The Union government has ordered the complete withdrawal of the counter-terrorist commando force NSG from VIP security duties and handing over its nine "high-risk" VIPs to the CRPF by next month, official sources said Wednesday.
Although no fresh arrests were reported in the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation continued with its questioning of top officials of the RG Kar Hospital.
After the government agreed to extend CISF security to private companies, the demand for the force has increased, he said at a CISF Reserve Battalion raising function in Amaravathiputhur, Tamil Nadu.
The Infosys facility in Mysore has been brought under CISF security cover, the third private sector installation to get government protection.
The Centre on Wednesday promised to consider requests for Central Industrial Security Force security to Mohabodhi temple and other prominent religious places in the wake of Sunday's terror attack.
Two months after a junior doctor was brutally raped and killed, the doctors' protest in Kolkata rages on.
The plan to relieve NSG from VIP security tasks has been in the making since 2012 when NSG commanders foresaw an event where simultaneous terror attacks could be witnessed at one time on multiple centres in the country and the commandos will have to be rushed in different directions.
Security personnel conducted extensive checks on the aircraft and found no danger, allowing the flight to proceed as planned, a Cochin International Airport spokesperson said in a statement in Kochi.
The interim budget 2024-25 on Thursday allocated Rs 202868.70 crore to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) with the highest share of funds going to the paramilitary forces like Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Industrial Secular Force (CISF), showing priority on internal security and border guarding.
The company said it has suspended the staffers and that it was part of the operation to unearth this crime.
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the government and the public sector units will retain their first claim on the Central Industrial Security Force cover even after its services are extended to the private sector.Chidambaram said the CISF security cover would not be extended to the private sector overnight as the force has to be expanded.The service will be available to the private sector after the government makes a risk analysis.
CISF has been permitted to also protect private sector companies after the government made an amendment in the CISF Act in January this year, in the aftermath of the 26/11 attack on Mumbai. T V Mohandas Pai, member of the Infosys Board and Head of HR and Administration, said, "CISF will provide us added protection; they will provide an overlay cover."
The government has decided to charge the private sector the same rates that are applicable to Public Sector Units (PSUs) for providing CISF cover.
The well-planned attack, apparently aimed at affecting the upcoming polls and looting weapons, took place shortly after 9.30 pm on Sunday when about 22 CISF personnel were inside a canteen at Asia's biggest bauxite mine. The heavily-armed Maoists, numbering about 200, including some women, looted the CISF armoury in the mine area which contained huge quantities of sophisticated arms and ammunition as well as explosives, police sources said.
The official also said that "re-polling will be held in booth no 126/5 in Sitalkuchi area" of the district, in view of the tragic incident.
The Central Industrial Security Force on Thursday issued alert across all domestic and international airports in the country to step up security at these facilities in the wake of the Chennai blasts.
CISF has ordered an inquiry into the incident and claimed that Meena took the extreme step because of personal reasons and not work-related stress.
The Centre has cleared a proposal of deploying 100 Central Industrial Security Force personnel each for Reliance refinery in Jamnagar and for Infosys premises in Bangalore.
Many passengers rushed out of an IndiGo aircraft at the Mumbai airport, sat on the tarmac, and some were also seen having food there as soon as their diverted Goa-Delhi flight landed after a long delay on Sunday.
In the first phase, 1,600 CISF personnel will be deployed to cover the 59 stations of mass transit system, stretching over 62 kms, as against the present system of 700-odd men guarding the network round the clock.
Software giant Infosys Technologies will become the first private sector company in India to get security cover from the Central Industrial Security Force, with over 100 personnel to be formally inducted on Friday at its facility in Bangalore.
Five private establishments, including Reliance Industries and Infosys, have failed to pay their dues on time to the government in return of the CISF cover provided to them.
Security was beefed up as agencies swept the airport terminals after the emails were received around 12.40 pm from the ID exhumedyou888@gmail.com.
The militants fought a pitched gun-battle with CISF jawans in the camp, destroyed an empty crude oil tank and ransacked an office block before fleeing into a nearby jungle, a senior police officer said.
The reservation would include a 10 per cent horizontal quota for Agniveers in the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden, and special police officers.
"The decision came after the cabin crew reported disruptive conduct on board, specifically a dispute between a husband and wife," sources told ANI.
A Central Industrial Security Force jawan was killed in Gaya by a colleague for trying to outrage the modesty of his wife and daughter.
A Central Industrial Security Force constable allegedly shot dead a fellow lady constable posted along with him at the Yamuna Bank Metro Station in east Delhi before killing himself.
Arunima Sinha, the country's first amputee to conquer Mt Everest, will soon be a police officer.
Sources in the government said the roof that collapsed at T1 was constructed during 2008-09 and that the work was contracted out by GMR to private contractors.
The process of decision-making and making large policy moves in the force has slowed down owing to the absence of the designated chief.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Centre had sent multiple advance warnings to the Kerala government about possible floods and landslides in the state, starting as early as July 23, and nine National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were rushed to the state the same day.
Seven workers were on Monday injured after Central Industrial Security Force personnel opened fire to prevent labourers without valid passes from entering an oil refinery at Paradip in Odisha.
The government has sanctioned 48 posts of the paramilitary force in various ranks which will deploy its quick reaction team at the Infosys campus at Hebbal Electronics City, Hootagalli in Mysore.
A voter turnout of over 40 per cent was recorded till 1 pm on Monday in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in 96 constituencies spread over 10 states and Union Territories amid incidents of violence in Andhra Pradesh and reports of poll boycott in some villages of Uttar Pradesh.
All temples may not get the CISF covering, according to the Home Minister.
Seven persons, including six jawans of the Central Industrial Security Force were killed on Sunday night in an ambush by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
'Healthcare is not an industry.' 'The government is only encouraging insurance as they are not able to provide healthcare to people.' 'Opening new medical colleges is not what is needed.' 'You have to invest in public sector hospitals.' 'You cannot hand over healthcare to the private industry.'
'Every actor has to really look within, because a lot of them are not really in touch with reality.'
