Home Minister Shivraj Patil briefed the Union Cabinet on the terrorist attack in Ayodhya on Tuesday.
"The situation is serious. There is water everywhere. Villages, roads and railway lines are all submerged," Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters at the airport in Ahmedabad.
Home Minister Shivraj Patil Tuesday directed officials to provide necessary relief immediately to the victims of the fire, which took place in the Yamuna Pushta area of east Delhi Monday night.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had said yesterday that the talks would be held 'within the four walls fo the Constitution'.
All temples may not get the CISF covering, according to the Home Minister.
The CCS also discussed the Nuclear Confidence Building Measures with Pakistan.
Condemning the explosions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed to the people to maintain calm.
While imposing President's rule, the Centre had kept the assembly under suspended animation.
Even in Panchayat Raj regime prevailing in the country, the Zilla Parishads and Taluk Boards are often referred as local self governments, said Patil.
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Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Wednesday said infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir had declined after completion of fencing work along the Pakistan border.
Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes have also been nominated to contest the June 28 biennial elections.
The new Union home minister also said that the Centre would effectively deal with terrorism in the state.\n\n
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Shivraj Patil will be the home minister, while Natwar Singh will be the next external affairs minister.
Patil may discuss with the state administration the issue of deployment of central paramilitary forces along the state's borders with China and Nepal.
Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil stressed the Centre was keen to see a government in the state soon.
'I don't think the Congress party has learned any lessons from 1984. What can they have learnt when the Sikh victims are still to get justice?'
'Do you allow the guilty to go scot free just because the perpetrators of such heinous crimes were able to protect themselves from the law for 20 years?'
Sikh groups demand that the report should be made public in two weeks.
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The meeting also discussed the progress made so far in the investigation into last Saturday's serial bomb blasts in the national capital, they said.
This was decided at an all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss relief and rehabilitation in tsunami-affected areas of the country.
Given the 'nature of this calamity, furious and ferocious along the coastline, the normal norms of Calamity Relief Fund cannot apply and a special package should be developed', Jayalalithaa said in letters to Manmohan Singh and Shivraj Patil.
Patil has commended the work of the ITBP and promised to look into its problems.
Over 372 people had lost their lives and the Union territory has suffered an estimated damage to the tune of over Rs 300 crore.
The home secretary said his foremost duty was to review the relief supplies to the quake-hit Uri and Tangdhar but he would also take stock of the security scenario in the state.
Home minister said that Assam is fully equipped.
Asked whether the apex court's verdict was a setback to the Congress, Patil said "the judgement is before us....it depends from which angle you look at it."
The government is likely to take a 'favourable' decision on enhancing the interest rate on Employees Provident Fund and the ministries of labour and finance are holding discussions on how to mobilise resources for it, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday
Terrorism and narco trafficking will be high on the agenda when Pakistan's Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah holds talks with India's Home Secretary V K Duggal from Monday. \n\n
Home Minister Shivraj Patil said in Raj Sabha on Wednesday that a new commission to study centre-state relations will soon be formed.
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