Tag: Nia

The NIA claimed that the JMB used to marry its cadres with Indian women to recruit their family members into the terror organisation.

Khurda: Just a day after sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized fake currency worth Rs 3 lakh from a traveller at Khurda Road Junction, the probing agency has handed over its probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Bhubaneshwar Regional Unit of the DRI had seized fake Indian currency notes of […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP legislature party leader and Patnagarh MLA KV Singh Deo today requested Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for CBI or NIA probe into wedding gift explosion that killed a newly-wed man and his grand-mother while leaving his wife seriously injured in Bolangir’s Patnagarh. In separate letters to the […]

Bhubaneswar/ New Delhi: In what could bring a relief to the lakhs of unemployed students in the country awaiting a government job, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has planned to recruit and fill up as many as 91,000 vacancies in the departments of BSF, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP, AR, NIA and SSF. The details of […]

Cuttack/ New Delhi:  The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Monday quizzed Akhtar Hussein Khan, a resident of Samantarapur under Kissan Nagar police limits of Cuttack over his suspected terror links. The central agency quizzed Hussein in New Delhi today over his bank transactions and has asked him to appear again tomorrow. Also Read: NIA serves […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted marathon quizzing of Akhtar Hussein Khan, a notice was issued by the agency to him asking for a deposition on December 4 at its headquarters in Delhi. A copy of the notice served by the NIA, which is in possession of OTV, asked Khan to […]

Cuttack: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) released Akhtar Hussein Khan, a youth from Samantarpur slum in Kisannagar of Cuttack who was detained earlier today by the agency over suspected links with terrorists. As per sources, the NIA has handed over the youth to his family after interrogation. Cuttack Rural SP Madhav Sahu said the youth […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: To further its probe into series of train accidents across the country including the Hirakhand Express occurred last month, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is bringing ISI agent Shamsul Huda, who was detained in Nepal, to New Delhi on Wednesday. Huda is believed to be the mastermind behind a failed attempt to detonate […]

Rayagada: A 10-member team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived at Rayagada district headquarters today to probe into the Hirakhand Express mishap in the night on January 21. Sources said the NIA team, led by IG, Mukesh Singh, will stay in Rayagada for about 10 days. The team will probe into four aspects—whether the speed […]

Rayagada/Vishakhapatnam: The death toll in the Hirakhand Express mishap went to 41 with the recovery of one more body. This was informed by Rayagada sub collector to the media today. Meanwhile, Railway  Safety Commissioner Ram Kripal, on the second day of his investigation into  the Hirakhand Express mishap, today went to the office of the […]

Sambalpur: BJP on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to apologise for the killing of five tribals during the anti-Maoist operation in Kandhamal, claiming the tragedy was an outcome of his “incompetence and callousness”. Talking to mediapersons here, BJP’s Odisha Unit chief Basanta Panda demanded the incident be probed by National Investigation Agency (NIA) or […]

Puri: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has ruled out any terrorist involvement in the Puri Station fire mishap. In its closure report filed today, NIA has maintained that Ramchandran Subhas set fire to the train on his own and no one else was involved in the incident. In its closure report submitted to the Puri […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after a court allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take three out of the five SIMI arrested SIMI operatives on 15 days’ remand, the national investigating agency took the trio to Bhopal on Thursday for further interrogation. According to sources, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain and Sheikh Mehboob, the three SIMI operatives, […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after a court allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take three out of the five SIMI arrested SIMI operatives on 15 days’ remand, the national investigating agency will take the trio to Bhopal on Thursday for further interrogation. According to sources, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain and Sheikh Mehboob, the three SIMI […]

Bhubaneswar: Out of the five SIMI operatives arrested from Rourkela, three will be taken on a 15 days’ remand by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to sources, Amjad Khan, Zakhir Hussain and Seikh Mehboob will be taken on remand by a team of NIA from Bhopal. NIA was granted remand permission by the court […]