Bhubaneswar: With the Union Home Ministry yet to address the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) issue at the DGP level, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to convene a meeting of chief ministers to discuss it. "I am disappointed to find, Sir, that a meeting has been called by the Union Home Secretary with state directors general of police (DGPs)," Patnaik wrote to the...
08:03 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday wrote to the DGPs and Chief Secretaries of all the states, and invited them for a meeting to resolve the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) row on March 9. The anti-terror cell was supposed to be operational from March 1 but has been put on the backburner following objections by several states. The appointments of the Director and three joint Directors...
12:47 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble seems to be rising for the government from non-UPA states. The chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Odisha have now trained their guns at the Centre once again by opposing the proposed amendment to the Railway Protection Force (RPF) Act. They had earlier opposed the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik wrote individual letters to the Prime...
08:36 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Chennai/Bhubaneswar: After the launch of NCTC was put on hold due to protests by non-Congress ruled states, Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Orissa on Tuesday trained their guns again at the Centre by opposing the proposed amendment to the Railway Protection Force (RPF) Act. Jayalalithaa and Naveen Patnaik joined their Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi in asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to instruct Railway Ministry not to proceed with the...
11:59 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday protested the proposed amendments to the Railway Protection Force Act (RPF). He has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging that it would compromise the federal set up of the country. Earlier, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Himachal Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal too had written to the Prime Minister objecting to the move. The Centre is planning...
03:46 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram has written to chief ministers of ten states with regard to the NCTC row. Chidambaram wrote to the CMs of Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, in order to address their concerns regarding the anti-terror agency. The National Counter Terrorism Agency was expected to begin operations on March 1. However, the chief ministers of Orissa and...
05:11 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Pressure has been building on the Centre over its move to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa have both written second letters to the Prime Minister on the issue. Speaking to CNN-IBN exclusively, Naveen Patnaik said some aspects of the proposal are draconian. In addition to this, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar became the 13th...
08:46 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Patna/Bhubneshwar/Chennai: The clamour against the proposed anti-terror hub continued on Monday with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar writing to Prime Minister Manmonhan Singh expressing his opposition while his Odisha and Tamil Nadu counterparts Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa sent second letters seeking dialogue between the two sides. In his letter, Nitish Kumar said the creation of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) was highly flawed as it had been created within the...
03:28 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: In a sign of more trouble for the UPA, the chorus of voices against the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has grown withing the ruling coalition. After numerous Chief Ministers from NDA-ruled states, the UPA's own allies have spoken out against the anti-terror body. Sources say that the National Conference and the DMK are unlikely to support the NCTC. Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata had opposed the move...
10:38 PM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a sign of more trouble for the UPA, the chorus of voices against the National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has grown withing the ruling coalition. After numerous Chief Ministers from NDA-ruled states, the UPA's own allies have spoken out against the anti-terror body. Sources say that the National Conference and the DMK are unlikely to support the NCTC. Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata had opposed the move ...
10:28 PM, Feb 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a sign of more trouble for the UPA, the chorus of voices against the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) has grown withing the ruling coalition. After numerous Chief Ministers from NDA-ruled states, the UPA's own allies have spoken out against the anti-terror body. Sources say that the National Conference and the DMK are unlikely to support the NCTC. Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata had opposed the move...
11:26 AM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: The States vs Centre battle over the anti-terror body National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) has escalated. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee snubbed the UPA yet again and remained absent from the inauguration of a National Security Guards (NSG) hub in Kolkata on Saturday. The NSG hub was inaugurated by Home Minister P Chidambaram. Mamata's name was also deleted from the programme brochure prepared by the state government. This...
10:15 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik says the notification for the National Counter Terrorism Centre was passed without consultation with states. ...
09:49 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Dubbing the ruling UPA as "discredited" and "corruption ridden" and NDA as "communally tainted", Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday mooted an alternative front to provide a transparent government at the Centre. "I certainly feel there is a need for a new front which will be transparent, corruption free and of course secular," Patnaik told reporters here replying to a question on his move to unite non-Congress Chief...
07:55 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Naveen Patnaik, Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee, J Jayalalithaa and Shivraj Singh Chauhan opposed creation of National Counter Terror Centre. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Cuttack: SCB medical college and hospital authorities on Wednesday informed Orissa High Court that the condition of Pipili rape victim is static and the treatment management in the Cuttack hospital is same as that of AIIMS in New Delhi. Hospital superintendent in an affidavit mentioned that the patient is not responding to verbal command but is sluggishly reacting to light. Although she has slight fever, her blood pressure, respiration and...
12:16 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Worried over rise in atrocities against women and police inaction in some rape cases, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday directed the Director General of Police to ensure that such cases were properly addressed. "I have given strict instruction to the DGP to register all FIRs made by women. Particular attention must be given to the complaints made by women belonging to scheduled tribe, scheduled caste and minorities,"...
06:55 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: The crime branch of Odisha police has arrested a second accused in the horrific Pipili gangrape case. Purnachandra Swain was arrested by the Odisha police on Monday morning. So far two of the four accused have been arrested, while the other two are absconding. On Sunday, the prime accused Prashant Pradhan was arrested from Jatni railway station near Bhubaneswar by the crime branch. The crime branch will produce the...
11:40 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Three alleged gang rapes have shaken the Naveen Patnaik government. While the suspect's photo in one of the cases has been released, the government is finding it hard to cope with public anger. Heart-rending images of family members pleading for justice. In November, a 19-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped and strangulated at Pipili in Puri district, Odisha. She has since remained in a coma. Only after a state...
10:03 PM, Jan 14, 2012
Bhubaneshwar: A Dalit girl who was allegedly raped in Pipli in Odisha will be shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi this week for better treatment. The girl was raped by a man in her village in November 2011. She has been in a coma ever since. Earlier in the day, the Odisha government ordered a judicial probe into the episode to identify the persons responsible for the incident. "Chief Minister...
07:44 AM, Jan 14, 2012
