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4,300 refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan get Indian citizenship

News: In order to grant Indian nationality to nearly two lakh refugees from neighboring countries, the NDA government has given citizenship to around 4,300 Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan and Afghanistan. The citizenship to these refugees have been given at the initiative of Home Minister Raj Nath Singh, following BJP’s declared policy ...

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Entry of Greenpeace activist restricted in India

News: A crisis response campaigner Aaron Gray-Block, with Greenpeace International was denied entry into India as its name is figured in a Home Ministry “black list”. Greenpeace India, which was under the government’s scanner for allegedly violating various provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act . Gray-Block had earlier campaigned ...

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Union Home Minister reviews LWE situation in Chhattisgarh

News Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh paid a two-day visit on May 30-31, 2015 to the LWE-affected State of Chhattisgarh and reviewed the anti-LWE Operations and the development agenda with the State Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh and Senior Officials of the Central and State Government including the CAPFs. He said ...

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23 Bangladeshis arrested in Tripura: Immigrants

News Police raided the house of one Kurban Ali at Melaghar and arrested 23 Bangladeshis for entering India without passport on Saturday. On interrogation, it was known that they had entered Melaghar from neighbouring Comilla district of Bangladesh in search of jobs and they were likely to go to Kashmir ...

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UN assures to take up ​Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi’s release issue

News UNSC questioned Pakistan’s “sincerity” in the matter of a terrorist’s release. In this regard, UN Security Council assured that it will take up the issue of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi’s release at its next meeting. India  conveyed to Pakistan its unhappiness at the way the case was ...

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Integrated Border Management System: Proposal cleared

News Government has cleared the proposal of ‘integrated border management system’. It comprises of thermal imaging, fiber optics communication, radars scanner and sensors, which will be installed at the eight rivulets along the IB. It is expected to reduce infiltration through riverine stretches on the international border. There is about 145.876 ...

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FCRA licences of 8,975 associations cancelled

News Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licences of 8,975 associations from different parts of the country including Delhi, Mumbai and Andhra Pradesh. It is the largest crackdown on NGO’s and associations accepting foreign funds without complying with the regulation of filing annual ...

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Operation Maitri: Earth Quake rescue in Nepal

News A team comprising of ministers , senior officials from ministries of Home, Defence, External Affairs and NDMA today left for Nepal to coordinate rescue and relief operations in the quake-hit country. Since the communication lines down and the disaster in Nepal making things unmanageable, India is sending UAVs to Kathmandu ...

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