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India Today - India's most widely read magazine.: "The National Investigation Agency (NIA), a federal body constituted to probe and prevent terrorist attacks, becomes operational from Thursday along with the new anti-terror law, home minister P. Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
Chidambaram also announced large-scale changes to the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) in the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which is meant to collate intelligence inputs, assess them and disseminate its reports to security forces, among a slew of efforts to improve national security in the new year.
'The NIA will only investigate terror related offences,' Chidambaram told reporters after President Pratibha Patil gave the ceremonial nod to its creation on Wednesday. Patil also cleared the new anti-terror law. The home minister said the name of the NIA director-general will be announced in a few days. The Border Security Force's additional director general A.P. Singh, a 1974- batch IPS officer, is tipped for the job."