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The United States warned Russian authorities earlier in March about a terrorist attack possibly targeting "large gatherings" in Moscow, the White House said Friday.

Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), named after an old term for the region that included parts of Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and quickly established a reputation for extreme brutality.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said that AIADMK candidates are ISI certified whereas Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidates are "duplicate".

India has said the presence of terrorist elements like ISIS and Al Qaeda in parts of Yemen and their continued attacks on civilian population needs to be addressed, stressing that the international community must unite to fight the "dark forces of terror" globally and hold those who support and shelter such terror groups accountable.

Under fire from the opposition over the centre's handling of the abduction of 39 Indians by the ISIS in Iraq in 2014, Union minister V K Singh today said the government was looking for proof of life in a war-torn country and it was "always the easier choice" to have declared them dead.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh raised hackles in Telangana today with a series of controversial tweets that accused the state police of setting up a bogus ISIS site to trap young Muslim men. He questioned if the move was ethical and moral and even invoked chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, asking him to step down if he authorized the move....

German federal prosecutors said on Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for the ISIS terrorist group.

The White House announced changes to the US visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.

It was only weeks ago after the Indian embassy in Kabul was bombed that National Security Advisor M K Narayanan blamed the ISI and said it should be destroyed.

The United States warned Russian authorities earlier in March about a terrorist attack possibly targeting "large gatherings" in Moscow, the White House said Friday.

Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), named after an old term for the region that included parts of Iran, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and quickly established a reputation for extreme brutality.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said that AIADMK candidates are ISI certified whereas Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidates are "duplicate".

India has said the presence of terrorist elements like ISIS and Al Qaeda in parts of Yemen and their continued attacks on civilian population needs to be addressed, stressing that the international community must unite to fight the "dark forces of terror" globally and hold those who support and shelter such terror groups accountable.

Under fire from the opposition over the centre's handling of the abduction of 39 Indians by the ISIS in Iraq in 2014, Union minister V K Singh today said the government was looking for proof of life in a war-torn country and it was "always the easier choice" to have declared them dead.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh raised hackles in Telangana today with a series of controversial tweets that accused the state police of setting up a bogus ISIS site to trap young Muslim men. He questioned if the move was ethical and moral and even invoked chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, asking him to step down if he authorized the move....

German federal prosecutors said on Monday they had brought charges against a 16-year-old girl who allegedly stabbed a policeman in February in an operation for the ISIS terrorist group.

The White House announced changes to the US visa waiver programme on Monday so that security officials can more closely screen travellers from 38 countries allowed to enter the United States without obtaining visas before they travel.

It was only weeks ago after the Indian embassy in Kabul was bombed that National Security Advisor M K Narayanan blamed the ISI and said it should be destroyed.