Police teams from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu on Saturday busted a major group of terror outfit Al-Ummah in a 11-hour operation. What is unique about the Al-Ummah is that it is in all respects a homegrown terror outfit born in the early 1990s, with no Pakistan link.
The banned terror outfit Al-Ummah was neutralised to a large extent after the 1998 Coimbatore blasts, but it now appears they are making a come back, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The investigators hunting for leads in the Chennai blasts case say they are certain that a member of the banned outfit Al-Ummah executed the attack.
The Al-Ummah operatives who were arrested on Saturday after a major encounter on the Andhra Pradesh border on Saturday are providing the police with a mine of information regarding their plans. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Tamil Nadu police have nabbed four men from the terror outfit for the murder of Hindu Munnani leader Suresh Kumar. Their confessions disclose their deadly agenda, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
This large cache of arms was the arsenal assembled by terror outfit Al Ummah for their biggest target -- Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Police are looking at members of the Al-Ummah outfit, who may have been motivated by the IM to carry out the blast near the BJP office in Bangalore. Vicky Nanjappa reports
More than a month on, investigators are yet to make a breakthrough in the Chennai train blasts case. The latest probe angle surrounding SIMI's Haider Ali isn't very definitive as well, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Apart from the prime minister, the three-day annual conference was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, national security adviser Ajit Doval and about 350 top police officers of the country.
The police are investigating whether Al Ummah chief Abu Bakr Siddique, the mastermind of the 2013 Bangalore BJP office blast, was involved in the Chennai train blasts or not. The police have also noted similarities between the Chennai blasts, Bangalore BJP office blast and the Patna rally blasts. Vicky Nanjappa reports on the latest leads into the case.
The arrest of Paravai Badusha will help the police solve many terror cases including the BJP office blast in Bangalore and the 1998 Advani assassination bid in Coimbatore. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The investigation into the blast at Bangalore before the Karnataka assembly elections appears to have hit a roadblock. Police had initially suspected that terror outfit Al-Ummah was behind the attack.
The cellphone of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader was used by operatives of banned Tamil Nadu terror outfit Al-Ummah to allegedly trigger the blast near the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Bangalore.
Terrorists and insurgents are increasingly acting together at the regional, national and global level. But we in India are not, points out B Raman
A police constable of Tamil Nadu police was killed and a sub-inspector was seriously injured in an encounter between suspected terrorists and a police team in Puttur town, located near the Tamil Nadu border, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
The Bangalore police have got its case right regarding the prime accused in the Bangalore BJP office blast case. However, there are several glaring discrepancies in the investigation that have the potential to derail the case in a court of law, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
It is no secret that Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the most coveted target of terror outfits operating within India.
Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the top-most target for all four major terror outfits in India, according to Indian Mujahideen's recently-arrested chief Yasin Bhatkal.
If the words of Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Abdul Karim Tunda are to be believed, then Bharatiya Janata Party's assessment of Kerala, the God's own country, turning into a nursery for terrorism may well be true.
Terror groups are building a base in south India and using the sea route to smuggle in arms and drugs.
The CCTV footage at the Chennai Central Railway Station shows a middle-aged man, whose face was covered with a handkerchief, running towards the exit minutes before twin bombs went off in two coaches on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express on Thursday morning. The footage, though blur, is being looked at as the first lead in the investigation. So what are the chances of the police nabbing the suspect on the basis of this evidence?
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