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Swami Aseemanand, the saffron-robed monk with many aliases and links to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is now a free man. A special court in Haryana's Panchkula on Wednesday let him off in the 2007 Samjhauta train bombing case, making it his third acquittal in a terror case in two years.

As Union Home Secretary, RK Singh had famously backed up the previous UPA government when it had spoken about involvement of right-wing extremist groups in 2013. For five years, Power Minister RK Singh, who joined the BJP right after his retirement, was seen to evade questions on the controversial statement linking Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or ...

Swami Aseemanand has denied telling the Caravan newsmagazine that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS had sanctioned several recent terror attacks. NDTV has accessed a handwritten letter by the Swami, in which he calls the magazine report "fabricated" and threatens legal action. The magazine says it stands by the report.

A mob allegedly of Shiv Sena activists today vandalised the office of the Caravan newsmagazine, which has claimed that it was told about the alleged involvement of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS in several terror attacks by a man jailed for those attacks, Swami Aseemanand.

Some of the worst recent terror attacks in India, which collectively killed more than 100 people, were allegedly sanctioned by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS - this is what Swami Aseemanand, imprisoned for those attacks, has reportedly revealed to the Caravan, a newsmagazine. The RSS, which is the ideological parent of the main opposition ...

According to reports by Caravan Magazine, Aseemanand, a key accused in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case, has claimed that the Malegaon, Ajmer and Samjhauta Express attacks were sanctioned by the RSS top brass, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat. No prominent RSS leader has been named in the chargesheet of the Natoinal Investigating Ageny so far. The...

Some of the worst recent terror attacks in India, which collectively killed more than 100 people, were allegedly sanctioned by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS - this is what Swami Aseemanand, imprisoned on charges of facilitating those attacks, has reportedly revealed to the Caravan, a newsmagazine.

Aseemanand, a key accused in several terror attacks between 2006 and 2008, has alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS sanctioned these strikes, the Caravan magazine says.

Bharat Bhai, a key accused in the Ajmer blast case who was arrested from Gujarat last week, has told the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that RSS leader Indresh Kumar was the mastermind behind the murder of RSS functionary Sunil Joshi. In his confessional statement given to an Ajmer court, he said that RSS pracharak from Madhya Pradesh, Sunil ...

Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it found "intriguing" that only those persons arrested for alleged links to Hindu radicalism were "confessing" to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more "tight-lipped" with them."...Intriguing t...

In a major setback to the RSS, terror-accused Aseemanand has stuck to his confession. The RSS had tried to junk Aseemanand's earlier confession before a magistrate saying he was coerced, but on Saturday Assemanand stuck to his confession that Hindutva radicals were behind the bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express in 2007 which killed 68.In a stateme...

Pakistan today asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand's confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack.India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (Sout...

Muslim intellectuals asked the Maharashtra government to free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand. Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional statement before a magistrate said that he along with ot...

The RSS on Saturday sent a legal notice to the CBI, accusing it of "deliberately leaking" to the media the reported confession of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.The notice termed the leakage of Aseemanand's statement as a "politically motivated" and calculated move to "jeopardise" his reputati...

Swami Aseemanand, the saffron-robed monk with many aliases and links to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is now a free man. A special court in Haryana's Panchkula on Wednesday let him off in the 2007 Samjhauta train bombing case, making it his third acquittal in a terror case in two years.

As Union Home Secretary, RK Singh had famously backed up the previous UPA government when it had spoken about involvement of right-wing extremist groups in 2013. For five years, Power Minister RK Singh, who joined the BJP right after his retirement, was seen to evade questions on the controversial statement linking Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or ...

Swami Aseemanand has denied telling the Caravan newsmagazine that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS had sanctioned several recent terror attacks. NDTV has accessed a handwritten letter by the Swami, in which he calls the magazine report "fabricated" and threatens legal action. The magazine says it stands by the report.

A mob allegedly of Shiv Sena activists today vandalised the office of the Caravan newsmagazine, which has claimed that it was told about the alleged involvement of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS in several terror attacks by a man jailed for those attacks, Swami Aseemanand.

Some of the worst recent terror attacks in India, which collectively killed more than 100 people, were allegedly sanctioned by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS - this is what Swami Aseemanand, imprisoned for those attacks, has reportedly revealed to the Caravan, a newsmagazine. The RSS, which is the ideological parent of the main opposition ...

According to reports by Caravan Magazine, Aseemanand, a key accused in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case, has claimed that the Malegaon, Ajmer and Samjhauta Express attacks were sanctioned by the RSS top brass, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat. No prominent RSS leader has been named in the chargesheet of the Natoinal Investigating Ageny so far. The...

Some of the worst recent terror attacks in India, which collectively killed more than 100 people, were allegedly sanctioned by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh or RSS - this is what Swami Aseemanand, imprisoned on charges of facilitating those attacks, has reportedly revealed to the Caravan, a newsmagazine.

Aseemanand, a key accused in several terror attacks between 2006 and 2008, has alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS sanctioned these strikes, the Caravan magazine says.

Bharat Bhai, a key accused in the Ajmer blast case who was arrested from Gujarat last week, has told the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that RSS leader Indresh Kumar was the mastermind behind the murder of RSS functionary Sunil Joshi. In his confessional statement given to an Ajmer court, he said that RSS pracharak from Madhya Pradesh, Sunil ...

Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it found "intriguing" that only those persons arrested for alleged links to Hindu radicalism were "confessing" to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more "tight-lipped" with them."...Intriguing t...

In a major setback to the RSS, terror-accused Aseemanand has stuck to his confession. The RSS had tried to junk Aseemanand's earlier confession before a magistrate saying he was coerced, but on Saturday Assemanand stuck to his confession that Hindutva radicals were behind the bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express in 2007 which killed 68.In a stateme...

Pakistan today asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand's confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack.India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (Sout...

Muslim intellectuals asked the Maharashtra government to free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand. Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional statement before a magistrate said that he along with ot...

The RSS on Saturday sent a legal notice to the CBI, accusing it of "deliberately leaking" to the media the reported confession of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.The notice termed the leakage of Aseemanand's statement as a "politically motivated" and calculated move to "jeopardise" his reputati...