The Latest Breaking News from Home Ministry

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on January 23, 2024

Union Home Ministry sends officials to Manipur following killings and violence; Meitei MLAs demand action from Government of India.

Legal luminaries view TN Governor must act on Bills readopted after "withholding assent"; must decide whether to refer to President for constitutional infirmity; Governors stalling legislative business; must grant assent when Bill readopted; Home Ministry's rep; no power to return Bill.

MHA has retired IAS officer Rinku Dugga in public interest due to lack of integrity and ineffectiveness. The order was issued under FR 56(j)/(l) & Rule 48 of CCS Pension Rules, 1972. 122 officers have been given compulsory retirement in past 3 yrs.

K.J. George, five-time MLA and senior Congress leader, will answer questions on electricity-related issues on #THTalksBengaluru. He has held several portfolios, including Home Ministry and Bengaluru Development and Town Planning. Log into the live chat or email questions to thtalksbengaluru@thehindu.co.in. Sept. 4, 4 p.m.

The Central Vigilance Commission in a report has said the maximum number of corruption cases have been filed against officials of Home Ministry among the Ministries of the Union government, Mr. Stalin said.

Days before ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla had asked the State governments of Manipur and Mizoram to capture the “biographic and biometric details of illegal migrants”. This biometric information is to include retina, iris, and fingerprints. 

According to the Punjab amendment, the selection would be done by a seven member empanelment committee

The Union Higher Education Ministry has discontinued the ‘Shiksha Puraskar’, launched by the Centre in 1992 for encouraging original writings in Hindi. The decision is part of the Union Home Ministry’s move to rationalise various awards instituted by the Centre.