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Home Ministry approves deployment of 10,000 additional troops in Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 27 July, 2019

The additional deployment of forces will help in strengthening the Counter Insurgent (CI) grid as well as maintaining law and order situation in Kashmir

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30 convicted illegal immigrants lodged in Assam jails deported to Bangladesh

OpIndia Staff - 25 July, 2019

Bangladeshi nationals convicted of illegal immigration were deported by Indian authorities through Kalibari ghat border in Assam.

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Home Ministry reviews CISF security cover for VVIPs, Kamal Nath, Acharya Pramod, Om Prakash Mathur amongst those downgraded

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

Also in the list are former BJP MP and now Congress leader Udit Raj, Punjab MLA Bikramjit Singh Mathijia, ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan and Suresh Chavhanke of Sudarshan TV.

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Home ministry to withdraw Z+ level security accorded to Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff - 23 July, 2019

Akhilesh Yadav had been accorded the Z+ security status in 2012 and was being guarded by 22 armed NSG 'black cat' commandoes.

Government and Policy

Modi government has cancelled registration of 14,800 NGOs in last five years for FCRA violations

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2019

The Home Ministry said that various NGOs and associations in India received nearly Rs.50,000 crore as foreign contributions over a period of three years from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

Government and Policy

The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 passed in Lok Sabha

OpIndia Staff - 28 June, 2019

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today morning moved the J&K Reservation (Amendment Bill) in the Lok Sabha and had said that this bill is not to please anyone but for those living near the International Border

Fact-Check

Shashi Tharoor distorts government reply given in Parliament, presents 3-year-old numbers as current data

OpIndia Staff - 26 June, 2019

Tharoor's assertion that thousands of cases under IPC section 377 at present is wrong and misleading, which can be proved by a casual reading of the answer given by the ministry.

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Is Kamal Nath in trouble for the 1984 Sikh Genocide case? Armed with this Home Ministry order, MS Sirsa certainly thinks so

OpIndia Staff - 15 June, 2019

The order also says that the order has been passed in consideration of the representation made on 24th December 2018 received from the General Secretary, Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee.

Politics

Arvind Kejriwal complains about law and order situation in Delhi, gets schooled by Delhi Police

OpIndia Staff - 14 June, 2019

One of the grouse Delhi CM has is the fact that the Delhi Police is with the central government falling under the Home Ministry which is now headed by Union Minister Amit Shah

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