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Mahender Singh Manral

New Delhi

Assistant Editor at The Indian Express

works with @IndianExpress. RTs not endorsements.Tweets without @IndianExpress tag are personal. Formerly with @mail_today, @TheDailyPioneer & @TheStatesmanLtd.

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  • 1 day ago | indianexpress.com | Mahender Singh Manral

    A day after at least 25 tourists and a Valley resident were shot dead at a meadow near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, one of the attackers has been identified as Adil, a local overground worker who recently came back from Pakistan and was spotted by the locals, a source in a central agency said on Wednesday. Another local attacker was also identified, but central agencies are trying to get some more clarity with the help of local police, the source added.

  • 1 day ago | indianexpress.com | Mahender Singh Manral

    In the wake of the terrorist attack on tourists at Baisaran, an off-the-road meadow, in South Kashmir’s Pahalgam Tuesday, in which at least 26 people were killed and several others injured, The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, claimed responsibility for the strike, according to sources in the central agencies.

  • 2 days ago | indianexpress.com | Mahender Singh Manral

    A preliminary investigation into the deadly attack on tourists near Pahalgam has revealed that at least four terrorists, clad in camouflage outfits, came to the Baisaran meadow and opened fire with American-made M4 carbine assault rifles and AK-47s. Some 50-70 used cartridges had been recovered from the incident site until Tuesday evening. It is learnt that the Centre plans to hand over the investigation from J&K Police to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

  • 2 days ago | indianexpress.com | Mahender Singh Manral

    The Union Home Ministry has asked the police to downgrade the security of former Delhi chief minister Atishi from ‘Z’ category to ‘Y’ category. In March – a month after the defeat of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi elections – the security unit of the Delhi Police had asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) whether his ‘Z-plus’ security cover should be continued or scaled down.

  • 3 days ago | indianexpress.com | Mahender Singh Manral

    DELHI POLICE will soon knock on your doors if anyone at home has dropped out of a government-run school in the city. The Delhi government has directed the Education Department to prepare a standard operating procedure (SOP) to enable automatic sharing of data on school dropouts with Delhi Police every six months. Once the data is shared, a senior officer said, police will scrutinise it and find out why a student has dropped out of school. After that the local police will meet the dropout.

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Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral
10 Apr 25

Patiala House Court https://t.co/kmt1i1SQRQ

Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral

#UPDATE: A team of NIA left for Patiala House court from IGI airport. Going to produce Tahhawwur Rana before the court.

Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral
10 Apr 25

#UPDATE: A team of NIA left for Patiala House court from IGI airport. Going to produce Tahhawwur Rana before the court.

Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral

#UPDATE: The National Investigation Agency on Thursday evening formally arrested Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the key conspirator in the deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, immediately after his arrival at IGI airport following his successful extradition from the US: NIA.@IndianExpress https://t.co/JBgnYePEHF

Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral
10 Apr 25

First reported on October 22, 2024: Indicating that the extradition of Tahawwur Rana, could be imminent, the Indian government has started making preparations for him to be handed over by the United States. https://t.co/23OhZm3D9E

Mahender Singh Manral
Mahender Singh Manral @mahendermanral

Indicating that the extradition of Canadian-Pakistani citizen Tahawwur Rana, key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, could be imminent, Indian government has started making preparations for him to be handed over by the US - by the second half of December. https://t.co/1OVXoML7zh