New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday again advocated the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) saying the risk for the country is increasing each day as the project is getting delayed. He said, "Given the gravity of the situation, everyday we delay NCTC, we increase our risk." The Home Minister further said that the threat perception continued to be high in the country. "The threat perception of terrorism...
06:09 PM, May 11, 2012
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
New Delhi: Investigators probing the blast in 2011 at Delhi High Court say freelance terrorists, those without affiliations to terror outfits, are posing a grave threat and different brand of terrorists are now emerging. Terror groups from across the border, home grown red terror and now another challenge - freelance terrorists or what the National Investigation Agency calls leaderless jihadis. The NIA investigating the Delhi High Court blast of 2011...
06:36 AM, May 06, 2012
Washington: There is no credible terrorist threat to the US by al Qaeda or its affiliated outfits on the eve of the first death anniversary of Osama bin Laden, even as these groups continue to plan attacks against America to revenge his death, the White House said on Thursday. "At this time we have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, are plotting attacks in the US to...
11:31 AM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Monday said many of the big dams in the country were under threat from terrorists and action had been taken to protect them. "The government has received reports of threat inputs indicating plans of terrorists to target important dams," Minister of State for Home, Mullappally Ramachandran, said in Lok Sabha. He was replying to a question whether many of the big dams in the country...
03:42 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Bangkok: The US Embassy in Thailand has sent an "emergency message" to American citizens warning of a possible terrorist attack in Bangkok. The message says that "foreign terrorists may be currently looking to conduct attacks against tourist areas in Bangkok in the near future." It calls on people to exercise caution in public areas where Western tourists gather. Embassy spokesman Walter Braunohler declined to release more details saying, "At this...
03:23 PM, Jan 13, 2012
New Delhi: An ambitious plan of Home Minister P Chidambaram to set up an intelligence hub that will integrate and analyse inputs on terror threats in India was finally accorded government approval on Thursday after hanging fire for almost two years. "The government has granted in principle approval for the MHA's (ministry of home affairs) proposal to set up (the National Counter-Terrorism Centre)," Chidambaram told reporters in New Delhi. The...
08:09 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Washington: The United States is concerned over the "continuing" terrorist threat coming from Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, siding with latest statement of Afghan President Hamid Karzai accusing terrorist outfits in Pakistan responsible for attacks in his country. "We are deeply concerned, as we have been, about the continuing terrorist threat from Pakistan," Clinton told reporters at a news conference in Brussels. "We have expressed to the...
08:54 AM, Dec 09, 2011
Washington: The US has issued a travel alert to its citizens in India, warning them of possible terror attacks in the country during the holiday season. "Recent Indian government advisories and local media report increased indications that terrorists are planning attacks in India," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday. "US citizens travelling or residing in India are always urged to maintain a heightened situational awareness and a...
12:01 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Hubli: The Intelligence Agencies on Sunday received a tip off that a hijacked private plane from Hubli airport in North Karnataka could be used to carry out a terror strike on a high rise building in Mumbai, along the lines of 9/11. Following the alarming terror threat, the security was put at an all-time high. As part of the security measures, there was a three-fold increase in the number of...
08:26 AM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: Ten years after September 11, 2001, the people in the United States have moved on, but, the horror of the worst terrorist attack remains as a nightmare on their minds. The few hours of terror changed America and thereafter, the lives of the people in America is not what it was before September 11, 2011. IBNLive spoke to Soubir Acharya, Founder and Board Member, Kubisys, who experienced the...
12:58 PM, Sep 11, 2011
American spy networks have intercepted communications indicating plans for a terrorist strike in New York. ...
07:56 PM, Sep 10, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama has extended by one more year the national emergency with regard to certain type of terrorist attacks. The emergency has been in place since September 14, 2001. "Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2011," Obama said in his notification. "Therefore,...
09:17 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Washington: Undaunted by talk of a new terror threat, New Yorkers and Washingtonians wove among police armed with assault rifles and waited with varying degrees of patience at security checkpoints on Friday while intelligence officials scrambled to nail down information on a possible al qaeda strike timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Counterterrorism officials have been working around the clock to determine whether the threat is accurate,...
08:53 AM, Sep 10, 2011
US officials said that they have specific, credible, but unconfirmed information about a terror plot in the US. ...
08:09 AM, Sep 10, 2011
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