
New Delhi: All the airports across the country have been put on a high alert following a threat of a possible sabotage attempt by a human bomb. The CISF and NSG teams have been alerted. Sources say the threat is not specific but general in nature. More security personnel have been deployed at the airports. ...

10:30 AM, May 08, 2012

Guwahati: Assam has been put on high alert and extra security has been deployed ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's one-day visit. Two blasts rocked the state on Thursday evening just hours ahead of the Prime Minister's visit. The Prime Minister will be in Guwahati to inaugurate the platinum jubilee celebration of the Assam Assembly. The Home Ministry has asked the state to keep a strict vigil as intelligence hints...

11:25 AM, Apr 20, 2012

New Delhi: The security at the Mumbai airport has been tightened in view of an alert sent by central agencies. Security at the Chhatrapati Shivaji airport has been put on high alert after an alert was sent by central agencies of a possible threat from an aircraft. Unwilling to take any chance, the Mumbai Police has beefed up the security at the airport following last week's bomb blast outside the...

10:32 AM, Sep 13, 2011

New Delhi: In the wake of the deadly blast outside the Delhi High Court, the government has issued a nationwide alert asking all states to step up vigil and take precautionary measures. Home Ministry officials said the nature of explosives used in the blast was not known immediately and the post-blast investigative teams of the NIA and NSG have picked up leads from the spot. All states have been asked...

02:29 PM, Sep 07, 2011

Mumbai: The financial capital was put on high alert on Wednesday following a blast outside the Delhi High Court, in which nine people were killed and several others injured, police said. As Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated on a large scale here, policemen deployed across the city in view of the festivity have been asked to be on alert, a police official said. "We are on high alert and taking all...

12:50 PM, Sep 07, 2011

Mumbai: Following is the chronology of major blasts in the country: Varanasi, December 7, 2010: Two-year-old girl killed and 25 others injured in a blast which takes place between the Dashashwamedh and Shitla ghats on the river Ganga. Pune, February 13, 2010: 17 people killed and over 60 injured when a bomb rips out the famous German bakery in the city. Mumbai, November 26, 2008: 166 people killed in coordinated...

08:40 PM, Jul 13, 2011

New Delhi: Bangalore airport has been put on high alert after a tip-off by the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Security has also been tightened at the Chennai airport after officials at the Bangalore airport received a mysterious call on Tuesday night warning of a threat to a Bangalore-Chennai flight. All Bangalore-Chennai flights being checked but no flights have been delayed. The CISF has also formed a bomb squad to check all...

09:36 AM, Jun 01, 2011

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad has been put on high alert after Intelligence Bureau (IB) report on terror strikes in the city. The Ahmedabad police commissioner has also confirmed that security has been tightened. The Police Commissioner said that security has been tightened following the IB report that says that the Prime Minister's residence received an anonymous letter stating that blasts will be carried out in 17 places in Ahmedabad this year. ...

01:22 PM, May 22, 2011

Islamabad: High alert has been sounded on Monday across the Pakistani capital and security was beefed up in the diplomatic area, especially around the US embassy, following the killing of world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden. Security has also been strengthened around the US consulates in Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistani officials said. Even the American school would be closed on Tuesday as part of the security arrangement. Interior...

03:06 PM, May 02, 2011

New Delhi: The ministry of Home Affairs sounded a security alert across the country four days before the New Year festivities begin. The alert is specific for all locations that Lashkar agent David Coleman Headley recced. Information Bureau has picked up human intelligence which suggests that Taj Hotel could be attacked, following which security at all Taj Hotels, specially Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel has been tightened. The Home Ministry advisory...

07:10 AM, Dec 28, 2010

Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Thursday put the city on high alert after releasing the sketch of a suspected terrorists, who is among the four LeT men who according to the Mumbai police have entered the city to cause widespread destruction this festive season. The Mumbai police say these men may target crowded areas. Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner said, "The Mumbai police is taking utmost precautions including massive deployment and...

09:28 PM, Dec 24, 2010

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the R-Day chief guest. ...

08:26 AM, Jan 26, 2009

Police have stepped up security, navy, army on alert for Republic Day. ...

08:13 AM, Jan 26, 2009

Pakistan's World Cup winning-skipper talks about his playing days and what went wrong for his team in 1979 and 1987. ...

01:30 AM, Dec 06, 2007

A bomb explosion near a Shia mosque in Peshawar killed at least 10 people, including the city’s police chief. ...

10:59 PM, Jan 27, 2007