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Hunja

Vicky Nanjappa One of my most favourite places in Chamarajpet, Bengaluru was Hunja. My friend and I would make it a point to visit that place every Saturday night and have a rumali roti, kebab and 7 up. It used to be my chief’s off-day and I was in charge of the city desk. Well churning out stories on a Saturday was never easy and the office had extremely skeletal staff. My day would begin on a…

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Into the hills after my last dance: Part 1

Vicky Nanjappa It has been 26 long years in the profession which was for me a passion. I always told youngsters, ‘ do journalism as a passion and never as a job.’ Well then what happens when the profession does not excite you anymore. You wander in the hills. As a cub reporter when I came to Bengaluru, I remember me talking to my chief reporter at a news paper called Vijay Times. I would be…

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How NIA is cracking down on the Pune Islamic State module

Vicky Nanjappa The National Investigation Agency is investigating a case relating to a module of the Islamic State in Pune.  During the course of the investigation the NIA has seized a host of incriminating material which exposes the banned terror outfit’s conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country, the NIA said. Last month the central agency had arrested one Shamil Saqib…

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Power bills more than salaries: Why Pakistan occupied Kashmir is burning 

Vicky Nanjappa There is trouble in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and this time it os over high electricity charges. In major towns protests have been spreading unabated and have also taken a violent turn. On the social media, upset citizens have called for a civil disobedience movement. Further more videos of announcements being made on the loud speakers in Mosques, urging citizens not to pay…

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In Islamic State conspiracy case, NIA nets two

Vicky Nanjappa The National Investigation Agency has arrested two persons from Rajasthan in connection with a terror conspiracy case.  The duo who are linked to the Islamic State were produced before a court of the NIA in Jaipur. The NIA said that the two arrested included the kingpin in the case. The cases dating back to 2022 relates to the seizure of explosives and IED material from…

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Nepal national sentenced to 7 years in jail in fake currency case

Vicky Nanjappa The drive against fake currency continues and a Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sentenced a Nepalese resident to seven years in jail. The convict Abi Mohammad Ansari hailing from Nepal’s Bara district apart from being sentenced to seven years in jail has also been fined Rs 5,000.  He is the second accused to be convicted in the case relating to the…

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Illegal Bangladeshis, LTTE revival are South India’s biggest headaches today

Vicky Nanjappa There has been a rise in the number of Bangladeshis living illegally in India. In the past couple of weeks several cases have emerged regarding the issue. On one hand, the National investigation Agency is looking for Bangladeshi nationals working in and around Bellandur in Karnataka, while on the other the agencies have begun a probe into various cases of fake passports. Very…

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Terrorists being re-cycled in India as old timers come together to form new group

Vicky Nanjappa The Popular Front of India was banned last year. Before that there were bans on the Indian Mujahideen and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).  Now there has been a rise in the activities of the Islamic State, which is trying to fill in the space of these terror groups. However the investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that all these…

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