Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs

The Directorate General, Civil Defence was established by MHA on 17th November, 1962. There were only four sections during that time i.e. Fire Section, Civil Defence, Home Guards and Communication Section...

This Department came into existence on 19.02.1946, initially as `Inspectorate of Wireless’ and was later accorded the status of Directorate of Coordination (Police Wireless), a subordinate organisation, under Ministry of Home Affairs in 1950...

The Directorate of Forensic Science services (DFSS) was created in the year 2002 by Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, after bifurcation from BPR&D, based on the recommendations of National Human Rights Commission...

Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) is an initiative of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India to deal with cyber crime in the country in a coordinated and comprehensive manner.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force was raised on 24 October, 1962. At present, the ITBP guards 3,488 km long India-China borders ranging from the Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh.

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) is India's internal security and counterintelligence agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was founded in 1887 as the Central Special Branch...

Inter-State Council was established provides that there shall be a Secretariat comprising of such officers and staff as the Chairman may think fit to appoint. The Inter-State Council Secretariat was set up in 1991.

India developed its first Land Port at Attari along the international border between India and Pakistan, located at a distance of about 28 kms from the city of Amritsar.

The National Policy on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is based on the Directive Principles, contained in Article 47 of the Indian Constitution, which direct the State to endeavour to bring about prohibition...