India, Jan. 4 -- Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday chaired a Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) at Sri Vijaya Puram in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The meeting focused on issues regarding national security, disaster management, cyber security and regional infrastructure, sources said.

The meeting also stressed using the latest technologies to fight crime and having more state-of-the-art centres, such as the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), at the regional level, they said. A separate session on the strategic importance of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was also held, the sources said.

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