New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) As the Naxalite movement that daunted India for decades comes to an end, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has already begun chalking out the roadmap to ensure that the menace does not resurface. Officials say that the ideology is officially dead today, but they are on guard to ensure that a new form of criminality does not emerge in certain zones where the Naxalite menace was at its highest.The MHA recognises that once the problem ends, the wise thing to do is to…
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New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has unveiled ‘PRAHAAR’ — India’s first national counterterrorism policy and strategy, outlining the nation’s zero-tolerance towards acts of terrorism, from outside and inside. The elaborate document lays out a framework for India’s firm approach to terrorism, steps already taken over the years, and articulates the strategy to be adopted in future. For decades, the country has suffered multiple blows due to terrorism, sponso…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs be made a party in the case relating to illegal constructions in the East Kolkata Wetlands, court sources said.Justice Amrita Sinha of the Calcutta High Court expressed dissatisfaction with the role of the state government and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in addressing the issue. The court observed that if necessary, central forces might have to be deployed to demolish the illegal constr…
Shillong, Feb 23 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Monday said that 92 villages in the state have been selected under the Vibrant Village Programme-II, even as the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is yet to notify the dates for the scheme implementation. Replying to a question in the Assembly, CM Sangma said that the programme will be implemented till 2028-29 and will be overseen by the state’s Border Areas Development (BAD) department.He explained that the Vibrant Villag…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Calcutta High Court to independently examine whether the invocation of provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was justified in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 5 (IANS) V.A. Arunkumar, son of legendary Communist leader V.S. Achuthanandan, has dropped strong hints that the Padma Vibhushan award conferred posthumously on his father might not be accepted by the family.On Thursday night, taking to his social media account, Arunkumar posted the January 29-dated letter from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs informing him of the award conferred on his father.However, in his brief note, he wrote: “We have been informed by the Union M…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the violence in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area for two days last month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand, is focussing on the angle of ‘cyber-instigation’ though which the local people were misled and provoked by projecting a case of suicide as a murder.The NIA officials have already visited the cyber-crime police station at Baharampur to collect information and clues on th…
Aizawl, Feb 2 (IANS) Authorities in Mizoram have so far registered the biometric details of nearly 90 per cent of about 30,900 Myanmar nationals, including women and children, who have taken shelter in the state after fleeing their country in different phases following the military coup in February 2021, officials said on Monday.Home Department officials said that of around 30,900 Myanmar nationals who have sought refuge across Mizoram’s 11 districts, biometric enrolment has been completed for…
Patna, Jan 28 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge sheeted Lakshman Paswan, a prime accused, in connection with the attempted revival of the banned Maoist organisation — CPI (Maoist) — in the Magadh zone of Bihar, NIA officials said on Wednesday. Lakshman Paswan has been charge sheeted under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.According to the NIA investigation, he was actively involved in collecting levy from bus…
Chandigarh, Jan 26 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday asked the citizens to take a pledge to build an educated and healthy India, saying the true spirit of Republic Day is realised only when every citizen enjoys the right to equality. In a message, CM Mann said. “The true spirit of Republic Day is realised only when every citizen enjoys the right to equality. In Punjab, we have ensured that quality education and world-class healthcare are not privileges of the few but fundame…