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TopicMinistry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Topic: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

Maharashtra Police places order for US-made sniper rifles even as MHA recommends ‘Make in India’

New Delhi: The Maharashtra Police placed an order last week for 15 US-made Barrett Multi-role Adaptive Design (MRAD) sniper rifles and related accessories worth...

Pakistani nationals in India get relief as MHA expands exemption list, eases deportation threat

The Ministry of Home Affairs has included individuals with pending visa applications & women of Pakistani origin who are married to Indian men and are living on LTVs.

No joint meeting on Manipur, home ministry holds separate talks with Kuki-Zo MLAs & Meitei, Naga MLAs

Kuki-Zo MLAs requested pvt meeting with MHA, stating they didn't want to hold discussions with Meitei MLAs without consulting their constituents. MHA says joint meeting will be held soon.

Govt junked draft law on health workers’ protection in 2019. After Kolkata rape-murder, it’s back on table

A high-level committee, which will have representatives from various ministries and doctors’ associations, will propose law providing legal safeguards in healthcare settings, it is learnt

Assam Rifles to be deployed in Jammu’s Machedi to beef up security grid, jungle warfare the focus

The only paramilitary force in the country, Assam Rifles operationally comes under the Army and is headed by an Army officer, but it reports to the MHA.

Budget 2024: MHA gets Rs 2.19 lakh crore. Focus on training and research, big boost for IB, CISF

The BSF, on the other hand, saw its allocations increase to Rs 25,472 crore compared to revised estimates of Rs 25,038 crore in the last financial year.

3 new criminal laws, crackdown on terror outfits, peace accords with insurgents — MHA’s ‘watershed’ 2023

Ministry of home affairs enacted 2 laws impacting J&K to bring fair representation to all people in the Union territory while also set up 33 new security camps in Maoist-dominated regions.

Manipur’s oldest valley-based insurgent group, banned by MHA, signs peace deal with govt, gives up arms

UNLF formed in 1964, had become active in midst of ongoing ethnic conflict. Home ministry had extended ban on it & 8 other Meitei groups earlier this month.

After MHA push, Mizoram prepares to collect biometrics of ‘illegal migrants’ from Myanmar

However, Mizoram govt has no plans to push back refugees, numbering around 35,000, to Myanmar, and has sought funds from Centre to support them.

Preventive detention for bootleggers, cybercrooks — L-G clears bid to bring ‘draconian law’ to Delhi

Police had first sought enforcement of Telangana Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act in June. Delhi L-G forwarded proposal to MHA for final approval, ThePrint has learned.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.