New Delhi, Feb. 18 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday expressed his regret over an incident in Ranchi, Jharkhand, where former Cabinet Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and others of the party were injured during a demonstration last week.
New Delhi, Feb 17: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe only the gravest incidents of terror crimes and a team of officers is already in place to handle such cases.
"Only gravest cases of crimes will be taken up for investigation by the NIA, which will operate in a concurrent jurisdictional framework," Chidambaram said.
Chidambaram was replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha.
Hyderabad, Feb 15 : Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the next financial year would be tough for the Indian economy, but a turnaround should come in October.
"The first two quarter will indeed be difficult. The turnaround should come some time in October 2009, or little thereafter," he said at a meeting after inaugurating a branch of the Union Bank of India in Hyderabad on Saturday.
New Delhi, Feb 12, : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday welcomed Pakistan's admission that some part of the conspiracy on Mumbai attacks has taken place on its soil and said the dossier was tightly argued document that no one can ignore it.
Addressing the media, Chidambaram said, "My initial response is that it is a positive development. The dossier handed over on January 5 was an exceptionally and tightly argued document, a cogently argued document that no one can ignore it."
Banglore, Feb. 12 : In the backdrop of threats issued by some outfits to organize protests on Valentine''s Day, Home Minister P Chidambaram has asked the Karnataka CM to ensure law and order by taking "preventive and punitive" action in the state.
Chidambaram has written a letter to Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa drawing his attention to reports of Rashtriya Hindu Sena and Sri Ram Sene were planning to organize protests across the state on February 14.
Mumbai, Feb. 10 : Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government has a zero tolerance policy to fight terrorism and naxal threat.
In a high-level security review meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, other top functionaries, Chidambaram said that New Delhi had given a dossier to Islamabad on the Mumbai terror attacks and was awaiting a response.
He rubbished the Pakistani stand that there was Bangladeshi involvement in the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
New Delhi, Feb. 18 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday expressed his regret over an incident in Ranchi, Jharkhand, where former Cabinet Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and others of the party were injured during a demonstration last week.
New Delhi, Feb 17: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe only the gravest incidents of terror crimes and a team of officers is already in place to handle such cases. 
Hyderabad, Feb 15 : Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the next financial year would be tough for the Indian economy, but a turnaround should come in October.
New Delhi, Feb 12, : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday welcomed Pakistan's admission that some part of the conspiracy on Mumbai attacks has taken place on its soil and said the dossier was tightly argued document that no one can ignore it. 
Banglore, Feb. 12 : In the backdrop of threats issued by some outfits to organize protests on Valentine''s Day, Home Minister P Chidambaram has asked the Karnataka CM to ensure law and order by taking "preventive and punitive" action in the state.
Mumbai, Feb. 10 : Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said the government has a zero tolerance policy to fight terrorism and naxal threat.
