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Ex-Agniveer quota for BSF constable post now 50%

December 21, 2025 6:25 am

“By direct recruitment (including 50%), vacancies shall be reserved for ex-Agniveers in every recruitment year, ten percent for ex-Servicemen, and up to three percent for Combatised Constable (Tradesmen) in absorption of annual vacancy,” the notification said.

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Home Ministry asks states, UTs to set up detention camps for illegal foreigners

September 03, 2025 9:30 am

The MHA said foreigners may be refused entry into or stay in India if they are convicted of serious charges and no foreigner shall climb or attempt to climb any mountain peak in India without permission from the Centre.

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BSF gets MHA nod for border talks in Dhaka

August 23, 2025 3:36 am

This will be the first Dhaka visit by an Indian delegation after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government last year.

Calcutta HC seeks report from Home ministry on workers’ ‘detention in Delhi, deportation to Bangladesh’

July 12, 2025 4:11 am

The Court has directed the authorities to submit detailed information regarding Sweety and Danish's families, whether they had been detained or are missing?

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Home ministry to facilitate career progression of former Agniveers

June 18, 2025 3:44 am

The government has already reserved 10 per cent of jobs for ex-Agniveers in all future appointments of constables in the 11-lakh-strong Central Armed Police Forces like CRPF, BSF, CISF, SSB etc.

The last Census, held in 2011, had March 1 that year as the reference date. The next decadal headcount was due in 2021 but was deferred due to the pandemic.

Census pushed to 2027 to avoid disruption in school education post-Covid19 pandemic: Home Ministry

June 06, 2025 6:02 am

On Wednesday, the government had said that data collection for the Census and caste enumeration would begin early next year, and would offer a snapshot of the country’s population as of March 1, 2027.

95 gangs with over 5,000 cases in Delhi: Centre to SC, bats for special courts to try gangsters

April 25, 2025 6:17 pm

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S D Sanjay told the bench that a proposal is being moved, which is under active consideration of higher authorities concerned, to set up these special courts, and sought three weeks’ time.

Budget 2025: Border security gets massive 87% jump in funds -- What are Home Ministry’s new priorities?

February 02, 2025 3:29 pm

Under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Intelligence Grid, the Intelligence Bureau and the Special Protection Group see their allocations fall in the Budget 2025.

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Renaming Chandigarh Advisor as Chief Secy sees all political parties sans BJP in Punjab on the same page

January 08, 2025 11:01 pm

Calling the MHA's move “an attempt to weaken Punjab’s claim over Chandigarh,” the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said the decision once again exposed “the anti-Punjab attitude of the Centre.”

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Centre amends prison manual to address caste-based inequality

January 02, 2025 1:28 am

According to the new addition in the manual, the prison authorities will have to strictly ensure that there is no discrimination, classification, segregation of prisoners on the basis of their caste.

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Amit Shah takes charge as Home Minister

June 01, 2019 1:10 pm

BJP president Amit Shah took charge as Home Minister on Saturday. Replacing Rajnath Singh, this is the first ministerial responsibility that Shah will take on at the Centre.