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Government seeks inputs to check radicalisation

States like Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu will also be a part of the plan-making.

21 Apr 2018 1:11 AM

French jihadist Djamila Boutoutaou attends her trial at the central penal court in Baghdad on Tuesday. Boutoutaou, 29, was sentenced to life in prison for belonging to the ISIS group. — AFP , the latest in a series of court judgments against jihadists. (Photo: AFP)

More than 300 get death in Iraq for links to ISIS

Women from Turkey, Central Asia among sentenced.

19 Apr 2018 2:37 AM

Family members in Amritsar mourn as they receive the body of their loved one abducted and killed by the ISIS in 2014. (Photo: PTI)

Help Indians in a fix abroad

The mortal remains of 38 out of 39 who fell to ISIS’ brutality were given some respectability by being interred in their homeland.

05 Apr 2018 6:02 AM

As of three months ago, the US had spent $7 trillion on the Middle East over the past 17 years (Photo: File)

Donald Trump to soon decide on future of US troops in war-battered Syria

US President says, 'I want to get out. I want to bring our troops home.'

04 Apr 2018 12:33 PM

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (Photo: PTI)

Rs 10 lakh compensation for families of Iraq victims

The 39 Indian workers had gone missing in Mosul in 2014.

04 Apr 2018 1:32 AM

The bodies of the Indians were brought back on Monday in a special aircraft and handed over to their relatives or local authorities in Amritsar, Kolkata and Patna. (Photo: PTI)

Indians killed in Mosul were illegal immigrants, govt had no record: VK Singh

Gen VK Singh said that govt did not have any record of the 40 Indians as they had gone to Iraq through illegal travel agents.

03 Apr 2018 10:35 AM

The Islamic State has been accorded a secure sanctuary in Pakistan, and forms part of the covert, plausibly deniable, strategic assets of that country, for attacking Indian assets and interests in Afghanistan as well as providing aid and support to separatists in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo: Representational | AP)

Threats to India grow, but do our netas care?

The entire episode should cause grave disquiet to all citizens at a time when the need for national security is paramount.

03 Apr 2018 12:48 AM

Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh will travel to Erbil later on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

Minister VK Singh to bring 38 bodies from Iraq today

Thirty-nine Indian workers had gone missing in the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014. So far, 38 bodies’ identity has been established.

02 Apr 2018 12:35 AM

Rebel fighters pray before they are evacuated outside Harasta in eastern Ghouta, in Damascus. (Photo: AFP)

Last rebel fighters in Ghouta to surrender, make peace with Syrian Govt

The Syrian army last week warned the insurgents to surrender or face a military assault to drive them out.

01 Apr 2018 7:09 PM

Ratish Chandra Bhowmik disappearance comes a fortnight after seven terrorists from the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh were sentenced to death for murdering the caretaker of a Sufi shrine in November 2015. (Representational Image)

Liberal Hindu Bangladeshi lawyer disappears after Islamist trials

Ratish Chandra Bhowmik, a respected prosecutor and champion of minority rights, has not been seen since Friday morning.

01 Apr 2018 5:56 PM

Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh leaves for Iraq to bring back mortal remains of 38 Indians who were killed by ISIS in Mosul. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)

Mortal remains of only 38 Indians to be brought from Iraq: VK Singh

On March 20, Sushma Swaraj informed the RS that all 39 Indians kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul three years ago were dead.

01 Apr 2018 9:40 AM

Earlier in July 2017, Singh had travelled to Erbil, Iraq to locate and bring back the 39 Indians reportedly kept in Mosul as hostages of the ISIS. (Photo: PTI/File)

VK Singh to travel to Iraq on April 1 to bring back mortal of slain Indians

Sushma Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha that all 39 Indians kidnapped by ISIS in Mosul were dead.

30 Mar 2018 12:24 PM

A state of emergency put in place just after the 2015 Paris attacks was lifted last October when Macron’s centrist government passed a new law boosting the powers of security forces. (Photo: AP)

Died for his country: Brave cop swapped self for hostage in France terror attack

Beltrane offered to take the place of a woman the gunman had taken hostage and was shot and badly wounded.

24 Mar 2018 1:00 PM

In a major revelation in 2016, Yasmin had informed that 22 Keralites, including six women and three children had left India and had reached the bastion of ISIS terror operations in Afghanistan. (Photo: Representational/File)

Woman ISIS recruiter given 7-yr RI in 22 Keralites missing case

Zahid was arrested from the New Delhi airport on July 30, 2016 when she was trying to leave for Kabul along with her minor child.

24 Mar 2018 12:55 PM

French gendarmes block the access to Trebes, a small town in southern France, where a man took hostages at a supermarket on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Police kill suspected jihadist in France shooting spree

A witness reported he shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before going into the premises.

23 Mar 2018 7:21 PM

Eight people are being held captive in a supermarket in the south-western France town of Trebes, a police source said on Friday, adding that the hostage-taker had shot at a police officer.(Representational Image)

ISIS gunman holds 8 hostages in France’s supermarket

The local prefecture confirmed the hostage-taking at the Super U supermarket but did not confirm the Islamic State allegiance.

23 Mar 2018 5:23 PM

Cong turns privilege heat on Sushma for 'misleading' House on slain Indians

The Congress MP demanded that the government should pay a compensation of Rs 1 crore each to the families of the 39 slain workers.

23 Mar 2018 4:17 AM

Accusing the Central government of trying to suppress the Mosul tragedy, Cong said the govt did not talk about it despite several efforts to raise the issue. (Photo: PTI)

Cong to move privilege motion against Sushma for 'misleading' House on slain Indians

Sushma had informed about the death of 39 Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq's Mosul town in 2014.

22 Mar 2018 9:24 PM

The statement says the move aims to deny Asperman the resources he needs to plan and carry out further terrorist attacks. (Photo: Representational | AP)

US imposes sanctions on French chemical weapons expert for IS

The State Department on Thursday identified Joe Asperman as a 'specially designated global terrorist.'

22 Mar 2018 8:39 PM

Harjit Masih, the only survivor among the 40 India hostages by ISIS in Iraq’s Mosul, has claimed that he had been told by the officials in India to not say that his co-workers had died. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

Officials told me to say they had not died: Harjit Masih on Indians killed in Iraq

Masih has all along claimed to have seen his compatriots being executed, a version the government did not accept.

22 Mar 2018 4:29 PM

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