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Government admits to intelligence failure and security lapses
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has admitted to the lapses on the part of intelligence and security agencies in averting the recent Mumbai terror attack.
Chidambaram admits government lapses over Mumbai
Chidambaram admits that there had been lapses in preventing the terror attacks. Investigations | Wanted by India, living in Pak | ‘IAF doesn’t have adequate radars’
Govt admits security lapses in attacks
‘I agree that security and intelligence failed,’ Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters after visiting the CST railway station
Newsmaker: Palaniappan Chidambaram
Soon after Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram took charge of the home ministry, a mobile sms started doing the rounds.
Rapid action against terror: Chidambaram
Chidambaram said the security establishment has to be accountable to the people who wanted to live a safe and secure life
Security forces to get wherewithal
Home Minister P Chidambarams second day in the ministry saw bureaucrats making desperate calls to the headquarters of the security forces asking them to re-send the list of basic wherewithal,
Parting shot as FM: PC asks World Bank for extra $3bn aid
The government expects an extra three billion dollars from the World Bank by June next year, said P Chidambaram just before taking charge of the Home Ministry. This is one of the measures by which the government intends to make up for the fall in private sector investment.
Q2 GDP satisfactory; see FY09 growth at 78%: FM
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said Q2 GDP growth is satisfactory and FY09 growth will be between 78%. Speaking on the Mumbai terror attacks, he said it will effect business sentiment in the nearterm but investment sentiments look bright in the middle to long term.
Yashwant Sinha calls Chidambaram ‘conceited’
The war of words between United Progressive Alliance government and the main Opposition BJP over the economic situation saw BJP leader Yashwant Sinha calling Finance Minister P Chidambaram a ‘conceited person’ for labelling L K Advani ‘our own John McCain’. Advani, Leader of Opposition and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, had called a meeting of 15 top captains of Indian industry on Thursday to discuss the issues plaguing the Indian economy in the wake of the global meltdow
Realistic advice
Union finance minister P Chidambaram’s call to India Inc to cut prices to boost consumer demand is realistic and worthy of serious consideration by the industry.