His remark came in the backdrop of an Empowered Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee postponing a meeting to hike fuel prices indefinitely on Oil Minister Murli Deora's insistence.
As he prepares to host Home Minister P Chidambaram, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday that he would like to discuss all issues that have been "creating irritation" in the bilateral ties in a "transparent" and "very responsible" manner.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the level of violence in troubled states of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur had come down in last two and half years that he has been in the office.
The court decided the bail petition on three grounds -- flight risk, tampering with evidence and influencing witnesses.
Congratulating Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi for the massive surrender, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram assured those who surrendered that they would be treated with honour and dignity. K Anurag reports.
Is P Chidambaram in serious trouble? What is the alleged Aircel-Maxis scam? Does Chidambaram and his son have an alleged role in it? With the help of investigative reporter J Gopikrishnan, we shed some light on the controversial issue.
Union Home minister P Chidambaram chaired a high level security meeting in summer capital Srinagar on Tuesday. The minister, who arrived here on Monday, chaired the meeting of the unified headquarters in Srinagar which was attended by state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand, senior officials of the civil, Army, police, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies.
The trial court had earlier said that the allegations against Chidambaram were found serious, therefore, he was remanded to police custody.
There is no denying that Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's three-day trip to the United States will advance the further institutionalisation of India-US counter-terrorism and intelligence-sharing cooperation.
Will Foreign Minister Mr. Jaishankar please refer to the RTI reply dated 27-1-2015...The Reply justified the circumstances under which India acknowledged that a small island belonged to Sri Lanka," Chidambaram said.
Sources suggested that the Ministry of External Affairs had expressed reservations over Chidambaram's visit. The MEA believed that President-elect Barack Obama and his team were presently pre-occupied with the crisis in West Asia. Apparently, Washington had communicated the same to New Delhi.
In the midst of current chill in Indo-Pak relations, a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation home ministers' conference is scheduled next month in Islamabad to which Union Home Minister P Chidambaram plans to go subject to Foreign Office's approval.
The Supreme Court's decision to take up the case on Friday without granting him any interim relief, put to rest all the strategies being worked upon.
Congress leaders in the upper house called CAB unconstitutional, 'arbitrary executive fiat' to push Hindutva agenda.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday assured security and help to people lodged in a relief camp in Kokrajhar, Assam to help them return home.
Congress workers in Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's native district in Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu on Saturday celebrated the Delhi court order rejecting a plea to make him an accused in the 2G case by bursting crackers.
Nearly three years after the hanging of Afzal Guru, Congress leader P Chidambaram said that he felt it was possible that the case was "perhaps not correctly decided".
The home minister's visit to Pakistan can either open the path to a serious re-engagement or regress us to the rhetoric of the last 12 years, writes K C Singh.
Asish Kumar Singh had also earlier lodged complaint cases against AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and writer Arundhati Roy for their controversial statements.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday rejected Home Minister P Chidambaram's 'self-certified' non-involvement in the 2G spectrum case and maintained that he should resign from the Union cabinet.
"The government is wrong. It is wrong because it is clueless," Chidambaram said. "It is unable to look for the obvious clues because it is stubborn and mulish in defending its catastrophic mistakes like demonetisation, flawed GST, tax terrorism, regulatory overkill, protectionism, and centralised control of decision-making in the Prime Minister's Office."
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday sympathised with the ordinary police constable, saying he is the 'most abused' part of the force and the 'most reviled public servant'.Chidambaram also said that India, which is facing serious terror and Naxal threats, has an ill-equipped police machinery, especially at its lower ranks."The police system is outdated. Police are ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-paid," said Chidambaram, talking about the challenges.
As the operation against Maoists in Lalgarh entered a crucial phase, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram on Saturday and apprised them of the situation there.
This is the first time that the 73-year-old former finance and home minister is being grilled by the ED in this case.
The Congress officially said the party stands in support of its senior leader while accusing the government of "persecuting" its citizens for speaking truth to power.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who inaugurated the DGPs/IGPs Conference in New Delhi on Thursday, accepted the responsibility for violent Naxal incidents and said it was the government's duty to set out the context in which such terrorist attacks take place.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday charged the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of being behind Baba Ramdev's anti-corruption campaign. Chidambaram said the sangh had decided to support anyone raising the corruption issue.
The fact that S P Gupta was a former client of P Chidambaram is not germane to the controversy. The withdrawal of the cases in itself was scandalous. Not one of the three cases against Gupta impinge on the wider public interest, says Virendra Kapoor.
Official sources said Chidambaram's name tops the list of ministers who will be part of the EGoM from whose chairmanship Pawar recused earlier this week citing attempts to drag him into controversies.
With the country's long coastline increasingly becoming vulnerable to terror attacks, Home Minister P Chidambaram will visit Maharashtra and Kerala on Monday to review the security situation in the two coastal states.
In a strongly-worded article in a leading newspaper, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Wednesday questioned Home Minister P Chidambaram's strategy of treating the Naxal issue as a law and order problem, and called for a rethink of the counter-Maoist strategy. At the same time, Singh, a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, said, "The buck stops with the chief minister for law and order, and not with the home minister."
Like other inmates, he will also have access to the prison's library and can watch television for a specified period.
IPS officers from 1993 to 1996 batches can now start polishing their resume as Home Minister P Chidambaram is on a hunt for a trusted lieutenant.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram inaugurated a three-day long conference of directors general and inspectors general of police organised by the Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi on Monday. During his address, the home minister warned the senior police officials that cross-border terrorism 'is a matter of deep concern' and policing in India was always a challenge that has become graver after the terror attack on Mumbai.
On an average, Naxals kill at least three persons in as many as six attacks every day. In the first six months of 2010, Maoists carried out a total of 1,103 attacks, in which 534 people were killed. This was disclosed by Home Minister P Chidambaram while speaking at a meeting of chief ministers to discuss the situation arising out of Maoist violence in the country. According to the data presented by the home minister, the extremists have killed 325 civilians.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to create history when she presents her seventh straight Budget on Tuesday for the fiscal 2024-25, surpassing the record of former prime minister Morarji Desai. Sitharaman, who will turn 65 next month, was in 2019 appointed as India's first full-time woman finance minister when Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a decisive second term.
Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday alleged that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram was equally guilty as former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja in the 2G spectrum allocation scam since all decisions were taken by the two together.
In a move which could further rock the United Progressive Alliance and create fresh fissures at the highest level in the government, union Home Minister P Chidambaram has fired a salvo against Finance Minister Pranab mukherjee on the issue of price rise saying that inflation is the biggest tax which the people have to face.
Insisting that there was no wrongdoing in the arrest of Anna Hazare, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government would deal with him "administratively and politically" but made it clear that his Jan Lokpal Bill was not acceptable.
To combat the rising menace of Naxalism, Home Minister P Chidambaram has decided to hold a meeting of the chief ministers of the four states worst hit by Maoist violence, in Kolkata on February 9.The Centre, along with the governments of West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand, is planning a massive offensive against Maoists, the modalities of which will be finalised during the meeting. The home minister will discuss and fine-tune the action plan to tackle the Maoists.
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