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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicUnion Home Ministry

Topic: Union Home Ministry

Modi govt reaches out to Muslim clerics to appeal for peace as India protests citizenship law

Minority commission & minority affairs ministry have asked clerics to tell the community the law is not anti-Muslim & there’s nothing to worry about.

Modi govt to slash IPS posts by 50% at Centre as ‘states refuse to spare them’

Home ministry has told states that central govt plans to to reduce Central Deputation Reserve quota of IPS officers from 1,075 posts to about 500.

Govt removes 312 Sikh foreign nationals involved in anti-India activities from blacklist

These people, who were placed on the blacklist for anti-India propaganda, are now eligible to avail visa services to visit their families in India.

All Central Armed Police Forces personnel to retire at 60 years, orders home ministry

The order follows a Delhi High Court observation that said the previous retirement policy created two classes in the service with certain rank of officials retiring at 57 years and others at 60.

‘Modi sarkar to stalker sarkar’, oppn slams govt over its ‘snoop’ order

The opposition was reacting a home ministry order authorising 10 agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer.

Lawyers welcome witness protection scheme, but rue cases it failed to help

The Supreme Court recently approved the witness protection scheme drawn by the home ministry and ordered its immediate implementation.

Tighter security for PM Modi, MHA says ‘threats to life at an all-time high’

Not even ministers and officers will be allowed to come too close to the prime minister unless cleared by his special security.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.