However, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said, no major terror attack took place in the hinterland of the country between August 5, 2019 and March 10, 2020.
The NIA arrested Tariq Ahmed Shah and his daughter Insha Jan after investigation led to their house at Hakripora in Pulwama district of south Kashmir
A realistic assessment will tell us that not much has changed between India and Pakistan since Balakot; the relationship remains as fraught as before with little prospect of reconciliation
India's approach in dealing with terrorism has undergone a major change as its armed forces now do not hesitate to cross the border to protect the country against the menace, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on the first anniversary of the Balakot air strike. A fleet of Indian Air Force aircraft had bombed a terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26 last year to avenge the killing of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in the Pulwama terror attack on February 14. "I thank the Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi for bringing change in India's approach against terrorism & our ways to counter terror. "The Surgical Strikes of 2016 and Balakote Air Strikes of 2019 are testimony to this change. This is certainly a New and Confident India in making," Singh said in a series of tweets.
The arrest was made two days ago. This was the sixth arrest in the matter
Gandhi asked who in the BJP government had been held accountable for the security lapses that allowed the attack
He said that the entire country stands united against terrorism and 'everyone is committed to continue fight against this menace'
Modi described the CRPF personnel as 'exceptional individuals' who devoted their lives by serving the country
Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after the convoy of 78 buses, in which around 2500 CRPF personnel were travelling from Jammu to Srinagar, came under attack
DSP Davinder Singh was caught transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists and a overground worker
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Jaishankar said the very structure of international order was undergoing a profound transformation.
The IAF had conducted air strikes in Pakistan's Balakot in February, days after the Pulwama terror attack on a CRPF convoy in which 40 personnel were killed
It was a fairly new modus operandi where terrorists across the border were using a 'virtual SIM', generated by a service provider in the United States
Opposition insults our forces time and again, said Modi
Pakistan has frozen the assets of some terrorist groups and made some arrests. They have taken administrative control of some of the JeM facilities
The country has not forgotten and will not forget the terror attack, Doval said
Masood Azhar arrived from Dhaka, and when questioned by immigration that he didn't look like a Portuguese referring to his passport, he claimed he was a Gujarati by birth
Citing the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama where 40 CRPF soldiers were killed, the defence lab said the medicines could have brought down the death toll
Singh spoke about the 2016 surgical strike after the Uri terror attack and the air strike after the Pulwama incident, but he did not say anything about the third