Though according to experts, the next big ISIS (Islamic State) target in the region would be India but according to a top BSF official, there is no threat from the Islamic State terror group along India's borders in the north-eastern states.

"This problem has never been highlighted here. We are safe and secure and any impact ISIS is there in the region," said Border Security Force (BSF) Tripura frontier Inspector General M.F. Farooqui to reporters during a press conference in the BSF Tripura Frontier headquarters on the raising day of the BSF.

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The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Tuesday said that five more teams comprising 300 men will be rushed to conduct relief and rescue operations in rain-hit Tamil Nadu.

"Ten teams of NDRF have already been deployed in Tamil Nadu and five teams comprising of 300 men are about to reach Tamil Nadu. We are also planning to send three teams to Pondicherry," NDRF DG OP Singh told ANI.

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A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was apprehended on Tuesday in a joint operation by the Indian Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police in Shopian district here.

The joint operation was launched today based on the information about the presence of a terrorist in Harmain village of Shopian following which Nawaz Ahmad Najar was nabbed.

Two hand grenades, a Chinese grenade and some AK-47 ammunition has been recovered from him.

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The Supreme Court today ruled that the Tamil Nadu government doesn't have the power to release the convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The apex court said that the state will have to take permission from the Centre as the case was probed by a central investigation agency, CBI.

In February, 2014, the Jayalalithaa government had decided to release the three convicts, Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan in the case after the Supreme Court commuted their death sentence to life term. The cabinet also decided to release Nalini, Robert Pyas, Jayakumar and Ravichandran who are undergoing life sentence in the case.

Amidst all the hue and cry over the effects of climate change, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday refused to link the rain-ravaged situation in Tamil Nadu directly to climate change, saying it was natural calamity.

"What has happened in Chennai over last ten days is absolutely a very serious situation, this can't be directly attributed to climate change; it is a natural calamity, but this calamity needs to be tackled effectively," Javadekar told reporters.

LS Rathore, the DG of MeT department, has said that the situation in Chennai is expected to remain the same for next three days. He said the rains will continue for the next week and announced that the situation was critical for next 48 hours.

Many parts of Chennai and the suburbs have been flooded from the incessant rains that have hit the city in the past 24 hours, amidst the worst ever flood situation in Tamil Nadu.

The water has entered inside houses in the low-lying areas of Anna nagar and there is water-logging in almost every part of the city.