Topic: P. Chidambaram

P Chidambaram, Nandan Nilekani call truce on Aadhaar

The Union Cabinet on Friday decided to extend UIDAI's mandate for collecting biometrics from 20 crore citizens to 60 crore citizens, thus ending a...

It's Avatar, but for real

Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Penguin ?????. In the blockbuster science fiction film Avatar, unbridled capitalism has left the Earth...

Indian minister blames migrants for Delhi crime

India's home minister on Monday blamed migrants for crime in New Delhi after a string of gang rapes shocked residents, but swiftly retracted the remarks after they stirred an outcry."Crime takes place because Delhi attracts a large number of migrants ...
Thousands of police and paramilitary forces fanned out across a dozen north Indian cities and towns Wednesday ahead of a potentially explosive court judgment on who should control a disputed holy site, police said. The fight over the compound has shaken the ...

India sets up unified command to tackle Maoists

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India announced a unified command structure on Wednesday to help coordinate a security offensive against Maoist rebels, but analysts said the move may not be enough to turn around the battle against the insurgency.The unified command, which will ...

India home minister offers to resign over Maoist attack

<div><p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's home minister offered to resign after Maoist insurgents killed 76 police this week, officials said on Friday, as New Delhi mobilized more security forces to flush out the rebels from their forest bases.</p><p ...
<div id="subtitle">India says it will push forward with Maoist offensive despite major attack</div><div><p>India will push ahead with an offensive against Maoist rebels despite the death of 76 government troops in an ambush by insurgents in the ...

India says investigating blast, Pakistan talks on

PUNE, India (Reuters) - Security officials were investigating the possible involvement of Pakistan-based militants in a bomb blast in western India that killed nine people, but New Delhi said talks with Islamabad later this month would go ahead.Senior internal security sources, who ...

India says investigating local, foreign leads to blast

PUNE, India (Reuters) - India's government said it had little idea who was behind a bomb in a tourist eatery in western India that killed nine people, with sources saying they were looking at the possible involvement of Islamist militants.The bomb ...

Go Short Or Go Long, But Pay Up

Most finance ministers in the past gave direct tax reforms a miss, preferring discretion to valor, until P. Chidambaram took the bull by its horns and drafted a new code to replace the Income Tax Act of 1961. "This might work better ...