| Cyclone 'Phyan': Eight states, three UTs on alert | 11-NOV-09 |
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| As the sea became rough due to cyclonic storm 'Phyan', the Home Ministry today put on alert five coastal states and three Union Territories and sent disaster relief response force for their assistance. |
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| Centre to work with states to enforce law and order | 30-OCT-09 |
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| Admitting that there could be differences of opinion among UPA leaders on the Naxal issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Centre will work with all state governments regardless of their "political complexion" for enforcing law and order. |
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| Maoists get arms from outside, says Chidambaram | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal, according to Home Minister P Chidambaram, who nonetheless has expressed government's willingness for a dialogue with them provide they abjure violence. |
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| Prepaid mobile may be banned for a while in Kashmir: PC | 14-OCT-09 |
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| The government may have to ban prepaid mobile telephones for a while in the Kashmir valley because of security considerations if people do not switch over to post-paid connections, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said. |
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| Home Ministry takes up security issues with DoT | 06-SEP-09 |
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| The Home Ministry is learnt to have raised a host of security-related issues with the Telecom Department amidst security agencies raising concerns over Chinese vendors supplying equipment to Indian vendors. |
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| Centre's plan to secure telecom network suffers setback | 06-SEP-09 |
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| A suggestion by the Home Ministry that mobile operators should buy SIM (subscriber identity module) cards only from companies that have been screened has been rejected by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). This could be a setback to the Home Ministry’s plans to secure the country against any misuse of its vast telecommunication network by terrorists. |
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| Home Min inaugurates Education Loan Campaign | 31-AUG-09 |
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| Students would be given a moratorium on interest for education loans taken from banks sanctioned during 'Education Loan Campaigns', Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said. |
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| Centre ignores Mamata on Lalgarh | 21-AUG-09 |
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| Ignoring Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress boss Mamata Banerjee’s strong objections, the Union home ministry will continue its anti-Maoist operations in Lalgarh and even expand these to other parts of West Bengal. |
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| Security to top leaders tears Parliament apart | 23-JUL-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today had to step in to defuse the tension over reduction in security cover of prominent leaders, forcing the government to retract its earlier decision. According to top sources in the UPA, the PM told Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today “I have to run this government” so the Home Minister should not antagonize other leaders including allies over the security cover issue. |
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