The government is considering reducing the strength of security forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir by 25 per cent as a confidence building measure.
In the wake of the Jama Masjid firing incident, the government has briefed the International Security Liaison Group, monitoring the security arrangement in the Commonwealth Games, and assured foolproof security during the fortnight-long sporting event beginning October 3.
Handing over of United Liberation Front of Asom leader Anup Chetia to India, cooperation in anti-terror steps and firing along the international border will be high on the agenda during the home secretary-level talks between India and Bangladesh beginning Wednesday.
India has proposed two sets of dates -- March 21-22 and March 28-29 -- to Pakistan for Home Secretary-level talks, where counter-terrorism, including progress in Mumbai terror attacks trial and the demand for voice samples of 26/11 accused are expected to be discussed.
The government on Tuesday said it follows a proper procedure in ordering interception of telephones and a high-level committee reviews each case individually before giving its final approval.
Bangladesh Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikdar, who held a crucial two-day talks with his Indian counterpart Gopal K Pillai, said all border and security related issues were discussed in the meeting and both the sides are working sincerely to resolve the ongoing problems in shortest possible time.
The government said on Friday that it was aware that elements in certain right wing Hindu outfits were allegedly involved in terror activities in the country.
Marking the first step in the resumption of the stalled dialogue process, home secretaries of India and Pakistan will hold talks in New Delhi on March 28 and 29 on a range of issues including terrorism and the 26/11 trial.This will be the first structured bilateral secretary-level meeting on counter-terrorism after the recent Indo-Pak decision to resume comprehensive talks.Islamabad has conveyed to New Delhi its consent to the meeting.
Concerned over spurt in Naxal violence, Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai will arrive in Raipur on Monday on a two-day visit to Chhattisgarh during which he will take stock of the security situation, redeployment of paramilitary forces and visit some worst Maoist-hit areas.
Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said a Commission may even be sent to the United States for getting evidence, may be from Headley, his wife and from other people, for which it would talk to the US authorities.
The worst-ever attack on a police force by Maoists, the blast in Pune at the beginning and the Varanasi explosion at the end of the year blotted the copybook of the security forces, which otherwise kept 2010 free from terror.
Addressing a seminar on "Left Wing Extremism Situation in India", Pillai said the Maoists might be getting the help of some former soldiers in carrying out subversive activities.
The SAARC summit on Interior/Home affairs had a cold start on Thursday when the Indo-Pak interior secretaries had miscommunication in their one on one meeting and the delegates failed to approve few key proposals to cooperate in the fields of police and immigration.
India on Sunday said attempt to bring the guilty in Mumbai attacks to justice "has not moved an inch" in Pakistan and hoped that country will learn from New Delhi's "fair" handling of the Samjhauta Express blast case and punish the perpetrators of the 26/11 carnage.
Law enforcement agencies should brace themselves to face the emerging challenges on the law and order front which may be 'very turbulent' in the coming years, Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said on Monday. "The law and order situation in the country over the next decades is going to be turbulent. There is no doubt about it. We are not going to have a satisfactory law and order situation for few decades to come," he said.
The one-man inquiry committee, appointed to probe the recent Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh which killed 76 security personnel, on Monday submitted its report to Home Minister P Chidambaram.Former chief of Border Security Force E N Rammohan submitted the report to Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai, who handed over it to the home minister.On April 6, nearly a thousand Maoists staged an ambush on a group of CRPF personnel, killing 75 of them, along with a state police head constable
The government on Monday said it cannot rule out the possibility of the involvement of a foreign hand in the Pune blast, including a David Headley link, even as it disclosed that an Inter Services Intelligence -sponsored 'Karachi Project' was going on to indoctrinate Indian youth on to the path of terror.Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said there is definitely a Headley link to the Pune blast, since it took place at the German Bakery.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Gopal K Pillai said the agriculture text proposals on the special safeguard mechanism were not acceptable to India. A country can use the SSM to impose up to 50 per cent additional import duty on farm products which have seen a surge in imports.
Even in the midst of a liquidity crunch, Special Economic Zones still remain a lucrative investment option among developers. The government on Monday cleared 22 of these tax-free industrial enclaves.
The Centre on Tuesday ruled out use of air power in the fight against Naxalites and admitted obviously some element of failure in the operations led to the killing of 75 security personnel in Chhattisgarh.
None of the nine persons killed in the Pune blast is a foreigner and the three bodies identified so far are of Indians, Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said in New Delhi on Sunday. Pillai said among the injured, four are Iranians, two Sudanese, one Taiwanese, one German and two Nepalese.
India said on Wednesday developed countries were still not willing to fulfil their commitments under the World Trade Organization agreements and warned this could put the entire global trade at risk.
The ministry also expects the pace of job losses in export-oriented units to slow down in the coming months.
The US must make substantial cuts in farm subsidies and scale down demands for tariff reductions by developing countries to enable the stalled WTO talks to move forward, India's top trade negotiator said on Thursday.
The trade policy specifies that "for all goods and services exported from India, services received, rendered abroad, wherever possible, shall be exempted from service tax".
The Centre said on Wednesday it had made a good offer for the proposed Free Trade Agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nation and is awaiting ASEAN's reactions to it.
The government on Thursday launched a Grievances Redress Cell for exporters and importers in a bid to improve the of the directorate general of foreign trade.
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