New Delhi: There is a clash between the Ministry of External Affairs and the Home Minister over a visit of eight ambassadors from European Union countries to Nagaland. The Home Ministry has written a letter to the MEA, claiming it was not informed by the ministry of the delegation visiting the north eastern state. According to the letter, the Home Ministry and the Intelligence Bureau had no knowledge of the...
05:00 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre has attacked Odisha for an "alarming" rise in the activities of Maoists and accused the Naveen Patnaik government of failing to take any counter measure. "It is pertinent to mention that Odisha is the only state of India where activities of CPI(Maoists) are spreading to new areas at an alarming rate without requisite counter-measures by the state government," the Home Ministry said in a message sent...
02:08 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The crucial meeting of chief ministers, called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), kicked off in New Delhi on Saturday with sharp differences on the issue clearly visible. While several states raised their objections to the NCTC, the Centre defended the anti-terror body, saying terrorists dont recognise state boundaries. Addressing the chief ministers at the inaugural session of the...
11:01 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is set for a renewed Centre-state conflict over the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chairs a meeting on Saturday with chief ministers of ten states, including that of West Bengal, over the contentious issue in a bid to break the deadlock over it. Nearly three months after the Union Home Ministry notified setting up of the NCTC, its fate is...
07:27 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst growing protests over the deaths of architecture student Richard Loitam in Bangalore, and MBA student Dana Sangma in Gurgaon, Parliament took up the issue of discrimination towards citizens from the North East. Home Minister P Chidambaram assured the Opposition and MPs from the North East that the Centre will do everything it can to ensure the safety of North East students. Opposition leader in the Rajya Sabha,...
01:32 PM, May 04, 2012
Indore: Stating that the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) would provide states with more powers to deal with terrorism, Union Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh said on Saturday that his ministry was hopeful that a consensus on the NCTC bill would emerge at the meeting of state chief ministers with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 5. They (state chief ministers) have some reservations. They want the 'Standing...
04:34 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Guwahati: Assam remained largely peaceful on the 33rd raising day Saturday of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), despite threats from the anti-talk faction of the banned outfit led by its commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah alias Paresh Asom. There were, however, three incidents - two of them minor in nature in different parts of the state. Late Saturday evening, ULFA claimed to have triggered a blast inside the Numaligarh Refinery...
12:30 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: Assam is on high alert on Saturday on the ocassion of ULFA's Foundation Day. Police sources have indicated that cadres of the banned outfit could cause a disruption to make its presence felt. The Home Ministry has asked Assam and neighbouring states to tighten security in sensitive locations. Special attention has been given to the districts of Tinsukia, Sibsagar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Goalpara and Nalbari, the...
07:36 AM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: In view of the forthcoming raising day of banned ULFA, the Home Ministry on Wednesday issued an alert to Assam and its neighbouring states and directed them to tighten security across the region. The Home Ministry asked the Assam government and the neighbouring states to be on alert in the run-up to the ULFA raising day on April 7 when the group usually tries to launch terror attacks....
02:27 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: At a time when police-population ratio is abnormally low, 16,800 VIPs across the country had more than 50,000 security personnel to guard them, nearly double the actually allotted strength. According to a Home Ministry report, 50,059 policemen were deployed in 25 states and Union Territories in 2010 to provide security to 16,788 VIPs, which included ministers, MPs, MLAs, judges and bureaucrats, for more than six months. Interestingly, only...
09:33 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday New Delhi was in touch with Iran in order to gain access to some suspects in the Israel Embassy blast case. ...
01:43 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: After a gap of six months, the government will hold dialogue with ULFA on April 9 as part of its efforts to bring a lasting solution to the decades-old insurgency problem in Assam. Union Home Secretary RK Singh and other senior Home Ministry officials will hold peace talks with ULFA led by its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa and try to iron out differences on key demands of the banned...
09:33 AM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: DGPs and Chief Secretaries of states are likely to meet on Monday to end the deadlock over the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) amidst the opposition from the chief ministers of nine non-UPA ruled states and from Mamata Banerjee over setting up the anti-terror body. The states have opposed the NCTC claiming that it allows the Centre to infringe on the powers of states. During the meeting, Home...
08:18 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: A meeting of the DGPs and chief secretaries of the states opposed to the anti-terror agency, the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), was on Saturday postponed to March 12. The DGPs were unavailable due to the extended holiday owing to the festival of Holi and government formation in five states post election. With several states opposed to the formation of the anti-terror body, the Home Ministry had written...
12:59 PM, Mar 03, 2012
On February 16th, the Defence Ministry raised an alarm about a possible bug that was found inside AK Antony's office. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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