In the wake of growing international pressure on Pakistan to act against money laundering and terrorism financing, Pakistani authorities announced that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and his 12 accomplices have been booked for financing terror.
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The heavy security measures undertaken for the annual Amarnath yatra, which commenced earlier this week in Jammu & Kashmir, have drew criticism from the locals for the inconvenience they are facing in their daily lives.
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India, while referring to the sanctions announced against Russia by the US and mounting pressure to drop the S-400 Triumf missile-defence deal with Russia, has clarified that it was a sovereign decision based on the entire spectrum of security challenges the country is facing.
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Two days after the vandalism of a Durga temple in Lal Kuwan area of Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar, the Delhi Police have arrested a total of four people. A juvenile has also been detained in the case.
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In a major breakthrough, the customs department has seized 532kg of suspected heroin and 52kg of suspected mixed narcotics worth ₹2,700 crore that was smuggled in to India from Pakistan in a truck through Attari border trade route in Punjab.
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A Muslim man suspected of stealing a bike was tied to a pole, made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and brutally beaten for hours by a mob in Jharkhand’s Seraikela Kharsawan district last week. The man, Tabrez Ansari, 22, died of his injuries later.
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The CBI has registered a case against unknown officials of the Air Force, defence ministry, businessman Sanjay Bhandari, and Switzerland-based company Pilatus Aircraft Ltd over charges of irregularities and corruption in procurement of 75 basic trainer aircraft in 2009.
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India is expecting the Pakistani government to fully comply with the action plan set out by global body Financial Action Task Force by September 2019, which is less than three months from now, to show progress on curbing terror financing.
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The US state department, in its annual 2018 International Religious Freedom Report, alleged that mob attacks against minority communities by Hindu extremist groups continue in India.
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Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced a new bill to make the practice of triple talaq or instant divorce, practiced in the Muslim community, illegal, in the Lok Sabha saying rights of Muslim women will be protected.
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