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The Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind resolution on Vande Mataram has evoked mixed reactions from leaders with one section voicing disapproval of raising a "dead issue" when the community has more serious matters to address and another noting that its singing or not could not be the criteria for defining patriotism.

Ulema of Bareilvy sect today endorsed the fatwa issued by Deoband clerics against reciting of national song Vande Mataram.

It was a high drama during Home Minister P Chidambaram's press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday when a journalist threw a sport shoe (size 8) at the minister.Chidambaram was addressing journalists at the Congress headquarters on terror and the party's policies to deal with them, when the incident occurred.

A Sikh journalist, Jarnail Singh, on Tuesday flung a shoe at Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in protest against the Congress partys decision to field Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case for the Lok Sabha elections.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has died in an air crash, home minister P Chidambaram has formally announced.Andhra Pradesh chief minister YSR Reddy dies in chopper crash.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that no Cabinet minister was a supporter of Naxal violence, apparently dismissing charges that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was sympathising with Maoists.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the Government has made it clear that it does not view the confrontation with the Naxalites as a war against the Naxalites.

With the electorate in Jharkhand having defied the CPI(Maoist)'s poll boycott call to clock an impressive 58% overall turnout in thefive-phase election, Union home minister P Chidambaram on Monday took time out to congratulate the state’s voters for their “stinging rejection” of Naxalites ’ diktat to stay indoors.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday warned Pakistan to halt the increase in infiltration across the border