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Citizenship Amendment Bill passed in Lok Sabha
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Jan 8 (ANI): The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, was passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
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High-level committee set up to implement Clause 6 of Assam Accord
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 6 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has formed a nine-member high-level committee to look into the implementation of Clause 6 of Assam Accord.
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AFSPA extended in 'disturbed' Nagaland for 6 months
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Dec 31 (ANI): The Centre on Sunday extended the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland for a period of six months, declaring the northeastern state a 'disturbed area.'
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TMC gives notice in RS to discuss MHA notification on mass surveillance
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 28 (ANI): The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday gave a notice in Rajya Sabha to take up a discussion on Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) recent notification authorising 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor and decrypt the data contained in any computer system.
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Parliament panel slams Delhi Police, MHA for delay in commissioning CCTVs
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 25 (ANI): A Parliamentary panel has pulled up the Delhi Police and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for delay in commissioning of CCTV surveillance system in high security areas in the national capital.
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Modi govt's aims to be a peeping Tom: Congress on e-surveillance
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP government at the Centre is aiming to become a "peeping Tom," said Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi here on Monday.
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SC denies urgent hearing on PIL challenging govt's surveillance notificati
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi, (India), Dec 24, (ANI): The Registrar of the Supreme Court on Monday denied early hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) notification allowing 10 agencies to conduct mass surveillance.
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Snooping row: MHA order will get challenged in court soon, says Kapil Siba
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 23 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) order allowing 10 agencies to monitor any computer resource is unconstitutional and will get challenged in court soon, said senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday.
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UPA II intercepted 9000 calls, 5000 emails in 2013, BJP defends MHA order
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 23 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, citing two RTI applications, said that 9000 telephone calls and 500 emails were intercepted in the year 2013 on the order of UPA-2 government.
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3 dead, 8 injured in Mumbai's under-construction building collapse
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] Dec 23 (ANI): At least, three persons were killed and eight others sustained injuries after an under-construction building near Azad Maidan in Mumbai's Goregaon collapsed on Sunday.
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Mass surveillance threat to privacy, independence: Mamata Banerjee
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Dec 21 (ANI): The Centre must withdraw the mass surveillance notification, which is a grave threat to an individual's privacy and independence, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here on Friday.
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Repeated same order existing since 2009: Jaitley on MHA surveillance order
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 21 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has only repeated the same order, pertaining to surveillance, which was there since 2009.
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