Sagnik Chowdhury

The 5-minute-55-second video features three Bangla-speaking youths believed to be Bangladeshi Islamic State fighters in Raqqah, Syria.

NIA officials said the government’s clearance of these proposals would go a long way in strengthening its capacity.

Ishrat Jahan encounter case: I will have to ask you, ‘Did you see the (Ishrat) paper.’ You have to say, ‘I didn’t see the paper’... it’s as simple as that: Additional Secretary, Home, B K Prasad to Ashok Kumar, former Director in Home Ministry.

The inquiry report, it is learnt, concluded that the papers missing from the file were not put up on the file at all and went missing between September 18, 2009 and September 24, 2009 and not during any subsequent period.

Abdul was arrested last month from Delhi airport upon arrival from Dubai.

Child marriage down since 2001 but still rampant, show Census data; trend of underage marriages common to Hindus and Muslims; 78 lakh girls were married even before they had turned 10.

Even though he remained non-committal on whether BJP would announce a chief ministerial candidate for UP, Singh said his party would win comfortably.

The day his government completes two years in power, the Union Home Minister discusses achievements and targets, the UP elections, Pathankot and Delhi police.

In 2009, US had shared intelligence that mentioned known LeT financier Qasmani as having funded the attack.

The NIA, sources said, wants to record statements, among others, of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, his brother Abdul Rauf, and Shahid Latif and Kashif Jaan, the alleged handlers of the terrorists who struck Pathankot.

Statement of Ashiq Ahmed — a 19-year-old engineering student from Bengal — along with those of two others, will form part of NIA chargesheet

“Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed,” Jaitley said during a discussion on The Appropriation (No.2) Bill 2016 and the Finance Bill, 2016.

Rijiju also stated that no such proposal for increase in sanctioned strength of Karnataka Railway Police is under consideration at the level of the Railways Ministry.

Indian Express explains what the order of the Arbitral Tribunal on the Italian marines case means for each of the two countries, and what lies ahead.

Replying to the last question, Minister of State for Home Affairs stated that no proposal from Karnataka for setting up Coastal Police Stations, initiated in December 2013, was received.

While SIS is implemented in the Maoist-hit states, SRE is utilised for Jammu & Kashmir, Maoist-hit areas and the Northeast.

China is particularly sensitive to Uyghur leaders like Dolkun and Rebiya Kadeer, being hosted by foreign countries, and has expressed its desire to arrest them

Pressure from China was the main reason why India cancelled the visa granted to him earlier, told Germany-based Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa.

The statement assumes significance in the context of lawsuits filed at the ICJ in April 2014 by the Republic of Marshall Islands against nine nuclear-armed nations, including India.

Justice Bhandari said that India needed to “cover a long distance” on bringing a consonance between international and domestic laws

India presented its case as part of the hearings of the legal tussle between the two countries on exercising criminal jurisdiction over Italian marines Girone and Sergeant Massimiliano Latorre.

The political crisis in Uttarakhand escalated dramatically after rebel Congress MLAs released a sting video purportedly showing CM Harish Rawat indulging in horse-trading to save his government, and PM Modi called a late-night meeting of the Union Cabinet to discuss the political situation in the state.

Sources also revealed that one of the biggest takeaways for India from the JIT’s visit would be that New Delhi could press for reciprocity in near future.

The Indian Express explains the changes made this week to the 1968 Enemy Property Act, intended to plug loopholes that have allowed courts to honour claims by heirs of people who left India in the wake of wars with China and Pakistan.