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Chief ministers' conference on internal security in Delhi: 10 developments

Chief ministers J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee are not attending a meeting of Chief Ministers in the Capital today, where the government is expected to attempt another hardsell of anti-terror body, the National Counter Terrorism Centre, to the states, many of which have been opposed to setting up such a hub. A new strategy to counter Naxalism w...

Centre to push for anti-terror body at Chief Ministers' meet on April 15

The Centre will strongly push for setting up the proposed anti-terror body NCTC at the Chief Ministers' conference to be held on April 15.

Mamata Banerjee on board with plans for anti-terror hub NCTC, claims Home Minister

Mamata Banerjee on board with plans for anti-terror hub NCTC, claims Home Minister

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.

Anti-terror body unacceptable, withdraw it: Mamata Banerjee

Sticking to her stand that the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) would upset the federal structure of the country, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Centre's proposal is "unacceptable" to the states. She said setting up of institutions like NCTC with the proposed powers of arrest and seizure upsets the federal structure of...

Anti-terror body an 'important pillar' of India's security: Home Minister

Advocating the need for setting up anti-terror hub, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said the Centre and State governments have to work together to make the country safe and secure. Addressing the Chief Ministers' conference on the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which is facing stiff opposition from non-Congress Chief Ministers...

Analysis: Why intel experts oppose NCTC

It's not just UPA's main ally Mamata Banerjee or Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who are opposing the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), but even Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) - India's external intelligence agency - had put up a red flag way back in early2010. And, theirs was, perhaps, the first dissent that the Home Minister P Chi...

NCTC: PM meets chief ministers

Mamata Banerjee skips Chief Ministers meet

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, attended today's Chief Ministers' conference on internal security called by the government.

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.