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.
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.
Irate followers of the Maharaj were protesting over the godman not being allowed to embark a Lucknow-Mumbai flight with a silver mace, the symbol of his religious authority.
CISF personnel prevented Ahed from boarding a flight, saying he could harm other passengers.
The decision was taken at a meeting between Archeological Survey of India Director General C Babu Rajeev\nand Central Industrial Security Force Inspector General Radhakrishnan Kinne yesterday
A CISF officer prevented Union minister Ramkripal Yadav from entering the Patna airport through the exit gate.
The base will be used by carriers such as Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, to operate 70-seater ATR aircraft to places such as Bengaluru.
The incident took place overnight and was reported to police by Kumar's colleagues.
All temples may not get the CISF covering, according to the Home Minister.
Students' organisations and political parties are participating in the bandh to protest the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there.
The bail was granted by sessions judge N D Deshpande for a surety sum of Rs 10,000.
A threat of a bomb explosion or a possible suicide attack on an Air India flight from Mumbai sparked an alert with authorities beefing up security at major airports across the country. A high alert has been sounded in the Mumbai, Kochi and Ahmedabad airports.
A total of 946 medals have been announced by the Union home ministry for personnel and officers of Central Armed Police Forces and state police forces, out of which three have been decorated with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) while 177 have been awarded the PMG.
The government has also told the state governments that "special care" should be taken of Jammu and Kashmir residents and students residing in their state.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan of the specialised COBRA unit was killed and a Deputy Commandant injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists at Chiklam village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division on Wednesday.
The security was jacked up after a website showed graphics of the Taj Mahal with a terrorist standing alongside holding what looked like a weapon.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Bharatiya Janata Party staged a protest in Bengaluru on Monday against the police inaction post the killing of a sangh activist.
Sources said authorities have not made much headway in efforts to corroborate the allegations made by the Dubai police.
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All airports operating flights to and from Nepal have been put on an alert in the wake of intelligence tipoff about possible attempts by Maoist rebels in the Himalayan kingdom to hijack an Indian aircraft
The plane lost contact with air traffic control officials and landed in Mumbai after around four hours.
The blaze erupted around 7 am in the gas processing plant of the ONGC located in Uran area of neighbouring Navi Mumbai, an official said.
The police had sought Namdeo's custody to interrogate him for the illegal confinement of his colleagues.
He had killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage for seven hours at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
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Kerala police on Sunday arrested four Central Industrial Security Force personnel in connection with destruction of property during the June 10 clash at Karipur airport.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat has been extended top category 'Z+' security cover with the commandos of CISF having been tasked with the job.
Police said the Mumbai-based man identified as Clince Varghese, 26, and hailing from Thrissur district was an anchor of a popular music channel and he was detained for questioning along with his 27-year-old male friend. The two men were booked on the flight(9W 825) that was delayed by two hours following the incident, an airport official said.
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Security has been beefed up in and around Mumbai airport after a scribble threatening a terror strike on Republic Day was found in the washroom of the domestic terminus, in second such warning this month. The ground handling staff saw the message in the men's washroom of the domestic airport on Thursday that warned of an attack by terror outfit Islamic State, the police said.
Ramnarayan Namdeo, who killed his senior and held six colleagues hostage last week, claims he would have been better off if he had shot himself after the crime, according to police.
The CISF Court of Inquiry will try to ascertain what exactly provoked the constable to take the extreme step.
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