Indian Security Agencies Efficient In Handling Terrorist Threats Claims US Report
Indian security agencies are effective in disrupting terror threats, but gaps remain in interagency intelligence and information sharing, the US state department said in its annual report on terrorism published Thursday. Citing several arrests by India’s National Investigative Agency (NIA), the country-wise report said that Indian counterterrorism forces actively detected and disrupted transnational and regional terrorist groups in 2020. The ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: India’ mentioned multiple arrests of alleged al-Qaeda-affiliated operatives from Kerala and West Bengal, and of Abdul Karim, the second-in-command of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, on suspected involvement in serial bombings in Bodh Gaya in 2013. It stated
China sees India As A Rival Claims US Report
The US State Department has said in a report that India is developing very fast and China sees its progress as a rival. China wants India’s relations with the United States and other democratic countries to deteriorate. This report also stressed that China wants to remove America from the place of the world’s most powerful country. The detailed policy document before the Trump administration’s departure and power transfer between the new President Joe Biden’s administration after the US election on November 3 stated that China was harming the security, autonomy and economy interests of many countries in the region. This



