New Delhi: A decision on the way ahead for the ambitious Food Security Bill is expected to be taken on Wednesday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi holding deliberations on the matter. A meeting of the Congress core group is scheduled to take place on Wednesday in which Food Minister KV Thomas will also be present.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, who along with Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde had been asked to hold talks with Opposition parties to evolve a consensus on the matter, is also expected to participate. The meeting will decide whether the government should go for an Ordinance or for a special session of Parliament for passage of the Bill, which is seen as a game-changer by Congress for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
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02:45 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Hyderabad: TRS President K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday asserted that his party would only accept formation of separate Telangana as a solution to the long-pending statehood issue in Andhra Pradesh. "No other proposal would be acceptable to us. Telangana people would reject any other proposal," he said in Hyderabad. His reaction came amid reports that the Centre would soon come up with a solution to the contentious Telangana issue. Union...
01:23 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday expressed happiness over what he called the central government's acknowledgement that the "controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has to be lifted from Jammu and Kashmir". Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a function in Srinagar, the Chief Minister said the state government was in touch with the centre regarding the revocation of the AFSPA. Union Home...
01:06 AM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday said there was need for a consensus on setting up a National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) but his ministry did not have plans to move the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on the issue. Shinde said that the government has to think about the opposition to the proposal to set up NCTC from some non-Congress chief ministers. "We will have to...
04:57 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Hyderabad: A local court took cognisance of a complaint against a police official for not registering FIRs against union ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and P Chidambaram over allegations that they "cheated" people in Telangana by making "misleading" statements about statehood. The second metropolitan magistrate's court took cognisance against the station house officer (SHO) of LB Nagar police station under Section 166 (a) of the Indian Penal Code (public servant disobeying...
01:01 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Chhattisgarh Congress leader VC Shukla died on Tuesday after a two-week long battle against grievous injuries sustained during the vicious Naxal attack on May 25 in Bastar district. ...
08:28 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held an all party meet on the Naxal insurgency. An all-party resolution against naxal violence and armed insurgency was passed at the meeting. The meet ended with the Prime Minister assuring full support to the governments in Naxal affected states. The meeting was held in the backdrop of the recent attacks in Bastar in which top Congress leaders were killed. Ruling out any compromise...
10:25 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened an all-party meeting in Delhi on Monday to discuss ways to tackle Naxal menace in the backdrop of killing of Congress leaders in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh in May 2013. The meeting, also to be addressed by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, is expected to work towards evolving a consensus on the strategy to deal with the challenge posed by Left...
01:17 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: The much talked-about NCTC may be a non-starter but the government has rejected the demand of non-Congress Chief Ministers for a law to set up the anti-terror body. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said his Ministry was not exploring the option of bringing a bill in Parliament for the purpose. "No, we have no such proposal," Shinde told reporters when asked about the possibility of bringing a law...
08:00 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Pakistan on Thursday termed as "baseless and unwarranted" the remarks of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde about ISI fanning Sikh militancy, and said that all issues between the two countries should be sorted out by constructive dialogue. An official release from the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi said this while referring to media reports about Shinde's remarks that Sikh youths were being trained in Inter-Services Intelligence facilities...
04:05 AM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court was petitioned on Thursday for its nod to summon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi as witnesses in a case filed against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his alleged "Hindu terror" remarks made at Jaipur. The complainant, right to information (RTI) activist Vivek Garg, also sought to call Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and Chandrabhan of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress as...
01:45 AM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: India on Wednesday blamed Pakistan for trying to revive Sikh militancy and said youth are being trained in ISI facilities to carry out terror attacks in the country. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said there have been significant developments on the Sikh militancy front and its commanders based in Pakistan are under pressure from the ISI to further the Pakistani intelligence agency's terror plans not only in Punjab...
02:46 AM, Jun 06, 2013
The meeting called by the Centre on internal security on Wednesday into an all-out war between the Congress and the BJP. ...
10:14 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Two weeks after the Bastar bloodbath, the government on Wednesday held an all-party meet to firm up its anti-Naxal strategy. Sources say that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde proposed Andhra Pradesh's model of policing and improvement of local level police stations. There were also proposals to crack down on funding for Naxals and illegal mining in Jharkhand. The Maoist-hit states resolved to take a uniform approach to deal...
09:28 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Ten days after the deadly Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh, Prime Minister inaugurated the internal security meeting of Chief Ministers on Wednesday. Addressing the meeting, the Prime Minister said the Centre and state governments must work together to combat Naxalism. He said the government has instituted measures in 34 Naxal-hit areas. "We are meeting today in the aftermath of Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh. Such violence has no place in...
11:33 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: 10:45 am: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said several laws have been enacted to tackle crimes against women. "There is a need to put in place institutional mechanisms such as sensitisation of policemen," the Prime Minister said at the internal security meet. 10:44 am: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says Centre and state governments must work together to combat Naxalism. He says the government has instituted measures in 34 Naxal-hit...
10:27 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday hailed Maharashtra for its attitude of "always thinking of the nation" and not for the state. "Maharashtra can never think of the state... It always thinks of the nation," he said after inaugurating the new Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi. The President also said that Maharashtra and Mumbai have always shown an "indomitable spirit of moving ahead" in spite of all challenges and terror...
12:14 AM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde over the possibility of withdrawing the FIR against those booked for allegedly resorting to a violent protest at in January 2012. "We met Shinde over the Karbala issue today (Monday). The FIR (First Information Report) filed against people who indulged in violence was discussed," Dikshit told IANS. In January 2012, a violent clash had erupted between police and...
05:27 AM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Chief ministers of Naxal-affected states will meet in New Delhi on June 5 to formulate strategy on how to check unabated violence by Maoists and tackle the menace. The special session of nine chief ministers will be held on the sideline of the Chief Ministers conference on internal security convened by the Home Ministry next week. Chief ministers of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,...
06:14 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde minced no words when he called the Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh a terror attack on Friday. In Chhattisgarh for a review of the security situation in Bastar after the deadly massacre there on May 25 that killed several top Congress leaders, including the state party president, the Home Minister admitted that there had been "some lapses" on part of the intelligence. He, however,...
03:42 PM, May 31, 2013
