On 14th February 1998, Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani was scheduled to address a rally at RS Puram in Coimbatore. Before he could reach the venue, bombs went off in several parts of the city. The bombs were concealed in cars, motorcycles, bicycles, side boxes of two-wheelers, denim and rexine bags, and fruit carts. SA Basha was the prime accused in the case.
In its update, the Indian Army's Chinar Corps said," OP DACHHIGAM, One terrorist has been neutralised by the security forces in the ongoing Operation at upper reaches of Dachhigam Forest, Srinagar. Search Operation is in progress."
Mehdi Masroor Biswas was sentenced on multiple charges. He will be released in December as he will finish his maximum sentence of 10 years including the time he spent in jail during trial.
Launching a blistering attack on Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks in the USA, Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu said on Sunday that the former is not an Indian
On 12th August 2013, Rahamani was arrested in Barguna in connection to inciting people to commit violence. 30 members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team were also arrested. Since his arrest in 2013, Rahamani has remained in jail. He is facing six different cases and a charge sheet has been filed by the police in all the cases against him.
On Saturday (13th July), an Islamabad district and sessions court acquitted Pakistan’s Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Iddat case
A report by journalist Pankaj Prasoon on the transformation of a village close to Mumbai into an ISIS hub underscores the dangers of Islamic radicalism prevalent in India.