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Beyond the 'laxman rekha'

Ensuring lasting pharma security is vital

Home Ministry's list of what's closed, exempt during coronavirus lockdown

The Home Ministry on Tuesday listed organisations that will be closed-and exempt--during the 21-day nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus announced by Prime Minister

Take action against those harassing people from Northeast: MHA tells states

There have been cases where people, including athletes and sportspersons, from the Northeast have been harassed by linking them to Covid-19

Union Home Ministry gives 60-day exemption to NGOs to file annual returns

Reasons cited by them include being dependent on their accountants or CA firms, who somehow ignored the deadlines, difficulties like floods and mis-handling of log-in or passwords by their CAs.

Delhi violence: Shah takes stock of law-and-order situation at review meet

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a review meeting to take stock of prevailing law and order situation in Delhi in view of the violence that engulfed the North-East district of the national capital.The meeting was attended by Home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, CP Delhi Amulya Patnaik, and Special CP, Law & Order SN Shrivastava.According to the ministry, no major untoward incident has been reported in the last 36 hours in any police station of North-East Delhi.Prohibitory orders under Section 144 will be relaxed for a total of 10 hours tomorrow in view of the improvement of the situation."So far, 48 FIRs, pertaining to clashes, loss of lives/property, etc., have already been registered and further FIRs would be registered in due course. Police has detained/arrested 514 suspects for questioning so far. Further arrests would be effected in the course of the investigation," Home Ministry said.The Ministry claimed that 35 persons have lost their lives in these tragic ...

Preparations for Census, NPR at peak; exercise to begin from April 1

The ministry said this after a conference of the directors of the census operations on status of preparatory work around Census 2021 and NPR update

Nirbhaya case: Home Ministry receives mercy petition of convict Pawan Gupta

The ministry will forward the petition to President Ram Nath Kovind for his consideration and decision

Congress, CPI(M) hold protests against Amit Shah's rally in Kolkata

CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty led a large rally in Santoshpur in south Kolkata while Congress activists took out a protest march from Beckbagan to Park Circus

Home ministry gets ED report on PFI, seeks inputs from states, agencies

The PFI has on several occasions denied having any link with any protest against the CAA in the country

Govt has no intention of scrapping Article 371, Amit Shah assures Northeast

Referring to the problems of militancy and inter-state boundary disputes in the region, the home minister said the Modi government was committed to their resolution

No information on group called 'tukde tukde gang': Govt tells Parliament

Two Congress members had asked the government if an organisation called the 'tukde gang' has been identified.

Ram temple trust to have office in Delhi's Greater Kailash: Home Ministry

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the trust will have 15 members, including one from the Dalit community.

Budget 2020: Govt depts to create over 260,000 jobs between 2019 and 2021

The highest 79,353 jobs are estimated to be created in policing

Despite anti CAA protests, 57% 'very much satisfied' with Shah as HM: Poll

His home state Gujarat, apart from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, remains bullish on him

No Indian will be harassed by asking to submit old documents: MHA on CAA

A well laid-out procedure in this regard will be issued by the home ministry

Muslims among 4,000 granted citizenship in last 6 years: Home Ministry

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill has been in public domain since 2016. It was cleared by a 30-member parliamentary committee consisting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members.

Bureaucratic rejig at Centre: T V Somanathan appointed Expenditure Secy

Senior IAS officer T V Somanathan was on Friday appointed Expenditure Secretary, the post lying vacant since October, as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre. Somanathan, a 1987-batch IAS officer, is at present serving in his cadre state Tamil Nadu. He has been appointed as the Expenditure Secretary, a Personnel Ministry order said. Former Expenditure Secretary Girish Chandra Murmu was named as the Lieutenant Governor of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on October 25. Ravi Mittal has been named Information and Broadcasting Secretary in place of Amit Khare. Mittal, a 1986-batch IAS officer of Bihar cadre, is at present Special Secretary, the Department of Financial Services. Khare will now serve as Secretary, the Department of Higher Education, in place of R Subrahmanyam, who has been appointed as Secretary, the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment. Senior bureaucrat Sushil Kumar will be Secretary Mines. He is Additional Secretary, Departmen

Home ministry sanctions Rs 100 cr for women help desks in police stations

The ministry has sanctioned a sum Rs 100 crore from the Nirbhaya fund for setting up and strengthening of the women help desks in police stations, the statement said

The sound of silence

Rahul Bajaj said nothing new but the govt should listen all the same

Tribal Affairs, Home Affairs Ministries lead in RTI rejections: CIC report

The number of RTI applications received by Central government ministries and departments increased by 136,000, about 11 per cent higher than 2017-18