the outfit has at least 150 frontal organisations working for it. While the terror strikes and planning is carried out by the main cadres of SIMI, the parent organisation, providing logistics and ensuring recruitment is taken care of by the frontal organisations.
The Union home ministry on Friday extended the ban on the Student's Islamic Movement of India for a further period of two years. The decision was taken after a thorough observation of all activities of the organisation.The Centre has received reports about SIMI's movements in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi.The ban on SIMI was going to expire on February 7. The government is extending the ban on SIMI for the fifth time.
"You are a secessionist movement. You have not stopped your activities," a Bench of Justice S B Sinha and Markandeya Katju observed while dealing with the special leave petition filed by SIMI challenging the ban imposed on it.
Safdar Nagori, one of the 38 convicts sentenced to death in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case by a Gujarat court on Friday, appeared remorseless after the sentencing for a terror act that killed 56 people, and was heard saying the Constitution does not mean anything to him.
The government has found evidence that terrorist camps were being run on Indian soil by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and "right wing majoritarian groups," Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. "In two cases investigated by the National Investigation Agency, evidence has come that training camps were organised by SIMI and right-wing majoritarian groups or their cadres," Minister of State for Home RPN Singh said in reply to a written question.
The prime accused responsible for the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case in 2008, Mohammad Shahid Nagori, was remanded to nine days police custody by a local court on Monday.
War of words continued between Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta and Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh over the role of the previous government in encouraging activities of Students Islamic Movement of India in the state, when he was the chief minister.
The National Investigation Agency has announced a reward of Rs four lakh on information leading to the arrest of absconding Indian Mujahideen terrorist Abdul Subhan Qureshi alias Touqeer.
A Mumbai magistrate on Friday rejected a Gujarat government plea seeking transfer of the nine accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case to a jail in the neighbouring state, as they faced danger to their lives from the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.
Hyderabad Police has detained three operatives of the Students Islamic Movement of India from the east Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh in connection with the twin blasts that rocked the city last week.
Protester Kaneez Fatima pointed out that for her attending the rally was important as she had to register her voice against any kind of oppressive rules for women.
'I condemn terror in all forms. Terror activities end up killing innocent people and hence I feel terror activities should not be carried out.'
Digvijaya Singh said if Zakir Naik is guilty of delivering inflammatory sermons then why no action was taken against individuals like Sakshi Maharaj, Yogi Adityanath, Sadhvi Prachi.
'Sridhar had the ability to paint a vision, for an activist faced with the toughest personal problems so as to see a way out by combining one's personal desires with the needs of the movement.' Arun Ferreira remembers his fallen comrade Sridhar Srinivasan.
Dismissing Salman Rushdie's charge that the state police had invented a 'plot' to keep him away from the Jaipur Literature Festival, the Rajasthan government on Monday night said it had received intelligence inputs that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India was planning to target him during the festival.
The Gujarat Police have said that the names of the accused in terror cases of Castle Rock, Vagamon and the Sabarmati Jail are the same.
The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad has undertaken massive combing operations across several districts of Maharshtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
After SIMI was banned by the Union government in 2001, it was Nagori who revamped the outfit and urged his cadres to take up arms in order to wage a war against the country, which he felt would become anti-Islamic in the days to come.
Terror suspect Manzar Imam Mohammad is said to have been involved in setting up training camps for the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Hyderabad's Dilsukh Nagar became a victim of terror for the second time on Thursday. On November 21 2002, a blast occurred at the Sai Baba temple in the same area in which two persons were killed and 22 others were injured after an improvised explosive device triggered the explosion.
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