New Delhi: In the wake of the Bangalore blast, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday pushed for setting up the NCTC to strengthen intelligence gathering. Making a statement in the Lok Sabha on the blast outside BJP office in Bangalore, Shinde said the Home Ministry was also working towards putting in place an explosive tracking system.
"We also need to strengthen the intelligence set up of the states. We have been advising the states on this, but we have not seen much progress," he said. Shinde said the government was also trying to strengthen human intelligence component of intelligence agencies, which is expected to start yielding results.
"We also need to quickly put the NCTC in place. We have now a revised formulation of NCTC which takes care of the objections of the states," he said. The setting up of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has been a bone of contention with several states contending that it affected the federal structure of the Constitution.
Underscoring the need for tighter checks on explosives, Shinde said the Home Ministry was working with the Department of Industrial Policy and Planning, and the National Institute of Smart Government to put an explosives tracking system in place....
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04:38 PM, Mar 28, 2013
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04:35 AM, Mar 12, 2013
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04:37 AM, Mar 09, 2013
In a fresh effort to break the logjam over the National Counter Terrorism Centre, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday offered to work with states to evolve a consensus on this crucial security measure. ...
02:31 PM, Mar 08, 2013
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02:06 AM, Mar 04, 2013
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08:55 PM, Feb 26, 2013
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05:38 PM, Feb 26, 2013
BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday said his party was not opposed to the setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) but it was against giving police powers to the proposed anti-terror hub. ...
12:58 AM, Feb 26, 2013
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09:52 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had earlier objected on certain issues, has a 'positive mind' towards the National Counter Terrorism Centre. ...
04:48 PM, Feb 25, 2013
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11:52 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said the twin blasts in Hyderabad could be a "reaction" to the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Mumbai attack convict Ajmal Kasab. Shinde said the government was apprehending some sort of reaction from terror groups following execution of the lone surviving Pakistani gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attack and Afzal and it had been issuing alerts in this regard....
07:25 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday batted for the NCTC while speaking on the Hyderabad blasts in Parliament. ...
11:54 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Seeking support for the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said all political parties and state governments should come together for a collective response to fight against the challenge of terrorism. ...
03:14 PM, Feb 22, 2013
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02:00 PM, Feb 22, 2013
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03:43 PM, Sep 02, 2012
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