Tag: Tamil Nadu
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PFI’s Madurai district president detained by NIA
The National Investigation Agency has detained the Madurai Regional President of the banned organisation, Popular Front of India. The arrested person has been identified as Mohammad Qaiser. He was arrested from Pazhani in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu, sources tell OneIndia. The NIA has been conducting raids across various locations and cracking down on members…
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The Kerala connect to terror in Kashmir is out in open again: It is hardly surprising
With the centre stepping up the ante to beat down radicalisation, the agencies have found that the problem is the highest in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided a house in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a Kerala Islamic State module. The Kerala connect is…
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The Coimbatore, Mangaluru blasts puts emphasis back on forests being used as terror camps
The Islamic State in its rule book for lone wolves has emphasised on the need to use the most unconventional methods to carry out terror attacks. The raids by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) across 60 locations in South India has brought back into focus the use of forest land for terror activities. The NIA…
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As Islamic State looks to take PFI’s space, NIA raids 60 locations in Karnataka, TN, Kerala
The Islamic State has been making attempts to reach out to the cadres of the now banned Popular Front of India. It is looking to occupy the space of the PFI, Intelligence Bureau officials tells OneIndia. The National Investigation Agency coducted raids and searches at 60 locations across three southern states on Wednesday. Raids were…
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Tamil Nadu has the most ministers with pending criminal cases
The Association for Democratic Reforms has put out a report on the pending criminal case and financial details of ministers from across states and UTs after scrutinising their self-sworn affidavits New Delhi, Jan 31: Of the 558 ministers in all the states and Union Territories in India, 239 have pending criminal cases against them says…
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Sri Lanka’s top drug lord Kanjipani Imran is in Tamil Nadu and its hardly surprising
The sea route has been the most preferred for the drug cartels operating in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. The proceeds from the drug trade are being used to fund terror and revive the defunct LTTE New Delhi, Jan 03: Tamil Nadu has been placed under a state of very high alert after it was…
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In Coimbatore blast probe, after Mosque, now forests of Islamic State in Tamil Nadu crop up
New Delhi, Dec 29: After a Mosque coming under focus, now it is the forests in Tamil Nadu which is on the radar of the agencies in connection with the Coimbatore blast case. The National Investigation Agency said in a statement that the investigation has revealed that the accused persons had entered into a criminal…
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How Tamil Nadu became a paradise for Pakistan drug cartels to send drugs to Sri-Lanka
New Delhi, Dec 26: The nabbing of Khader Mohideen and Ibrahim Saha, two international drug smugglers in Hyderabad has only shown the extent of the problem yet again. While they were nabbed in Hyderabad, the police said that they are resident of Chennai and this once again puts the focus back on the drug menace…
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Let us be loud, let us not remain mute when we say the Islamists have radicalised South India
The problem of radicalisation has been in the making for long and has been ignored for as long. Back in 2015, an Intelligence report had spoken about how the Wahhabi spread had changed the course of the discourse in the southern states. New Delhi, Nov 22: The blasts in Mangaluru and Coimbatore have put the focus…
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NIA raids multiple locations in Tamil Nadu seeking more leads into Coimbatore blasts
New Delhi, Nov 10: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids across Tamil Nadu in connection with the Coimbatore blast case. The incident took place on October 23. Special teams of the NIA conducted searches with the help of the Tamil Nadu police at the premises of the suspects in the case. The raids are…
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