New Delhi: Strongly opposing the Centre's plan for setting up an NCTC, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said it "violates" the principle of federalism and the structure adopted for it suffers from "serious and basic flaws". Referring to Emergency days, Kumar said that if such powers are given to a secret intelligence agency of the Central Government, they will remain prone to misuse against political rivals and asked...
06:59 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Saturday said if suggestions made by the state governments are incorporated and the proposed NCTC is suitably amended, he was open to supporting its formation. "We have made certain suggestions for amendment in the NCTC. All the three powers - intelligence gathering, operations and full control over the civil services - by NCTC cannot be accepted. If NCTC is suitably amended, we...
06:42 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: No democratic country has given wide ranging powers to their secret intelligence agencies and hence the NCTC should not be placed under the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday said. Patnaik, who was speaking at the Chief Ministers conference on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), said that the body in its present form is not acceptable to his state. "I do appreciate that...
06:28 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Opposing the NCTC tooth and nail, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday accused the Centre of taking the country towards "autocracy" and demanded that a sub-committee of Chief Ministers be set up to go into the proposed body. Launching an all-round attack on the Home Ministry headed by her bete noire P Chidambaram, she alleged that Tamil Nadu was being shown "utter contempt" by the Centre...
06:19 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the Centre for taking a unilateral decision on formation of NCTC, key UPA ally and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said such institutions "upset" the federal structure of the country and was "not acceptable" to the state. She said setting up of institutions like National Counter Terrorism Centre with the proposed powers of arrest and seizure upsets the federal structure of the country and...
06:09 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and state chief ministers on Saturday failed to end the deadlock on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which is winding down to a close. According to sources, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik have suggested that a sub-committee must be formed to discus the formation of the anti-terror agency....
03:41 PM, May 05, 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), began in New Delhi on Saturday with sharp differences on the issue clearly visible. Several states raised their objections to the NCTC. However, the Centre defended the anti-terror body, saying terrorists dont recognise state boundaries. While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi raked up the Batla House...
01:35 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has clarified that no money exchanged hands to free Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai on India@9, he said that time has come for unified policy to deal with Naxals across states. Here is an excerpt from the interview: Rajdeep Sardesai: There are reports that on the Alex Paul Menon abduction, a backroom deal was struck with the...
09:03 AM, May 05, 2012
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11:30 PM, May 04, 2012
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said that a uniform policy is needed to deal with the Naxal menace. ...
11:01 PM, May 04, 2012
Sukma: Chattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has denied any secret deal with the Maoists in return for the release of abducted Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon. He has also firmly opposed any swap deal to resolve a hostage crisis as a national policy. All this as the 12-day ordeal for the Sukma Collector came to an end on Friday morning when he was home at last. The mystery behind the...
09:15 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Friday said that his government had formed a committee under former Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Nirmala Buch to look into the cases against tribals as per the Maoist demands, who had pressed for the release of innocent tribals from jail in exchange for abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon. Said Raman Singh, "It will help create a positive environment in the area....
12:58 PM, May 04, 2012
Sukma: Abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon finally reached home in Sukma on Friday morning after 13 days, 12 of which were spent in captivity. Menon was released by the Naxals on Thursday evening. Menon was accompanied by Maoist-appointed mediator BD Sharma on his way back home. The collector seemed visibly tired while speaking to the media on Thursday after his release. He spent the night in Chintalnar and reached...
09:59 AM, May 04, 2012
Chintalnar: Sukma District collector Alex Paul Menon has been freed by Naxals after 12 days in captivity. But it is still not clear as to what deal was struck between the the Chhattisgarh government and the Naxals for his release. Menon looked tired as he spoke to the media, which had been waiting for hours at Chintalnar on Thursday. "I thank all the people, the government, my family and friends...
11:25 PM, May 03, 2012
Chintalnar: The District Collector of Sukma, Alex Paul Menon, was released after 12 days on Thursday evening amid confusion and fading light. Alex Paul Menon was accompanied by the Naxal-appointed mediator. BD Sharma. He was calm and composed as he walked up to speak to the media. The District Collector thanked everyone who stood by him, from the government to his family and the mediators. Crucially he also said that...
10:47 PM, May 03, 2012
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