The Commission has desired to incorporate Aadhaar-based fingerprint authentication (else digital fingerprint capturing) and facial recognition of candidates, scanning of QR Code of e-admit cards and monitoring through live AI-based CCTV video surveillance, it said.
The inquiry ordered by the government into the allegations of the Delhi gangrape victim's friend of tardy police response will also go into the role of Safdarjung hospital staff in the treatment of the two.
Authorities at the Delhi airport on Friday searched a Vistara aircraft, which was to leave for Pune, following a bomb threat but nothing suspicious was found, the police said.
Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy spoke over phone to his mother. After that Sheikh Hasina agreed to resign.
The FIR was registered at Akola in Vidarbha region against 33 persons, including 28 policemen, an official said.
At least 23 persons, including four children, were killed in a massive fire that swept through a game zone teeming with people enjoying a summer vacation outing in Gujarat's Rajkot city on Saturday evening, officials said.
The incident occurred around 7.30 pm on Thursday near the race course. Police got information about it after Nair Hospital authorities informed the police control room.
Anger erupted among CRPF jawans over absence of state political leaders at the wreath laying ceremony at Police Control Room here in memory of their five colleagues killed in a 'fidayeen'(suicide) attack.
The Mumbai Polioce have dispelled rumours of a curfew being imposed around the Gateway of India, in Mumbai ahead of a citizens rally which is to held there on Wednesday evening.
Hours after the serial blasts in Mumbai, an abandoned bag was found in suburban Santacruz and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad rushed to the spot to check its contents, police said.
Threat calls send New Delhi into a tizzy.
"Let no one have to repeat the tragic words like George Perry Floyd, Jr: 'I can't breathe'", the Delhi high court has said, holding that the law does not permit people to be beaten up in police custody or during interrogation as the punishment for a criminal act is to be determined by a court of law.
Two of the three youths killed in an encounter with security forces in the Parimpora area of Srinagar were 'radically inclined' and working as overground workers of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terror outfit, police said on Friday and added that the case was being investigated.
Police on Sunday said that the anonymous phone call from Yemen claiming that Indian Mujahideen was behind the murder of crime reporter J Dey, could to be hoax.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has received a threat to her life, top official sources in the state government said on Saturday. They said a call was made to a police wireless set threatening that Dikshit's life was in danger. A senior police official said they are investigating the matter.
A week after the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, the Mumbai Police control room on Saturday received an anonymous phone call from Yemen with the caller saying Indian Mujahideen was behind the killing.
This is the first cyclone in the Bay of Bengal this pre-monsoon season.
The call was received by police at around 2:30 pm and extensive checks were conducted.
A 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making a threatening call to the police claiming that Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's life was in danger. Veer Singh, a resident of Farsh Vihar in the national capital, was arrested for making a call to the police control room on Thursday evening, claiming that Dikshit's life was in danger, the police said on Saturday.
Mumbai, home to 1 crore voters and 420 candidates vying for 36 assembly seats, is gearing up for the Maharashtra Assembly elections on November 20. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed all preparations for smooth conduct of the polls, ensuring a robust security arrangement and dedicated facilities for senior citizens and differently-abled voters. The BMC has also urged citizens to exercise their franchise, emphasizing the importance of active participation in strengthening democracy.
Security personnel at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International airport in Kolkata went into a tizzy on Wednesday after receiving three phone calls threatening to blow up the airport.
An anonymous caller threatening to blow up two Metro stations, including at the busy Rajiv Chowk in the heart of Delhi, on Sunday triggered a scare in the National Capital Region, prompting authorities to step up security at these installations.
The ongoing agitation has also led the Federation of All India Medical Association to warn that it would declare a nationwide "complete shutdown of medical services" if any "any harm befalls brave junior doctors".
A witness in the December 16 gang-rape case complained to a fast track court in New Delhi that he felt harassed by the questioning of the counsel for the accused.
Shyam Sundar, posted in the Police Control Room in the town, had spoken on the walkie-talkie over the past three days claiming himself to be Prabhakaran and threatened to disturb the conference, saying LTTE had lost respect in Tamil Nadu after the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
A telephone call threatening that a bomb would be placed at the official residence of Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthandandan received by the police control room in Thiruvananthapuram.
A live bomb was found on Saturday evening in a private nursing home in Dhantoli, police said.The sniffer dog of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad identified the bomb which was wrapped in a plastic bag, police said.
With his surrender, the police hope to unearth the racket and investigate the alleged role of some of the politicians from Andhra Pradesh in the scandal.
The much-awaited report of the Justice Hema Committee, the government-appointed panel in 2019 that studied issues faced by women in the Malayalam film industry, comprises explosive accounts of harassment, exploitation, and ill-treatment being faced by women.
An anonymous call threatening to kill Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch A B Vajpayee have prompted security agencies to conduct searches in the National Capital Region to identify the caller, sources said on Wednesday.
An anonymous call on Saturday claiming that a bomb was planted in the high-security Vidhan Soudha, the state secretariat in Bangalore, turned out to be a hoax, police said.
A 10-member Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team on Monday visited the Balasore train accident site and began its probe into the triple train crash, a Railway official said.
According to a police officer, the fire started in the office of the Commissioner in room number 325 on the third floor of the building. He said many of the employees were outside the building as it was lunchtime, otherwise, the casualty could have been more.
The parliament duty group of the CRPF wound up its entire administrative and operational paraphernalia -- vehicles, weapons and commandos -- from the complex on Friday and its commander, a deputy inspector general-rank officer, handed over all the security points in the complex to the incoming CISF group, the sources said.
Hoax bomb call leads to extensive search at New Delhi railway station
Two people were killed in an explosion triggered by the Maoists, who also blasted a railway station, uprooted tracks and blew up school buildings during their two-day Jharkhand bandh, which began on Sunday.
