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January - 3 
The four major international airports of India in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata constitute about 94 per cent of instances of drugs smuggling and seizures, according to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) data, The Times of India reports on January 4. Out of a total 63 incidents of narcotics detectio
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The four major international airports of India in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata constitute about 94 per cent of instances of drugs smuggling and seizures, according to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) data, The Times of India reports on January 4. Out of a total 63 incidents of narcotics detection and seizure at airports in the country in 2013, 59 were reported from these air facilities, one of the largest hubs in terms of passenger and cargo load. Only six per cent of cases were detected at the airports of Guwahati (Assam), Bangalore (Karnataka)and Madurai (Tamil Nadu).While Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport reported a total of 17 drugs seizure cases during the said period, the Chennai airport had 16 such instances while Kolkata and Mumbai airports registered 13 such instances each during 2013. Over 1,026 kilograms of narcotics, including Ketamine, Ganja, Heroin, Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine were seized from these air facilities during the year leading to the arrest of 75 people under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the data said."Drug couriers are largely intercepted and detected at international airports as they have the facility of being connected to foreign shores. Instances of both the consignment being sent out of India or being brought in have been detected under these seizures," a senior anti-narcotics official said.
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September - 13 
According to a recent National Investigation Agency (NIA) report, 80 per cent Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) are sneaked into the country through the 172-km porous border along Malda District, and 55-60 per cent of the consignments from Bangladesh are circulated from the villages in 12 sq-km tria
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According to a recent National Investigation Agency (NIA) report, 80 per cent Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) are sneaked into the country through the 172-km porous border along Malda District, and 55-60 per cent of the consignments from Bangladesh are circulated from the villages in 12 sq-km triangle with 18 villages, The Times of India reports on September 14. The fake currency rackets has taken the magnitude of a cottage industry at Mohabbatpur, Chorianantapur, Sasani, Gopalnagar, Khoribona, Chaknanipur, Misutola and Dangipara, which are easily accessible to Bangladesh's Chapai Nababgunj Distreict, notorious for being a fake currency hub, as well as Nepal, said Malda Superintendent of Police (SP) Prasiun Banerjee. "Also, people here work as labourers in Rajasthan, Punjab, Delhi and Assam and they carry the notes with them there," he added. Most of the residents in the villages, including women and children, are part of the illegal trade, which according to a recent Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) report, is crippling the economy of India. In Mohabbatpur, there is not a single home that has not been raided. In fact, hardly any youngster can be found there as most of them have been arrested and the others have gone underground, trying to evade jail. According to the NIA, Malda has become the locus of criminal activities, with links to the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed network of terrorism. According to the Malda District Police report, FICN with a face value of INR 1.43 crore were seized in 2013, the next year, it increased to INR 1.5 crore, while till July, 2015 it is INR 1.97 crore. "The steady rise shows the Police and the security agencies have been more alert and active. Origin source of most currencies is Pakistan," and the quality is so good that it can hardly be distinguished from original notes," Malda SP Banerjee said. NIA officials said this was only the tip of the iceberg. "The seized notes comprise merely just 5-7 per cent of the entire amount pumped into India" and so it is easily understandable how much fake currencies percolate into the main economy of the country," an NIA officer said. "The high-quality Pakistan notes' exchange rate is INR 60,000 for INR 1,00,000. For low-quality notes, it is INR 45,000-50,000 for INR 1,00,000," a District Police officer said. A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel pointed out modus operandi adopted by the smugglers: "People from Bangladesh supply notes to those living in Indian villages outside the border. They stash the notes in sacks and lob them over the fence into India, where the sacks usually land into their counterpart's house." There are other innovative methods too. "Smugglers use defunct irrigation pipes under agriculture fields. Two persons, one on the Indian side and the other on the Bangladesh side, sit at the two ends of the pipe and pass the notes tied to a long tape passing through the pipe," the Police said.
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October - 4 
According to Intelligence Bureau (IB) report, Islamic State (IS) has put up posters in West Bengal Districts of Murshidabad and Nadia bordering Bangladesh, in a bid to attract people, New Indian Express reports on October 4. The cyber cell of the IB has conducted a national survey to mark the areas
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According to Intelligence Bureau (IB) report, Islamic State (IS) has put up posters in West Bengal Districts of Murshidabad and Nadia bordering Bangladesh, in a bid to attract people, New Indian Express reports on October 4. The cyber cell of the IB has conducted a national survey to mark the areas from where the IS is trying to recruit youths. Among the five top states are Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Assam, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Apart from bordering Districts, even Howrah in West Bengal figures on the list. The survey found that many, including women aged between 16 and 30, are showing interest in IS related activities on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. In September, where officials of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) were present, the Police Chiefs were directed to form special teams to keep a watch on websites that are allegedly trying to recruit for the IS. They were also told to seek help of Muslim religious leaders to preach against the hatred and violence preached by the IS. An NTRO official said the scenario in West Bengal was particularly “disturbing as several youths were preaching and recruiting for the IS from the state by using the Internet”.
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October - 19 
A red alert has been sounded all over West Bengal during Durga Puja about possible terror attacks by various Islamist fundamentalist groups. The Indian Mujahideen (IM), Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and various other Bangladeshi outfits operating in the State might resort to subversive activ
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A red alert has been sounded all over West Bengal during Durga Puja about possible terror attacks by various Islamist fundamentalist groups. The Indian Mujahideen (IM), Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and various other Bangladeshi outfits operating in the State might resort to subversive activities during the festival, which started on October 19, intelligence agencies said. While vigil along the border is being stepped up, all police stations in border districts have been alerted to look out for Bangladeshi infiltrators trained by Islamist terror outfits to wreak havoc during the festive season and organise riots.
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November - 25 
In the rural bylanes and the small towns of West Bengal, terror is hiding in plain sight, Hindustan Times reports on November 26. They sometimes manifest in the unassuming next-door-neighbour with a 9-to-5 job, such as Mehdi Mashroor Biswas, an educated middle class youth from Bengal who handled the
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In the rural bylanes and the small towns of West Bengal, terror is hiding in plain sight, Hindustan Times reports on November 26. They sometimes manifest in the unassuming next-door-neighbour with a 9-to-5 job, such as Mehdi Mashroor Biswas, an educated middle class youth from Bengal who handled the IS’ twitter handle from Bengaluru. They also take the form of young housewives trained in using ammunition and making improvised explosive devices in unrecognised madrasas (Islamic Seminary). Thousands of such institutions, many located close to the Bangladesh border, form the base of the radicalisation, training and recruitment of potential jihadists in West Bengal, intelligence officials say. Trainers use video clips, indoctrination documents and short films in Bengali to indoctrinate the youth. These schools often run low-profile training operations, specialising in putting out extremist literature in Bengali and posting such content on Facebook and other social media websites– helping jihadi recruiters lure youth in rural areas. “Years back it was outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) or the Hizbul Mujahiden (HM) that used Bengal as a conduit and safe haven for cadres to sneak into India from Bangladesh where they arrived from Pakistan. Now terror outfits are on a recruitment drive, both in rural and urban areas. New outfits are showing a kneeling towards organisations like the al Qaida and IS,” said a state Crime Investigation Department (CID) officer. The latest example was seen last week, when Ansar-ut Tawhid fi Bilal al-Hind (AuT) a terror outfit with links to the IS, initiated online propaganda in Bengali to woo Bengali speaking youths in West Bengal and neighbouring Bangladesh. “In Bengal, the situation is critical. For years, a section of unrecognised madrasas have been the hotbed for radicalisation. But the Bardhaman blasts (October 2, 2014) and Masroor’s arrest exposed that the indoctrination and recruitment cells of terror organisations have dug deep,” said a senior Bengal Police official dealing with terrorism. Intelligence sources say West Bengal -- which shares long and semi porous border with Bangladesh -- has been on the radar of Pakistani and Bangladeshi terror outfits for a long time and the radicalisation menace was spreading fast, stoked both by the 10,000-odd unrecognised madrasas and the proliferation of online terror posts.
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November - 30 
Irshad Ansari, his son Asfaq Ansari and their relative Mohammed Jahangir, who were arrested for suspected connection with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), have been charged with waging war against the state, The Times of India reports on December 1. Police Prosecutor Avijit Chatterjee s
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Irshad Ansari, his son Asfaq Ansari and their relative Mohammed Jahangir, who were arrested for suspected connection with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), have been charged with waging war against the state, The Times of India reports on December 1. Police Prosecutor Avijit Chatterjee said they found a lot of espionage evidence against the three, including drawings, photos and maps of vital installations Netaji Subhas Dock of Kolkata Port Trust and Garden Reach Ship Builders. Calling it a "clear antinational act", Chatterjee said the three supplied information and data to the intelligence agency of a neighbouring country, arguing against their bail plea. The Police will now interrogate them to trace the tentacles of the espionage network. Special Task Force (STF) officers said they had evidence on how Irshad and Jahangir visited Karachi (Pakistan) in 1985, when they probably stepped into the ISI traps. Investigators found that the Irshad's a family of five brother and five sisters from Bihar, came to Kolkata in early childhood. Their elder sister got married into a family based in Bangladesh but migrated to Pakistan during the Liberation War. Irshad's two elder brothers also settled down in Karachi where they ran business. "On the pretest of visiting them in Karachi, Irshad and Jahangir visited Pakistan a number of times," an STF officer said. The NIA, which has started interrogating the three in a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket. An NIA team has reached Malda District to probe the arrest of a Bangladeshi national, Majrul Rehman who was caught with fake notes on November 29, while other security agencies are in touch with the Kolkata Police's STF to question the three. "We will assess the quality of notes to check if they came from the same source," the official said. "The ISI modules being closely linked with FICN rackets," said an NIA officer. Interrogations of the three have also revealed that the Ansaris helped Pakistani national Mohammadd Ejaz, arrested in Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) for being an alleged ISI agent, get a job at the Garden Reach Shipbuilders. Ejaz managed a labourer's job at the shipbuilder's company, reportedly with the help of Irshad who worked there.
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December - 6 
With Islamic State (IS) raising its head in Bangladesh, West Bengal government has directed all security agencies to step up vigil on some madrasas (Islamic Seminary) in areas bordering Bangladesh, Hindustan Times reports on December 7. An alert has been sounded across all Police Stations in all are
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With Islamic State (IS) raising its head in Bangladesh, West Bengal government has directed all security agencies to step up vigil on some madrasas (Islamic Seminary) in areas bordering Bangladesh, Hindustan Times reports on December 7. An alert has been sounded across all Police Stations in all areas bordering Bangladesh. While local Police Stations have been asked to keep an eye on suspicious activities, if any, in these madrasas, the state Intelligence Branch (IB) has started collecting regular updates. “We have information that some suspicious people have been spotted in some madrasas in Murshidabad. They put up at these madrasas for two-three days and then disappear. We have alerted all police stations and asked them to dig out details on these people,” an IB officer said. “ISIS has already declared its intent to export terror to India and will look at madrasas to recruit fighters,” the officer said.
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December - 7 
The Special Task Force (STF), believes that the intelligence network of the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Kolkata is the tip of the iceberg, The Times of India reports on December 8. Officials say that Fareed Khan, the Army jawan (trooper) arrested from Siliguri in West Bengal has
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The Special Task Force (STF), believes that the intelligence network of the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Kolkata is the tip of the iceberg, The Times of India reports on December 8. Officials say that Fareed Khan, the Army jawan (trooper) arrested from Siliguri in West Bengal has deep-rooted connections with ISI agents in Kolkata. "During interrogation, Irshad admitted that Md Eijaz, recently arrested by Meerut Police, had entered Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) with gate pass twice between July 2013 and January 2014 and made two 20-minute videos and sent them to Pakistan," an STF official said. A source in the investigating agency said at least seven GRSE officials are under scanner, whose antecedents are being verified. They might also be interrogated. On its part, the GRSE authorities have started an internal inquiry into any possible leak from this high-security ship manufacturing unit. But when asked about it, a senior GRSE official said: "We have been instructed not to say anything." According to defence sources, Fareed Khan, have passed on some vital information about deployment of troops in the eastern and northeastern states over the last eight months. This information may not be too important for Pakistan but could be extremely crucial for China, now that India has strengthened defences along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). "It is a known fact that the ISI is in regular touch with China. Recently, the ISI was instrumental in brokering a deal between the Taliban and the Afghan government. This happened in China. There has been a lot of development in India's eastern and northeastern sector in the last few years. The Army's 33 Corps, based at Sukna in north Bengal, is of great strategic importance and is in charge of defences in Sikkim. Khan was posted to the 33 Corps after his deployment in Kashmir. It is likely that he collected vital information and sent it back to his handlers," an official said.
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