India, Dec. 3 -- The government has significantly scaled up the country's counter-terrorism research and investigation capabilities by widening the scope of a unit within the NIA and including all theatres of terrorism across the globe.

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said on Tuesday that the NIA's ISIS Investigation Research Cell (IIRC), set up in 2018, has been renamed as the Counter Terrorism Research Cell (CTRC), with an aim to include all theatres of terrorism.

"The Government has created the ISIS Investigation Research Cell (IIRC) in NIA in January, 2018 and broadened its scope to other theatres of terrorism and renamed it as Counter Terrorism Research Cell (CTRC)...