Anti-terror Body

• NCTC meet ends without consensus; India needs anti-terror body, says Chidambaram

  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.

• Modi says NCTC reflects centre as "omnipotent ruler"

  Accusing the Centre of behaving like "Viceroys of yore", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the constitution of National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is a conscious strategy to cast the Centre as an "omnipresent" ruler with states portrayed as dependent vassals. Underlining that the fight against terror requires clear vision and a s...

• 10 big facts on Centre vs state over NCTC, new anti-terror agency

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram met with the chief ministers of all states in the hope of finding consensus on the new National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, described by some chief ministers as an attack on federalism.

• Row over anti-terror body (NCTC): Centre climbdown to appease states?

  The Union Home Ministry has circulated a fresh note to state governments on the National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC.

• Regret some states still harbour mistrust, says Chidambaram

  A day after the meeting of chief ministers on internal security, where several of them strongly opposed the Centre's proposal to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), Home Minister P Chidambaram today lamented the "mistrust" harboured by some states. "There is trust deficit among states... Some states harbor mistrust towards the Cent...

• Modi, Jayalalithaa, Patnaik slam Centre, as states snub PM's overture

  The Centre and State must work hand in hand on internal security as the country battles terror from across the border, Left Wing extremism and religious violence: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal to Chief Ministers at a meeting he is chairing in the capital today.

• PM reaches out to chief ministers at internal security meet; Mamata Banerjee skips event

  The Centre and State must work hand in hand on internal security as the country battles terror from across the border, Left Wing extremism and religious violence: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's appeal to Chief Ministers at a meeting he is chairing in the capital today.

• Chief Ministers attend internal security meet; PM reaches out to states

  The Centre and State must work hand in hand on internal security as the country battles terror from across the border, Left Wing extremism and religious violence: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's message to Chief Ministers at a meeting he is chairing in the capital today.

• Mamata Banerjee to skip Chief Ministers' meet on anti-terror body today

  All non-Congress Chief Ministers, barring Mamata Banerjee, who had come together to oppose the Centre on the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and other issues, will be attending Monday's Chief Ministers' conference on internal security, which has been called by the government.

• Jayalalithaa to attend Chief Ministers' meet on anti-terror body

  J Jayalalithaa will attend the Chief Ministers' meeting on internal security to be Chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on April 16.

• NCTC row: PM to meet chief ministers on May 5

  The Prime Minister has given in to a demand for a special meeting of all Chief Ministers to discuss the controversial National Counter Terror Centre (NCTC). Dr Singh will attend that meeting on May 5, amid accusations that his government is undermining federalism.

• Rajya Sabha debate on anti-terror body

  Rajya Sabha, NCTC row, anti-terror body

• At PM's dinner, Pranab warns allies against amendments to President's speech

  A dinner for UPA allies at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's home ended with a serious message for Mamata Banerjee, who skipped the meeting and sent instead not one of the Trinamool Congress ministers in the UPA government, but MP Ratna De Nag.

• PM's dinner for allies amid reprimands from DMK, Mamata

  Mamata Banerjee's RSVP is causing much political angst - she had deputed her MP Ratna De Nag to attend the meet. Home Minister P Chidambaram explained that most of Trinamool's senior leaders were "busy with the session beginning in Bengal in the next couple of days."

• Chidambaram denies "stenographer" remark at anti-terror hub (NCTC) meet

  Home Minister P Chidambaram has defended the contentious new anti-terror agency that has pitted the centre against state governments. Non-Congress states say that the National Counter Terrorism Centre in its current form encroaches upon law and order, which is the turf of state governments.