Yasin Bhatkal, the chief of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen who was recently arrested by Indian security agencies, came across as extremely bitter and disillusioned about his mentor -- the Inter Services Intelligence -- during his interrogation.
The road to becoming India's most dreaded terrorist has been a long one for Yasin Bhatkal.
Saifullah, who had taken command of the outfit after the killing of Riyaz Naikoo in May this year, was one of the most wanted terrorists in the Kashmir Valley and involved in several attacks on the security forces, an official said.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad has said they need time to find out who the other assailants of Pradeep Jain were.
Dipa, who had an injury-marred campaign at the Asian Games, scored 14.100 to finish at the 6th place out of 16 gymnasts in the qualification.
"It is the greatness of Ayodhya that the mosques surrounding the Ram temple are giving a strong message of communal harmony to the rest of the world," Haji Asad Ahmad, the corporator of the Ram Kot ward, told PTI.
The CBI, while seeking custody of extradited gangster Abu Salem on Thursday, told the designated TADA court about Siddiqui's visit to Gujarat and how the arms reached the conspirators.
Another accused Riyaz Siddiqui was sentenced for 10 years
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Pronouncing the sentence, Judge T Srinivasa Rao described the case as the "rarest of the rare".
Apart from rescuing hundreds of lives during the devastating deluge that wreaked havoc in the region, the army also took care of several babies born at government hospitals.
The J&K police's 81 medals are the maximum awarded to any police force this year, followed by the CRPF's 55.
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Given the nature of his job, a terrorist heading an underground organisation usually grooms a successor who is prepared to take over in case of his boss's arrest or demise.
GFI had also sent the entries of Yogeshwar Singh and Ashish Kumar in the men's artistic event in Doha.
A senior Jammu and Kashmir officer was allegedly slapped by a minister and later thrashed by his supporters for being late to an official function just by two minutes.
Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday arrested the fifth accused in the suspected honour killing case of Abdul Hakim even as the state government ordered a magisterial probe into the matter.
A 'travel agent', Sultan Ahmed Faizan alias Faizan Azmi, in his confession to the National Investigation Agency, talks about how he forged documents that helped terrorists slip out of the country. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
In its 17-page Status Report, the COA has sought directives from the apex court on three issues.
The Jammu and Kashmir authorities have already snapped mobile internet services across the valley as a precautionary measure, in anticipation of a possible a law and order problem, police said, adding that there are strict restrictions on the movement of people.
Militants gunned down a Special Police Officer and critically wounded a trooper of the Territorial Army in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday afternoon. A senior police officer said the attack happened in Brat Kalan locality of Sopore town, 54 km from capital Srinagar.
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In an acid attack, a 25-year-old woman received serious burns on her face and has been admitted to the SMHS hospital in Srinagar for treatment.
A division bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Riyaz Chagla noted that while Goswami's comments targeted the Congress and its president Sonia Gandhi, he did not make any statement that would cause public disharmony or incite violence between different religious groups.
The mood was subdued with roads deserted across large swathes of the Valley, the silence broken only by police sirens and Indian Air Force helicopters hovering overhead.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the valour and professionalism of the Chinar Corps personnel.
An FIR has been lodged against the newly-elected civic body chairman of Bisharatganj, Uttar Pradesh, after it was found that the bullet, which fatally hit a nine-year-old during celebratory firing, was fired from his gun, said the police.
magistrate that he had assembled the explosives and had "guided" the members of the terror outfit while planting bombs at Hyderabad's Dilsukhnagar area in February last year.
Investigators have discovered that Indian Mujahideen leaders use the alias 'Shah Rukh Khan' to confuse investigators and keep their identities hidden. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
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A civilian, identified as Kaunsar Riyaz, 45, was killed in the firing, while two Central Reserve Police Force personnel, including an officer, were injured, the officials said.
What is in a name? If you live in Bhatkal, a small port town in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka: everything. For the residents of this town, it simply means being linked to the top three terrorists in India -- Riyaz, Iqbal and Yasin Bhatkal. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
He was arrested after a 'brief exchange of fire'.
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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.
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