Conceding to the demands of non-Congress Chief Ministers, the Centre has diluted the much touted NCTC with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde exuding confidence that the anti-terror hub would see the light of the day during the Chief Ministers' conference in New Delhi next month. ...
04:38 PM, Mar 28, 2013
New Delhi: Opposing amendments to the BSF Act, some state Chief Ministers on Monday demanded that discussions on the issue should be deferred and taken up along with the National Counter Terrorism Centre on May 5 as it also disturbs the federal structure of the country. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said since the proposed amendments to the BSF Act 1968 were against the laid down principles of a federal...
03:52 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday slammed the Centre and said that the government was making repeated efforts to interfere with the powers of the state governments. "Constant attempts to reduce states to the level of glorified municipal corporation heavily dependent on the Centre for funds," Jayalalithaa said, addressing the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in the national capital. Following is the full text of...
12:50 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The tenuous Centre-states relations came under more strain at the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security in New Delhi on Monday. The Union Government faced flak from some non-Congress chief ministers for trying to step in on the domain of the state governments. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and her Gujarat counterpart led the states' charge that the Centre was bent on usurping the powers of the...
12:42 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The meeting on internal security in New Delhi on Tuesday witnessed a political slanging match. When Home Minister P Chidambaram cited the Pune and Varanasi blasts to make the point that prior intelligence warnings given by the Centre were not heeded, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan hit back saying the biggest threat to internal security was corruption itself, hinting at the numerous scams that have taken...
02:03 PM, Feb 01, 2011
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01:50 PM, Feb 01, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram at the internal security meet on Tuesday expressed his concern over security situation in the country but called for strong measures to counter the challenge. "We live in troubled neighborhood, as a result we are facing terror, inflow of refugees. We have to face everything within given resources," said the Home Minister. But he pointed out that India is not an isolated case and...
11:12 AM, Feb 01, 2011
He called the Govt's decision as an "injustice with Gujarat." ...
03:50 PM, Feb 07, 2010
Terror organisations no longer limited to J&K may conspire to spread their activities into mainland of our country, said PM. ...
04:24 PM, Nov 23, 2006
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked states to find ways and means to deal with terrorist attacks. ...
10:28 PM, Sep 05, 2006
Govt is to set up empowered committee to meet internal security concerns including Maoist violence and J&K terrorism. ...
10:22 PM, Sep 05, 2006
The Prime Minister told the states on Tuesday that terror is lurking in the country in every corner. ...
11:18 AM, Sep 05, 2006
