India Timeline - Year 2012

Date

Incidents

January 2

Four IM operatives recently arrested by Delhi Police have reportedly confessed that three of them were involved in planting bombs at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore during an IPL match in 2010.

Investigators have said that the IM module led by Yasin Bhatkal may have also been involved in the serial blasts in Mumbai on July 13, 2011.

As reported earlier, in a nationwide investigation, Police Forces, supported by intelligence agencies, had arrested seven IM members. Yasin managed to escape.

The Ahmadabad city crime branch officials believe that Habib Phalai alias Taiyab, arrested in Uttar Pradesh on December 28 in the Ahmadabad serial blasts case, may be connected to the other accused from Azamgarh involved in various serial blasts across India.

January 3

The LeT is raising a group of 21 female terrorists at its training camps in PoK for carrying out sabotage activities in India.

Army said the new group, named as Dukhtareen-e-Toiba, is planned to be made active in the Kashmir Valley by the LeT. The women terrorists are planned to be infiltrated into India through routes in Uri sector or using the aerial route through some other country.

January 4

After a slew of abductions and repeated threats from CPI-Maoist during recent months, Indian Railways employees posted in far-flung areas which fall under Maoist-affected zones have sent an SOS to Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi for better protection during duty hours. 

Central Government is closely monitoring the activities of NSCN-IM which is likely to field some proxy candidates in the coming Manipur Assembly elections as ‘General Secretary’ Thuingaleng Muivah and senior leader V S Atem of the group held a prolonged meeting with Naga Hoho and at least six MLA of the Nagaland People’s Front in Dimapur.

January 5

The Centre has alerted coastal states, including Gujarat and Maharashtra, and asked Navy and Coast Guard to step up patrolling in sea following an 'interception' of a telephone call - made from a ship using satellite phone off Kutch coast to the US - about possible arrival of consignment of arms and ammunition along the Indian coast line.

January 6

The Mumbai Police have received intelligence inputs that some terrorists from the Tibetan region of China may sneak in to India to eliminate the Tibetan spiritual guru, the Dalai Lama.

There is fresh input that the IM in alliance with the ISI, is likely to carry out attacks like 13/7 in Mumbai. BARC, DRDO organizations, defence establishments like Mazgoan dock, naval dockyard, ONGC at Uran plant, economic institutions, aviation sector, oil and power sectors etc are vulnerable, the inputs states.

Militant groups operating in the Northeast have realised that violence will never pay and the only way to solve their problems is peace negotiations.

As opposed to 18 people, a majority of whom belonged to banned outfits were arrested in 2010, 25 full-blown terrorists were arrested in 2011. A special team of Delhi Police scanned the length and breadth of the country to bring the IM to its knees in a blitzkrieg operation.

January 7

Indian Coast Guard is in the process of activating four new stations and two air stations besides inducting over 12 ships and 10 aircraft in its force in the immediate future as part of a major expansion and modernisation drive.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the Government hopes that acquisition of new safety features would help tackle the menace of FICN.

The Coinage Act, 2011, was recently enacted by Parliament. This is expected to simplify the provisions related to coins and currencies by amalgamating four Acts and one Ordinance relating to coinage.

January 9

Intelligence agencies have reportedly received inputs that the CPI-Maoist has sought the help of Assam based insurgent group, KLO, indicating a retaliation of an “unprecedented scale” to avenge the killing of its politburo member Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji in West Bengal on  November 24, 2011.

In a joint operation, a special team comprising personnel of the NIA, the Border Security Force and the West Bengal Police arrested one Morgen Hossain (23) of Malda in West Bengal and recovered FICN worth INR 27000.

January 10

a red alert was sounded in Kishanganj District after intelligence reports suggested that eight LeT terrorists had sneaked in there from across the porous Indo-Nepal border.

railway stations along the Bihar-Nepal border have been put on alert after intelligence reports that a group of terrorists have sneaked into the State and could pose a threat to railway facilities in the area.

Policemen across Mumbai will now be trained in handling the situation effectively at terror sites in case of an attack till well-trained personnel take charge.

According to a recent intelligence report, the LeT in association with IM is planning to carry out attacks in Mumbai and Delhi in near future.

Probable targets include ports and vital installations on the coastal front.

The NIA has claimed to have busted a major FICNs racket and arrested 14 persons - including leaders of the gang operating out of Malda in West Bengal - during a nationwide swoop. The accused were found to have direct links with their coordinators in Pakistan where these notes were printed.

January 12

The Delhi Police seized FICN worth INR 60 million from Dabri area in south-west Delhi.

A Court in Allahabad sentenced Amir Mahfooz, the main accused in an FICN case to eight years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of INR 75,000. Mahfooz's links were also traced with SIMI.

Formation of a NCTC, a single window organisation that will gather and disseminate intelligence to central and state security organisations, finally got the Government's nod two years after it made the announcement.  The clearance was given by the CCS. 

Chidambaram while addressing the Directors General and Inspectors General of Police on December 23, 2009, had announced that Government will soon form an NCTC with plans to merge agencies like NIA, NTRO, JIC, NCRB and the NSG.

January 13

A Malaysian businessman is under remand in Chennai after Police found FICN worth thousands of rupees in his possession.

The Mumbai crime branch seized USD 500,000 in 2011.

The Law Ministry is learnt to have cleared a proposal of the Home Ministry seeking an extension of the ban on SIMI for another two years.

 ISI in 2011 pumped FICN worth INR 16 billion into the country in an effort to fund its terror activities and destabilise the Indian monetary system. Sources said an ISI officer, Aslam Chaudhary, was understood to be the main person within the ISI, handling the printing of FICN.

The NIA has been able to link the FICN seized in India in the past to Pakistani security presses by comparing the chemicals of genuine Pakistani notes and FICN seized in India. It is in recognition of extent of the damage to the monetary stability that the Government has decided to amend the anti-terror law, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, to count production, smuggling or circulation of high quality counterfeit Indian currency as a terrorist offence.

Police cracked a major network of militants and FICN suppliers with the arrest of six persons, including a SPO and a woman in Poonch District.

MHA in a meeting has asked the State Government to take measures to free more Districts from militancy in 2012 especially those where militancy related incidents were confined to single digit during 2011. The State has already declared five Districts completely free of militancy.

The Home Ministry noted with satisfaction that militancy related incidents had gone down from 368 in 2010 to 195 in 2011. On infiltration from both LoC and IB, it was viewed that infiltration had been low in 2011 as compared to 2010 though the number of attempts made during 2011 by the militants to intrude into this side hadn’t gone down.

A detailed mechanism was also drafted in the meeting to check terror funding, which was helping the militants to survive in the State. The terror funding was taking place not only within the country but also at the international level, sources said, adding the meeting formulated a strategy to ensure that the funds didn’t reach to the militants.

about 31 out of the total 67 projects sanctioned for the State as a part of the sanctioned PMRP have been completed and work was going on at a faster place in the remaining projects.

A Delhiite had allegedly travelled to Pakistan to meet a ‘notorious counterfeiter’ Iqbal Kana and procure FICNs, Delhi Police claimed after seizing FICNs with a face value of INR 22.4 million and arresting two persons from two separate places in the city.

January 14

One BPO employee was arrested for making hoax bomb call to a woman claiming a bomb had been planted in Kirti Nagar area of New Delhi.

The MBMC asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to institute a CBI probe into the September 19, 2008 Batla House encounter in New Delhi that killed two IM militants and a Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chandra Sharma.The MBMC, comprising mostly teachers and former teachers of the Aligarh Muslim University, had sent a memorandum to the Prime Minister in this regard.  The memorandum slammed Union Home Minister P Chidambram for describing the encounter as genuine, MBMC chief Razaullah Khan told reporters. "What has pained members of the Muslim community is the fact that even a call for dispensation of justice is dubbed as appeasement by certain sections of the polity," he said.

 SP’s UP chief Akhilesh Yadav during his Kranti Rath through Azamgarh raked up the Batla House encounter and said that the Congress must tell the truth to the people.  Akhilesh said, "Samajwadi Party has always maintained that there should be a judicial probe into the Batla House encounter. The Delhi Police, the Union Home Minister and the Agencies (that alleged people involved in the Batla House encounter were terrorists) are run by the Congress.

January 15

Officials of the Fort branch of the RBI in Mumbai carrying out an audit of old and worn-out currency notes found FICNs totaling over INR 388000 had been deposited with the bank between September 2010 and June 2011.

Intensifying its drive to curb terror funding, the Union Government has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Police as well as the Enforcement Directorate to seek help from the RBI in monitoring transfer of funds meant for separatist groups for alleged anti-national activities, including disturbing peace in the State.

Investigators following the fake currency trail into North India, especially Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, zeroed in on a Nepal-based Indian national, known only by his last name Khanna, who has not been arrested so far.

 IM militants Salman alias Chotu and Shahzad Ahmed alias Pappu have allegedly confessed to the Bangalore Police that they had got explosives for the 2008 Delhi serial blasts from Udupi, a coastal town in Karnataka.

The EC has received specific intelligence reports that money is being pumped into UP from West Asia through hawala (illegal money transfer) channels for the forthcoming state elections.

Two ATM vans, belonging to two private banks, were seized with nearly INR 130 million in cash UP last week.

Specific information that operatives in Nepal backed by ISI are viewing the UP polls as an opportunity to pump in large amounts of FICNs into this country.

A report compiled by the FIU under the Finance Ministry states that there has been a 400 percent increase in FICNs transactions in Indian's financial channels. The states that during 2010-11 financial year (till March 2011).

A suspected sympathizer of the LTTE was arrested by Kochi city Police from Chengalpettu in Chennai in connection with a human trafficking case involving Sri Lankan Tamils.

January 16

Three men who planned and executed serial blasts in Mumbai and Delhi High Court blast in 2011, were holed up in an apartment in Byculla, not more than 15 minutes' walk from the Anti-Terrorist Squad's Nagpada headquarters, till just a few weeks ago.

India and Nepal decided to intensify cooperation in sharing terror-related information on a real-time basis and check circulation of FICNs.

During the annual Home Secretary-level meet between India and Myanmar at Naypyitaw on January 19, a joint strategy to deal with Northeast Indian militant groups, smuggling of drugs, arms and ammunition will be high on the agenda.

The Union Government has accorded formal sanction for the creation of the CRPF Integrated Intelligence Wing.

January 17

The CID has arrested three Indians for allegedly passing strategic information about national security and military installations to Pakistan.

January 19

Based on Gulam Rasool's (arrested for allegedly passing strategic information to handlers in Pakistan) information, his nephew Majid (40), and aide Allabax (50) were arrested from Amritsar (Punjab) and Sri Ganganagar (Rajasthan) respectively. Both of them were carrying important information with them and were said to cross the border from Attari to deliver it to their handlers in Pakistan.

An investigator probing the IM Bihar module, part of which was busted by the special team of Delhi Police in 2011, has found that the chief of IM operations in India, Yasin, had been making frequent trips to several areas of Bihar towards the beginning of this decade for recruitment to the terror cause.

Sources have also confirmed that at least two members of the present module were present near L-11, Batla House, the encounter site on September 13, 2008, though till then they had no knowledge of the exact role played by the Azamgarh module.

Investigators had believed that the Bihar module had only become active after the Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) module, operating under Atif Ameen, was busted in the Batla House encounter in September 2008.

Counter-terrorism agencies have narrowed down on the terror-financing module that is operating out of New Delhi, and is believed to have aided IM operatives in executing the July 13 triple blasts in Mumbai and the Delhi blast.

Police officials revealed that during their stay at Habib Mansion, right behind the Byculla Police Station, IM operative Yasin Bhatkal and Pakistanis Tabrez and Bakas had reconnoitered several vital installations in the city.

Interrogation of two people arrested from Jammu in Jammu and Kashmir on January 17 after the busting of a FICNs racket in New Delhi on January 12 has revealed that the busted FICNs racket was on for over a year.

January 20

Union Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said here that the coastal security apparatus for dealing with infiltration attempts by the sea route was already in place and was being strengthened further.

Challenges rising from Pakistan would remain the most serious security test for India over the next decade, says Naresh Chandra, chairman of the NSAB, who is also heading a taskforce on reviewing the country's security architecture.

January 21

A Delhi court will hear arguments taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by NIA against Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and LeT militant Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi. Headley and others are charged with planning and executing terror strikes in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack.

January 22

CorCom of seven militant outfits of Manipur have joined hands with five other Militant groups of the Northeastern  and called for a mass boycott of Republic Day celebrations on January 26 in the entire northeast. Five other outfits include the ULFA-ATF, HNLC, KLO, NLFT and ATTF.

During the Home Secretary level meeting between the two countries on January 19, Myanmar has assured India that steps would be taken against the Northeastern militants using its territory.

Myanmar has sought India’s help for implementation of several road projects, which would facilitate free movement of the troops to the areas where the militants are taking shelter. Myanmar has also sought India’s help in completing the trilateral highway linking India, Myanmar and Thailand.

Bhutan ‘Prime Minister’ Jigme Y Thinley said that there is no camp of any militant formation of the northeast in his country. He further asserted that Security Forces are on alert to thwart any such potential attempts by the militants.

Union Minister for Rural Development, Jairam Ramesh, whilst attending the M. Venkatarangaiya Foundation, has noted with concern the disturbing trend of Naxalites [Left Wing Extremist (LWE)] recruiting young boys and girls.  

Maharashtra ATS claimed to have made a major breakthrough in the triple Mumbai blasts July 13, 2011 that claimed 27 lives, with the arrest of two of the accused hailing from Bihar.

The life sentences awarded to six HuJI cadres, including three Pakistani, by a trial court for plotting to abduct cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly in 2002, were reduced to eight years each by the Delhi High Court.

A key accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhaya (60), will contest the Uttar Pradesh assemble polls from Bairia constituency, an official said.

HuT, the aggressive political group behind the recent failed Bangladesh coup, has been active in India for at least two years.

A source in the security establishment said HuT may have started operations in India around 2010, but seems to have lost the momentum.

Four persons were arrested and FICNs of various denominations worth INR 513000 was seized at Nandura in Buldhana District.

Mohammed Ismail, arrested in connection with the FICN, was brought to the court in Pondicherry.

Yasin Bhatkal, the mastermind of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, might have succeeded in evading the Police, but he remains in India, Maharashtra ATS officials said.

The Delhi Police has been advised to keep an eye on the wholesale markets to break an international counterfeiter's network that spans "from Karachi to Chandni Chowk".

Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria said that the IM first recruited youths from Cheetah Camp in Trombay (Maharashtra), then Kondwa in Pune (Maharashtra), then Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and now Darbhanga in Bihar.

The investigations into the bogus SIM cards racket led the Police to the accused in the July 13, 2011 Mumbai triple blast case (also known as 13/7).

The ATS recovered 400 documents provided by Tikole through which prepaid SIM cards were bought by the IM module members.

Eight persons have been arrested by the ATS in the 13/7 case so far.

Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said that Bihar man held by the Maharashtra Police on the charge of playing a key role in organising the 13/7 attack was a Delhi Police and Intelligence Bureau informant.

As reported earlier, the Maharashtra ATS has said it has held three men involved in planning and executing the 13/7 attack - one of them a witness, who had cooperated with the Delhi Police and the IB in the search for two Pakistani nationals who allegedly planted the explosive devices.

The FICN seized during a raid on a gambling den led to unearthing of a FICN racket in the Krishna District.

During his three-day visit to CPI-Maoist affected Districts of West Bengal, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said that it is important to combat Maoists in a different way than what has been done so far.

The Maharashtra ATS made its ninth arrest in a fraudulent SIM card case.

Two persons were arrested along with nine FICNs of INR 500 denomination in Indore. NIA probing FICN printed in Pakistan suspects that the two youths might be conduits of the international racket involved in it.

New Delhi airport immigration officials have arrested a terror suspect linked to the July 25, 2008 Bangalore (Karnataka) blasts as he was trying to fly out of the country.

A Police source said Sameer is the 24th accused arrested in the Bangalore serial blasts.

Prior to executing the 13/7 blasts in Mumbai, IM operatives Yasin Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal bargained extensively on the amount to be spent to execute the terror attack. Though Yasin demanded INR 1.7 million to bomb three places in Mumbai, he was paid only INR 1.2 million by IM leaders, investigations have revealed.

Maharashtra ATS revealed that the hawala money to fund the attacks was routed through UAE.

The CPI-Maoist cadres from Tamil Nadu have reportedly infiltrated Karnataka and are strengthening the hands of their comrades in Agumbe region of Udupi District, according to a recent intelligence report.

Police are conducting a probe after FICNs were found in some of the currencies sent to the Reserve Bank of India, Chennai, by some banks Tirunelveli

The Highways Ministry has made elaborate plans to build roads in neglected areas and untouched zones in the next five years.

Under the TSP, the Ministry proposes to take up development of State roads in Districts identified in Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. The Ministry proposes to take up development of about 1,000km roads to two lane standards in these Districts with an investment of INR 50 billion during the 12th plan period.

The Ministry is also pushing the plan to develop better road network along borders, which would be developed by the BRO with a gross budgetary support of INR 30 billion during the five-year period. Moreover, it has submitted proposals to build 103 strategically important stretches in Jammu and Kashmir; and for this the Ministry needs INR 7 billion budgetary allocation from the Centre.

Briefing to over 70,000 CRPF troops engaged in anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)] operations, Director General K Vijay Kumar asked them to turn junglee (inhabitants of forests) and hit the CPI-Maoist "hard" before eliminating them.

Two persons were arrested along with nine FICNs of INR 500 denomination in Indore in the night of January 25.

The special task force of the GRP in Howrah in West Bengal arrested a three-member gang involved in the transportation of FICNs to Pune in Maharashtra.

Habib alias Habibfalahi Shaikh (25), an accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blast and Surat bomb planting cases, was arrested by the Ahmadabad city Police.

The NIA informed that Muhammed Shameer, a native of Kannur in Kerala, who was arrested in Delhi, in connection with the 2008 Bangalore Blast case, on January 25 was a vital link for the inflow of money for terrorist purposes.

The NIA has undertaken two major FICNs cases in the State, after some Pakistan links were established in both the cases.

The Central Government admitted that execution of road projects in Naxal [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)]-hit States has been delayed and only 730 kilometres of the proposed 5,477 kilometres highways network could be completed so far.

Maharashtra ATS and Delhi Police's Special Cell have arrested a Delhi-based hawala operator, Kanwar Nain Pathrija, in Delhi for arranging funds for the 13/7 Mumbai blasts.

Police said that INR 10 lakh had come to Pathrija from Dubai which he later handed over to IM leader Yasin Bhatkal who is suspected to be currently in Nepal.

Border Security Forces have found out that a racket in FICN is operating from Pakistan with the support of ISI and LeT for distribution of FICN in India. Three nodal centers had been set up in Jammu, Malda in West Bengal and in Nepal for distribution of FICN across the country.

The Union Government, declared the GNLA, a terrorist outfit under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

CPI-Maoist are planning to hold their crucial 10th congress in the Maoist-controlled Abujhmad, a 6,000-Square kilometres densely forested region extending from south Bastar in Chhattisgarh to Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, reports received by the State Police said in Raipur on January 31.

Haroon Rashid Naik (33), a Mumbra (a Mumbai suburb) resident, was arrested by the ATS in the 13/7 triple blasts case. He is the fourth man to be arrested in the case for facilitating the hawala racket from where Mumbai blasts were funded.

Role of Pakistan's ISI is getting clearer day by day as Bhatkal is said to have been funded by Karachi-based operatives of ISI.

To counter the increasing threat of terrorist and anti-state activities the Union MHA has approved several proposals for paramilitary forces, ranging from setting up a 'detective training school' to procuring huge numbers of high-tech 'radio sets'. . A school to train spies - CDTS - will be set up in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh by the BPR&D.

One more accused in the 2008 Bangalore serial blasts has been taken into custody. Saleem (30) is a close associate of Tadiyandavide Nasir and stayed in Kannur, Kerala.

The Union Government has decided to continue the ban imposed on SIMI. The ban has been extended in light of SIMI's alleged links with certain Pakistan-based terrorist outfits including LeT and its front, IM.

An alleged founding member of IM, Mohammad Tariq Anjuman Ehsan, was arrested by the Delhi Police at Nalanda in Bihar. According to Police sources, Tariq (31) is an IM ideologue and is suspected of being involved in a number of blasts, including Jama Masjid in Delhi.

A security guard was arrested along with FICNs in Hyderabad. The Police arrested Mohamed Asim Khan (27) and recovered FICNs, having face value of eight thousand rupees, which were believed to have been printed in Pakistan.

Union Government announced creation of six projects in NTFP covering around 60 CPI-Maoist-affected Districts in the country to improve the livelihood options of the tribal people, who fall prey to extremist ideas owing to crushing poverty.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has asked the paramilitary top brass to identify the leaders' set-up of Naxal outfits and undertake operations to cripple the movement of LWE. In a meeting with CRPF top brass recently, Chidambaram argued that cadre can be recruited overnight but leaders cannot be made and urged the paramilitary to arrest Naxal leaders like Kishan Da of West Bengal, Sabyasachi Panda of Odisha and Kundan Pahan of Jharkhand.

MHA has decided to buy six Mi-17V-5 helicopters from Russia to assist its SFs engaged in internal security duties, including anti-Naxal operations.

Union Government announced creation of six projects in NTFP covering around 60 CPI-Maoist-affected Districts in the country to improve the livelihood options of the tribal people, who fall prey to extremist ideas owing to crushing poverty. The projects to be executed within six months will be in the Public Private Partnership mode and will cover the States like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Police arrested two inter-state gang members of FICNs racket from Patna (Bihar) and recovered FICNs of the face value of INR 400000 in two bags from their possession.

Delhi Police's special team investigating the IM terror cell arrested a key ideologue and founding member of the group, identified as Talha Abdali alias Israr, from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh.

The ATS found that the counterfeit notes circulated by alleged members of the SIMI, Haroon Naik , and Asrar Tailor, have been printed on highly-sophisticated and regular currency-making machines which can only be owned by a country and not by ordinary criminals.

40 live cartridges were recovered in a dustbin only a mile away from the Rashtrapati Bhavan near Rafi Marg. CISF recovered the cartridges during a routine check and has given them to the Delhi Police which has started investigating the matter.

Bihar Police arrested four persons, including two from Jammu and Kashmir, on suspicion of maintaining links with a cross-border terror outfit. The arrests were made near Basmatia village in Araria District near the India-Nepal border.

In a step aimed at strengthening various counter-terrorism measures, the Government has decided to operationalise the ambitious NCTC from March 1. NCTC got the approval from the CCS three weeks ago.

According to CRPF DG, K Vijay Kumar, a recent recruitment drive has infused young blood into the para-military force and reduced the average age of the SFs.

SOG busted an inter-state fake currency racket and arrested three persons from Ahmedabad. The team also seized 200 FICN with denomination of Rs 1,000. The FICNs were allegedly brought in from West Bengal.

Mumbai Police arrested two Jharkhand-based persons for carrying FICNs amounting to 119,000 from Kika Street in Bhuleshwar area.

ATS has found out that Haroon Naik a 13/7 Mumbai blasts accused, had met LeT operations chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and was present at an "inspirational" lecture by slain al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan just a month before the 9/11 attack.

IM ideologue Talha Abdali alias Bashir Hasan alias Israr and popularly known as Masterji among its cadres, was a close associate of Safdar Nagori ,during interrogation has revealed that he had been associated with militant outfits for a long time and knew about the blasts carried out by IM since 2007.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that despite alarming escalation in CPI-Maoist violence in Jharkhand, no serious effort has been made by the State Government to deal with the LWEs.

Police arrested two more persons carrying FICN worth INR 29500 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The two men arrested belong to Malda District in West Bengal.

More than 400 fake currency notes in different denominations and amounting to more than INR 170900 were recovered at a single bank branch located in Fatehpuri near Chandni Chowk in Delhi.

NIA submitted charge sheet against 18 accused in the Kashmir Terrorist Recruitment case at NIA court Kochi, in Kerala. According to the charge sheet, Tadiyantavide Nazeer and Shafas who are accused in several other terrorism cases have joined hands with the banned LeT to execute anti-national activities.

Maoists from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and other States often use the Karnataka as a hideout. Karnataka, which claimed to have ended the menace of CPI-Maoist, has a fresh problem on its hands. CPI-Maoist cadres from Tamil Nadu have reportedly infiltrated the jungles of the Western Ghats since January 2012.

Eight years after two blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai killed 52 people; the Bombay HC upheld the death sentence awarded to the three accused LeT militants.

Kerela Police is now probing the possibility of FICN rackets operating from Maldives in the last couple of years.

Investigating agencies are probing the role of IM co-founder Yasin Bhatkal alias Shahrukh's role in the 2010 blast at the Dasashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi.

Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh said that the Government was working on a multi pronged people centric strategy to deal with CPI -Maoist violence in the country, a Ministry of Rural Development press release said.

NIA arrested a Madhya Pradesh resident, Kamal Chauhan on suspicion of having participated in the terrorist cell which carried out the Samjhauta Express blasts in 2007.

Kamal Chauhan believed to be one of the four men who planted incendiary devices on the Lahore-bound train on February 18, 2007, killing 68 people.

Delhi Police arrested a 39-year-old man believed to be an ISI agent in Delhi for spying and collecting 'incriminating defence documents'. Kamran Akbar alias Attar alias Asif Hossain, who hails from Karachi in Pakistan was arrested for procuring sensitive documents relating to defence.

An Israeli embassy official Tal Yehoshua Koren, who is also the wife of Israel's defence attaché, sustained serious injuries when a bomb fixed to her car went off at 3.15 p.m. at Aurangzed Road, Delhi. 3 others were also injured.

An Israeli embassy official Tal Yehoshua Koren, who is also the wife of Israel's defence attaché, sustained serious injuries when a bomb fixed to her car went off at 3.15 p.m. at Aurangzed Road, Delhi. 3 others were also injured.

Police arrested a Sri Lankan citizen in possession of FICN worth INR one lakh in Bangalore.

Additional district and sessions judge Raj Narayan Singh convicted three persons for printing FICN and punished them with ten years of rigorous imprisonment in Kanpur. The sentenced persons were Sonu, Guddu Singh Bhadoria and Gyanendra.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram will visit Tripura's refugee camps, where over 36,000 Bru tribal refuges from Mizoram have been staying for the past 15 years, and seek to persuade them to return home.

SE Railway GM A K Verma during his visit to Lohardaga District said CPI-Maoist problem is the main reason behind delay in Lohardaga -Tori project implementation.

NIA suspects the role of state-sponsored agencies behind the printing of FICN. The high quality of duplication exhibited in the FICN seized at Taliparamba of Kerala shows the involvement of a state-sponsored racket.

Kamal Chauhan, a former RSS worker arrested by NIA confessed that he had planted bombs on board the Samjhauta Express in 2007.

IB and Israel's secret service Mossad are probing the links of Hezbollah in February 13 car bomb blast.

Delhi Police arrested five suspects in connection with February 13 terror attack. Police also recovered an abandoned red motorcycle in Lado Sarai area of south Delhi which is similar to the one used by the person who attached the magnet bomb.

Karnataka Police recovered 217 FICN each of INR 500 denomination amounting to INR 108500 from a hotel room on Visvesvaraya Road in Mandya town (Mandya District) of Karnataka.

A diary, which sailed with Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists from Karachi and provided them with crucial sea-coordinates to reach Mumbai on November 26, 2008 along with locations to attack, landed on the table of two Supreme Court judges who will take the final call on award of death sentence of Kasab.

A Bangladeshi national, Sadiq ul Islam, said to be involved in circulating FICN and was arrested in Murshidabad (Murshidabad District) in West Bengal. Stacks of FICNs with a face value of INR 15000 and arms were recovered from his possession. Police also busted an illegal arms racket and arrested the kingpin, Wahid. Several kinds of sophisticated guns and ammunitions were recovered from him.

Delhi Police claimed to have busted a racket of printing counterfeit USD, fake passports, visas and residential permits. Police arrested five foreign nationals and recovered a huge cache of fake currency and documents from their possession.

A Pakistani judicial commission will visit India on March 12 as part of the probe into the 2008 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

SIMI backed PFI is fast becoming a major internal security headache for the government, NIA sources said.

Police recovered a huge cache of explosive substances from a parked car at Perla under the Badiaduka Police Station limits in Kasargod District.

Police recovered 89 FICN worth INR 44,500 from two employees of a private bank in Balaghat (Balaghat District), Madhya Pradesh.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met the leaders of the displaced Reangs presently sheltered in six camps in North Tripura District. Chidambaram said that Central Government had taken all efforts to ensure their safety and rehabilitation when they would go back to Mizoram.

A special court in Delhi asked NIA to initiate the process to produce Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, LeT founder Hafiz Muhammed Saeed and LeT head of operations Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi before it on March 13.

NIA took custody of two persons for questioning at Totattady within Neriya Gram Panchayat in Beltangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka. The duo - Uday and Vinay are suspected to be involved in the Malegaon bomb blast.

NIA arrested a person in connection with September 7, 2011 blast outside Delhi High Court from Kishtwar District of J&K. The arrested person has been identified as Mohammad Ayub.

India is likely to seek the extradition of Pakistani-American militant David Coleman Headley and his Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Hussain.

A top IM militant (organization ideologue) Mohammad Kafeel Ahmed was arrested from Darbhanga in Bihar by the Delhi Police. He was a messenger and also the main recruiter for the IM.

The alleged mastermind of the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata was brought to the CBI special court in Ahmadabad where a charge sheet was filed against him in connection with the landing of arms consignment in Radhanpur town of Banaskantha District of Gujarat in 2001.

Two persons were arrested in Karol Bagh area of Delhi allegedly with FICNs of face value of INR 20,000. The two men- Sharafat Khan (65) and Yusuf Khan (55) - hail from Rampur and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, respectively.

Arrested IM man Mohd. Kafeel Ahmed was brought to Delhi and produced in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at Tees Hazari court. Kafeel was a close aide of Yasin Bhatkal alias Shahrukh and a chief recruiter for IM.

A Delhi court, remanded four of the nine IM members, arrested for their suspected roles in various terror cases across the country, to the Karnataka Police custody to ascertain their roles in the April 2010 Chinnaswami Stadium blast case.

Union Government is likely to come up with a new uniform surrender policy for all LWE-affected States, offering INR 500,000 to anyone laying down an LMG and INR 300,000 to those depositing an AK-47 assault rifle.

Former national chief of SIMI, Muneer Deshmukh, who was arrested in Bhopal in November 2010 and is on bail since July 14 last year, is suspected to have stashed US Dollars 50,000 in US accounts.

Four militants of Sikh separatist group BKI, arrested for planning to target religious figures, were sentenced to imprisonment already undergone by a sessions' court in Delhi after they pleaded guilty for being member of the banned outfit.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram announced that the Union Government has allotted INR 1,200 crore for the modernisation and development of the NSG during the 12th Five Year plan after inaugurating the fourth and final regional hub of the NSG at Marol in Mumbai. Chidambaram also inaugurated the Institute of IED Management at the CRPF camp in Talegaon, 35 km from Pune.

Interrogation of IM militant Mohammed Kafeel Ahmed has confirmed that the vast network of banned outfit SIMI is now being used by IM.

Ministry of Rural Development and the Planning Commission have formulated a new policy under BRLF, which would be initiated with an initial corpus of INR 5 billion from the Centre. The programme would help in funding projects that would provide better livelihood to the tribals in LWE-affected areas in central and eastern India.

CPI-Maoists has designed a plan for creation of a confederation of states comprising the North East region of India, parts of Myanmar and the Sylhet area of Bangladesh and according to the plan, the states of the confederation would be created to represent smaller nationalities of the area.

BSF thwarted attempts by three smugglers from Pakistan to sneak in a consignment of heroin along the international border adjoining Sriganganagar District of Rajasthan.

Arrested IM militant Mohammad Kafeel Ahmed has disclosed that he was one of the main conspirators behind the blasts orchestrated by IM's boss in India, Yasin Bhatkal alias Shahrukh. Kafeel also gave information about more active IM members in Bihar.

Maharashtra ATS, which is probing the July 13 Mumbai triple blasts case obtained the custody of Haroon Naik and Kanwar Pathrija till March 2 in connection with the blast at Zaveri Bazaar.

Extradition treaty between India and Bangladesh is at the final stage of consideration by the latter, Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram said.

Police arrested three persons and recovered FICN worth 80000 from their possession in Muradnagar town of Ghaziabad District in Uttar Pradesh.

The villagers in the border areas of Rajasthan are being lured or forced to turn into spies by ISI when they go to meet their relatives in Pakistan. The revelation came to the fore during interrogation of three Rajasthan residents, Allahbux, Majid and Gulam Rasool, who were arrested at Ganganagar and Amritsar in January for spying for Pakistan.

NIA claimed to have got some leads to suggest that the low intensity blast outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011 was a handiwork of the banned terror outfit IM.

Indian Navy's action against the Somalian pirates off the Gulf of Aden has resulted in the seas on the Indian side being declared a safe area for merchant ships. Many ships have been taking the route off the Indian coast after the Indian Navy's strong action against the Somalian pirates.

MHA has released the first installment of INR 1.2 billion to LWE-affected States for construction of 400 fortified Police Stations across the country.

One LeT militant was arrested by Jharkhand Police in Hazaribagh and it was based on information given by him that two LeT militants were arrested in Delhi next day.

NIA formally arrested Lokesh Sharma, already in judicial custody in connection with the Samjhauta train bombing case, for his alleged role in the 2008 Malegaon blast. Sharma was produced before the special MCOCA court in Mumbai where he was remanded to NIA custody till March 9.

NCTC, which is facing stiff opposition from several state CMs, will not be operationalised on March 1 as scheduled and the anti-terror body may take its shape only after a meeting of the Police chiefs of all states likely to be held in New Delhi on March 10.

MHA is concerned about the bulk of the armed operations of the elite CoBRA against the CPI-Maoist going futile. The issue was discussed at length during a recent high-level security meeting of sectoral IGs from CRPF and top officials of the MHA.

Delhi Police arrested two LeT militants, both Indian residents, from Tughlaqabad Extension in south Delhi and seized huge quantities of explosives from them.

Bihar Police recovered FICNs of the face value of INR 37,000 and arrested six persons from Bharatpur village in Saran District. One scanner, a laptop, printing machines, besides four weapons were also recovered during the operation.

A suspected ISI spy was arrested in a joint operation by the Kolkata and Delhi Police in Delhi. The arrest comes after another spy- Kamran Akbar- was arrested on February 13 near New Delhi Railway Station hours before he was to board a Kolkata-bound train.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram endorsed the recommendation of various committees on speedy delivery of justice and pitched for separation of investigation and prosecution from 'law and order' wing of State Police by amending the existing criminal justice system.

Following Central Government's approval on February 17 for extending financial package to 83 Mizo families who were displaced from the Tripura in 1997-98, the MBDPF has demanded compensation for 116 Bru families stationed outside the refugee relief camps in Kanchanpur Sub-Division.

Delhi Police have identified some suspects involved in the attempted assassination of an Israeli diplomat in the high-security area in Delhi on February 13.

A fast track court Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) found five activists - Shajahan, S Shameem Ul Islam, A Syed Muhammed, Syed Abdul Raheem and Khader Bhawa - of banned SIMI guilty of publishing an article against the unity and integrity of the country in the tabloid Seithi Madal way back in 1999.

A train driver was injured when a country-made bomb was exploded in front of Hanuman temple near railway running room of Patna Junction.

The LeT militant arrested from Hazaribagh was taken into transit remand by the Delhi Police Special Cell. The arrestee, Tawseef Ahmad Peer (22) alias Mama, had been detained on February 27 by Jharkhand Police.

Delhi Police will question APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani over alleged links with LeT. Geelani had given a reference letter to the LeT militant, Ethesham Malik to obtain a Pakistani visa.

Central Government is finalizing a series of decisions to increase military presence across the LWE belt in east and central India. Among them is a plan to raise the first Territorial Army battalion comprising of local tribes. Government is also in the final stages of approving three significantly large military stations or training centres in the Maoist affected areas.

Admiral Robert Willard, the USPACOM Commander said that the US and India are working together on contain Lashkar-e-Toiba. We have currently special forces assist teams - Pacific assist teams is the term - laid down in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, as well as India, he said.

Mazgaon Court in Mumbai extended the Police custody of Haroon Naik and Kanwal Nain Patrija, alleged operatives of IM, arrested for their role in the 13/7 bomb blasts, till 9th March.

Kerala Government submitted before the Kerala High Court that Susan Nathan- a British-born Jewish writer- has close connections with some extremists in the State, including the SIMI and NDF and should be deported.

MEA and MoD denied USPACOM chief Admiral Willard's statement that crack US military troops were based in India. Both Ministries dismissed the claim as "factually incorrect so far as the reference to India is concerned''.

The interrogation of LeT militant Ehtesham Malik has revealed that he was assembling a 'capsule bomb' to carry out attacks at Chandni Chowk in Delhi.

A Delhi court on March 3 framed charges against Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, suspected aide of APHC-G Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and three others for alleged involvement in money laundering to fund terror.

Somali pirates held hostage the families of 17 Indians, who were among a crew of 22 on MT Royal Grace, a Nigeria-bound oil tanker, captured off the coast of Oman. With this, Somali pirates are now holding 21 vessels and have 289 hostages.

With the increasing attack against CISF personnel in LWE affected areas, officials of the CISF have demanded special allowances for men deployed in the LWE-affected areas.

Delhi Police arrested a 50-year-old man, claiming to be a journalist, for allegedly being part of the Israeli car bombing case. The accused, Syed Mohammed Kazmi was picked up after a probe showed that he had been in touch with the suspect who is believed to have stuck the magnetic bomb on Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua's car on February 13.

Delhi Police revealed it has identified four more militants of Indian Mujahideen (IM) who are currently hiding in Bihar.

India has termed the increase in attacks by pirates off the coast of Somalia as "worrisome", calling on the international community to adopt a comprehensive counter-piracy strategy to deal with the problem.

Three years after the arrest of Mohammad Umar Madani, the right-hand man of LeT Chief Hafiz Saeed, disclosed that the LeT are hand-in-glove with CPI-Maoist. Umar Madani, a dreaded alleged LeT operative and an aide of the outfit's founder Saeed, revealed in his disclosure statement that a close camaraderie exists between LeT and the Naxals.

Andhra Pradesh State Intelligence Officials claimed that several members of the banned SIMI have joined PFI and that it was this controversial organization that was behind some recent communal disturbances in the state of Andhra Pradesh including 2011 Adoni riots.

Abdul Rehman Haji from Hosdurg Kolavayal in Kasargod District (Kerala), who is said to be the chief operator of a cartel engaged in supplying FICN printed in Pakistan to Kerala and Karnataka, was arrested by the Dubai police in Dubai, UAE.

Investigators of 13/2 attack case quoted that Iran's secretive Quds Force or Hezbollah may have been behind the 13/2 bombing on an Israeli embassy car.

Surat Rural Police arrested four persons from Kadod village in Bardoli taluka (administrative division) of Surat District and seized FICN worth INR 800,000 from them. The arrestees were, identified as Salim Multani, Narendra Mistry from Kadod, and Anis Vasu and Satish Mohan from Kerala.

Two militants of IM, Haroon Naik and hawala operator Kanwar Nain Wazeer Chand Patrija who were behind bars for Opera House (Mumbai) blast (13/7) case were remanded in ATS custody by a local court in connection with the Dadar explosion that took place on the same day.

According to enforcement agencies, Dubai is now the new and major printing centre for FICN. The notes are printed in denominations of INR 500 and INR 1,000. Earlier, Pakistan was a big, direct source of funnelling of FICN into the Indian economy.

Mizoram Chief Minister Lathanhawla said that his Government has made all arrangements for the Bru refugees to return from the relief and rehabilitation camps in Tripura to Mizoram.

Police have arrested Mohammed Jahid with INR 3.97 lakh of FICN on March 11, from the old bus stand area of Ramgarh, Jharkhand.

Surat Crime Branch arrested three more persons in Surat District with their involvement in the FICN racket. Those arrested were identified as Ravisinh, Dinesh Jain, son of the owner of a petrol pump in Palsana (Surat District), and Anna alias Premkumar.

The former head of Britain's Special Intelligence Service, Nigel Inkster, said Pakistan's ISI was behind the July 7, 2008 suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul (Afghanistan), which killed 60 people.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav issued open warrants against three Iranian nationals who Delhi Police allege were involved in the 13/2 bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car.

NIA filed its first charge sheet in the September 7, 2011 Delhi High Court blast case, indicting six persons. The blast, which killed 17, was a HM plot to threaten India's Judiciary. Among the six charge sheeted, three have been arrested- Wasim Akram Malik, Amir Abbas Dev, and Abid Hussain Bhawani, while three others who are allegedly members of the HM Amir Kamal, Junaid Akram Malik, and Shakir Hussain Seikh alias Chota Hafiz are absconding.

A special NIA court directed the agency to produce before it on May 31, 2012 Pakistani-American LeT operative terrorist David Coleman Headley, his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi for allegedly carrying out several terror strikes in India.

Senior lawyer Ujjwal Nikam was appointed as special public prosecutor in the 13/7 (July 13, 2011) Mumbai triple blasts case.

SIMI leader Habib Falahi was produced before NIA Special Court in Kochi and was included as accused 32 in the Wagamon SIMI training camp case. After ascertaining the role of Habib Falahi, NIA is now on the lookout for another Uttar Pradesh-based SIMI leader Fariz who attended this camp.

A Pakistani judicial commission reached India to collect evidence and question officials as part of efforts to prosecute LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six other suspects charged with involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

India has lodged protests with Pakistan over it using the ongoing ceasefire to shore up its military infrastructure all along the border, which includes new bunkers, towers and border outposts.

ISI has admitted before a three-member bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court to meddling in northeast India. Former ISI chief Asad Durrani made the admission before the bench during a hearing on the ISI's mandate.

SOG of Bharuch Police arrested two persons for illegally selling active mobile phone SIM cards mobile broadband modems in Bharuch city (Gujarat). The arrested youth have been identified as Altaf Patel and Salman Patel.

A person, identified as Mohammad Rehan, was arrested with FICN worth INR 50,000 near Sealdah area of Kolkata (West Bengal).

Police arrested two persons, identified as Jitendra Nagar and Manoharsingh Rathod, for circulating FICN in Ahmadabad city. FICN of INR 500 denomination was recovered from their possession.

CBI has exposed an FICN racket that operates in Northeast with help from militants in Nagaland. The revelation was made after interrogating Malda-based (West Bengal) Barkat Ali who was arrested on March 12 near the Guwahati railway station in Assam.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav issued an open warrant against Iranian national Masoud Sedaghatzadeh after Special Cell of Delhi Police said he was also involved in the conspiracy of the 13/2 Israeli Embassy car bombing. Investigators have initiated the process of getting Sedaghatzadeh extradited from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) where he was arrested on February 15.

Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament) the MHA has claimed, for the first time that the Maoist movement in India was receiving support from abroad. The so-called 'People's war' being waged by the CPI (Maoist) against the Indian state has also drawn support from several organisations located in Germany, France, Holland, Turkey and Italy.

March 19

A BKI militant was arrested from IGI airport in Delhi. Sources said that the arrested militant, Narender Singh alias Raju, was on his way to Germany to meet BKI ‘chief’ Harvinder Singh to organise terror activities in India.

India handed over to Bangladesh a list of 51 camps and 22 Indian insurgent group leaders to Bangladesh for action against them who are operating from that country.

DG of BGB Major General Anwar Hussain said they have identified 23 patches along the border which are “very vulnerable” in terms of illegal activities and both the forces will undertake joint patrolling in these areas.

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), Defense Minister A. K. Antony denied that the Government has plans to sign pacts with neighbouring countries to counter militant activities and check piracy.

Portuguese Constitution Court has stayed a judicial order cancelling extradition of gangster and key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Abu Salem to India, the Union Government informed the Supreme Court in Delhi.

March 20

Five persons were arrested and FICNs worth nearly INR 1.5 million were recovered from them in Kolkata. The arrested persons were identified as - Seikh Alam, Saddam Hossain, Khageswar Mondal, Seikh Akhter and Seikh Zahirul.

The Tardeo Police in Mumbai arrested two persons from the Haji Ali dargah (shrine) for possessing FICNs worth INR 67,500. The accused, identified as Mukhtar Shaikh and Debashish Das, hail from Jharkhand.

A city court in Delhi further extended the remand of the three LeT militants -  Ehtesham Malik, Shafqat Ali Tugu and Tauseef Ahmed Peer -  accused of planning a terror strike on Delhi till March 28. The Delhi Police further claimed to have traced the source of explosives that were recovered from the possession of two militants arrested in Delhi.

In a written reply Union Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh told the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) that the Government has begun UAVs in Left-Wing Extremism-affected areas of the country.

Union MoS for Home, Jitendra Singh on said that 246 militancy-related incidents occurred in Manipur in the first three months of 2012. He further said that in the first three months of 2012, 21 militants, 5 security personnel and 7 civilians were killed in the State making it the most affected state in Northeast.

March 21

A fast-track court in Ajmer handed a 10-years jail sentence to two militants, Shabir Ahmed Ratar and Ravindra Mali, and a seven-year sentence to two others, Mujib Ahmed alias Ahmed bhai and Mohammad Yasin, for smuggling weapons, including an AK 47 rifle, from Jammu and Kashmir to Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) and for conspiracy. Shabir was a member of JKLF and Ahmed was a cadre of HM.

CBI busted an FICN racket run from the borders of West Bengal, with the arrest of one person, Akbar Sheikh, 35, from Guwahati railway station. FICNs with a face value of INR 500,000 were seized from him. Interrogation of Sheikh, a resident of Malda (West Bengal), led to the discovery of the cartel that was pumping FICNs into the Northeast.

A Delhi Police team is to soon fly to Bangkok (Thailand) to interrogate Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, arrested in connection with the February 14 Bangkok blast case and who has links with the Iranian national who stuck a bomb on an Israeli embassy car in Delhi on February 13.

CPI-Maoist has not only tied up with north-eastern insurgent groups to get smuggled Chinese arms through their network, but also acquired a toehold in the region that can help them access to weapons for their cadres in hinterland.

Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Parliament), Chidambaram said insurgent outfits operating in the north-east have been procuring arms through smugglers based in China's Yunnan province, Myanmar and south-east Asian countries.

NSCN-IM Chairman Isak Chishi Swu while addressing the 33rd republic day celebration of the NSCN (I-M) at the Council headquarters, Hebron said that both the NSCN (I-M) and the government of India which have been in negotiation for the past 15 years at the highest level, were determined to work out an acceptable solution based on the “unique history” and “situation” of the Nagas and an “interdependent relationship”.

Indian militant groups are using a video of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for recruiting, said intelligence sources. Both HuJI and HM are using the video.

March 22

Maharashtra ATS told the court that one of the four arrested - Nadeem Shaikh - for 13/7 blasts had confessed and that his statement has been recorded before a magistrate. The four arrested — Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik — were produced before the Mazgaon metropolitan court and sent to judicial custody till April 4.

A joint team comprising personnel from the ATS, Bangalore, and Delhi Special Police searched Bhatkal town (Karnataka) to identify the house which is presumably laden with huge quantities of explosive material including RDX, with help from four terror suspects. The explosives from the Bhatkal dump are believed to have been used in the blasts at Chinnaswamy Stadium in 2010 and the Delhi High Court blast in September last year, besides several other strikes across the country carried by IM.

Police officials are suspecting that diplomatic channels may have been used to smuggle explosives into India for the 13/2 attack.

India voted for a United States-sponsored resolution in Geneva (Switzerland) at the United Nations' top human rights body censuring Sri Lanka for its alleged rights violations during the war against the LTTE.

March 23

Maharashtra ATS claimed to have information on two persons suspected to have played a role in the triple blasts in Mumbai on July 13 last year. The two suspects were identified around the second week of March.

Narender Singh, a BKI militant who was arrested from IGI airport at New Delhi on March 19, wanted to target religious figures like Baba Ram Rahim and Baba Ashutosh. The Delhi police officials also said that the said militant had got the training in Pakistan.

Interpol has issued Red Corner notices against four Iranians wanted in connection with the bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat on February 13 in Delhi. The Interpol issued the look-out notices against four Iranians - Houshang Afshar Irani, Syed Ali Mahdiansadr, Mohammadreza Abolghasemi and Masoud Sedaghatzadeh - on the request of the CBI.

Leaders of 172 organizations including various NGOs, churches and religious organizations in a joint meeting held at Naisingpara camp in Kanchanpur, North Tripura District, under the leadership of A Sawibunga, President MBDPF resolved to demand a compensation amount of INR 150,000 for each the Bru returnee, which is equivalent to the compensation amount paid to each of the 83 displaced Mizo families.

March 24

Amidst allegations of custodial harassment, journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13, 2012 bombing of an Israeli diplomat car in New Delhi, was remanded in judicial custody by a court after the Delhi Police said he was not needed for further interrogation.

A fresh twist appeared in the September 8, 2006 Malegaon blast investigations as the NIA, begins to suspect that Hindu fundamentalists might have used Muslim hands to execute the blast.

North East militant outfits have changed their routes to bring in weapons and explosives to the North East region after the improvement of relation between India and Bangladesh. Sources said that militant groups have stopped bringing in weapons through Bangladesh and most of the weapons are now brought into the region through Myanmar where most of the militant groups of the region have their strong bases.

The abduction of two Italians, the murder of a Sub-Inspector in Malkangiri and the abduction of a MLA, is being seen in security circles as the outcome of a tussle between the Andhra and Orissa factions of CPI-Maoist operating in the state.

March 25

A man was awarded a seven year imprisonment term by a local court in Muzzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh for supplying FICNs. Ahsan, from whom fake notes having face value of thousands of rupees were recovered on May 21 in 2008 at Kairana town in the same District, was found guilty in the court of Additional District Sessions judge M K Shukla.

Dawood Ibrahim (1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused) has at least 20 fake passports, 8 of which were issued in Mumbai, Chhota Rajan has 8, and Chhota Shakeel 6 and the simplicity with which fake passports can be acquired is a major reason for gangsters' ability to slink across borders and elude the Police.

India has moved Bangladesh with a request to track financial assets belonging to the Manipur-based insurgent outfit, UNLF, in that country. Investigating agencies have evidence that suggest that UNLF chief R.K. Meghen had amassed assets in Bangladesh with money extorted from Manipur.

Central Government and Pro Talks faction of ULFA-PTF will be held in New Delhi on April 9.

The meeting of District level core committee on Bru repatriation, which met at the Mizoram-Tripura border of Mamit District, deputy commissioner’s office has decided to constitute Bru repatriation Cell in the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

A suspected SIMI cadre was killed while two of his accomplices - one of whom is said to be involved in the July 26, 2008, serial blasts in Ahmadabad - were arrested after a gun battle with the ATS in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The slain suspect has been identified as Khalil Akhil Khilji while those arrested are Abrar Babukhan alias Munna and Mohammad Shaker Hussain.

Police is on the lookout of two suspected LeT militants who, they fear, could be planning a terror strike in Delhi. Tahir Zameel and Abrar-ul-Haq, reportedly sneaked into Delhi in June 2011 and are allegedly part of a LeT sleeper module.

An IM operative from the Bihar module, Assadullah Rehman alias Dilkash was arrested from his Karawal Nagar hideout in northeast Delhi. Dilkash had recently come to the city to re-establish the IM base and plot terror attacks.

Maharashtra ATS arrested two suspected SIMI cadres from Chikhli area of Buldhana District. The ATS team arrested Akil Ahmad Mohm Yusuf Khilji and Mohd Zafar Hussain, both residents of Khandwa, MP.

The terror module was attempting to set up bases in Aurangabad, Jalna and Buldhana Districts of Maharashtra and recruit people in the State. They were also planning to assassinate some prominent Hindu leaders in Maharashtra.

The arrest of 2008 Ahmadabad serial blasts accused Mohammad Abrar Babu Khan by ATS on March 26 is being viewed as a significant development by Central intelligence agencies with officials claiming that the dreaded terrorist was controlling the entire network of IM and banned SIMI in western and central India.

A joint team of UP police and SOG arrested two persons from Allahabad junction main gate (Allahabad District) and recovered FICNs worth INR 100,000 of INR 500 denomination. The arrested persons were identified as Rukhsana and Dharmendra Sonkar.

13 Illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were arrested by Ahmadabad Police when a surprise search operation was conducted in Chandola area of Ahmadabad city.

With the Mizoram Government deciding to resume the stalled process of repatriation of the Bru refugees from Tripura in April, the Kolasib District administration is gearing up to receive 638 Bru families. While majority of the Bru refugees, lodged in six relief camps in North Tripura District, were being resettled in Mamit District on the Mizoram-Tripura border, 628 Bru families would be resettled in Kolasib District on the Mizoram-Assam-Tripura border.

Police will send letter rogatories to three countries - Iran, Thailand and Malaysia in the ongoing investigation of the February 13, 2012, attack on an Israeli embassy car in Delhi. Sources said that Intelligence officials will ask Iran for more details on bombers like their address, occupation and family details.

NIA arrested two suspects - Imran and Jenab - from Chandni Chowk area in Delhi along with a consignment of FICNs worth INR 985,000. Officials said the accused have direct links with their coordinators in Pakistan, where these notes were printed before being pumped into India via conduits in Dubai.

A Delhi court put on trial CPI-Maoist politburo member Kobad Ghandy for alleged cheating, forgery and impersonation while discharging him on charges under stringent anti-terror law. The court, however, discharged Ghandy of the charges under the UAPA due to improper sanction from the authorities.

Assam and Arunachal Pradesh State Police have constituted a joint team to carry out anti-insurgency operations along the interstate border areas.

Maharashtra ATS has identified the man who planted the explosive at Dadar (Mumbai) on July 13, 2011, which killed one person and injured 10. The suspect is on the run in south India, sources said.

SOG, in numerous operations spread over 2011, confiscated FICN worth INR 10 million in Ahmadabad city.

About 20 Pakistanis were arrested for illegally entering the Indian territorial waters and their three boats were also seized by the Indian Coast Guard off the Okha Coast in Jamnagar District of Gujarat.

CID and Andhra Pradesh Police arrested a mastermind FICN racket, identified as Luftar Haque in Baishnabnagar village of Malda District of West Bengal.

Charges against one of the accused of Red Fort attack (December 22, 2000), LeT militant Athruddin alias Athar Ali, was dropped due to lack of evidence.

Two days after CPI-Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy was absolved of the terror charges under the UAPA for want of proper sanction, the special cell of Delhi Police have made a fresh plea to a Delhi court with a renewed sanction of his prosecution under the anti-terror law.

Central and State intelligence agencies have sent inputs to Police of eastern UP Districts that a few families are involved in circulation of FICNs. FICNs are being pumped to 40 Districts of UP from Indo-Nepal border.

Maharashtra Home Minister R. R. Patil told the State Assembly that terrorists had conducted a trial run at the Shrimant Dagadusheth Halwai Ganpati Temple in Pune three days prior to the German Bakery blast (February 13, 2010).

NSLA, an offshoot of Assam based APA has become active in Alipurduar Subdivision of Jalpaiguri District and Tufanganj area of Cooch Behar District in West Bengal. The group has influence among the plantation workers in different tea, gardens in Kokrajhar, Chirang and Udalguri Districts of Assam.

The Jharkhand and West Bengal Police launched a combing operation in East Singhbhum District on the border between two States on information that a Maoist squad was in the area.

India has agreed to a Paris-based FATF revised recommendation on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism that could have a bearing on its relations with Iran.

Fourteen Pakistanis, seven each aboard two fishing boats Al-Usmani and Al-Razzaq, were arrested by the Coast Guard for intruding into Indian territorial waters off the Okha coast in Jamnagar District of Gujarat.

Three suspected activists of SIMI, identified as Abu Faisal alias Doctor, local module chief, Ejajuddin and Ikrar Sheikh alias Guddu, were presented for identification by Bhopal Police at an Indore Court in connection with their arrest in 2006 at hotel Vaadi in Chhoti Gwaltoli Police Station area.

NIA disclosed that Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, particularly Indore, is a major transit point for converting FICN through labour contractors. Imran Manzoor and Jenab Hasan of Kairana in Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh, revealed this who were arrested by NIA near Chandini Chowk area in New Delhi on March 28 and FICN worth INR 985,000 were recovered from them.

Pune Police has served notices on cadres of the SIMI in Maharashtra, following a notification issued by the UAPA at New Delhi declaring SIMI as an unlawful association.

The Tamil Nadu Police denied as "totally baseless" a Sri Lankan media report that some 150 LTTE cadres were being trained in the State.

NIA arrested a 'captain' of UNLF, identified as Beckon alias Arnold, with relation to supply of arms for the outfit, from Siliguri in West Bengal.

Baljinder Singh, an under trial prisoner of BKI lodged in Tihar Jail managed to escape while he was on his way for a court hearing in Bhatinda in Punjab has 47 criminal cases, including of murder and robbery pending against him. Most of the criminal cases registered against him are in Punjab and the rest in Haryana and Delhi.

Arrested Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi's bail plea was rejected by a court in Delhi which noted that the case material submitted by the Delhi Police Special Cell showed prima facie that Kazmi "had a role to play" in the terror strike that left an Israeli diplomat seriously injured when a blast ripped through the car she was travelling in on February 13, 2012.

The collective leadership of NSCN-IM, Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, left Dimapur for New Delhi for another round of talks with the GoI on the peace process to find an amicable solution to the Naga issue.

The Union Government released an additional amount of INR 11.23 billion for constructing roads under a central scheme in Naxal-affected Districts in six States including West Bengal, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.

UHM P. Chidambaram said that Pakistan has enough evidence to detain 26/11 mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. "India had shared enough dossiers with Pakistan on JuD founder Hafiz Saeed's anti-India activities", Chidambaram said talking to reporters in New Delhi.

NIA raided an apartment at the Janakpuri area of New Delhi on the suspicion that Anti-Talks faction of ULFA-ATF 'publicity secretary' Arunoday Asom was in that apartment.

A trial court in Delhi extended the interim bail of a man who was arrested by Police on suspicion of being an ISI agent who had come to India with the motive to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

UMHA warned the Northeast States of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh about probable attacks by Anti-Talks Faction of ULFA-ATF around April 7.

PM Manmohan Singh said those unleashing terrorism against India should be punished. He was referring to the United State announcement of a USD10 million bounty for 26/11 (November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks) mastermind LeT chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed.

PM's special envoy, Satinder K Lamba, said that while India appreciated the efforts of the Bangladesh Government of taking actions against the elements inimical to India, there was a need to do more, including finalising the extradition treaty.

India has sent an arrest warrant for Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, arrested in connection with the attempted bombing in Bangkok (Thailand) on February 14, to Malaysian authorities requesting for his production before a Delhi court to unravel the conspiracy behind the attack on an Israeli diplomat's car in Delhi on February 13.

The recent arrest of a Vietnamese woman in possession of FICN worth INR 9.8 in Kathmandu (Nepal) on April 3 has become a cause for concern for Indian intelligence agencies, revealing that Pakistan is pumping in FICN through Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia rather than the traditional routes of Bangladesh and Dubai.

NIA has zeroed in on Pakistan's role behind the ploy to destabilize the Indian economy. It has also claimed that West Bengal is the main transit point of the FICN consignments.

Maharashtra's ATS denied reports that it had invoked the MCOCA against Naquee Ahmed Wasi Ahmed Sheikh, Nadeem Ahmed Ashfaq Sheikh, Haroon Rashid Naik and Delhi-based hawala operator Kanwar Nain Pathrija, arrested in connection with the July 13, 2011 triple bomb blasts case in Mumbai.

About 16.5 ton of ammonium nitrate was recovered in 330 bags, estimated to be INR 1.1 million by mining department officials from Pachna village in Shiekhpura District.

The judicial custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, suspected of involvement in the terror attack targeting an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi, has been extended up to April 21.

The Indian Navy is all set to commission its first UAV squadron on the East Coast at Uchipuli near Ramanathapuram soon.

One person, identified as Shiekh Zahidur Rahman, was arrested and remanded in Police custody till April 19 in connection with an explosion in the Metiabruz area in Kolkata which claimed two lives in the evening of April 8.

India is now deploying naval spy drones on the Tamil Nadu coast to detect terror as well as conventional threats emanating from sea in real-time. Earlier it was deployed in Kerala and Gujarat.

Nadeem Sheikh, one of the accused in the 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts made an application before the MCOCA court, seeking a retraction of his confession.

At least 40 crude bombs were recovered from a passenger train in Guntakal railway junction in Anantapur District.

Kamal Hassan alias Bilal (24), the suspected IM operative, allegedly involved in the blasts at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore during an IPL match in April 17, 2010, was arrested from Metiabruz-Garden rich area in Kolkata by a team Karnataka Police.

UHM P. Chidambaram said his ministry has suggested three amendments to the controversial AFSPA, and that these will be taken up for consideration by the CCS soon.

The Tiruppur North Police had taken into FICN worth INR 20,000 which was found along with the cash remittance made by a person at a private sector bank in Tiruppur District.

The Madras High Court reserved orders on petitions seeking of lifting the ban on LTTE in India.

Addressing the Coast Guard Investiture Ceremony at the Coast Guard District Headquarters in Fort Kochi, Defence Minister A K Antony said, "Peace and security have a direct relation with trade and economy.

Expired tank ammunition from a Central Ordnance Depot in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, has landed in the hands of Naxalites who are capable of recycling them for launching attacks on SFs.

MHA decided to set the NIA after Naxals to probe and dismantle their supply of weapons and communication devices.

The Indian Coast Guard commissioned its third coastal station in Lakshadweep and Minicoy islands, as part of its effort to strengthen coastal defence network and to tackle piracy.

Addressing at the inauguration of a modern ICP along the India-Pakistan border at Attari in Punjab, UHM P. Chidambaram vowed to stamp down heavily on those carrying FICN and indulge in smuggling of drugs from across the border.

A special MCOCA court granted permission to the NIA to question the four accused, arrested for their alleged role in the Mumbai blasts of July 13, 2011, in connection with the blast outside Delhi High Court in September, 2011.

Police unearthed a FICN manufacturing unit in Vijay Vihar Phase-II on the outskirts of New Delhi and arrested one 42-year-old woman, identified as Alka Grover. During the raid Police claimed to have recovered FICNs of more than INR 25,000 in various denominations. A desktop, a keyboard and a printer allegedly used to print the FICN were also recovered during the raid.

The BSF troopers shot dead an unidentified intruder along the India-Pakistan international border in the Dera Baba Nanak sector of Punjab, an unnamed official said. A pistol of Chinese make, eight cartridges and three SIM cards of Pakistani mobile companies were recovered from the intruder.

Raising concern over mounting casualties of SFs in the Naxal-hit areas, the UMHA has told States that the CPI-Maoist had not only retained their battle capabilities over the past few years but had also extensively militarized.

The Delhi Police told a court in New Delhi that a consignment of over INR 11.8 million FICN, seized by it in the month of January, had been sent from Pakistan at the behest of its intelligence agency and banned terror outfit LeT to destabilise the Indian economy.

India has sent a formal request to Morocco for examination and recording of statement of Faiza Outalha, estranged wife of Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, to get more evidence against him as well as LeT founder Hafiz Saeed.

The Punjab and Haryana HC directed Ambala sessions judge to conduct retrial of former Jagraon SSP Gurcharan Singh Pherurai and his brother Gurmail Singh in 2002 FICN seizure case, setting aside their acquittal orders and complete it within four months.

Riyaz Bhatkal, the founder of the terror group IM, allegedly obtained a passport under the alias of Shahrukh Khan from Ranchi on January 21, 2010, intelligence sources said.

Addressing at the annual conference of Chief Ministers on internal security in New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh favoured joint and coordinated efforts to deal with challenges of terrorism whatever its origin, whether internal or external.

Speaking at the Chief Ministers' conference on internal security in New Delhi, Uttarakhand CM Vijay Bahuguna said Chinese are disputing Indian territorial claims regarding Barahoti in Chamoli District. He said at least 37 incursions of Chinese forces have been reported during the last five years in Uttarakhand, which has a 350 kilometres long border with China.

India has asked Morocco to extradite Faiza Outalha, the estranged wife of LeT operative, David Coleman Headley, the mastermind of November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack, as she is believed to have information and answers to key questions related to the incident.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will revise the procedure for authentication of currency notes by banks before it goes to customers.

One more person, identified as Vinod alias Amit (33), was arrested at the instance of his woman accomplice, Alka Grover (42), who was arrested on April 13, in connection with the unearthing of a unit printing FICN in Vijay Vihar Phase-II on the outskirts of New Delhi.

The investigation into the 13/7 Mumbai triple blast case revealed that the two Pakistani bombers staying in Byculla's Habib Apartments used as many as 18 SIM cards and six handsets.

The key accused (Amir Abbas Dev) in the September 7, 2011, Delhi High Court blast is willing to turn approver and has sought the trial court's permission for it.

Credible information developed over the last few months by field operatives of Central intelligence agencies in the Northeast, Bangladesh and Burma has confirmed that the ULFA-ATF top 'commander' Paresh Baruah is now using his terror network to smuggle narcotics into India.

Security agencies believe that CPI-Maoist is making inroads into the North-East to gain access to the arms market in the neighbouring Yunan province of China and not with the aim of expanding their base.

MHA document says Maoists are working in close association with the PLA of Manipur, which also has a base in Myanmar.

Increased cooperation between India and the US on detection and tracking of FICN is likely with terror funding, cyber crime, intelligence sharing being discussed between Union Home Secretary R K Singh and US Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute in New DelhI.

According to a recent confidential Government report, four in every 1,000 currency notes in circulation in India are fake amounting to as much as INR 32 billion in 2010.

India requested the US to extradite Tahawwur Rana and grant it access for a second time to Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley, both of them jailed in America on terror charges.

A charge sheet filed by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police states that FICN worth INR 22.4 million, which were recovered from Dabri area of Southwest Delhi on January 12, 2012, had reached the city through the trade route on the Line of LoC in the Poonch sector of J&K.

A Delhi court acquitted a suspected LeT militant, identified as Mukhtar Ahmed Khan, arrested for allegedly planning to execute bomb blasts.

Khalil Ahmed, an aide of Dawood Ibrahim, was acquitted by the Delhi High Court in a case of alleged attempt to extort money from a businessman in Delhi.

The investigators feel that the attack on an Israeli diplomat, Tal Yehoshua Koren, on February 13, 2012, in New Delhi was carried out by Tevhid-Selam-Quds, an organization that is being handled out of Iran. The Central Forensic Science Laboratory has identified TNT as the explosive material used in the attack.

The Kalina FSL is short staffed, says report. This has caused problem and delay in the investigation and analysis of DNA samples in many important cases, including the 13/7 blasts case.

Police arrested former Congress Panchayat member Isha Hoque Ali from Dhulian ferryghat in Murshidabad District and seized FICN amounting to INR 200,000.

SFs arrested a person in an unspecified location on NH - 44 and recovered FICN with a face value of INR 11,000 from his possession.

UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said, that a regional centre of NIA will be opened soon in the State capital, Lucknow.

According to the Piracy Bill introduced in Parliament, pirates arrested by the Navy or the Coast Guard on the high seas or in India's EEZ, which stretches to 200 nautical miles from the coast, could face even the death penalty.

Two persons, identified as Jitendra Gupta and Imesh Yadav were arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch with FICN amounting to INR 4.854 million from Siddharth Nagar transit camp area in Goregaon (West) in Mumbai.

The Kashmir terror recruitment case involving LeT 'southern commandant', Thadiyantavide Nazeer, the Police arrested two militants, Shahraz and Muneer who "extorted money" from people to fight the case of the culprits in Puthiyatheru of Kannur District of Kerala.

A total of 137 people have been killed in 461 incidents of Naxal violence in 2012, MHA said.

A designated TADA Court in Jaipur, awarded 15 years of rigorous imprisonment to Pakistan-trained militant Jalees Ansari and 20 years rigorous imprisonment to his aide Abrar Rehmat Ansari in the 1993 tiffin box blasts case in Jaipur (September 30, 1992).

Airport customs officials of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai (Maharashtra) on arrested a naval captain of Saudi Arabia, identified as Mohammed Bandar (31) for smuggling in FICNs with a face value of INR 45,000.

Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said the UMHA had taken up the matter of the abduction of six construction workers from Mizoram by NLFT militants with the Bangladesh Home ministry.

The Rajya Sabha has been informed in a written reply by Minister of State for Home, Jitendra Singh that 458 lives were lost in terror attacks in Mumbai (Maharashtra) since 2000.

He Further said, NIA has filed a chargesheet against LeT operative David Coleman Headley along with nine others, including two officers of Pakistan, in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai attack case.

A total of 102 ceasefire violations along LoC in Jammu and Kashmir have taken place since 2010, the Government said.

Police arrested three youths from Chunnambuthara town in Palakkad District of Kerala with FICN of face value of INR 846,000 with 1000 and 500 denominations brought in a car from Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) to Thrissur.

The IB report establishes that Chinese intelligence units have been training, arming and funding the Maoists. It reveals how Maoists have been training in Nagaland, funded by the Chinese. The report reveals that China has been organising the Maoists and militant groups from J&K and the North East region into a single war-fighting machine to hit Indian states.

A total of 88 people were abducted and 11 of them killed in six of the CPI-Maoist affected States till April 17 this year, parliament was informed.

Six persons were injured when a crude bomb concealed in Kavilasi riverine area near Parsauni village of Madhubani District in Bihar.

India successfully launched RISAT-1.The satellite will allow India to monitor the troop movements or infiltration, terrorist organizations, which are operating from deeply forested areas.

DRI officers arrested a passenger who arrived by an Emirates flight from Dubai and seized FICN with face value of INR 4. Million from him at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).

A suspect, identified as Mehmood Khan, was arrested for circulating nine FICNs of INR 1000 denomination in Satha Bazaar area of Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

Government of India and NSCN-Khole-Kitovi signed a fresh cease-fire agreement in Delhi. NSCN-K said that it would not "continue bilateral cease-fire" with the Government of India at the "dictation" of MHA.

India has told Myanmar to ask NSCN-K to stop helping other Indian militant groups.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated that the perpetrators 26/11 terror attacks should be brought to justice. He also asked India and Pakistan to continue with their peace dialogue.

A joint ATS team comprising of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh Police arrested a SIMI cadre, identified as Anwar Hazi (40), in Indore (Madhya Pradesh).

Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal N.A.K Browne.

DRI has got information regarding Pakistan intelligence agencies smuggling FICN from Dubai and Middle East into Andhra Pradesh.

Kerala Government wants the ban on SIMI to continue in the context of its continued presence in the State despite the ban.

The Maharashtra Government urged the UN for an early adoption of the draft CCIT.

India and Afghanistan are looking to revamp their intelligence sharing system after the recent multiple strikes by Taliban in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan on April 15, 2012.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Uttar Pradesh Police intercepted and detained 40 persons including 11 males, seven females and 22 children while entering into India from Nepal at the Sonauli border in Maharajganj District.

A Pakistani intruder was shot dead by women constables of BSF near Dera Baba Nanak Sector in Gurdaspur District of Punjab.

The MHA named Maharashtra based Khair-e-Ummat Trust as one of the fronts/pseudonymous organisations of SIMI.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that law enforcement agencies need to quickly scale up capacity to fight cyber crime as dimensions of security problem increase manifold in the online space.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said NCTC would have helped in dealing with the recent hostage situations.