Adnan Hussain, who hails from Karnataka, Mohammad Farhan, from Maharashtra, and Sheikh Azhar Al Islam, from Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested by NIA after registering a case in New Delhi, official sources said.
Congress party compromised national security for political purpose, said the BJP over Ishrat Jahan case.
In all the instances of sniper attacks, the terrorists used a nearby hillock to carry out strikes on a security force campus when unsuspecting jawans were using their mobile phones to talk to their family or friends.
Even as India battles the COVID-19 threat on a war footing, it cannot lose sight of the threat building up in Kashmir, cautions Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The arrest of Indian Mujahideen operative Abdul Sattar is proving to be a boon for the National Investigation Agency which has found that a Students Islamic Movement of India activist based in Dubai had acted as a key middle man in the setting up of the IM.
Amid heightened tension on the border, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a campaign through which people can send their Diwali greetings and messages to soldiers guarding the nation's frontiers to boost their morale.
An official said the attack appears to be a reprisal for killing of several Lashkar terrorists.
"With a splinter lodged in his brain, the chances of his recovery were very poor. He was unconscious and not responding to medication after admitted to hospital," Arun Kumar, director of the Patna-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, said.
Corps Commander Lt Gen K J S Dhillon of the Chinar Corps also requested mothers of Kashmiri militants to persuade their sons to surrender.
The four intruders were affiliated to the LeT.
Bihar police on Monday denied that there was a specific intelligence alert by central agencies about terror threat to Bharatiya Janata Party's 'Hunkar Rally' in Patna and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who addressed it.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal's aide Fasih Mahmood, deported from Saudi Arabia in 2012 for his alleged involvement in terror acts, has been allegedly assaulted by a jail inmate inside the high security Tihar jail.
Afzal Usmani, an accused in 2008 Ahmedabad and Surat blast cases, escaped from the MCOCA court in Mumbai on Friday.
He did not name the officer but it was Gujarat Indian Police Service officer Satish Verma who probed the case.
Security forces are carrying out searches in various areas to nab the six terrorists, the source said.
The Delhi Police have finally managed to get their man -- Abdul Karim Tunda, the answer to several questions regarding the Lashkar-e-Tayiba network in India.
A squad of about 300 special Central Industrial Security Force commandos has taken over the security of a large Tata Steel manufacturing facility in coastal Odisha, making it the 7th private sector concern in the country to get armed cover by the paramilitary force to ward off terror threats.
Swearing allegiance to Taliban and al Qaeda, chanting anti-Modi slogans outside a court, and operating without the support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence are indications that the banned Students Islamic Movement of India is seeking the attention of global terrorist groups and wants to be the face of India's home-grown terror. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Nine out of ten terror cases that are reported have had a hawala transaction, reports Vicky Nanjappa
IM operative Sultan Ahmed Faizan worked with the Samajwadi Party leader in 1985 in a travel agency. Vicky Nanjappa reports
NIA chief Sharad Kumar will personally interrogate Lashkar-e-Tayiba's Pakistani militant Mohammed Naved Yakub, who was captured after Wednesday's attack on a Border Security Forces convoy and was on Tuesday remanded in the custody of the anti-terror agency by a Jammu court.
West Bengal police on Saturday arrested the mastermind of Burdwan blast Sk Rahmatulla alias Sajid, a Bangladeshi national and stated to be a Chief Commander of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terror group.
Two clerics from Harayana arrested last month for their suspected links to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, and another operative, had allegedly visited the Muzaffarnagar relief camps in Uttar Pradesh and sought to recruit men to their module, a television news channel reported on Tuesday.
It might have taken several years, but the intelligence and security agencies in several states recently tracked down and arrested dreaded terrorists involved in creating havoc in the country. It began with the arrest of Zabbiuddin Ansari, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, then came the arrest of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal followed by Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb maker Abdul Karim Tunda, Zaveri Bazaar bomber Waqas Ahmed and now IM chief Tehsin Akthar. In a five-part series, Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa describes how each of these terrorists were painstakingly tracked by the Intelligence Bureau and arrested by the security agencies.
Former BJP president of Bharuch and senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member Shirish Bangali and general secretary of Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha Pragnesh Mistry were shot dead in the district by two unidentified gunmen on November 2 last year.
A round-up of what our lawmakers have been discussing in Parliament on Tuesday
Besides Bhatkal, the others convicted were Asadullah Akthar of Uttar Pradesh, Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas of Pakistan, Tahseen Akhthar of Bihar and Aizaz Shaik of Maharashtra. All of them are in judicial custody.
The terror group, which suffered a major blow after the arrest of its founder Yasin Bhatkal, is all set to make a comeback with a 'sticky' bomb usually used to target government officials. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Faced with the crisis of governance, the UPA's desperate strategy appears to be to communalise the polity and change the electoral agenda, says Arun Jaitley
In the wake of a final verdict on the Batla House encounter case, the National Investigation Agency and police teams from several states are all set to launch another manhunt for the head honchos of the Indian Mujahideen.
The National Investigation Agency delegation visiting Bangladesh to investigate the Burdwan blast plot has provided some names and phone numbers in connection with the incident to security agencies.
Official sources said the first one was the truck driver who drove them to Samroli in Udhampur from Kulgam and other one was a bakery owner at Pulwama.
Exactly a month after the Burdwan blast in which two suspected terrorists were killed, the National Investigation Agency appears to have made no substantial headway.
A 32-year-old man from Haryana's Mewat district has been arrested by Delhi Police for suspected links with Al Qaeda.
The lie detector test on Naved, who is in NIA custody till August 24, be carried out at 11 am on Tuesday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in CGO complex, after his interrogators claimed he was lying on many accounts.
Four suspects have been arrested in connection to the serial blasts that rocked Patna on Sunday. They have been identified as Imtiaz Ansari, Kaleem, Mohammad Ainul and Akthar, according to sources.
Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi raised the issue of early completion of the extradition process of Mallya, during his talks in New Delhi with his UK counterpart Patsy Wilkinson, the second permanent secretary in the British home office.
The defence minister then met Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. Sitharaman was briefed on the security situation in the wake of the terror attack, officials said.
In a letter to Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Singh said it is a historic occasion, but regretted his inability to be present.
Claiming that a specific alert was issued to the Bihar government about Narendra Modi's rally in Patna, the Bharatiya Janata Party on accused the Nitish Kumar government of lapses that led to serial blasts and charged it was soft on terror due to vote-bank politics.
