Rapid Action Battalion

Nearly five years after the Centre approved a new battalion of the CRPF's anti-riot unit RAF to be based in Nuh, the Haryana government finally sanctioned land for it at a time the district witnessed communal clashes, sources said on Wednesday.

For the first time in 35 years, since the first women's battalion was raised in the Central Reserve Police Force, Annie Abraham has been appointed as the IG of Rapid Action Force, while Seema Dhundia has been promoted as IG of the Bihar Sector

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will lay the foundation stone of a new battalion campus of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Karnataka's Shivamogga district on Saturday, officials said.

Bangladesh police Sunday arrested a suspected terrorist from the border district of Ukhia, near camps where thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have taken shelter.

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

At least four women terrorists of the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen were arrested today in Bangladesh, weeks after similar arrests were made here as part of nation-wide crackdown following the country's worst terror attack on an upscale cafe.

Bangladesh today ordered all educational institutions to notify authorities about students who have been absent for over 10 straight days following reports that some of the terrorists who carried out recent terror attacks were students who had been missing for months.

Bangladesh security forces today arrested three suspects wanted over the murder of a Japanese farmer who was shot dead last month in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Three persons have been arrested in Dhaka for the murder of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, the two secular bloggers who were brutally murdered in Bangladesh earlier this year.

Bangladesh's elite security force Tuesday arrested three suspected Islamist militants including a British citizen who police said was the "main planner" of the murders of two prominent atheist bloggers.

Bangladesh police said Thursday they had arrested 12 suspected militants including the local head of Al-Qaeda's branch in the region, foiling an attack planned for the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Bangladeshi special forces today raided a militant hideout in the southeast town of Chittagong, arrested four suspects and seized explosives and weapons, force commanders said.

Bangladesh's elite counter-terrorist force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested five members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir from Dhaka, a day after the army said it had foiled a coup attempt. Sources said that one of the main plotters has been identified as Major Zia-ul-Haq who's linked to the extremist religious group.

Nearly five years after the Centre approved a new battalion of the CRPF's anti-riot unit RAF to be based in Nuh, the Haryana government finally sanctioned land for it at a time the district witnessed communal clashes, sources said on Wednesday.

For the first time in 35 years, since the first women's battalion was raised in the Central Reserve Police Force, Annie Abraham has been appointed as the IG of Rapid Action Force, while Seema Dhundia has been promoted as IG of the Bihar Sector

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will lay the foundation stone of a new battalion campus of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) in Karnataka's Shivamogga district on Saturday, officials said.

Bangladesh police Sunday arrested a suspected terrorist from the border district of Ukhia, near camps where thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar have taken shelter.

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

At least four women terrorists of the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen were arrested today in Bangladesh, weeks after similar arrests were made here as part of nation-wide crackdown following the country's worst terror attack on an upscale cafe.

Bangladesh today ordered all educational institutions to notify authorities about students who have been absent for over 10 straight days following reports that some of the terrorists who carried out recent terror attacks were students who had been missing for months.

Bangladesh security forces today arrested three suspects wanted over the murder of a Japanese farmer who was shot dead last month in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.

Three persons have been arrested in Dhaka for the murder of Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, the two secular bloggers who were brutally murdered in Bangladesh earlier this year.

Bangladesh's elite security force Tuesday arrested three suspected Islamist militants including a British citizen who police said was the "main planner" of the murders of two prominent atheist bloggers.

Bangladesh police said Thursday they had arrested 12 suspected militants including the local head of Al-Qaeda's branch in the region, foiling an attack planned for the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Bangladeshi special forces today raided a militant hideout in the southeast town of Chittagong, arrested four suspects and seized explosives and weapons, force commanders said.

Bangladesh's elite counter-terrorist force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday arrested five members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir from Dhaka, a day after the army said it had foiled a coup attempt. Sources said that one of the main plotters has been identified as Major Zia-ul-Haq who's linked to the extremist religious group.