Home Minister On Nctc

• Cannot move ahead with NCTC without consensus from all states: highlights

  Home Minister addresses media on NCTC:

• PM meets chief ministers today, NCTC unlikely to go through

  Chief Ministers from across the country will meet for a conference on internal security in the national capital today. The meeting, convened by the Home Ministry, will be presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and will deliberate extensively on issues like Naxal menace, infiltration from across the border, communal disturbance and how to im...

• For anti-terror hub, NCTC, a revamp to win states over

  Days after the twin blasts in Hyderabad killed 16 people and injured more than 100, the government is determined to revive the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which was abandoned last year after unequivocal criticism by state governments. To coalesce support, the government has re-diagrammed the anti-terror hub, stripping i...

• Mamata Banerjee on board with plans for anti-terror hub NCTC, claims Home Minister

  Mamata Banerjee on board with plans for anti-terror hub NCTC, claims Home Minister

• Arun Jaitley's response to Home Minister's plea for the establishment of NCTC

  Days after the Hyderabad blasts the BJP says the Congress is weak on fighting the menace and states' rights should not be encroached on.

• Threat perception of terrorism in India continues to be high: Chidambaram

  Unfazed by strong opposition, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) was the need of the hour as threat perception of terrorism continues to be high and delay in setting up the anti-terror hub will increase the risk in the country.

• '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 an 'important pillar' of India's security: Home Minister

  Advocating the need for setting up anti-terror hub, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the Centre and State governments have to work together to make the country safe and secure. Addressing the Chief Ministers' conference on the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which is facing stiff opposition from non-Congress Chief Ministers...

• No one has approached us as yet, says Jayalalithaa on presidential polls

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is in Delhi today for the meeting with the Prime Minister and Home Minister over the NCTC. When asked about whom her party would supports in the upcoming Presidential polls she made it clear that no party was seeking her support. "No one has approached us for our support as yet," she said. Even when questio...

• 10 big facts on Centre vs state over NCTC, new anti-terror agency

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram met with the chief ministers of all states in the hope of finding consensus on the new National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, described by some chief ministers as an attack on federalism.