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  • Everything you should know about the Islamic State terror group: In Pics May 10, 2023 06:09 PM IST

    Everything you should know about the Islamic State terror group: In Pics

    What is Islamic State, how dangerous is it, what are its preferred terror tactics, all you need to know...

  • Victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism: Jaishankar May 05, 2023 08:43 PM IST

    Victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism: Jaishankar

    On Bhutto Zardari's comments on tackling terrorism, Jaishankar said Pakistan's credibility in dealing with is depleting even faster than their forex reserves.

  • Channel of finances for terrorism must be seized, blocked without distinction: Jaishankar May 05, 2023 11:46 AM IST

    Channel of finances for terrorism must be seized, blocked without distinction: Jaishankar

    In the presence of Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, China's Qin Gang and Russia's Sergey Lavrov, Jaishankar, in his address at a conclave of the SCO, said taking the eyes off terrorism would be detrimental to security interests of the grouping.

  • American Airlines' cabin crew locked former FBI agent's wife, son in toilet. What happened next April 24, 2023 02:30 PM IST

    American Airlines' cabin crew locked former FBI agent's wife, son in toilet. What happened next

    A few minutes later, a supervisor loudly berated the woman in front of other passengers, claiming "the pilot decided to put the plane under terrorist attack warning because of you."

  • Poonch attack: Terrorists used steel bullets, decamped with soldiers' weapons April 23, 2023 03:58 PM IST

    Poonch attack: Terrorists used steel bullets, decamped with soldiers' weapons

    Experts from various agencies, including the National Security Guard (NSG) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), have visited the site of the attack over the past two days and have managed to get a clear picture of the deadly ambush which was laid by the terrorists, the officials said.

  • Terror attack: Massive searches underway in J-K's Poonch to track terrorists April 23, 2023 10:49 AM IST

    Terror attack: Massive searches underway in J-K's Poonch to track terrorists

    In a tweet on its official handle, the Army’s Northern Command shared Lt Gen Dwivedi’s visit to the Command Hospital in Udhampur and his interaction with the surivor of the terror attack.

  • Two held in Punjab for harbouring Amritpal Singh April 15, 2023 11:29 AM IST

    Two held in Punjab for harbouring Amritpal Singh

    The police launched a major crackdown against Amritpal Singh and members of his ’Waris Punjab De’ outfit last month.

  • Eight films to revisit as Punjab sees separatist politics rear its ugly head again March 26, 2023 05:36 PM IST

    Eight films to revisit as Punjab sees separatist politics rear its ugly head again

    With separatist politics back on the horizon, time we re-watched these well-argued, well-made screen representations of the immeasurable cost of human lives extracted by partisan ideas raging in our worlds.

  • India will continue to face terrorism, internal security challenges; security forces united: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande March 21, 2023 02:06 PM IST

    India will continue to face terrorism, internal security challenges; security forces united: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande

    Gurugram,Mar 21 Army chief Gen Manoj Pande on Tuesday said India will continue to face terrorism and internal security challenges in the future and th..

  • Modi govt's zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism will continue: Amit Shah March 12, 2023 03:57 PM IST

    Modi govt's zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism will continue: Amit Shah

    Speaking at the 54th Raising Day celebrations of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) here, Amit Shah said separatism, terrorism and anti-national activities in any part of the country will be dealt with firmly.

  • Pakistan made meager progress in dismantling terrorist organisations: US Bureau of Counterterrorism February 28, 2023 09:27 AM IST

    Pakistan made meager progress in dismantling terrorist organisations: US Bureau of Counterterrorism

    Terrorist attacks were carried out against varied targets in Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh provinces by separatist militant groups. In 2018, Pakistan was designated a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

  • Is terrorism returning to Pakistan? February 04, 2023 11:46 AM IST

    Is terrorism returning to Pakistan?

    Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, faction of the Pakistan Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the Peshawar mosque suicide bombing.

  • India condemns terror attack in Pakistan's Peshawar city January 31, 2023 05:09 PM IST

    India condemns terror attack in Pakistan's Peshawar city

    The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has taken responsibility for the attack which took place inside the mosque in the high-security Police Lines area on Monday.

  • Nawaz Sharif blames Gen Bajwa & Gen Faiz for Pakistan's current turmoil January 20, 2023 03:58 PM IST

    Nawaz Sharif blames Gen Bajwa & Gen Faiz for Pakistan's current turmoil

    The former prime minister held ex-Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence Lt Gen Faiz Hamid responsible for spinning Pakistan around for their personal wishes and whims, the Geo News reported.

  • Blast derails train in southwest Pakistan, at least 8 injured: Report January 20, 2023 03:49 PM IST

    Blast derails train in southwest Pakistan, at least 8 injured: Report

    "Jaffar Express came under bomb attack in Peshi area of Bolan district, eight people were injured and eight bogies derailed, including locomotive,” Deputy Commissioner Bolan Agha Samiullah told Reuters.

  • Govt crackdown on terror continues: 2 groups banned, 4 individuals declared terrorists in less than a week January 08, 2023 04:01 PM IST

    Govt crackdown on terror continues: 2 groups banned, 4 individuals declared terrorists in less than a week

    The action against the terror groups and terrorists came amidst the repeated assertions by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah that the central government has adopted a zero tolerance policy towards terrorism.

  • Thousands protest against rising terrorism in northwest Pakistan January 07, 2023 03:51 PM IST

    Thousands protest against rising terrorism in northwest Pakistan

    Over 5,000 tribesmen took out a rally on Friday in Wana, the headquarters of the South Waziristan tribal district, against the growing unrest, terrorism, and kidnappings in their areas.

  • NIA registers 'all-time high' 73 terror cases in 2022: Official data December 31, 2022 06:28 PM IST

    NIA registers 'all-time high' 73 terror cases in 2022: Official data

    They also said that the agency was "pressing on the pedal" to get extradited gangster Goldy Brar, the prime accused in the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala.

  • Pakistan's special forces storm counter-terrorism centre, kill all terrorists; hostages freed December 20, 2022 07:10 PM IST

    Pakistan's special forces storm counter-terrorism centre, kill all terrorists; hostages freed

    Defence Minister Khawaja Asif confirmed that "all the terrorists" of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who had taken hostages at a Counter-Terrorism Depart­ment centre in Bannu were killed in an operation conducted by the Pakistan Army.

  • Snakes in your backyard: EAM Jaishankar recalls Hillary Clinton's remark saying world sees Pakistan as epicentre of terrorism December 16, 2022 09:28 AM IST

    Snakes in your backyard: EAM Jaishankar recalls Hillary Clinton's remark saying world sees Pakistan as epicentre of terrorism

    Jaishankar was addressing reporters at the UN headquarters after chairing a signature event held under India's presidency of the Council on 'Global Counterterrorism Approach: Challenges and Way Forward.'

  • India, US discuss ways to combat terrorism December 14, 2022 06:49 AM IST

    India, US discuss ways to combat terrorism

    According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the two sides also exchanged views on threats posed by UN-designated terrorist entities and emphasised the need for concerted action against terror groups such as Al-Qaida, ISIS/Daesh, Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Al Badr.

  • Salaries of J&K police personnel on hold due to 'non-availability of budget' December 01, 2022 08:58 AM IST

    Salaries of J&K police personnel on hold due to 'non-availability of budget'

    The police personnel including IPS officers from the Union Territory, who get their salaries under New Pension Scheme, have been informed that their salaries have been withheld because of “non-availability of budget”.

  • 26/11 perpetrators must be brought to justice: EAM S Jaishankar November 26, 2022 11:43 AM IST

    26/11 perpetrators must be brought to justice: EAM S Jaishankar

    As many as 140 Indian nationals and 26 citizens of 23 countries lost their lives in the terror attacks that lasted for four days in 2008.

  • 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks: Nation remembers with gratitude all those we lost, says President Murmu November 26, 2022 09:21 AM IST

    26/11 Mumbai terror attacks: Nation remembers with gratitude all those we lost, says President Murmu

    On November 26, 2008, 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan arrived by sea route and opened fire, killing 166 people, including 18 security personnel, and injuring several others during a 60-hour siege in Mumbai.

  • Pakistan used like 'hired gun' by US in war against terror: Imran Khan November 24, 2022 04:24 PM IST

    Pakistan used like 'hired gun' by US in war against terror: Imran Khan

    Khan, 70, who was ousted in April in a no-confidence vote, in an interview with the Financial Times this month said he wants to mend relations with the US if re-elected and no longer blames it for his removal as Pakistan prime minister.