Nic Meeting

• National Integration Council meeting: Chandrababu Naidu walks out over Telangana

  TDP chief and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today walked out of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting in Delhi in protest against the move to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.

• Harmony meet: Narendra Modi skipped it to avoid questions, says Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called a meeting of the National Integration Council in New Delhi in the aftermath of the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, in which nearly 50 were killed and over 40,000 displaced.

• National Integration Council meet: Highlights

  National Integration Council meet begins in New Delhi. Here are the highlights:

• Harmony meet: PM warns of action against politicians who incite communal trouble, Narendra Modi skips meet

  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and and his Chhattisgarh counterpart Raman Singh have skipped a meeting of the National Integration Council called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the aftermath of the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, in which nearly 50 were killed and over 40,000 displaced.

• 2G case: Joint Parliamentary Committee's Monday meeting postponed

  The crucial sitting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee slated to be held on Monday to adopt its controversial draft report on 2G scam has been postponed in view of the National Integration Council (NIC) meeting.

• Prime Minister's speech at the National Integration Council meeting

  Chief ministers of 21 states attended the meeting of the National Integration Council today chaired by the Prime Minister. The council is meant to look at issues like national integration and secularism, and combat communalism, linguist and casteism. However, it was the Communal Violence Bill that became the focus.

• Communal Violence Bill is 'dangerous', says BJP; Trinamool agrees

  Chief ministers of 21 states attended the meeting today chaired by the Prime Minister. The National Integration Council has met after three years. The council is meant to look at issue of radicalization of youths in the name of religion, and handling of civil disturbances. Many attendees said given this week's bomb blast in Delhi, a discussion on ...

• BJP opposes communal violence bill, calls it non-secular

  Calling it "non-secular", the Bhartiya Janta Party opposed the communal violence bill presented by the National Advisory Council (NAC) at the National Intergration Council (NIC) meeting being held today in New Delhi.

• PM: Need to upgrade intelligence gathering

  Addressing the 15th meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) in Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today stressed on the need to strengthen the country's intelligence gathering apparatus.

• Narendra Modi will not attend National Integration Council meeting

  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not attend the meeting of National Integration Council (NIC) to be held in Delhi today.

• Fifteenth National Integration Council meeting in Delhi today

  The 15th meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) will be held in Delhi today to discuss measures to curb communalism and radicalisation of the youth in the name of religion and caste.