Counter Terror Body

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  Ajit Doval's Appeal To Muslim Body 'Ulema' To Fight Terrorism, Extremism

  Ulema have a leading role in educating the people on the original tolerant and moderate principles of Islam and countering extremism with progressive ideas and thought, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said today.

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  Countering Terrorism India's Key Priority While Heading UN Security Body

  Countering terrorism and reformed multilateralism will be among the key priorities for India as it assumes the monthly presidency of the UN Security Council from December 1.

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  Enhancing Counter Terror Action Among Top Priorities: India On Election To UN Security Council

  Hours after getting elected to the UN Security Council, India on Thursday said enhancing counter terrorism action by the powerful UN body and depoliticising the process of putting sanctions on terror entities will be among its top priorities.

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  "Delegation That Epitomises The Dark Arts...": India Rips Into Pak At UN

  Pakistan should stop peddling falsehoods and heal itself of its "malaise", India said on Thursday at the UN Security Council, calling it a country that epitomizes the dark arts. "There are no takers here for your malware," India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin, said in a sharp message to Pakistan while criticizing ...

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  Anti-Terrorism Forum To Be An Independent Body: Facebook

  The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), established by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube with the objective of disrupting terrorist abuse on their respective platforms, will now become an independent organisation led by an Executive Director and supported by dedicated technology, counterterrorism and operations teams.

• Narendra Modi calls proposed anti-terror body, NCTC, 'opportunistic'; Chidambaram hits back

  The government's hardsell of its new, diluted National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC did not impress many at a chief ministers' meet in the capital today. But it did spark a political pow-wow on the sidelines of the meeting. Narendra Modi versus P Chidambaram.

• Chhattisgarh opposes NCTC; says it violates federal structure

  Opposing the setting up of the anti-terror body NCTC in its present form, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh today said it violates the federal structure of the Constitution.

• 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.

• P Chidambaram vs Narendra Modi over proposed anti-terror body, the NCTC

  Even before the Prime Minister could attempt a hardsell of the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, in a new diluted version, at a chief ministers' meet in the capital today, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi made it clear that it was still not acceptable.

• Prime Minister addresses Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security: full speech

  The government is expected to attempt another hardsell of anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre, to the states, many of which have been opposed to setting up such a hub. A new strategy to counter Naxalism will also be discussed at the one-day meet on internal security.

• Chief ministers' conference on internal security in Delhi: 10 developments

  Chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee are not attending a meeting of Chief Ministers in the Capital today, where the government is expected to attempt another hardsell of anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre, to the states, many of which have been opposed to setting up such a hub. A new strategy to counter Naxalism w...

• NCTC meet ends without consensus; India needs anti-terror body, says Chidambaram

  The government's ambitious National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC as it is now known will not be operationalized anytime soon. At least that is what emerged after some tough talk and more than six hours of intense deliberations at a crucial meeting in the national capital today, attended by chief ministers of states.

• 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.