An increasing number of paramilitary troopers deployed on hilly terrain develop weak knees with around 70 percent of them requiring surgery.
Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said they get nearly 25 cases of such patients every month from the Border Security Force (BSF), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the [...]
Electric panels worth Rs.70 lakh were stolen from the premises of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plant in Dadri in Greater Noida, police said Thursday.
The High Tension City Company, which is carrying the installation work of the electric panels in the 980 MW expansion unit of NTPC, lodged the theft complaint at Jarcha police [...]
In view of the rising demand for sniffer dogs at airports and Delhi Metro and for the coming Commonwealth Games, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Tuesday launched its own dog breeding and training centre.
CISF Director General N.R. Das inaugurated the breeding and training ground in Ghaziabad.
‘The initiative has been taken to cater to the [...]
Jaipur, Dec 28 (ANI): Habib Hussain, who flew back home on Saturday by managing to sneak into an Air India flight from Medina to Jaipur, has been sent to six-days police custody.
Hussain was produced before a Magistrate in Jaipur, who sent him [...]
Jaipur, Dec.27 (ANI): Senior officials of Rajasthan Police have confirmed that investigations are on to ascertain all facts in the case of an Indian who travelled as a stowaway in a flight from Medina (Saudi Arabia) to Jaipur.
Biju George Joseph, Superintendent of Police, Jaipur (East) confirmed this while speaking to the media persons at Jaipur [...]
Jaipur/New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) In a major security breach, a sweeper employed by Air India at Medina airport in Saudi Arabia sneaked onto its Medina-Jaipur flight Saturday and was found hiding in the toilet after the plane had taken off.
An Air India official in New Delhi said that the worker, identified as Habib Hussain, [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): The Union Home ministry has given a go ahead for creation of 38 new battalions including two women battalions in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
In its year end review report, the MHA has said that out of 38 battalions [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Ten years after the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814, on its way from Kathmandu to New Delhi, India remains vulnerable to such assaults but key protocols are in place to thwart such incidents, say security experts and strategists.
If circa 1999 exposed the total unpreparedness of both the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) A 39-year-old jeweller from Delhi’s suburban city Gurgaon was arrested here for allegedly creating a hijack and bomb scare on a Mumbai bound Jet Airways Mumbai flight while he was under the influence of alcohol, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred around 10.30 p.m. Tuesday at the Palam airport.
‘We have [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Nearly 100 private firms across the country have approached the government for Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) protection following threat perceptions to their establishments, parliament was informed Tuesday.
The long list includes public sector organisations, luxury hotels, elite schools and important public installations.
Providing details to the Lok Sabha, Minister of [...]
Raipur, Dec 12 (IANS) An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trooper shot dead a colleague after a heated argument in Bhilai town of Chhattisgarh, police said Saturday.
The killing took place late Friday in the town’s Sector-3 area.
Deepchand Bahuguna, 35, a resident of Almora in Uttarakhand, has been arrested for killing Sharad B. Satyen, 24, of Kerala, [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 9 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) would provide security to the 1200-MW Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project (RGTPP) at Khedar in Haryana, an official said here Wednesday.
‘The security of RGTPP, which is being set up at a cost of more than Rs.4,300 crore (Rs.43 billion), could not be compromised at any [...]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The passengers were seated and the plane was readying for takeoff when the panic button was pressed – there was a bomb on board! Security agencies swung into action and passengers were made to disembark but in the end, it turned out to be a mock drill.
The bomb scare at [...]
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) What was thought to be a bomb scare at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Saturday turned out to be a mock drill conducted to check the preparedness level of various security agencies, an official said.
The drill was conducted at the behest of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.
Around [...]
New Delhi, Nov 28 (IANS) Five women pickpockets targeting passengers on the Delhi Metro were arrested Saturday by Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel.
The women’s intelligence wing of the CISF arrested the five women from the Kashmiri Gate Metro station. They were identified as Luxmi, Sheela, Bareli, Rakhi and Lalita, all from Maharashtra
The five women [...]
Bangalore, Nov 26 (IANS) India’s tech hub Bangalore was under a thick security blanket Thursday to avert any untoward incident on the first anniversary of 26/11. That this city itself has seen terror attacks in the past is lost on no one.
Security measures were heightened across the city, especially at the airport, railway stations, bus [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) A woman bank employee was allegedly robbed of Rs.40,000 while travelling in a Delhi Metro train on the Dwarka-Noida line, police said Wednesday.
The police said Madhu, employed with the Oriental Bank of Commerce, reported that she had boarded the train from the Ramakrishna Mission Marg metro station Monday. When the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Nearly 170 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel are providing protection to Infosys Technologies and the Electronic City in Bangalore, parliament was told Wednesday.
Following the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, the government promulgated an ordinance to provide paramilitary security cover to critical installations of national importance in the private [...]
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) A jeweller’s bag said to be containing Rs.4 lakh worth of gold was put under security check at a Delhi Metro station. But what came out of the scanning machine was a bag containing two packets of chips and a mineral water bottle! The gold remained untraced Wednesday, a day [...]
Kochi (Kerala), Nov 15 (ANI): The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have seized a French yacht in Kochi after it entered the port without valid documents.
This incident created havoc among the security and custom officials as the city is on high alert for being one of the main city to be visited by David Headley [...]
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) People’s response to the Delhi Metro’s Yamuna Bank-Noida section that opened Friday surpassed all expectations as nearly 74,000 passengers travelled by evening, an official said.
‘By 6 in the evening, the ridership was around 73,797 and the earning was around Rs.9.69 lakh. The ridership is expected to cross the 90,000 mark [...]
Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 13 (ANI): Security at the Taj Mahal here has been tightened following threats of an eminent terrorist attack.
The Taj Mahal, a monument of unsurpassable architectural beauty, is one of the most visited and most photographed places in the world.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has been deployed to protect the Taj [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Hundreds of curious passers-by thronged the Noida City Centre Metro station Thursday afternoon and even moved on to Metro tracks posing serious doubts on security issues, barely an hour after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati flagged off the Metro’s Noida link.
Looking jubilant and waving at the TV cameras, people teemed [...]
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The functioning of the Delhi Metro services were hit Sunday and hundreds of passengers were stuck on a train for over two hours due to power failure on the Dwarka-Yamuna bank line, police said.
According to police, a Delhi Metro train came to a standstill between the R.K. Ashram [...]
Raipur, Oct 26 (IANS) Security has been strengthened and patrolling intensified Monday at National Mineral Development Corp’s (NMDC) iron ore mines in Chhattisgarh, a day after Maoists killed four security personnel guarding the facilities, a senior official said.
‘The Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) has strengthened security across NMDC’s iron ore deposits at Bailadila hills in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Condemning the killing of four central paramilitary troopers in a landmine blast in Chhattisgarh, the government Monday asked civil rights groups not to ignore acts of violence by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
The slain troopers of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), who were killed Sunday, were part of [...]
Raipur, Oct 26 (IANS) A day after a Maoist attack killed four security personnel who were guarding National Mineral Development Corp’s (NMDC) facilities in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, the company Monday said mining activities remained unaffected despite the incident.
An explosion Sunday killed the Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) troopers and injured two of their colleagues when [...]
New Delhi, Oct.26 (ANI): The Centre has strongly condemned what it called an unprovoked and heinous attack by the CPI (Maoist) on the public sector Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel in Bacheli, in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada District on Sunday.
In a statement, the Union Home Ministry described the attack on one sub-Inspector, one head constable and [...]
Raipur, Oct 25 (IANS) Four Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) troopers and four Maoist rebels were killed in separate incidents of violence in Chhattisgarh Sunday, police said.
An explosion killed the troopers and injured two of their colleagues when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over a landmine planted by the Maoists in Dantewada district, [...]
Mumbai, Oct 18 (IANS) After a seven-hour drama, a chartered US military aircraft that was detained at Mumbai airport Sunday morning by Indian authorities after it failed to correctly identify itself, was given the green signal to proceed, an airport official said.
‘The customs, immigration and other procedural formalities are being completed. The aircraft is expected [...]
