Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Satej Patil's letter to Amitabh Bachchan asking him to be the state brand ambassador for traffic safety has drawn the ire of his fellow party legislator.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday urged the administration in Ahmednagar district to initiate dialogue with the women activists, who were detained and later released by the police for marching towards the Shani Shingnapur temple.
Asked whether online social networking has become a a big tool for criminals and terrorists, Minister of state for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said, "Yes sir, The criminals and terrorists are using online social networking. The Delhi police, however, is continuously upgrading its technological strength by inducting latest components/gadget to counter this challenge."
Over 10,000 foreigners were arrested by Indian security agencies last year for violating provisions of the Foreigners Act and immigration control rules, the government told Parliament on Wednesday.
Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said there were 228 cases of transgression of the Indo-China border by the People's Liberation Army in 2010, 213 cases in 2011, and 64 cases till April 2012
The National Investigation Agency has prepared a template for interrogation of suspects of terror funding, which has been circulated to the concerned authorities in all states and Union territories.
The government on Wednesday said mercy petitions of 20 death row convicts, including Afzal Guru, are under various stages of consideration and that the Constitution does not specify any time limit within which a decision should be taken.
"Against 426 cases of alleged fake encounters, 84 cases have been solved and the remaining 342 are unsolved," Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh said in the Lok Sabha.
The district administration has pressed men and machinery for relief and rescue operations, he said.
Hours after Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju became the top trend in the social media for taking a potshot at filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, saying people use Prime Minister Narendra Modi's name to get into news, the former seems to have toned down his stance.
In their letter to the CM, they have alleged that Pratyusha's boyfriend and actor-producer Rahul Raj Singh was "solely responsible for her death".
A total of 344 people have lost their lives in communal violence across the country in last three years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Pakistan on Friday summoned India's deputy high commissioner and lodged a protest over the Indian government's failure to contest the conditional bail to Swami Assemanand, chargesheeted in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast that killed 68 people, including 42 Pakistanis.
The Border Security Force has submitted a preliminary report on presence of Chinese troops in Pakistan's forward defence locations for imparting training of weapons handling, Lok Sabha was told on Tuesday.
The Centre on Thursday welcomed the Tripura government's decision to lift Armed Forces Special Powers Act saying there was no need for the state government to take the consent of the central government while taking the move.
Replying to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said that an officer has been designated as Nodal officer in-charge to monitor all activities on a day-to-day basis on the Andaman Trunk Road passing through the Jarawa Reserve.
The resolution, moved by Bharatiya Janata Party's Nishikant Dubey, as well as an amendment to include people who have migrated from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir for rehabilitation, was adopted by a voice vote.
West Bengal has a 2,200 km porous border with Bangladesh over 10 districts.
Tamil Nadu NGOs received the highest amount of Rs 546 crore as foreign donations.
Four more days of imprisonment would be added to actor Sanjay Dutt's prison term.
The government on Tuesday termed as "misplaced" superstar Aamir Khan's comments on growing intolerance, saying such statements only bring disrepute to the country as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Former Gujarat minister of state for home Gordhan Zadafia on Tuesday told the Nanavati Commission that he had neither visited any riot relief camp, nor any riot-hit areas in 2002, in the aftermath of the Godhra train burning incident.
Jolted by the militant attack on Minister of State for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar on Sunday evening in Srinagar, the security situation in Kashmir was reviewed at a high level meeting on Monday.
The reference to CRPP as a Maoist front organisation came in a written reply in Rajya Sabha by Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Home Affairs.
Former minister of state for home, Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo who had resigned in the aftermath of the August 9 Kishtwar communal clashes has been re-inducted in the Jammu and Kashmir council of ministers on Saturday.
Govt unlikely to allow Indo-Pak cricket in Dubai
In order to give a fillip to the ensuing tourist season, the Jammu and Kashmir government has decided to re-start famous light and sound shows in Shalimar Garden and the Hariparbat Fort in the city. The shows had been suspended for the last 22 years due to the rise in militancy. This was announced at a meeting of senior state government officers and local tour and travel operators chaired by Minister of State for Home and Tourism Nasir Aslam Wani.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has rubbished allegations by the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party about the death of a worker of the ruling National Conference allegedly in police custody. PDP has demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Minister of State for Home Nasir Aslam Wani so that the "judicial probe can proceed impartially'.
The internet services giant wanted to cover most of the Indian territory through the Google Street View.
Former Gujarat minister of state for home Gordhan Zadafia on Friday told the Nanavati Commission that the decision to bring back bodies of the victims of the 2002 Godhra train burning incident to the city "could have" been taken by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Bringing dead bodies back to the city is believed to have worsened the violence that followed. Zadafia was on Friday cross-examined for nearly three hours by the riots-probe panel.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said the attack on policemen in Latur district is an attack on the entire police force and such acts will not be "tolerated" in the future.
Former Gujarat minister of state for home Gordhan Zadafia has told the Nanavati Commission that he was not aware of riots in Naroda area and Gulburg society when the communal violence unfolded there during the 2002 riots. The content of his in-camera deposition of December 27 was released by the commission today.
A magisterial inquiry was on Saturday ordered by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah into the "accidental" killing of a youth in Baramulla district by the army even as head of Srinagar-based 15 Corps apologised to the family of the deceased.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday kicked up a storm with his remarks "was there a murder" on being asked why police had not acted against lawyers and others thrashing journalists, students and teachers at the premises of the court hearing the JNU case.
"There is no need for us to investigate that Pakistan is a terror state. We already know it is. I request the government that status quo should not continue and it should explore options," Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar said.
Singh said India has a policy of maintaining cordial relations with neighbours.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday paid an ex-gratia relief of Rs 1 lakh to the next of kin of Bhim Singh, a member of the National Disaster Management Force team, who perished in a chopper crash in Uttarakhand while carrying out rescue operations.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi along with Union Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh on Sunday paid a surprise visit to Gopalgarh and nearby areas, which witnessed bloody clashes between two communities last month.
SP leader Abu Azmi says 'women should not wear short skirts and go out only with family'.
Around 2,500 terrorists are present in a number of launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan, the government said on Wednesday.
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