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.

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.

The Rs 2,000-crore project to bring all 16,000 police stations in the country under a single network to counter terror challenges will become operational by 2011-12, Home Minister P Chidambaram said Friday.

India insisted on Thursday it was a safe travel destination after the United States issued a reminder to US citizens that they face a 'high threat of terrorism' in the South Asian country.

CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat reacted cautiously to the shoe throwing incident involving Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and said there was anger among the Sikh community against Congress giving ticket to a leader allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.