With the National Security Adviser office and other stakeholders holding serious reservations over home minister P. Chidambaram’s proposal to have an all-powerful National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), a diluted version of the centre yet to be set up will be placed before the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Thursday.

The CPI (Marxist), an atheist party that has always regarded religion as “the opium of the people”, has begun using Durga Puja in West Bengal to promote the sale of Red books.

The Union home ministry is proposing to hold the annual chief ministers’ conference on internal security on February 15 and will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

India and Pakistan are set to have their first ever “hotline” or direct communication between the home secretaries shortly.

As the storm brews in the Valley over CISF firing on the mob, security officials in New Delhi took a hard stand against Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah by claiming that the CISF, which

Government officials confessed that the practice of incorporating a minister or a secretary’s name in issuing letters, came into being after it was noticed that the “harmless name dropping helped elicit quick responses’’ from tardy government departments and state governments many a times. “But now officers will try to be more careful in issuing letters and disposing off files,” an official said.

The Centre has decided to roll out a revised anti-Naxal action plan for states battling Left-wing extremism, marking a shift from the bullet approach towards building a holistic plan to protect the rights of tribals and forest-dwellers and improve grassroots policing.

After facing flak for allegedly coming to the rescue of a hotelier charged in cheating and forgery cases, Union home minister P. Chidambaram has directed officials to show him all communications requiring his clearance.

After being targeted by the Opposition for allegedly coming to the rescue of a hotelier, charged under various cases of cheating and forgery, the home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram has finally issued a

The support for Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati’s prime ministerial candidature at the time of 2009 general elections has come back to haunt the Communist Party of India (Marxist) during the Utta