As per preliminary information, one of them is a foreign terrorist and another is a local Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist identified as Mukhtiyar Bhat.
An engineering student was granted a five-year jail term by a Bengaluru court for celebrating the 2019 Pulwama attack in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) jawans were killed.
In a joint operation with the Jammu and Kashmir police, the Indian Army arrested two terrorists from Shopian and recovered several warlike stores from their possession.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday praised US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken for his strong and clear message on counter-terrorism.
Svetlana Martynova, Senior Legal Officer at the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), on Saturday raised the issue of how terrorists are using emerging technologies to finance terrorism across the world.
The UK Foreign Secretary today addressed the counter terrorism meeting and stressed the need to curb the exploitation of emerging technologies and starving terrorists of the vital funds used in terror activities.
UN Security Council members, including leading experts from the UN's operational partners and specialized agencies, come together in the national capital to discuss threats posed by the use of technologies for terrorist purposes.
The challenges, Vladimir Voronkov said, include identifying, monitoring, investigating, and prosecuting terrorist activities involving the use of new technologies.
Characterising terrorism as one of the gravest threats to humanity, EAM said," The UN Security Council, in the past two decades, has evolved an important architecture, built primarily around the counter-terrorism sanctions regime, to combat this menace.
Terming terrorism as a global problem and a global threat, UK Foreign Secretary started off his address by thanking External Affairs Minister Jaishankar for using India's Security Council presidency to focus on this crucial issue.
Speaking about the special meeting, Kamboj said, that it reflects the urgency among nations to deal with terrorism. She also pointed out that the committee looks forward to defining ways how terrorists use technology for terrorism.