Anti Terror Body

• Who stands where on proposed anti-terror body NCTC

  Chief Ministers from across the country are meeting for a conference on internal security in the national capital today. At the meeting, the government is attempting to hard sell a diluted version of the proposed anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC.

• NCTC should not be under secret organisation: Naveen Patnaik

  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik joined the clamour against the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) today. At the chief ministers' meet on NCTC today in Delhi he said no democratic country has given wide ranging powers to their secret intelligence agencies and hence the NCTC should not be placed under the Intelligence Bureau (IB). He said ...

• Modi says NCTC reflects centre as "omnipotent ruler"

  Accusing the Centre of behaving like "Viceroys of yore", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the constitution of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is a conscious strategy to cast the Centre as an "omnipresent" ruler with states portrayed as dependent vassals. Underlining that the fight against terror requires clear vision and a s...

• 'Home Ministry wants to belittle states, treat them like pawns on chess board', says Jayalalithaa

  Rejecting the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC in its present form, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday blamed the Home Ministry for the growing distrust between the Centre and states.

• Anti-terror body unacceptable, withdraw it: Mamata Banerjee

  Sticking to her stand that the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) would upset the federal structure of the country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Centre's proposal is "unacceptable" to the states. She said setting up of institutions like NCTC with the proposed powers of arrest and seizure upsets the federal structure of...

• Analysis: Why intel experts oppose NCTC

  It's not just UPA's main ally Mamata Banerjee or Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who are opposing the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), but even Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) - India's external intelligence agency - had put up a red flag way back in early2010. And, theirs was, perhaps, the first dissent that the Home Minister P Chi...

• Consensus-building only way forward, says PM on anti terror body debate

  Under attack from some states on the NCTC issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said consensus-building was the only way forward and vices like terrorism need to be tackled together by the Centre and states. "Well, we are trying. Consensus-building is the only way forward in a country as diverse and complex as ours," Singh told reporters when...

• Mamata Banerjee won't attend internal security meeting tomorrow

  Trinamool Congress chief and UPA ally Mamata Banerjee will not attend a crucial meeting of chief ministers convened by the Home Ministry on Monday to discuss internal security issues. The West Bengal Chief Minister, however, is expected to attend the May 5 meeting on the controversial National Counter Terror Centre (NCTC) issue.

• Naveen Patnaik writes to PM again, asks for meeting of all chief ministers

  Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik has written another letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, opposing the powers to be vested in the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). This is Mr Patnaik's third letter to Dr Singh on the issue.