New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday again advocated the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying the risk for the country is increasing each day as the project is getting delayed. He said, "Given the gravity of the situation, everyday we delay NCTC, we increase our risk." The Home Minister further said that the threat perception continued to be high in the country. "The threat perception of terrorism...
06:09 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The deadlock persists on the Centre's ambitious National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) with Chief Ministers Mamata Banerjee, Narendra Modi, J Jayalalithaa and Naveen Patnaik continuing their opposition and questioning its rationale. While Mamata rejected the need of an anti-terror body outright, Modi questioned the Centre's ability to tackle terrorism. The government is facing opposition from all the states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and even its...
02:11 PM, May 05, 2012
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could have tweeted live proceedings of the chief ministers' conference meet in New Delhi on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) on Saturday but the fear of being asked to leave the venue has prevented him from doing so. The Jammu and Kashmir chief minister on Saturday posted on Twitter: "NCTC meeting today. Would have live tweeted the proceedings but I'd probably...
12:02 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa, Naveen Patnaik, Prakash Singh Badal and Nitish Kumar reached Delhi early on Saturday morning for the meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). The leaders were headed to Vigyan Bhawan for the meeting. Sources said that almost all chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee, Narendra Modi and Akhilesh Yadav, were demanding rollback of the NCTC. Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata...
10:06 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram's pet project, the NCTC or the National Counter Terrorism Centre agency, was conceived after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Originally meant to be commissioned on March 1, it hit the pause button after fierce opposition from a group of CMs who wrote to the Prime Minister. What the NCTC is all about The NCTC, to be located within the Intelligence Bureau, will carry out counter-terror...
08:20 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: Setting the tone for the upcoming Chief Ministers' meeting on NCTC, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday discounted the fears of states that it would encroach upon their rights as he underlined that fighting terror was a shared responsibility between the Centre and states. He also questioned the opposition to the amendment to the BSF Act, saying it gave no extra power to the para military force but...
08:51 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with frequent incidents of abduction, the Centre on Monday said if the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) comes into existence, it would help in the long run to deal with hostage situations in a better way. Home Minister P Chidambaram said he was not sure whether NCTC would come up or not and if it comes up, then the proposed anti-terror body should be allowed to...
05:44 PM, Apr 30, 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
New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday sought urgent consultations between the centre and the states over issues like NCTC saying any delay in this regard would affect handling of law and order problems. "As you know, we have had a crisis involving abduction of an MLA (Jhina Hikaka) and also two Italian nationals by left wing extremists and this delay will only further aggravate such problems," Patnaik...
02:33 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has agreed to the demand of the chief ministers of several states for a separate meeting on National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). There will be no decision on NCTC before the meeting of the chief ministers on May 5. This came after pressure, not just from the Opposition but also allies like the Trinamool Congress urging the Centre to devote more time to discuss NCTC....
03:32 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Warning that instruments of internal security were in disrepair, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon on Monday made a strong case for setting up of the NCTC bluntly telling its opponents that "events will not wait upon us for a decision". Delivering the PC Lal Memorial Lecture, Menon underlined the principle of prevention and pre-emption while dealing with new terror threats and said reacting after an event did not...
08:22 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday indicated that the annual meeting of Chief Ministers on April 16 may be extended to discuss setting up of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) as demanded by some of the non-Congress ruled states. After presenting his ministry's monthly report, Chidambaram told reporters that he welcomes a debate on the issue. "I am glad that there will be a debate and I...
02:01 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The amendments moved by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Left Front, BJD on the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) issue were defeated in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The division of the vote showed 226 members against the motion, 141 in favour, with one abstaining when the BJP motion was put to vote. The Left motion on NCTC was also defeated in the House with 146...
01:25 PM, Mar 19, 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
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