Manmohan Singh Nctc

• Jayalalithaa's statement at National Integration Council Meet - full statement

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the National Integration Council meet in the aftermath of the communal clashes in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, in which nearly 50 were killed and over 40,000 displaced. Following is the statement read out by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa:

• Prime Minister addresses Chief Ministers' Conference on Internal Security: full speech

  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 will also be discussed at the one-day meet on internal security.

• 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...

• Highlights: Prime Minister addresses chief ministers conference

  Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will again try to hard sell the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC to the states at the meeting of Chief Ministers in New Delhi.

• PM meets chief ministers today, NCTC unlikely to go through

  Chief Ministers from across the country will meet for a conference on internal security in the national capital today. The meeting, convened by the Home Ministry, will be presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and will deliberate extensively on issues like Naxal menace, infiltration from across the border, communal disturbance and how to im...

• Read: Nitish Kumar's full speech at the NCTC meeting

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been vocal about his objections to the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Below is the speech he made at the meeting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram.

• Prime Minister's speech at the National Counter Terrorism Centre Meeting

  Here is the text of the speech made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the NCTC meet.

• NCTC not Centre vs state issue, it will strengthen our counter-terror mechanism, says PM

  Addressing the chief ministers of all states at a crucial meeting on the NCTC or National Counter Terrorism Centre, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today reiterated his stand and said that the anti-terror body "is not a Centre versus state issue."

• 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.

• Consensus-building only way forward, says PM on anti terror body debate

  Under attack from some states on the NCTC issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said consensus-building was the only way forward and vices like terrorism need to be tackled together by the Centre and states. "Well, we are trying. Consensus-building is the only way forward in a country as diverse and complex as ours," Singh told reporters when...