Counter Terrorism Laws

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

A BJP minister in Madhya Pradesh has alleged that madrasas or Islamic educational institutions are the breeding ground of fundamentalism and terrorism in the country.

The US has commented on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation move, saying that while one of the purposes cited by him was to counter terrorist activity funded by counterfeit currency, India has yet to implement laws effectively on criminal convictions or take steps to ensure companies are adhering to anti-money laundering rules.

Two men were arrested in Australia Thursday on suspicion of breaching the country's foreign fighter laws, with one to be charged with joining the Al-Nusra Front in Syria.

Five Taliban militants who were plotting to attack government installations and personnel of law enforcement agencies have been killed in an encounter by security forces in Pakistan's Punjab province.

China adopted its first counter-terrorism law today after early drafts of the bill attracted strong criticism for provisions that may tighten media controls and threaten the intellectual property of foreign firms.

Muslim-majority Malaysia will soon introduce a new anti-terrorism law to counter a potential security threat from supporters of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday.

Australia plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counter terrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic extremists

Chief Ministers from across the country are meeting for a conference on internal security in the national capital today. At the meeting, the government is attempting to hard sell a diluted version of the proposed anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC.

Even before the Prime Minister could attempt a hardsell of the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, in a new diluted version, at a chief ministers' meet in the capital today, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi made it clear that it was still not acceptable.

Days ahead of the chief ministers meet on National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), key UPA allies, like Trinamool Congress and DMK, have demanded wider consultations on the issue saying the move could infringe upon rights of states to deal with law and order problem. The demand comes ahead of the meeting of chief ministers on the issue with Centre...

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday sought urgent consultations between the centre and the states over issues like the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying any delay in this regard would affect handling of law and order problems.

US law enforcement and counter terrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance of recent occurrences on websites believed to have close links to Al Qaeda, including a graphic some fear could be an attack threat directed at New York City.

Home Minister P Chidambaram has defended the contentious new anti-terror agency that has pitted the centre against state governments. Non-Congress states say that the National Counter Terrorism Centre in its current form encroaches upon law and order, which is the turf of state governments.

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

A BJP minister in Madhya Pradesh has alleged that madrasas or Islamic educational institutions are the breeding ground of fundamentalism and terrorism in the country.

The US has commented on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation move, saying that while one of the purposes cited by him was to counter terrorist activity funded by counterfeit currency, India has yet to implement laws effectively on criminal convictions or take steps to ensure companies are adhering to anti-money laundering rules.

Two men were arrested in Australia Thursday on suspicion of breaching the country's foreign fighter laws, with one to be charged with joining the Al-Nusra Front in Syria.

Five Taliban militants who were plotting to attack government installations and personnel of law enforcement agencies have been killed in an encounter by security forces in Pakistan's Punjab province.

China adopted its first counter-terrorism law today after early drafts of the bill attracted strong criticism for provisions that may tighten media controls and threaten the intellectual property of foreign firms.

Muslim-majority Malaysia will soon introduce a new anti-terrorism law to counter a potential security threat from supporters of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday.

Australia plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counter terrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic extremists

Chief Ministers from across the country are meeting for a conference on internal security in the national capital today. At the meeting, the government is attempting to hard sell a diluted version of the proposed anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC.

Even before the Prime Minister could attempt a hardsell of the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, in a new diluted version, at a chief ministers' meet in the capital today, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi made it clear that it was still not acceptable.

Days ahead of the chief ministers meet on National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), key UPA allies, like Trinamool Congress and DMK, have demanded wider consultations on the issue saying the move could infringe upon rights of states to deal with law and order problem. The demand comes ahead of the meeting of chief ministers on the issue with Centre...

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday sought urgent consultations between the centre and the states over issues like the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying any delay in this regard would affect handling of law and order problems.

US law enforcement and counter terrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance of recent occurrences on websites believed to have close links to Al Qaeda, including a graphic some fear could be an attack threat directed at New York City.

Home Minister P Chidambaram has defended the contentious new anti-terror agency that has pitted the centre against state governments. Non-Congress states say that the National Counter Terrorism Centre in its current form encroaches upon law and order, which is the turf of state governments.