The is for the first time such a scanner, till now opposed over privacy concerns, will be installed and made operational for a trial at any civil airport in the country, officials said.
The Maoists also looted 14 Self Loading Rifles, one 9 mm pistol, two wireless sets and huge amounts of explosive material, including detonators and fuses, stocked by the PSU for its own mining activities.
The move prompted a strong reaction from the Congress, with its state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu equating it with the 1919 Rowlatt Act or Black Act and saying that the party will explore legal options to challenge it.
If the precautions are not taken and guidelines are not followed properly, there can be chances of spike in cases, the government said.
Anjali Bhagwat and Deepali Deshpande continued to prove their mettle in women's air rifle event of the 47th National Shooting Championship.
An angry Nadda called the attack 'unprecedented' and alleged the state has slipped into 'complete lawlessness and goonda raj'. He also said the violence reflected the 'frustration' of the Mamata Banerjee government. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee insinuated the attack was staged.
A packet, suspected to be carrying explosives, recovered from the cargo section of a Guwahati-New Delhi Spice Jet aircraft, on Saturday created panic and delayed the flight at the LokopriyoGopinathBordoloiInternationalAirport at Borjhar, police said.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 1,10,960, while 1,09,461 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said.
The Central Industrial Security Force has recovered over 1,900 detonators from Kolar district ahead of the Karnataka elections to be held on May 5.
A person, arrested in connection with the murder of a CISF constable and his wife, was on Sunday found hanging in the toilet of a police lock-up.
A group of first time voters who run 10 km everyday to prepare for fauji recruitment rallies, tell Rediff.com's Archana Masih they need two things: quality education and jobs.
Scaling up their protest against loading of fuel at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, anti-nuclear activists and fishermen on Saturday laid siege to the port in Tuticorin but work was not disrupted, officials said.
This will be after over two decades that the 'black cat' commandos of the elite counter-terror force will be taken out from VIP protection duties, a task not originally charted for it when the force was conceptualised and raised in 1984.
Rajasthan's Mahaveer Singh and Tejaswini Sawant of Maharashtra were among the shooters to have won the gold medals on the 10th day of the 56th National Shooting Championship in New Delhi.
The good news is that the government has taken notice of the pain and has formed a task force to improve operating procedure during foggy days.
Ground support staff quickly doused the flames and no one was injured in the fire. There was also no damage to the aircraft or the runway.
Extended check-in time, frequent disinfection every hour, additional queue managers at entry, exit, boarding point, check-in halls, security check areas and boarding gates, with social distancing markers and reminders - welcome to our airports post-coronavirus.
Metro rail services were closed on March 22 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Serious lapses at several non-metro airports like damaged X-ray machines, absence of explosive detectors and faulty metal detectors have been found in an audit carried by the aviation security agency BCAS.
Banerjee, also the TMC supremo, said in a sarcastic way that personnel of security forces such as the CRPF, BSF, CISF and the Army are present at convoys of every BJP leader visiting West Bengal.
When the prime minister was offering floral tributes to Patel, flower petals were also showered on the world's tallest statue by an Indian Air Force helicopter.
Punjab colt Akshay Jain grabbed a golden pistol double, upstaging former Commonwealth Games champion Samaresh Jung in the process, in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships at the Balewadi ranges.
The incident occurred at around 7.30 pm on December 29 when a massive mound of earth came crashing down on excavators at Lalmatia open cast coal mine of Eastern Coalfields Ltd, the worst such disaster in over a decade.
Naxals have fired at the National Mineral Development Corporation facility in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on Monday.
After being deprived of a gold medal by Border Security Force's Amit Kumar Pilaniya in the 10m air pistol event three days ago, Samaresh Jung was bang on target today as he won the 25m centre fire pistol title in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
Rejecting criticism of tardy relief operations in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said government was making all efforts and complimented armed forces personnel for their untiring efforts in rescuing the stranded people.
As part of a new rotation policy of paramilitary forces' squads at the Republic Day parade, the contingents of two other forces -- the Central Reserve Police Force and Central Industrial Security Force -- have been taken out of the event this time, officials said.
India must first improve working condition, then it can concentrate on Make in India concept.
Unearthing a major fake visa racket, security personnel on Tuesday detained 27 people at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi when they were trying to board two Dubai-bound flights allegedly with forged travel documents.
Commonwealth Games gold medalist and ace marksman Samresh Jung won gold while Olympic medallist Vijay Kumar settled for a bronze in 25 meter standard pistol event at the 57th National Shooting Championship at Dr Karni Singh Ranges in New Delhi on Saturday.
The Tribunal passed the order on a petition of an Assistant (posted in CISF HQ) Surender Pal Singh, challenging the order of the ministry of home affairs retiring him from the service compulsorily in the wake of report of the Internal Review Committee of the Central Industrial Security Force.
The mobile phone of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was stolen from his checked-in baggage at the Delhi Airport last week, after he arrived in New Delhi from London.
"A person who not even passed eighth standard got an MA degree through open university and became advocate and even started an association" the judge observed.
The incident happened when the air hostess asked the lawmaker not to throw the leftover food in the aisle.
'The government strongly condemns this unprovoked and heinous attack by the CPI (Maoist) on a public sector security force that was on a routine patrol in an area falling under the jurisdiction of a public sector corporation,' the Home Ministry said in a statement.
The trial run for one week would be applicable for domestic passengers.
The number of recoveries also surged with 2,48,189 patients cured so far, while there were 1,78,014 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am.
Various facets of Mahatma Gandhi's life journey were displayed by the 22 tableaux that rolled down the Rajpath during the 70th Republic Day Parade.
Don't fret the next time you forget your favourite designer jacket or your loved one's parting gift at an airport because you can now use the facility of retrieving the articles after logging on to the Internet.
An IndiGo flight from Dubai to Kozhikode made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday morning following alleged unruly behaviour of a passenger.
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