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.
Deploying additional Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, providing real-time updates through social media, adding more immigration counters and ensuring 100 per cent manning of immigration counters - these are some of the steps that the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) is now taking in coordination with other stakeholders to avoid congestion at major airports during the upcoming festival season. During the last year's festival and winter season, major airports in the country suffered from congestion due to lack of sufficient airport infrastructure, inadequate X-ray screening machines, bunching of flights at peak hours, as well as inadequate CISF and immigration personnel, the MoCA stated on Thursday. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, after last year's congestion issue, had asked major airports - including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai - to identify bottlenecks and augment capacity to meet the growing passenger demand.
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.
The matter is being investigated, they said and added that so far, there is no evidence that the "Khalistani" slur was used.
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 passengers were offloaded and the aircraft was moved to an isolation bay for further inspection, airport sources said.
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.
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.
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.
The man said that another passenger on the plane told him that there was a bomb in the plane.
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.
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.
A maximum of 92,000 personnel of CAPFs are likely to be deployed in politically volatile West Bengal, where elections will be held in seven phases, followed by 63,500 personnel in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, where polling will be held in five phases.
The process of decision-making and making large policy moves in the force has slowed down owing to the absence of the designated chief.
A Central Industrial Security Force jawan was killed in Gaya by a colleague for trying to outrage the modesty of his wife and daughter.
Arunima Sinha, the country's first amputee to conquer Mt Everest, will soon be a police officer.
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.
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.
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.
All temples may not get the CISF covering, according to the Home Minister.
The Central Industrial Security Forces have intercepted a French yacht near the Kochi coast and took into custody two foreigners, Malcom Russel Williamson (72), a resident of Florida in US, and Guilamo Pinaol (45), a resident of French capital Paris.
ersonnel in a revamp that aims to provide cost-effective, reliable, and professionally competent security service at airports. Aneesh Phadnis reports.
Normal flight services at Manipur's Imphal International Airport were affected on Sunday afternoon over sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), officials said.
The Central Industrial Security Force has re-jigged security of all airports across the country as it has replaced the ritual drill of frisking of passengers with "tactical checking" in order to reduce hassles and ensure a heightened level of protection to civil air operations.
A Central Industrial Security Force head constable on Wednesday allegedly shot dead three of his colleagues attached to the Kalpakkam Nuclear complex in Tamil Nadu and injured two others in their camp.
A year after serial bomb blasts hit the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar still awaits a security beef up. Central Industrial Security Force personnel are yet to be deployed at the shire, a police official said.
The Central Industrial Security Force personnel will travel in late night Metro trains in order to ensure security of female passengers, a top official said on Wednesday.
Terrorists may try to attack crowded airports at peak hours so that they are able to inflict 'maximum damage', the CISF warned. "They (terrorists) may now try to attack the airports at peak hours from the frontal side so that they are able to inflict maximum damage...we keep on taking all these factors into our planning," said CISF Additional Director General M S Bali. Bali said security measures have been changed and enhanced as aviation security is a 'dynamic concept'.
The proposal is awaiting final policy sanction from the home ministry.
Social media influencer Sapna Gill's allegation that Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw had molested her at a pub in suburban Andheri in Mumbai is "false and unfounded", the police told a court.
One worker died and three other workers were injured following a clash between a mob of workers and Central Industrial Security Force personnel at Brahmaputra Crackers and Polymers Limited at Lepetkata in Dibrugah district of eastern Assam on Friday.
The Indian Air Force has been asked by the Delhi high court to relieve one of its airmen within a week to enable him join the Central Industrial Security Force as an assistant commandant.
Highlighting the low representation of women in the Central Armed Police Forces, a parliamentary committee has asked the Union home ministry to take steps to encourage them to join the services, besides recommending a reservation for transgenders.
The government has sent a special unit of trained commandos to Pakistan to protect top diplomats of the Indian Embassy there. The batch of 16 personnel, trained in commando skills and unarmed combat from the Central Industrial Security Force, was sent to the neighbouring country in February. "They will perform VIP security duties after assessing the situation there," CISF Director General N R Das told reporters on the sidelines of the force's 40th raising day.
Keeping in view the serious threats posed by terror groups, the government has promulgated an Ordinance under which Central Industrial Security Force could be deployed at private and joint venture industrial units.The ordinance known as the CISF (Amendment) 2009 has come into effect since Sunday, an official spokesman of the Home Ministry said on Monday.
Carrying of alcohol was banned in the Delhi Metro till recent except on the Airport Express Line, the DMRC said in a statement.
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