Home Ministry

Hyderabad Islamist Farhatullah Ghori declared terrorist by home ministry; works for LeT, JeM

Farhatullah Ghori had fled India to Saudi Arabia in 1994. He then reached Pakistan in 2015 and joined the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). Farhatullah Ghori works to provide funds for terrorist activities in India

MHA orders dismissal of Ishrat Jahan probe IPS officer Satish Chandra Verma from service; court stays order

Satish Chandra Verma had approached the Delhi High Court challenging the home ministry order and the court barred the central government from implementing the order

Home ministry orders CBI probe in Sonali Phogat Murder Case

The decision comes after multiple people incuding Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and oifficials of Khap Mahapanchayat in Hisar, Haryana demanded inquiry by the agency into the case

2,399 Bangladeshi intercepted, found using fraudulently obtained Indian documents from 2017 to 2022: Union Home Ministry

Nityanand Rai said the Centre has issued instructions to state governments and Union Territories for taking appropriate prompt steps for identification of illegal migrants

Jet Airways a step closer to relaunch, gets security clearance from home ministry

A letter sent by the civil aviation ministry to the airline on 6 May informed it about the grant of the security clearance by the Union home ministry

India reports over 40,000 cases for second day; active cases surge to 4,03,840

With India ramping up the testing capacity, weekly and daily positivity rates have been restricted to below 5 percent as the number of recoveries cross 3 crore

Centre says no room for complacency in COVID fight; asks states to conduct their own serosurveys

The government has advised all states/UTs to conduct seroprevalence surveys in consultation with the ICMR to generate district-level data on seroprevalence

Centre asks states to order police not to register cases under scrapped section of IT Act

The direction came after the apex court said it was shocking that its 2015 judgment, which struck down a section making ‘offensive’ comments online punishable, has not been implemented

Centre tells states, UTs to carry out fire safety reviews at hospitals, takes note of accidents in Delhi, Thane

The home ministry noted that high temperatures and increased power loads in summer lead to a higher chance of short circuits

Post-poll violence in Bengal: MHA asks TMC govt for report after BJP claims Hooghly office was set ablaze

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged TMC supporters to maintain peace and asked them not to fall prey to provocations