The offer of “quiet dialogue” by union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has not gone down too well with separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir with hardline leader Syed Ali Geelani rejecting it saying it was an attempt to “discredit him” as he had not softened his stand. The pro-azadi Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) [...]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has asserted once again that naxal menace in country is growing day by day. He expressed his outrage at the murder of a Jharkhand police officer by Maoists and vowed the rebels’ “scheme” will not succeed. Chidambaram was commenting on the murder of Jharkhand Police’s special branch officer [...]
Raipur: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Friday that the Army would not be involved in the offensive against naxals. He was vsiting Maoist-affected Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. Mr. Chidambaram, who was in Ranchi to review the security situation in Jharkhand, said “There is no proposal to involve the Army in the anti-naxal operations.” He [...]
Home minister P Chidambaram is concerned about the failure of state governments to successfully compyly with the Police Establishment Board — a mechanism suggested by the Supreme Court for deciding on police transfers and postings. Mr Chidambaram, in his address to DGPs/IGPs meet, wondered why police chiefs were silent when their men are transferred and [...]
Terming the situation in Punjab as “not quite normal”, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the Centre has asked the state government to enforce curfew strictly in all areas where violence broke out after the killing of a sect leader in Austria. The Centre has also responded to the state’s request for additional companies of [...]
Former central government minister Jagdish Tytler Monday sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the shoe attack by a journalist on Home Minister P. Chidambaram, which had brought Tytler’s role in the 1984 Sikh riots back into limelight. On April 7, Jarnail Singh, a journalist of the Dainik Jagran newspaper, had tossed a [...]
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi owes an apology to the armymen for his remarks that terrorists holed up in the Charar-e-Sharif shrine in Kashmir were fed by soldiers before they were allowed to escape, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Wednesday. “I read from news reports that Narendra Modi stated in a public meeting in [...]
Admitting that there were shortfalls in intelligence sharing among the country’s various security agencies, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said these “gaps” have now been sealed to ensure better co-ordination. Chidambaram told reporters here that the gaps were mainly on account of multiple central agencies, their subsidiaries in the states and the local state-level agencies. [...]
Only a Congress-led government has the “high degree of competence” to deal with the problems in the financial sector, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Wednesday. “The Congress party has the capacity to deal with the problem (in the financial sector),” the minister said at a press conference. “It requires a high degree of competence [...]
An LTTE supporter shouted slogans hailing the banned outfit and hurled a wooden object towards the stage where union Home Minister P. Chidambaram was seated during an election rally in Karaikudi town of Tamil Nadu. The man, identified by a single name Ramu, Sunday evening caused a flutter when he rushed to the stage when [...]
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