PM to Inaugurate Chief Ministers Conference on Feb. 15

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate a chief ministers conference on February 15, 2012 during which the country's top leaders will discuss how to strengthen internal security, check cross-border movement of terrorists besides security scene in Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast.

A separate session of chief ministers of Left wing extremism affected states will also take stock of Maoist violence and how to curb them on urgent basis with close coordination among state and central forces.

The conference, convened by the Ministry of Home Affairs, will deliberate on how India is being affected due to its troubled neighborhood and its obvious consequences in the country like cross-border terrorism, covert support to insurgents, arms smuggling, circulation of fake Indian currency notes, inflow of refugees and immigration.