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Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the two-day 9th National Security Strategies (NSS) Conference-2026 in New Delhi on 24 August 2026.
The hybrid conference drew more than 850 participants from the Intelligence Bureau, the Ministry of Home Affairs and central and state police forces.
Shah directed agencies to run AI-based analysis on Multi-Agency Centre platforms and build Standard Operating Procedures to counter security threats.
He ordered strict measures against border infiltration and asked state police chiefs to detect and deport illegal migrants.
Day one covered counter-terrorism, Pakistan-sponsored proxy warfare, cybercrime and narcotics; day two took up sub-aerial threats, blue economy security, information warfare and bio-security.
India's internal intelligence agency; collects domestic intelligence, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism inputs and anchors the NSS Conference
Common platform for sharing terrorism-related intelligence among central and state agencies; the Home Minister asked that AI-based analysis of MAC data be used to draft SOPs
India's principal anti-terror law; Shah asked for a comprehensive and integrated investigative approach in UAPA cases. Its 2019 amendment allows the Centre to designate individuals, not only organisations, as terrorists.
Introduces trial in absentia, allowing a court to try and convict a proclaimed offender who is evading arrest. Safeguards include exhausting coercive measures first and providing a defence counsel at State expense if the accused is unrepresented.
Police and public order are State List subjects while defence and CBI-type central agencies are Union subjects - the constitutional reason a coordination conference of this kind is necessary.
A Ministry of Home Affairs scheme Shah referred to in the counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation context; it was also flagged at the 8th NSS Conference in 2025.
Day two's agenda extended internal security to the maritime domain - port, coastal and offshore-asset protection alongside the economic use of ocean resources.
Low-flying drones and small aerial platforms that evade conventional radar; this links the conference to India's counter-drone and airspace-security effort.
Placed on the agenda alongside cybercrime, reflecting the shift from attacks on networks to attacks on public perception through those networks.
GS Paper III > Internal Security: linkages of organised crime with terrorism, role of external state and non-state actors, security challenges in border areas, cyber security, various security forces and agencies and their mandate
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IB-run platform created in December 2001 for sharing terrorism-related intelligence across central and state agencies.
Trial conducted in the absence of a proclaimed offender who is evading arrest, provided for by Section 356 of the BNSS, 2023.
A meeting combining physical attendance with virtual participation.
A low-altitude aerial threat such as a small drone that conventional air-defence radar may not detect.
Hostile action pursued through non-state actors or third parties rather than by a state's own regular forces.