Home Minister P Chidambaram

• BJP says Chidambaram used office to help former client

  Home Minister P Chidambaram is being targeted again by the Opposition in Parliament, which wants him to resign over allegations that he used his office to help a former client who he represented as a lawyer.

• J&K interlocutors to submit report to Home Minister

  Appointed by the Centre exactly a year ago, interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir will submit their report to Home Minister P Chidambaram later today. After last year's stone pelting crisis in the Valley in which 120 people died the interlocutors were asked to take look at the political roadmap for the state.

• BJP's attack on Chidambaram continues

  While Finance Minister Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram may have patched up their differences, the BJP is keeping up the attack on the Home Minister.

• Rich must be prepared to be taxed more: Chidambaram

  Home Minister P Chidambaram, who as Finance Minister had slashed taxes, suggested on Wednesday that the rich should be taxed more even though "many people" would not like the idea.

• No war within government, Chidambaram won't resign: Khurshid

  Ruling out any "skirmishes" or "war within" the Government, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid tonight said there was no need for Home Minister P Chidambaram to resign following the controversy over the finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation.

• 26/11 martyr Vijay Salaskar's daughter gets government job

  More than two years after 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai, the daughter of slain cop Vijay Salaskar has been given a government job after the intervention of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.

• No intel alerts about blasts: Chidambaram

  Home Minister, Mumbai blasts, Mumbai terror attacks, P Chidambaram

• Pune, Varanasi should jolt us out of complacency: Chidambaram on terror

  Addressing the chief ministers on internal security, Home Minister P Chidambaram said that India saw two terror attacks in 2010 and that in both cases, the state governments had been warned of possible strikes.  Referring to the blast at Pune's German Bakery in February 2010, and an explosion at the Varanasi Ghats in December, he said, "In bot...

• Chidambaram's assessment far from impartial: Buddhadeb

  West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today rejected the assessment of his state by Home Minister P Chidambaram, calling it 'surprising and far from impartial.'  In a letter sent to Bhattacharjee, Chidambaram had virtually ordered him to disband armed cadres of the CPM, which he referred to as "Harmad Vahini" - a term which was co...

• Kashmir interlocutors submit initial assessment report to Chidambaram

  After completing their first visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the interlocutors appointed by the Centre have submitted their initial report to the Home Minister.They have given a list of recommendations to government on Kashmir which they said can't be made public. They also maintained that they will continue making regular trips to Kashmir to keep the ...

• Home Minister takes stock of CWG security

  Amid rising concerns over security arrangements for next month's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday took stock of the security arrangements by various agencies.He met representatives of 20 security agencies.The meeting followed a warning by a top US counter-terrorism official that the Commonwealth Games in New ...

• Unified command, more choppers for Naxal-hit states

  Finally, states dealing with Naxalism have arrived at a consensus on how to tackle the insurgency. At a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, it was decided to set up a Unified Command for the worst-hit states: Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.Dr Singh was clear in his message to the Home Ministry and Naxal-affected states -- a coll...

• Chidambaram meets Rehman Malik, seeks sterner action against 26/11 perpetrators

  Speaking to reporters on arrival, the Home Minister said he will "politely" tell Pakistan that the time has come to address issues concerning the 26/11 Mumbai attacks with the seriousness that they warrant. And that Pakistan must expeditiously bring to justice all those behind the Mumbai attacks, including JuD Chief Hafiz Saeed and handlers which i...

• Time to change tactics against Naxals, Chidambaram tells NDTV

  On a day when over 30 people were killed in a Maoist attack in Dantewada, Home Minister P Chidambaram spoke exclusively to NDTV on a range of issues, including the government's Maoist strategy, Mamata Banerjee's demand for early polls in West Bengal and the need for a caste census. Here's the full transcript of the interview with Home Minister P Ch...

• Message to Pak, don't export terror: Chidambaram

  Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the verdict in the 26/11 case is a message to Pakistan that it should not export terror to India.