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There $ "! # % %" been fully secured even after an coastal security, the Home This is why many jetties pro- are 3,331 coastal villages, 1,382 " " % expenditure of over 2,200 Ministry and Intelligence vided to some States are not islands, 1.2 crore people $ # " crore for strengthening the Bureau are examining three being utilised properly. involved in fishing, 4.5 lakh &"" Coast Guard and setting up options — strengthening Indian Maintenance of patrolling boats fishing boats of which only 2 coastal police stations across Coast Guard and placing it of 6 and 12 tonnes is also a lakh are registered, Exclusive " ' ("" " nine coastal States and four under the MHA, raising dedi- costly affair. Many States have Economic Zone of over 2.02 "$"! % Union Territories. cated Indian Reserve Battalions asked the Centre to devise a million square km, 12 major +" %%"! ''" As many as 194 coastal earmarked for coastal security mechanism of maintenance of and 200 minor ports, five # " % '""# police stations have been set up, under State Police, and raising the boats, according to a Home major and 23 minor harbours, & % %" " $ but only 204 out of sanctioned Coastal Marine Police Force Ministry report. 95 landing centres 27 Single '" "%"" 429 boats/vessels have been under the MHA. India has a coastline of Point Moorings. issued and only 23 out of sanc- The MHA is also consid- tioned 60 jetties have been ering a proposal to bring costal provided to the coastal States. revenue villages under the The police stations have been jurisdiction of coastal police provided 284 jeeps and 554 stations for better intelligence motorcycles. As many as 97 gathering and extend the juris- check posts and 58 outposts diction on the sea to 200 nau- besides 30 barracks have been tical miles. constructed, a senior Union The coastal police stations The case, in which seven Home Ministry official said. do not have marine capabilities, !" LeT members are facing charges Out of 4.5 lakh fishing and lack of coordination with of planning and executing the boats in use along the coastline other stakeholders is a problem. strike, is still dragging on in a by fishermen, only 2 lakh have These issues continue to dog Pakistani anti-terror court. been registered, the official the security architecture for the Mike Pompeo has asked “The 26/11 terrorist attack further said. Sources said the coastline. Despite setting up of Pakistan to act against those was planned, executed and Union Home Ministry is now Marine Police Stations in all the s the country solemnly responsible for the barbaric launched from Pakistan terri- considering a proposal of the nine coastal States, the coastal Aobserved the 10th anniver- 2008 Mumbai attacks as tory. The former Prime Joint Intelligence Committee to police in most of the States are sary of the horrific 26/11 Washington announced a new Minister of Pakistan had ear- Mumbai terror strikes which reward of 5 million for infor- lier this year admitted that the claimed 166 lives, India on mation leading to the arrest or terrorists were sent from Monday accused Pakistan of conviction in any country of Pakistan’s soil,” the MEA said. showing “little sincerity” in those involved in the carnage. Describing the Mumbai !$ % punishing those involved in India welcomed the US terror attack as a “barbarity”, the crime and said the terror statement calling on Pakistan the US Secretary of State said, attack plotters are still roaming to uphold UN Security “We call upon all countries, the streets of Pakistan. Council obligations to imple- particularly Pakistan, to uphold Asking Pakistan to give up ment sanctions against the their UN Security Council "! its “double standards”, India has terrorists responsible for the obligations to implement sanc- % 5 . .- * 6 " - . * 74833 ) * + asked the country to bring the 26/11 Mumbai terror tions against the terrorists '.- + ' " perpetrators of the attack to attacks, including responsible for this atrocity, justice. “We once again call on Lashkar-e-Tayyeba including LeT and its affiliates.” the Government of Pakistan to (LeT) and its affili- &' give up double standards and ates. to expeditiously bring the per- petrators of the horrific attack to justice,” the MEA said. he Centre on Monday “This is not just a Tgranted sanction to the matter of Pakistan’s Central Bureau of Investigation accountability to the fam- (CBI) to prosecute former ilies of the innocent vic- Finance Minister P tims who fell to terrorists, Chidambaram in the Aircel- elhi Chief Minister Arvind Amarinder suggested there but also an international Maxis case. Producing the DKejriwal on Monday should be no visa requirement obligation,” it said. sanction for prosecution before announced that the old pension for pilgrims travelling via the Meanwhile, news 2G Court Judge OP Saini, scheme will be restored by his ice President M Venkaiah corridor to the historic gurd- agency PTI reported Special Public Prosecutor and Government and he will write VNaidu and Punjab Chief wara in Pakistan. While he has from Washington that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to his counterparts in West Minister Capt Amarinder declined to visit Pakistan as of US Secretary of State told the court that they need prosecution of five public ser- Bengal, Kerala, Andhra Singh on Monday laid the now due to its support to ter- “some more time” to produce vants as per the recently Pradesh and Karnataka other foundation stone of Kartarpur rorist groups, he said he will the sanction for prosecution amended Prevention of States to follow suit. corridor, which would facilitate accompany the first 'jatha' to against Chidambaram’s five Corruption Act. CBI’s request He said a resolution to Indian Sikh pilgrims in visiting Kartarpur via the corridor next other co-accused. for sanction of others is pend- restore the old pension scheme the 16th-century Gurdwara year. The CBI and the ing with the Finance Ministry. in the city will be passed in a Darbar Sahib in Pakistan. He urged Union Minister Enforcement Directorate (ED) Former Finance Secretaries special session of the Legislative The gurdwara, on the for Road Transport and also demanded the custodial Ashok Jha and Ashok Chawla Assembly. banks of Ravi river, has histor- Highways Nitin Gadkari, who interrogation of Chidambaram and two serving IAS officers “It will then be sent to the ical significance for Sikhs as was present at the event, to and son Karti and cancellation Kumar Sanjay Krishnan, Centre for approval. I will fight Guru Nanak Dev, the founder ensure that the corridor of anticipatory bail. Deepak Kumar Singh along the with the Centre to get it of Sikhism, spent 18 years becomes operational by the Senior advocates Kapil then Under Secretary in FIPB, implemented,” Kejriwal told a there. next Gurpurab. Sibal and Abhishek Ram Saran, are the co-accused rally organised by the All Established by the first Gadkari assured Singhvi, who represented with Chidambaram. Teachers, Employees Welfare Sikh Guru in 1522, the shrine Amarinder that his ministry Chidambaram, objected to the The Solicitor General sub- Association at Ramlila Ground. is about three km from the would try to complete the con- demand of the agencies. mitted on behalf of the CBI that “The Government employ- international border. The open- struction work of the corridor The court posted the mat- “the competent authority in the ees have the power to change ing of a corridor was a long- expeditiously. "I will try to ter for further hearing on Central Government has the Government of the coun- pending demand of the Sikh complete the work on this cor- December 18. Chidambaram accorded sanction for prose- try. I want to warn the community. ridor within four to four-and- was also present in the court. cution of accused P Centre, if the demand of The decision to build the a-half months," he said. He said Mehta reiterated that agen- Chidambaram under Section employees is not accepted in corridor — from Dera Baba the Union Government plans cies got fresh documents and 197 of the CrPC and Section 19 three months, there will be an Nanak in Gurdaspur district to to commemorate the 550th wanted custodial interrogation of the Prevention of apocalypse in 2019,” the AAP the international border — birth anniversary year of Guru of father and son alleging their Corruption Act”. convener said. was taken by the Union Nanak Dev in a grand manner, evasive nature in responding to “Sanction for prosecution Slogans like “desh ka neta Cabinet on November 22. adding the SGPC has been the questions. in respect of remaining accused kaisa ho, Kejriwal jaisa ho” Pakistan is to build it on its made the knowledge partner There are 18 accused in the public servants (five) are still