Home Ministry
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Delhi government deducts half of salary of 2 'suspended' DANICS officers
India | Mar 01, 2016, 10:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi government has deducted half of salary of two senior DANICS officers working with its Home Department as they were suspended for defying a Cabinet order, a move which may trigger another round
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Pakistan registers case to probe Pathankot attack
India | Mar 01, 2016, 04:01 PM ISTNew Delhi: For the first time, Pakistan has taken action on terror strikes in India by registering a case to investigate the role of its citizens involved in the Pathankot attack, based on evidence provided
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MHA told to disclose information on Bureau of Immigration
India | Feb 16, 2016, 05:34 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Union Home Ministry to disclose records related to the establishment of the Bureau of Immigration which is part of the Intelligence Bureau, an organisation exempted from
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After Pathankot attack, more laser walls along Indo-Pak border
India | Jan 17, 2016, 12:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: A fortnight after Pathakot terror attack, the Ministry of Home Affairs has identified more than 40 vulnerable unfenced stretches along the India-Pakistan border that will be covered by laser walls soon.A MHA official
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Ishrat case: Former IB Special Director Rajendra Kumar approaches CIC
India | Jan 13, 2016, 05:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) Special Director Rajender Kumar, charge sheeted in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, has approached Central Information Commission seeking disclosure of correspondence between CBI and Law Ministry and opinion of
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Locals paid Rs 20 to security guards to enter Pathankot base: Intelligence Agencies
India | Jan 13, 2016, 12:02 AM ISTNew Delhi: Locals living in areas near the terror-hit Pathankot air base used to enter the premises after allegedly paying a paltry sum of Rs 20 to security guards to graze their cattle and even
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DDCA probe: Kejriwal hits back, asks Centre to approach court
National | Jan 08, 2016, 06:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has hit back at the Centre's declaration of the inquiry commission constituted by the AAP government to look into the affairs of the Delhi & District Cricket Association
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Pathankot: BSF constitutes team to ascertain border breach
India | Jan 07, 2016, 11:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: Facing flak for possible ingress of terrorists from Indo-Pak border right under its nose, BSF has constituted a fact-finding team headed by a DIG-level official to ascertain possible route taken by a group
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Women to constitute 33 pc of constables in paramilitary forces
India | Jan 06, 2016, 08:47 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Central government has approved 33 per cent reservation for women in paramilitary CRPF and CISF and 15 per cent in the border guarding forces BSF, SSB and ITBP at constable-level positions.According to
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Home Ministry alerts Defence Ministry about ISI's 'spy ring'
India | Dec 30, 2015, 08:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has alerted the Defence Ministry about an alleged spy ring being run by Pakistan's ISI, which is trying to use ex-servicemen in the garb of providing job opportunities and
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Kejriwal's commission of inquiry into DDCA illegal: LG tells MHA
National | Dec 25, 2015, 07:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: In a move that is expected to trigger another confrontation between the Centre and AAP government, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung has recommended to the Home Ministry that city government's decision to set
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Centre to prepare and publicize sex offenders list
India | Dec 09, 2015, 12:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Home ministry on Tuesday informed the supreme court that Government will prepare a National Sex Offenders List and make public the names of people charge-sheeted for sexual offences against women.According to a
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Right to throw a family out of theatre for not standing during anthem?
India | Dec 01, 2015, 12:59 PM ISTMumbai: A video purportedly showing a family being asked to leave a theatre for not standing during national anthem is making rounds on social media.The 2.40 minute long video shows a family being taken to
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December 16 juvenile convict may be booked under NSA
India | Nov 26, 2015, 08:33 AM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Police is contemplating to book the juvenile convict of December 16 gangrape and murder under the National Security Act.The juvenile convict's three-year term in the rehabilitation centre is coming to an end
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ED seeks Lalit Modi's extradition; writes to MHA
India | Nov 13, 2015, 10:42 PM ISTNew Delhi: With Interpol delaying issuing Red Corner notice against former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, the Enforcement Directorate has asked the government to initiate extradition proceedings with the UK in connection with its money laundering
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Indian killed as Nepal police clear border point; India upset
World | Nov 02, 2015, 06:17 PM ISTKathmandu/New Delhi: An Indian youth was today killed when Nepalese police opened fire on protesters near the Indo-Nepal border, prompting a "concerned" India to ask its transporters to exercise caution and not endanger their lives,
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Government blocks two websites, Facebook pages of ISIS propaganda
India | Oct 14, 2015, 09:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Cracking its whip on terror propaganda being carried on Internet, government today ordered banning of two websites and some pages on social networking site Facebook after it was found that they contained material
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Don't discriminate against minorities in registering FIR: Home ministry to states
India | Oct 14, 2015, 07:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the backdrop of lynching of a Muslim man over rumours of eating beef in Dadri, the Centre has asked all states not to discriminate against the minorities while registering FIR as timely
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Centre asks states to be alert on terrorists, communal tension
India | Oct 12, 2015, 06:59 PM ISTNew Delhi: With reports of five Pakistani terrorists entering India, the Centre has asked all states to be extra vigilant against any attempt by terrorists to disrupt peace and communal tension by subversive elements during
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Home Ministry against abolition of death penalty
India | Oct 04, 2015, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Home Ministry is likely to reject Law Commission's recommendation for abolition of death penalty, maintaining that time was not ripe yet to remove it completely from the statute book keeping in mind