The Home Minister today said that purpose of deploying the army in the Kashmir valley is only to serve as a deterrent and the major burden of the law and order and curfew enforcement is being borne by the J&K police.
He said that most of the affected areas in there valley are being patrolled and [...]
As curfew was clamped in more areas of Kashmir, Home Minister P Chidambaram hoped Army would not be required there for too long and appealed to people of the valley to observe restrictions.
He said major share of patrolling and law enforcement was being done by the state police and CRPF and Army was on standby [...]
New Delhi : A Group of Ministers is meeting in New Delhi on Thursday evening to consider the issue of inclusion of caste in census.
Government last month set up the GoM on the issue after consensus eluded it at two meetings of the Union Cabinet.
Several political parties, including Samajwadi Party, RJD and JD (U), have [...]
Chhattisgarh: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram suggested Chhattisgarh government that “relocation and reconfiguration” of para-military forces in the state may be required as some of them were not operationally viable.
Chidambaram also regretted the killing of 26 security personnel in Narayanpur district on Tuesday.
To a question whether the recent killing of CRPF personnel is due to [...]
New Delhi: Home Minister P. Chidambaram says, anti-national elements fomenting trouble in the Kashmir valley are clearly linked to Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba – LeT. He said the two militants recently killed in an incident in one of the areas in Sopore were linked to LeT.
Firmly backing the state government in dealing with the violence in the [...]
Jammu and Kashmir: The Centre has assured the J&K Government of full support in its efforts to put an end to violations of curfew, stone pelting and rioting.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that there are reliable reports about anti-national elements trying to exploit the situation. He said [...]
The US has welcome the just conclude direct talks between India and Pakistan.
Reacting on the just concluded talks in Islamabad between Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik, a US State Department spokesman said America encourage this kind of direct and pragmatic dialogue.
There can be benefits to both countries. On the nature [...]
India and Pakistan have agreed to work together to clear the menace of terrorism from the region. Addressing a joint Press Conference in Islamabad yesterday evening, Home Minister P Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik said that the two sides have agreed to address the situation with seriousness. They said that the CBI and [...]
India today sought fullest cooperation among SAARC countries in sharing information on potential terrorists and planned acts of terrorism to create a more secure environment.
Addressing the SAARC Home Ministers’ Conference in Islamabad, Home Minister P Chidambaram said, the increasing threat of terrorism poses a major challenge to the maintenance of peace and security and adversely [...]
Government has approved a proposal to open 107 Kendriya Vidyalayas which would cater to nearly 1,03,000 students in the country.
These schools will be opened during the remaining period of the 11th Plan, taking the total number of Kendriya Vidyalayas in the country to 1,088. The Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs, CCEA yesterday gave the go-ahead [...]