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Subhashis Mittra

A joint meeting was held in New Delhi between intelligence and central agencies including the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

Addressing the anti-terror conference, Union home minister Amit Shah said anti-terror agencies will have to adopt a ruthless approach so that no new terrorist group is formed in the country. He said not only terrorism, but the entire ecosystem of the terrorists has to be destroyed.

The home minister said tough decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government have yielded very good results in handling challenges posed by cryptocurrencies, hawala, terror-funding, organised crime syndicates and narco-terror links. Still a lot more is to be done, he said while inaugurating the two-day anti-terror conference organised by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

“All anti-terror agencies will have to adopt such a ruthless approach that new terrorist organisations cannot be formed,” he said, adding that there is a need to not only combat terrorism but also dismantle its