While Jamaat cannot take part in the elections due to the ban imposed on it by the Union home ministry, it had shown interest in participating in the polls during the Lok Sabha elections if the ban were removed.
Shah said stringent actions would be taken against any individual who jeopardises the nation's security.
The Bharatiya Janata Party in Arunachal Pradesh has urged the union home affairs ministry to pay special attention and expedite 'action-oriented' measures to build defence infrastructure in the state.
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The home ministry has sought an explanation from the Kerala government on how the state police allowed terror operative and suspected commander of Lashkar-e-Tayiba's south India operations Thadiyantavida Nasir to interact with media persons at a court in Kochi on Wednesday.The state police has also drawn flak for allowing the media to take photographs of Nasir and Shahbas, another accused in the Kozhikode twin blasts case.
The government also appointed B B Wanchoo, a 1976 West Bengal IPS officer, as the new Director of Special Protection Group handling the security of the prime minister.
Hitting back, Greenpeace India on Thursday said it will move court against Tamil Nadu government's notice threatening cancellation of its registration and alleged that the "perversely framed and maliciously designed" charges were levelled at the behest of Union home ministry.
After allegations of sexual harassment by a group of female CRPF personnel, the force conducted an investigation and determined his guilt, sources said.
On a visit here to assess the security situation in the Valley in wake of fresh violence, a senior home ministry official said on Sunday that dialogue was the only way to resolve the Kashmir issue.
Rescue operations were underway on Friday to trace over 45 people missing following flash floods triggered by cloudbursts in three districts of Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Friday.
The National Investigative Agency on Thursday registered a case against Pakistan-born United States citizen Headley and his aide Canadian-born Tahawwur Hussain Rana, in connection with the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai. Headley and Rana, both suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation from Chicago in late October. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said government agencies are probing both Headley and Rana's terror links.
In a U-turn in the Kerala fishermen killing case, the Union home ministry on Friday asked the National Investigation Agency to dilute the charges against the two accused Italian marines from murder to violence, thus sparing them from the possibility of getting death penalty.
A top bureaucrat in the home ministry was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in New Delhi on Wednesday for taking a bribe of Rs 50 lakh from a businessman. O Ravi, 54, is a 1983-batch Indian Administrative Service official from the Gujarat cadre. He is currently serving as a joint secretary in the department of disaster management and policy, and has been on central deputation since February 2007. The CBI carried out a raid at Ravi's residence today morning.
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In a written reply, Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said, "Till now, the government has not taken any decision to prepare National Register of Indian Citizens at the national level."
This second tranche of citizenship certificates were issued on Wednesday, days before the final phase of voting for Lok Sabha polls on June 1.
'In India, managers and the leadership almost glorify overworking.'
'Modi knows the people here are opposed to this project, but he is using the might of government to push this port down our throats.'
Singh said India has the strength to take stern action against cross-border terrorism and Pakistan has started realising it.
New ministry will bring much-needed transparency in the functioning of the cooperatives, which so far have been riddled with allegations of political interference and mismanagement.
The government on Saturday said a committee will be formed to propose safety measures for healthcare professionals even as OPD services were hit across the country as doctors joined the 24-hour nationwide strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to protest the alleged rape and murder of a trainee medic in Kolkata.
According to the cause list of August 20 uploaded on the apex court website, a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is scheduled to hear on Tuesday.
The development assumes significance as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last month announced 10 lakh government recruitments in the next 1.5 years.
The home ministry has sounded alert at all small and major airports to tighten security and seize any suspicious powder or liquid any passenger may try to smuggle in on any domestic or international flight.
The reservation would include a 10 per cent horizontal quota for Agniveers in the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden, and special police officers.
With a 50 per cent increase in the last four years, Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number (785) of tigers in the country, followed by Karnataka (563), Uttarakhand (560), and Maharashtra (444), according to the data.
Russia on Wednesday said it is hoping for quick resolution of the issue relating to India's call for return of Indians recruited into the Russian Army as support staff and asserted their recruitment was purely a commercial matter.
The war and Modi's recent visit to Ukraine is expected to figure prominently in the bilateral meeting, according to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
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French police have arrested a Russian man suspected of planning to destabilize the Olympics.
Shakib Al Hasan, who was a lawmaker in the Awami League, was cleared by Bangladesh's new interim government last week to face Pakistan in a two-match Test series.
The Union home ministry said the Muslim Conference Jammu and Kashmir - Sumji faction, chaired by Ghulam Nabi Sumji, is known for its anti-India and pro-Pakistan propaganda and its members have been involved in supporting terrorist activities and providing logistical support to terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Over 100 people have been killed in the violence across Bangladesh as chaos reigned supreme hours after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled the country on Monday, reports said on Tuesday amid signs of return to normalcy.
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