In a shift of its political stance, the CPI(M) is now viewing both the BJP and Congress as “enemy number one’’.

The CRPF is caught in a crossfire between the Centre and the Chhattisgarh government as a blame game erupts following state DGP Vishwaranjan’s remark that he cannot teach “CRPF to walk”. Terming the Chattisgarh DGP’s remarks “shameful” and “unacceptable”, CRPF officials said that the Union home ministry should register its protest with the state government. Officially, the CRPF refused to comment on the issue.

The Centre is planning stringent amendments to existing laws to check the menace of “honour killings”, and treat it at par with murder.
Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code might be amended to include a new clause defining “dishonour”.

Throwing the ball in Pakistan’s court, Indian authorities have suggested Pakistan take action against the perpetrators of the 26/11 terror attack on the basis of “voice samples’’ in possession of Indian authorities as well as the descriptions and details provided by American-Pakistani LeT terrorist David Headley to the FBI in the US and the National Investigation Agency.

Amidst reports received by the Union home ministry of radical Hindu outfits hand in the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, the government is considering clubbing all “Hindu terror” related cases to be handed over to one investigating agency.

Home minister P. Chidambaram’s visit to Pakistan is expected to set the tone for New Delhi’s engagement with Islamabad for the next four years of the UPA-II government.

Central security agencies on Wednesday sounded a terror alert in the country warning of groups “inimical’’ to India-Pakistan talks planning strikes to dislodge the dialogue on the sidelines of the Saarc interior ministers’ conference which began in Islamabad on Wednesday. Home minister P. Chidambaram is leaving for Islamabad on Friday to attend the conference.

Prompted by the rising Naxal violence, the Centre has begun the process of identifying new districts where Naxal violence has spread. The government is mulling expanding its current list of 34 “worst affected’’ districts with the Union home ministry conducting a survey to study the “violence profile’’ of districts plagued by Left Wing

The government has proposed special examinations to induct young officers recruited through the State Civil Services into the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
Faced with a shortfall of at least 560 IAS officers across India, a proposal for the UPSC to hold “limited” competitive examinations to allow young officers serving in the states to join the IAS is under active consideration of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Aerial surveillance of Naxal hideouts to avert strikes by Maoist groups may take a while as the Centre has decided to put on hold its move to deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the next few months. The home ministry had asked the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) to take out its six UAVs, lying in cold