Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh government on Friday introduced a bill in the assembly that seeks to introduce certain public safety measures in all establishments in view of the recurring incidents of terror attacks. Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy introduced the AP Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2013 on behalf of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has been holding charge of the Home Department as well.
The proposed legislation seeks to make it mandatory for all establishments, where 100 or more people are expected to gather, to provide access controls and install closed-circuit television surveillance cameras. Initially, the proposed legislation will cover all the municipal corporations in the state, including Greater Hyderabad, Greater Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada and may be extended to other areas as may be notified by the state government from time to time.
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12:28 AM, Jun 15, 2013
Uncontrolled fear is the greatest threat to the sanctity of liberty and freedoms that mankind has struggled to attain for centuries. Terror incidents that shock ...
02:57 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Mumbai: Despite two gruesome attacks due to poor coastal security, the Mumbai Police seems to have major loopholes in its security system. Though they have come up with a report stating possible threats, little seems to have been done to make the coasts safer. Five years after 26/11 attacks, CNN-IBN has accessed a nine-point Mumbai Police report admitting to specific coastal threats. It says: - Lack of common entry and...
09:23 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Friday defended the newly revealed government surveillance programmes as a small price to pay for keeping America safe from terror attacks. Sweeping up Americans' telephone records and monitoring Internet activity from overseas are "modest encroachments on privacy" that can help US intelligence analysts disrupt terror activity, he said during a four-day trip to the West Coast. "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," he reassured...
03:07 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: India has asked the US to "temporarily" hand over LeT terrorist David Headley for a year and extradite his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana to get more information about the conspiracy hatched to carry out Mumbai terror attacks. In its fresh efforts to get access to the Pakistani American terrorist, India has conveyed to the American interlocutors to "temporarily" hand over Headley for a year after the US expressed...
11:29 AM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: India may get access for the second time to Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, currently in the custody of the United States, for questioning. The positive indication was given by Washington to New Delhi during a recent bilateral meeting held in America. Government sources said following New Delhi's consistent persuasion, the US has indicated to interlocutors that India could be given access...
07:46 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question...
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif told CNN-IBN that he will share the Kargil report with India if voted to power. ...
08:48 PM, May 06, 2013
New York: A rusted 1.5-meter-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque site that once prompted virulent national debate about Islam and free speech. The twisted metal part, jammed in an 18-inch-wide sliver of open space between the buildings, has...
04:21 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Mumbai: The trial of suspected LeT operative Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case will start in Mumbai from May 4. "The sessions court (which is conducting the trial) on Thursday issued production warrant against him," said a crime branch official. Mumbai crime branch took Jundal's custody from Delhi Police in the 26/11 case on July 21, 2012, and filed chargesheet in October. The chargesheet...
08:49 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai: Abu Jundal, an alleged operative of terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and a key handler during the 26/11 terror attacks, has approached Bombay High Court seeking that he should not be kept in solitary confinement in the same cell where Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab once stayed. Jundal has been lodged in Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai. His cell was earlier occupied by Kasab, the lone arrested terrorist of 26/11 attacks,...
07:53 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Boston: Federal officials are denying that a suspect is in custody in the Boston Marathon bombings. A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Wednesday a suspect was in custody. But the FBI and the US attorney's office in Boston dispute that. The official who spoke to The Associated Press did so on condition of anonymity and stood by the information even after it was...
12:45 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Boston: Law enforcement sources on Wednesday said an arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon twin blasts case. However, the motive behind the bombings, which killed three people and injured over 170 others on Monday morning, is still not known, sources added. Earlier, officials had said they have identified a dark skinned male who is a suspect in the blasts case, CNN sources had informed. Officials had also believed...
11:35 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Two bombs exploded at the finish line of one of the world's most storied races in US city of Boston on Monday, killing three people, and injuring more than 170. ...
11:09 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: FBI and Homeland Security agents carried out searches at a high-rise apartment building in Boston seeking clues to unravel the plot behind the twin blasts, suspected to have been carried out by home-grown terrorists, which killed three people and injured over 150 during the Boston Marathon. Early on Tuesday, investigators descended on a high-rise apartment building in Revere and conducted a search, for nearly nine hours, related to the...
06:32 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Following the twin bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday, we take a look at the 10 sporting events that faced the ghastly acts of terrorism. 1972: Munich Olympics The darkest hour in the Olympics history arrived at the 1972 Games in Munich. Black September, a Palestinian militant group, killed 11 athletes of the Israeli team in a 16-hour hostage drama. Following that, competition was suspended at the Olympic...
11:28 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Six months after the police filed the chargesheet against suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 Mumbai terror strike Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, the trial is set to start. ...
10:28 PM, Apr 03, 2013
At least seven persons, including policemen and power utility workers, were on Tuesday killed by terrorists who destroyed a grid station during an attack on the outskirts of Peshawar city in Pakistan's restive northwest. ...
08:00 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Police today claimed to have cracked the suicide attack case on a CRPF camp here with the arrest of four persons, including an LeT terrorist from Pakistan, and recovered huge cache of arms, but said investigation did not prove that the attack was linked to execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. ...
04:24 PM, Mar 19, 2013
