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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicMinistry of Home Affairs

Topic: Ministry of Home Affairs

Months after I-T searches, think tank CPR’s licence to receive foreign funding suspended

'No question of having undertaken any activity that is beyond our objects of association and compliance mandated by law', says Centre for Policy Research in statement issued Wednesday.

‘More AAP grows, more cases will be filed against us,’ Manish Sisodia after ‘snooping’ charge

The Union Home Ministry has granted permission to CBI to prosecute Sisodia on allegations of creating a ‘feedback unit’ to gather political intelligence.

‘Seek approval, or else’: How Modi govt is tightening grip on IPS in states yet again

MHA, in letter sent to all chief secretaries on 12 September, ordered states to get approval before promoting or appointing senior IPS officers, or risk having the posting cancelled.

39% drop in Left wing extremism violence, Maoists ousted from ‘strongholds’, says MHA report

The MHA statement also said there was a 26% reduction in deaths of security personnel and 44% drop in civilian casualties due to Naxal violence between 2018 and 2020.

Rakesh Asthana was made police chief due to Delhi’s ‘challenging situations’, Centre tells SC

The home ministry informed the apex court that there was a 'compelling need' to appoint Asthana as Delhi Police chief and was appointed as a 'special case of public interest'.

PM cuts short Punjab visit after ‘major security breach’ on road, MHA wants answers from state

PM Modi was stuck on flyover 'for 15-20 mins' as protesters blocked Bathinda-Ferozepur road, after change of plans due to weather. But Punjab CM Channi says 'no security breach'.

Oxfam among 6,000 organisations to lose FCRA licence, MHA says 5,789 didn’t apply for renewal

The organisations are among a cumulative 12,580 whose FCRA licence — which allows them to get foreign funding — has ceased to exist over the past few years.

No rape, death, mosque vandalisation in Tripura, fake news circulating on social media: MHA

The home ministry said Saturday that the mosque in the Dargabazar area of Kakraban has not been damaged and the Tripura Police is working to maintain peace and tranquillity.

Nangal, Mayur Vihar rape cases of minor girls to be heard in fast track courts, MHA informs

The Home Ministry also noted that Delhi Police will file the chargesheet in the court within 30 days of the registration of the case, in order for the trial to start at the earliest.

Centre tells states, UTs not to register cases under scrapped Section 66A of IT Act

The SC had recently expressed shock that its 2015 judgement striking down the act that made posting 'offensive' comments online a crime punishable by jail has not yet been implemented.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.