West Bengal-born Mehdi was a management executive in an MNC, and allegedly worked as an ISIS propaganda activist, tweeting and retweeting t...

"His police custody has been extended by 15 days till January 2. We had asked for 25 days," Joint Commissioner of Police Hemanth Nimbalkar ...

“We have not come across any possible domestic connections, including any friendships in the city,” an officer involved in the investigatio...

Biswas has been charged under IPC section 125, which deals with waging war against a country or alliance friendly to India.

In a disconcerting trend, as many as five incidents of alleged sexual assaults of minor girls in schools were reported in the city in as ma...

Police teams visited Namma Metro stations, the city railway station, bus stands, city market and Manipal Centre as part of a security audit.

“He is innocent. Someone has framed him. That’s all I know,” she told ET in a telephonic interview from Kolkata, hours before she left for ...

“Mehdi described Indian Muslims as 'sarkari Muslims' who were incapable of fighting against government forces,” an official said.

But an equally shadowy internet marketer in Michigan in the US who has been closely monitoring the conflict in the Middle East.

The 24-year-old, who was arrested on December 13 in Bengaluru, told interrogators that he believed in the extreme form of Islam.

Singh said Mehdi had come to prominence in the electronic media in the UK on his role in circulating ISIS material through the tweeter acco...

"Bengaluru CCB police got five days' police remand of Mehdi Masroor Biswas. He was presented before the Magistrate last night," DCP Crime A...

The alleged handler of the most influential pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account Mehdi Masroor Biswas has been remanded to five-day polic...

Police officials said that Arif Majid, who returned to India after fighting for the IS , had mentioned about the Twitter handle during inte...

Bengaluru-based engineer Mehdi Masroor Biswas was arrested by police who claims he has "confessed" of handling the pro-jihad tweeter "@Sham...

Mehdi's father said, "He did not understand how it happened. His internet account is hacked. I don't believe that my son has any link with ...

The police has not contacted him, he said. The senior Biswas said he did not believe that his son had any link with ISIS.