So far this year, India has witnessed the lowest levels of violence in a decade thanks to the paramilitary forces, home minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday.

As Congress lawmakers from Telangana stepped up pressure by tendering their resignation, the Centre on Monday said it has not taken a final decision on the “extremely sensitive and complex” issue of separate statehood.

In the first visit by an Indian home minister in 15 years, P. Chidambaram will arrive here on Tuesday on a three day visit during which he will hold high-level security dialogue with top Russian ministers and officials.

Seeking to put behind memories of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, home minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday said the country has moved on since the “tragic incident” and that it was time to “forgive” and build a new India.

Union home minister P. Chidambaram was on Wednesday forced to change his helicopter while on way to Gurez from Pahalgam in Kashmir Valley following a problem in one of the two engines of the BSF chopper, 20 minutes after take off.

Even as the civil society members of the Lokpal Bill Joint Drafting Committee called the meetings a “drama”, home minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said the proposed legislation will be drafted by the deadline of June 30.

Accusing home minister P. Chidambaram of getting himself elected to Parliament through “fraudulent” means, Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said his continuance in the Union Council of ministers was untenable and sought his resignation.

Home minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday dismissed Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa’s statement demanding his resignation on the ground he was elected in “fraudulent” manner in 2009 Lok Sabha polls calling it a “gross contempt of court”.

Allaying fears that the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid) may encroach on individual privacy, home minister P. Chidambaram said high safeguards would be in place in the centralised data system created for quick access to information on terror suspects.

Pakistan today said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India’s failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there.