Islamic Movement Of India

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said the Popular Front of India (PFI), a proscribed terrorist organisation, was working to create an Islamic movement in India through a "jihad" that included non-violent air raids.

A judicial tribunal has confirmed the five-year extension of the ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), saying the outfit has not abandoned its objective of 'Jehaad' for the cause of Islam.

The Centre on Monday gave powers to all states and Union Territories to declare the terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned organisation under the anti-terror law UAPA.

Underlining zero tolerance against terrorism, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday announced that the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has been declared an "unlawful association" and the ban on it has been extended by another five years.

The central government filed a counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court justifying its eighth successive ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as an 'unlawful association'.

Meghalaya is keeping a close watch on various movements in the state after neighbouring Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said "Assam is becoming a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists".

The judge who ordered a video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complexin Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi told authorities on Tuesday that he had received a "threat letter", purportedly from "an organisation called Islamic Aagaz Movement".

CBSE dropped chapters about Democracy and Diversity, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, rise of Islamic empires, chronicles of Mughal courts and the Industrial Revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

A court in Gujarat's Surat on Saturday acquitted 122 persons arrested under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for participating in a meeting organised in Surat in December 2001 as members of the banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

A terrorist of the Students' Islamic Movement of India who had been on the run for the last 19 years has been arrested, the Delhi Police said in a statement. The 58-year-old accused, Abdullah Danish, was "one of the most elusive members" of the terrorist group SIMI and was wanted for sedition in the national capital, said senior police officer of t...

An alleged member of the banned organisation Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), wanted in a 2006 case of arms seizure in Maharashtra, was arrested from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, the police said.

Shawkat Ali Thokan, an Indian-origin man considered the pioneer of the Islamic movement in South Africa, died on Wednesday following a lengthy illness. He was 81.

The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was involved in a series of terror acts in the country, has been banned by the government for five years as it continues to indulge in subversive activities.

Situation in Pakistan returned to normalcy on Saturday as the massive countrywide protests led by hundreds of radical Islamist hardliners against the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case came to a halt following a deal with the government. Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting ...

Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said the Popular Front of India (PFI), a proscribed terrorist organisation, was working to create an Islamic movement in India through a "jihad" that included non-violent air raids.

A judicial tribunal has confirmed the five-year extension of the ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), saying the outfit has not abandoned its objective of 'Jehaad' for the cause of Islam.

The Centre on Monday gave powers to all states and Union Territories to declare the terrorist group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) a banned organisation under the anti-terror law UAPA.

Underlining zero tolerance against terrorism, Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday announced that the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has been declared an "unlawful association" and the ban on it has been extended by another five years.

The central government filed a counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court justifying its eighth successive ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) as an 'unlawful association'.

Meghalaya is keeping a close watch on various movements in the state after neighbouring Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said "Assam is becoming a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists".

The judge who ordered a video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque complexin Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi told authorities on Tuesday that he had received a "threat letter", purportedly from "an organisation called Islamic Aagaz Movement".

CBSE dropped chapters about Democracy and Diversity, Non-Aligned Movement, Cold War, rise of Islamic empires, chronicles of Mughal courts and the Industrial Revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.

A court in Gujarat's Surat on Saturday acquitted 122 persons arrested under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for participating in a meeting organised in Surat in December 2001 as members of the banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

A terrorist of the Students' Islamic Movement of India who had been on the run for the last 19 years has been arrested, the Delhi Police said in a statement. The 58-year-old accused, Abdullah Danish, was "one of the most elusive members" of the terrorist group SIMI and was wanted for sedition in the national capital, said senior police officer of t...

An alleged member of the banned organisation Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), wanted in a 2006 case of arms seizure in Maharashtra, was arrested from Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, the police said.

Shawkat Ali Thokan, an Indian-origin man considered the pioneer of the Islamic movement in South Africa, died on Wednesday following a lengthy illness. He was 81.

The Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which was involved in a series of terror acts in the country, has been banned by the government for five years as it continues to indulge in subversive activities.

Situation in Pakistan returned to normalcy on Saturday as the massive countrywide protests led by hundreds of radical Islamist hardliners against the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case came to a halt following a deal with the government. Asia Bibi, a 47-year-old mother of four, was convicted in 2010 after being accused of insulting ...

Eighteen people have been convicted for running an arms training camp of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI in December 2007 in Kerala. Seventeen others have been acquitted. A special court of the National Investigation Agency will announce the sentencing tomorrow