| NIA to complete 26/11 probe in 6 weeks: Pillai | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Barely a week before the first anniversary of Mumbai terror attack, Union Home Ministry has expressed hope of completing the investigation into the incident within next six weeks. |
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| Pakistan-born US nationals' visas to be cleared by New Delhi | 13-NOV-09 |
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| India has tightened visa approval norms for Pakistan-born US citizens by making it mandatory for such applications to be cleared by New Delhi and is also mulling similar action on American nationals born in China, Afghanistan and Iran.The step comes in the wake of the FBI foiling an LeT plot to use Chicago resident David Coleman Headley to target Indian facilities. |
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| Visas for Pak-born US nationals to be cleared by Delhi | 12-NOV-09 |
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| As an immediate fall out of the FBI foiling a LeT plot to use US nationals to carry out major terror attacks in India, the Indian Embassy here has tightened visa approval norms for Pakistan-born American citizens, whose applications would now have to be cleared by New Delhi. |
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| Centre allots Rs 7,300cr package as part of anti-naxal plan | 09-OCT-09 |
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| With nearly 40,000 para-military personnel being deployed in four Maoist-hit states, the Centre has readied its anti-naxal plan which also includes Rs 7,300 crore package for unleashing developmental works in areas cleared off the Left-wing extremists. |
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| Three-tier security for CWG, no specific threats: G K Pillai | 09-SEP-09 |
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| An exhaustive ground-to-air security will be in place to prevent "Lahore-type" attacks for the Commonwealth Games scheduled to be held here October next year with the athletes to be flown-in charter flights from their home countries. |
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| Latha Jishnu: Dealing with nasty EU customs | 10-JUN-09 |
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| When cargo is unloaded from an Etihad Airways plane at Frankfurt airport a few weeks ago , customs officials show unusual interest in a consignment of medicines from India. The medicine is in transit to Denmark, although the final destination is the Republic of Vanuatu which, in case you are curious, is a Y-shaped archipelago of 83 volcanic islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It is among the less developed countries and for the islands’ small population the shipment of medicines would have gone a long way. |
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| G K Pillai new Home Secretary | 05-JUN-09 |
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| The name of 59-year-old Pillai was cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
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