The arrest has nothing to do with the Mumbai bomb blasts case.
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.
A group of protesters stormed a book stall in Dhaka, Bangladesh, over the display of books by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin. The incident prompted Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus to order a probe into the "disorderly behaviour." The incident unfolded at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on Monday, with protesters surrounding the stall and chanting slogans. Police intervened to restore order, but the protesters then encircled the police control room, keeping tensions high. Following widespread criticism, Chief Adviser Yunus ordered authorities to bring those responsible to justice. The Bangla Academy has formed a committee to investigate the chaos and attack on the publishing house.
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.
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.
The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad has undertaken massive combing operations across several districts of Maharshtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
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 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.
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.
At least 30 suspects have been detained in Bangladesh's Chattogram city for their alleged involvement in the killing of a lawyer and attacking security personnel following the arrest of a prominent Hindu community leader. The violence erupted after Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, spokesperson for Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatani Jagran Jote, was denied bail and sent to jail in a sedition case. The lawyer, Assistant public prosecutor Saiful Islam, was killed during clashes between security personnel and Das' followers. The interim government has condemned the violence, urging people to remain calm and has ordered an investigation into the killing and appropriate legal measures.
'I condemn terror in all forms. Terror activities end up killing innocent people and hence I feel terror activities should not be carried out.'
Sahim Salim talks to officers of the special cell in New Delhi, and finds out what goes on behind the scenes during an investigation
'At this moment you cannot give her asylum because if you do, then you are directing public anger against India.'
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.
"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.
The three have been arrested in relation to the July 11 blasts in Mumbai.
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.
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.
While the National Investigation Agency is focusing on the confessions made by Swami Aseemanand about the involvement of Hindu extremist groups in the Samjhauta blasts case, the revelations by SIMI claiming responsibility for the attack cannot be overlooked. The contradictory statements by the two radical groups has left the investigators going in circles, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
The persons belonging to minority community, who were arrested after the 2008 Jaipur serial blasts, were acquitted by the court, which observed that prosecution failed to establish any link between them and the banned outfit.
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.
"There has been substantial increase in Muslim population and also in (their) getting opportunity in various public sectors but because of some disgruntled elements are propagating, spreading rumours of government discriminating against them. Hence, this ban is justified to bring Muslim in the mainstream," Additional Solicitor General A S Chandhiok said.
The Indian Mujahideen is without doubt India's deadliest outfits today
The Karnataka police claimed on Wednesday to have gathered clues after questioning over 200 persons, including Students Islamic Movement of India members, in connection with the serial blasts that rocked Bangalore in July, a top police official said in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The Andhra Pradesh Crime Investigation Department has arrested an accused in connection with the 2002 Sai Baba Temple blast case in Hyderabad.
Danish Riyaz, an absconding accused of the Ahmedabad 2008 serial bomb blasts, was on Tuesday arrested from Vadodara railway station, city crime branch officials said.
The Indian man arrested in France on May 10 on suspicion of having terror links has no connection to any Indian terrorist organisation, authoritative sources have told ANI.
Judging by the narco analysis report of Mohammed Asif, the medical student recently arrested in the state, it does seem so. Based on this report, Intelligence Bureau officials told rediff.com that leaders of the banned SIMI are having second thoughts about making Karnataka their base
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.
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.
Following the alert from Central intelligence agencies that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was planning major terror attacks in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other tourist spots, the investigation agencies have confirmed that SIMI leaders had a ''strong network'' with terrorist organisations operating from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Sources said investigations revealed that terrorist organisations were seeking support from SIMI to incite riots.
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.
The National Investigation Agency on Thursday filed a chargesheet in the December 2007 Wagamon Students Islamic Movement of India arms training camp case, naming 30 accused, who are involved in various terrorists cases in the country, including the Ahmedabad serial blasts case of 2008. The camp was conducted with an intention to train the participants to advocate, incite and abet unlawful terror activities.
The Ayodhya judgment can add to the list of perceived or real injustices in section of Muslim youth, noted security expert and rediff.com columnist B Raman has said.
The Kerala police is probing alleged links of radical PFI, blamed for the attack on a college lecturer, with terror outfits Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Qaeda, but not found any evidence so far, the state government informed the High Court on Monday.
Sources in the special cell have said that police forces in multiple states have been asked to track the regrouping of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. Sahim Salim reports.
The police says that the Karnataka Forum for Dignity is one of the fastest growing outfits in South India with nearly 40,000 members