The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the home ministry to compensate the family of a man who was allegedly tortured and killed by Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in West Bengal in March 2007.
NHRC took up the case after receiving a complaint from the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), a Delhi-based [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Delhi Police Monday submitted its report to the home ministry about three Pakistani terrorists awaiting deportation escaping from a city hospital, police commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said.
‘We submitted the report to the Ministry of Home Affairs Monday and since the ministry is looking into the matter I can’t comment further,’ Dadwal [...]
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) India Friday started tourist visa-on-arrival facility for five countries on an ‘experimental basis’ for a period of one year, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
‘The said ‘tourist visa-on-arrival’ with a maximum validity of 30 days with single entry facility shall be granted by the immigration officers at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor tweeted again Thursday describing the meeting with his boss S.M. Krishna Wednesday as ‘excellent’.
‘Excellent mtg (meeting) w (with) EAM (External Affairs Minister S.M.) Krishna on wide range of fp (foreign policy) issues,’ he said on his twitter account.
Tharoor requested the meeting after [...]
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday said it will seek from court enhanced punishment to former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, who was given six months in jail after being convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra.
‘It was felt that six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs.1,000 is [...]
Bhopal, Dec 29 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh police will henceforth treat all complaints as first information reports (FIRs) and all formalities related to registration of cases would be completed quickly, state Home Minister Umashankar Gupta said Tuesday.
‘The state government was already thinking along these lines and the matter was being discussed with top police officers,’ [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Rebuking his ministerial colleague Shashi Tharoor for airing his opposition to new visa rules, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Monday said the government will go by the home ministry’s guidelines and stressed that differences over issues should not be discussed in public.
‘We have gone along with home ministry on the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has taken the debate on tightening of Indian visa rules to the Twitter, questioning whether the restriction would actually strengthen security as the ‘26/11 killers had no visas’.
Tharoor tweeted Dec 24: ‘My only role is to object to them strongly. MEA (ministry [...]
New Delhi/Chandigarh, Dec 25 (IANS) A political blame game began Friday among Haryana politicians over the 1990 molestation case of teenager Ruchika Girhotra while Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily said the matter needs to be ‘revisited’.
Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala denied promoting former top cop S.P.S. Rathore, convicted for molesting the teenager 19 [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Thursday expressed its satisfaction on the overall internal security situation in the country but expressed concern over the increasing Naxal menace in some states.
In its [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): The Government has revealed that in 2009 the Naxal menace remained a major concern and it is serious concern over the growing naxal menace in some parts of the country.
Ministry of Home Affairs in the year-end review report [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the improving internal security situation in the Jammu and Kashmir and in the northeastern States.
Ministry of Home Affairs in its year end [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Allaying concerns of the US and Britain over the new tourist visa regulations in India, the government has balanced security concerns with the convenience of tourists, but has incorporated extra layers of safeguards to avoid a repeat of 26/11 suspect David Headley’s abuse of tourist visa.
Indian officials have clarified the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday proposed a radical restructuring of the security architecture at the national level.
He unveiled the proposal while delivering the 22nd Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture here today. The topic of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (ANI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that it is high time the role of the Ministry of Home Affairs is examined.
Chidambaram also proposed the formation of a new Internal Security Ministry, adding that the security [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday mooted the idea of bifurcating the ministry, considering its numerous functions, and said a division was inevitable.
‘I am clear in my mind that because of the challenges which we have to face in five to 10 years, the home minister’s energies must be devoted to [...]
Srinagar, Dec 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court has awarded two weeks time to the Central government and the Jammu and Kashmir government to file their reactions on the ban imposed on pre-paid mobiles in the state.
The case will be taken up for hearing [...]
Srinagar, Dec 15 (ANI): The Supreme Court has awarded two weeks time to the Central government and the Jammu and Kashmir government to file their reactions on the ban imposed on pre-paid mobiles in the state.
The case will be taken up for hearing on January 8. The apex court has issued notices, following a petition [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 9 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) would provide security to the 1200-MW Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project (RGTPP) at Khedar in Haryana, an official said here Wednesday.
‘The security of RGTPP, which is being set up at a cost of more than Rs.4,300 crore (Rs.43 billion), could not be compromised at any [...]
New Delhi, Dec. 9 (ANI): The Centre has tightened the norms to issue business visas to foreign nationals, as it has been noticed by the Government that a number of foreign nationals coming for execution of projects/contracts in India have come on Business Visa instead of the Employment [...]
New Delhi, Dec.8 (ANI): Government on Tuesday stated that it has released over Rs. 742 crores over the modernisation of police forces.
“A High Powered Committee under the Chairpersonship of Additional Secretary (CS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs has been [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 1 (IANS) Having been promised nearly five decades ago that the union territory (UT) of Chandigarh would ultimately be its state capital, Punjab is now refusing any move that could dilute its claim to the city.
Top Punjab leaders, including Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, have opposed a move by the central government to [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): A cross-section of citizens of Delhi reiterated their determination to fight terror at the lawns of India Gate.
Organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the 60-minute concert ‘A Nation In Solidarity Against Terror’ was attended by artists, sportspersons and representatives of civil society. They gathered to pay homage to [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) There would be no political asylum for the 66 detained Pakistani nationals in Tihar jail, the ministry of home affairs told the Delhi High Court Thursday.
‘Their plea for grant of political asylum has been rejected and the process of their deportation has begun,’ the government’s counsel informed a division bench [...]
New Delhi, Nov.19 (ANI): Home Minister P. Chidambaram administered the National Integration Pledge to the officers and staff of the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with the Quami Ekta Week today.
The week is observed every year [...]
Chicago, Nov 18 (IANS) Even as the Indian government announced it was investigating the issue of a visa by the Indian consul general in Chicago to terrorism suspect Tahawwur Rana, a senior diplomat here has denied that any procedure was violated.
‘The Consulate General of India, Chicago issued visas to Mr Tahawwur Rana and his [...]
New Delhi, Nov.11 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday issued an alert warning for four cities of three States along with Delhi over probability of multiple terror attacks.
Ministry of Home Affairs issued the alert for Delhi, Agra, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), [...]
New Delhi, Nov.11 (ANI): The Government on Wednesday issued advisories to eight coastal States and Union Territories over cyclone Phyan and put the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) batallions in Gujarat and Maharashtra on alert.
The movement of a depression in the central Arabian [...]
Ranchi, Nov. 9 (ANI): The Centre on Monday assured full security to Jharkhand voters in the wake of a recent Maoist call, boycotting the five-phase assembly elections in the state.
“Over 300 companies of para-military forces will be placed at the disposal of [...]
Srinagar, Nov 9(ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he would hold talks with Union Home Ministry over its decision to ban pre-paid mobile service in the State from November 1.
Omar’s initiative comes as the decision has resulted in [...]
