Naveen Chidambaram

The rupee fell marginally on Friday as global risk assets remained under pressure.

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.

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...

The Central government today hosted an internal security meeting in New Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram tried to reach out to the chief ministers saying they were united in tackling the menace of terrorism. But non-Congress Chief Ministers who have been vocal about their opposition to the Centre's proposal to s...

The Italian government, worried about two citizens kidnapped by the Naxals in Odisha, may have more cause for concern today. The state government and the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram have traded charges about rescue efforts.

Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today claimed that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram did not object to the steps taken by the state government for the release of two officials from Maoist captivity."After abduction of the collector and the junior engineer, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram spoke to me and he certainly did not object to any ste...

The Centre was not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.Home Minister P Chidambaram is understood to have spoken to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and urged him not to set precedent by striking a deal with the Maoists that w...

The rupee fell marginally on Friday as global risk assets remained under pressure.

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.

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...

The Central government today hosted an internal security meeting in New Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram tried to reach out to the chief ministers saying they were united in tackling the menace of terrorism. But non-Congress Chief Ministers who have been vocal about their opposition to the Centre's proposal to s...

The Italian government, worried about two citizens kidnapped by the Naxals in Odisha, may have more cause for concern today. The state government and the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram have traded charges about rescue efforts.

Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today claimed that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram did not object to the steps taken by the state government for the release of two officials from Maoist captivity."After abduction of the collector and the junior engineer, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram spoke to me and he certainly did not object to any ste...

The Centre was not in favour of Orissa government striking a deal with Maoists for the release of its two officials in exchange for the freedom some top Maoists from its jails.Home Minister P Chidambaram is understood to have spoken to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and urged him not to set precedent by striking a deal with the Maoists that w...