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I n the tragic aftermath of 26/11, and after four years of the inept Shivraj Patil, P. Chidambaram's appointment as home minister was widely welcomed. His no-nonsense, hands-on, decisive style blew the cobwebs out of the ministry. His austere white mundu and shirt—even if the shawl slung carelessly over his shoulders is a Pashmina—was in happy contrast to the perfectly creased bandhgalas favoured by his predecessor, and his willingness to air his views manna for a hungry press.

See how Andhra Pradesh has tackled the Maoist problem. It took central government welfare schemes to problem-hit areas, but in Chhattisgarh the government is not reaching out to the trouble-hit areas   -Digvijay Singh

 

/New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in New Delhi Saturday and discussed ways to resolve the 12-year-old deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to Mizoram following the recent ethnic violence in the northeastern state, officials said. 'Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram held an urgent meeting with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and talked about the possible steps to be taken to solve the stalemate over the repatriation of  

T he vicious pre-planned slaughter of the Sikh people in 1984 following Indira Gandhi's assassination did not just leave every Sikh traumatised. It also deeply affected their psyche, their faith in their neighbours, in the system, in the state, in the very idea of justice itself. For many of us non-Sikhs, it was a defining moment in our lives.

He had always been treated with consideration. That day he learned the only thing that mattered was that he was a Sikh   -Jarnail Singh

 

CIA director Leon E. Panetta arrived in the Indian capital to hold discussions with security experts including National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan on issues like cooperation on fighting terror and sharing of intelligence. Panetta, who flew in from Pakistan, is also likely to discuss the probe carried out by the US and Indian investigators on David Coleman Headley and his Canadian associate Tahawwur Hussain Rana, arrested by FBI for suspected links with the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) and plotting terror a  

The chief minister Okram Ibobi, after a one and half hour closed door meeting with the Union home minister, P Chidambaram, came out confident he would be able to resolve both the class boycott problem as well as have the law and order situation in the state firmly back in the hands of the government. The prolonged meeting which began at 5pm happened even as reporters waited outside the office of the Union minister expecting something sensational would happen, a reliable source in New Delhi said. When  

The Union home ministry has appealed to civil society organisations, who security experts advise are a major party to be "won over" in the battle against Maoists, to ask the CPI(Maoist) not to disrupt elections in Jharkhand. "The ministry thinks that civil society organisations should also play their part and condemn the wanton acts of violence and ask the CPI(Maoist) not to disrupt elections which constitute the foundation of a democracy," a release stated. In the same breath, home minister P. Chidam  

Apart from advising Chief Minister O Ibobi to resolve the current impasse in the State, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has also assured that the Centre would extend all possible assistance towards this end. Speaking to The Sangai Express, Govt spokesman and IFCD Minister N Biren said that these instructions were given when the Chief Minister called on the Union Home Minister today at about 5 pm. The meeting lasted a little over one hour.  

Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, Chairman of moderate faction of separatist Hurriyat Conference seemed to be conceding two facts in his Friday sermon. One implies that he is perturbed by the media reports that he has had two rounds of "quiet talks" with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi. Also, the conflict within the separatist camp on the dialogue process is not between doves and hawks alone, but the moderate group is plagued with internal strife.

There is some truth in the reports. I logically believe that P Chidambaram announced quiet dialogue in Kashmir only after his first meeting with Mirwaiz   -Hurriyat Conference

 

Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and the State police on Friday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the coming International Film Festival of India (IFFI), set to begin here on Monday. Speaking to journalists at his official residence here on Friday, Mr. Kamat said he was with Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram two days ago in New Delhi. "If there was any threat perception for Goa related to IFFI, the Home Minister would have told me first," he said.