Tag: Terrorist

Bhubaneswar: A two-day joint naval exercise – Sagar Kavach – held in view of the coastal security, by the Indian Navy, Coast Guards and Odisha Police, concluded at the Paradip port today. Tripartite training regarding entry of intruders through coastal areas and security measures were included in the exercise. Importance was given on providing awareness […]

Salepur: A resident of Sainpada village today filed a complaint at the Salepur police station against five persons alleging torment was inflicted upon him when he denied to give money during a collection was made to help Al Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) terrorist Abdur Rahman. The villager, Sheikh Tahimir Ali, told newsmen that a decision […]

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: 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 […]

Bhubaneswar: Police and intelligence agencies have gone into an overdrive to extract more information from the five SIMI terrorists arrested in Rourkela yesterday. The National Investigating Agency (NIA), Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch and Police from other states will be interrogating the five arrested terrorists to unearth vital information on their terrorist […]

Bhubaneswar: One of the five terrorists of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who were arrested from Rourkela yesterday, has confessed to his involvement in the blast carried out in Chennai in 2014. Zakir, one of the four terrorists arrested by police along with a woman yesterday, has reportedly confessed during interrogation to have […]

Rourkela: Five terrorists, including a woman, of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were arrested by Police in Rourkela late night yesterday after a 3-hour-long fire exchange. According to sources, the five of them were staying at a rented flat Qureshi Mohalla. A joint team of Special Operations Group (SOG), Telengana Police, Rourkela Police […]

Bhubaneswar/Visakhapatnam: The five persons who were detained in Nakapalli area of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh yesterday on the suspicion of being terrorists, were found to be tourists from Iran who had entered the country with valid documents. Visakhapatnam Superintendent of Police (Rural), Koya Praveen said the group comprised two couples and a 20-year-old youth. “Based on […]

Bhubaneswar: The special task force (STF) of Odisha police on Tuesday began investigation and a search operation after four suspected terrorists mysteriously fled from a hotel in posh Master Canteen area here late last night just before a police team swooped down on it. Though the commissionerate police is yet to get any clue about […]

Bhubaneswar: Following a terrorist attack on an Indian Air Force (IAF) base at Pathankot in Punjab in the wee hours on Saturday, authorities of the Biju Patnaik International Airport here have stepped up security measures in and around the airport. Informing the media about this on Saturday, director of Biju Patnaik International Airport Sharad Kumar […]

Kolkata: A passenger on board a Jet Airways Kolkata-Mumbai flight was arrested on Monday here after a fellow passenger heard him using words like “terrorist” and “destroy” over telephone, police said. Yogvedanta Poddar, was forced to deboard and handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) after a co-passenger overheard his telephonic conversation and […]

Srinagar: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Naveed Jatt along with two local terrorists murdered senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari here on June 14, police sources said on Wednesday. Naveed Jatt is a Pakistani who escaped from police custody from a Srinagar hospital on February 6 this year. “The other two terrorists involved in this terror murder are locals […]

New Delhi: Personnel of the Delhi Police Special Cell on Wednesday arrested a wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist from near the Nepal border. He had been on the run since the 2008 Batla House encounter here, police said. According to the police, terrorist Ariz Khan alias Junaid is an expert bomb-maker, executioner and conspirator, and […]

Srinagar: In an audacious attack, militants helped a Pakistani LeT terrorist escape by firing at the police party escorting him to hospital here on Tuesday, leaving one policeman dead and another wounded. Authorities have sounded a high alert in the city. Naveed Jat alias Abu Hunzullah escaped when the waiting militants fired at the police […]

Washington: The US State Department on Wednesday added Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh into its terrorist list. Haniyeh, leader and chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas, was designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) together with three other groups, Xinhua reported. All of their property and interests in property subject to US jurisdiction will be […]