Two suspected Islamic State (IS) militants hailing from Jammu and Kashmir were arrested in the Capital, police said on Friday. Two pistols and 10 cartridges were seized from them.


Two Kashmiri Islamic State militants held, 2 pistols seized


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Two suspected Islamic State (IS) militants hailing from Jammu and Kashmir have been arrested from here, police said on Friday.


Two Kashmiri Islamic State militants arrested in Delhi


A Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suspect attempted suicide on Thursday in police custody in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.


JeM suspect attempts suicide in police custody


Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the government will soon frame and implement a drone policy and go for a technological upgradation to monitor terrorist activities, specially in Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and Assam.


Government to put in place drone policy soon: Rajnath


Political party leaders in Tamil Nadu on Thursday welcomed a Supreme Court order asking the Governor to decide on the mercy petition of A.G. Perarivalan, serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.


Tamil Nadu political leaders welcome SC order on Rajiv Gandhi killer


The Jharkhand Police in a joint operation with the Central Reserve Police Force on Thursday recovered 33 improvised explosive devices (IED) in Giridih district.


33 IEDs recovered in Jharkhand


India and the US on Thursday told Pakistan not to let its soil be used by terrorists to carry out cross-border terror attacks while demanding that the perpetrators of earlier terror attacks be expeditiously brought to justice.


Stop terror attacks from your soil: India, US to Pakistan


The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Tamil Nadu Governor to consider the mercy petition of A.G. Perarivalan, who is serving a life term in the 1991 Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.


Consider mercy plea of Rajiv Gandhi's killer, SC tells TN Governor


The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong objection to the Maharashtra Police casting aspersions on its order placing five human rights activists under house arrest and told the Maharashtra government to discipline the police officers.


Maharashtra Police flayed for casting aspersions on SC


The death toll in a double suicide bombing, claimed by the Islamic State terror group, at a wrestling club in the Afghan capital has risen to 25, a police spokesman said on Thursday.


Death toll in Kabul blasts rises to 25


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on said Thursday the 2+2 talks with India would focus on jointly tackling terrorism and enhancing trade, energy and economic cooperation between the two strategic partners.


Trade, energy, terrorism focus of India-US talks: Pompeo


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Pakistan on Thursday to take decisive measures against terrorists threatening regional peace.


Pompeo tells Pak to act against terrorists threatening regional security


The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that five rights activists, who have been kept under house arrest, belong to banned terrorist outfit Communist Party of India (Maoist) and are engaged in planning and execution of large-scale violence, having the potential of destabilizing the society.


Rights activists under house arrest belong to terror outfit, Maharashtra police tells SC


Insurgents ambushed a column of Assam Rifles in Manipur's Chandel district on Wednesday but there were no casualties, police said.


Assam Rifles ambushed in Manipur


Security forces launched a cordon and search operation on Wednesday in a forested area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district.


Search operation launched in Baramulla


Four Russian jets have bombed positions of Nusra Front in Syria's Idlib province, Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.


Russian warplanes hit positions of Nusra Front in Syria


Israel closed a border crossing to the Gaza Strip except for humanitarian cases on Wednesday in response to violence a day earlier.


Israel closes route to Gaza after violence


A district police chief was killed following a bomb attack by the Taliban in Afghanistan's Badghis province, police said on Wednesday.


Police chief killed in Afghan bomb attack


More than 200,000 Afghans have been internally displaced by conflict in the first seven months of 2018, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.


Over 200,000 Afghans displaced in 7 months: UN agency


The army on Wednesday said it has killed an infiltrator on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.


Infiltrator killed on LoC: Army


Militants attacked a patrol party of the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday, police said.

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