New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs held a review meeting on Tuesday following Monday's blast in an Isreali embassy car, that left four people injured. Home Minister P Chidambaram held a review meeting with Home Secretary RK Singh, Special Secretary Internal Security Ajay Chadha, National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, Intelligence Bureau chief N Sandhu and other senior MHA officials. NIA Director SC Sinha was at Tughlaq road police...
10:27 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....
07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has extended by two more years the ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which has links with Pakistan-based terrorist outfits including Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its front, Indian Mujahideen. The Home Ministry has issued a notification in this regard after the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the proposal of extending ban on SIMI. The ban would come...
10:56 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Ministry has issued a country wide advisory to states and enforcement agencies to track missing children and step up anti-trafficking drills. The advisory came on a day when the Home Ministry took serious note of the plight of two-year-old battered baby Falak and sought a report from Delhi Police on the probe related to the child, terming it a case of human trafficking. "Ministry of Home...
07:21 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The National Counter Terrorism Centre will be formed by March 1, the Home Ministry said on Monday. While it will be a part of the Intelligence Bureau initially, options of making it a statutory body are open. The NCTC will be the designated authority for all cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. It will be mandatory for all Central and State Intelligence and security machinery to cooperate...
05:56 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: A compromise was reached on Thursday on the Unique Identification Number (UID) project by Home Ministry and the Planning Commission, Home Minister P Chidambaram said. The Home Minister said that there will be no duplication of work between the UIDAI and the National Population Register (NPR). The NPR is collected by the Home Minister. The collection of biometric data for the UIDs had also sparked a row, with...
06:15 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: Planning Commission and Home Ministry appeared to have reached a compromise on the UIADI project over which the two were at loggerheads over the security angle. The understanding over the issue of providing unique identity numbers to residents seems to have been reached at a meeting of senior Cabinet colleagues called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Wednesday. "I think we have come to an...
09:46 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday held consultations with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram on the UIDAI issue. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that the Cabinet Committee will meet on Friday on the issue. The Planning Commission, which is backing UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani, and the Home Ministry have been staking claim to carry out the multi-crore project, the matter has...
01:22 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Cabinet is likely to take a final decision on Wednesday on whether or not to give statutory powers to the Nandan Nilekani led Unique Identification Authority's proposal. It seeks to expand the UID project in order to issue national identity cards to the entire population as opposed to the mandated 200 million people. The government has to take a decision soon because it the UIDAI is likely...
06:07 AM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave final approval to London-based mining group Vedanta Resources Plc's acquisition of a majority stake in Cairn India Ltd for USD 8.48 billion. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the deal this evening, highly placed sources said. Fresh approval was necessitated in view of the Home Ministry pointing to alleged global and domestic "transgressions" by Vedanta...
08:04 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Aizawl: The Protected Area Permit (PAP) regime, in which foreigners desiring to visit some states are required to have special permit from the Union Home Ministry has been relaxed for yet another year in three north east states with some conditions. A letter from the Union Home Ministry to Mizoram Chief Secretary Van Hela Pachuau, on Tuesday said PAP relaxation was extended for another year from December 31, 2011 in...
06:41 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mumbai: Adding a new twist to the controversy over Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival, sources in Mumbai Police denied giving any inputs about paid assassins. The sources countered the Booker-winning author's claim that paid assassins were out to get him. The sources told CNN-IBN there were no intelligence inputs about a threat to Rushdie and that they gave no inputs regarding paid assassins eyeing Rushdie. BJP Leader...
12:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: The row between Nandan Nilekani and Home Minister P Chidambaram over the Unique ID project has intensified. With both the Planning Commission, which is backing Nilekani, and the Home Ministry staking claim to carry out the multi-crore project, the matter has now reached the PMO. At stake is several thousand crores of the tax payers money. Who should enrol citizens for an identity card? Both the Planning Commission...
09:15 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: An ambitious plan of Home Minister P Chidambaram to set up an intelligence hub that will integrate and analyse inputs on terror threats in India was finally accorded government approval on Thursday after hanging fire for almost two years. "The government has granted in principle approval for the MHA's (ministry of home affairs) proposal to set up (the National Counter-Terrorism Centre)," Chidambaram told reporters in New Delhi. The...
08:09 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Planning Commission on Saturday said the Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI project is better than the one being advocated by the Home Ministry for capturing data regarding residents and improving the delivery of the government schemes. "We have suggested that what Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is doing is actually better (than the proposal of issuing smart cards)," Plan panel Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told on the...
05:42 PM, Jan 07, 2012
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