Mumbai: Mumbai police is mulling over a proposal sent by the office of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani to set up a police chowki at his sprawling residential building 'Antilia' in Altamount Road in Mumbai. The proposal comes in the wake of a letter purportedly by terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen in February threatening to harm Ambani and damage his residence Antilia for "supporting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and investing heavily in that state".
"We have received a letter from the office of Mukesh Ambani and are thinking over it. However, there would be few formalities to be complied with and we are mulling over the issue," said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone II Nisar Tamboli.
The police would also have to seek permission from the civic body to set up a police chowki at the 27-storeyed building in South Mumbai. If enough FSI is not available, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation would have to give additional FSI for this purpose, sources said.
Police have already approached the BMC for permission to set up the chowki. Sources in the Civic body confirmed that the police chief had written a letter to them seeking approval for the station at Antilia....
more
05:44 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower was evacuated on Saturday after a bomb scare. Hundreds of people were visiting the site when France's anti-terrorism police made the decision to evacuate it. ...
09:25 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Mumbai: The eastern belt of Mumbai is one of India's most sensitive zones. Adjacent to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are the HPCL and BPCL oil refineries - one of India's most important fuel supply hub. While BARC is now on a high alert after an inter-state terror module was busted, its now the storage depots of these refineries which face a specific terror threat. The number of terrorists plotting...
07:59 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai's oil refineries have been put on a high alert after an intelligence warning of a possible terror attack. The security at the oil refineries has been stepped up. This comes after an intelligence alert about a plot to target HPCL and BPCL oil depots. The alert specifies the number of terrorists, their method and the target spot. It even states the name of the area they hail from....
01:31 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Islamabad: Cellular services were on Sunday night suspended in four major Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, to prevent terrorist attacks using bombs triggered with mobile phones, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Millions of people in Lahore, Multan, Karachi and Quetta were unable to use their mobile phones from 8 pm as cellular operators suspended all services in most parts of these cities on the directions of the Interior Ministry....
01:42 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Bangalore: Railway Police are on high alert in Karnataka in the wake of threats by suspected terror groups operating from Mysore to carry out blasts on some trains plying from Bangalore on the eve of Independence Day, a top Railway official said. "We have received intelligence inputs from Delhi. Some suspected terror groups in Mysore have threatened to carry out blasts on some trains. Our officers are on alert, especially...
07:17 PM, Aug 13, 2012
London: British police said on Thursday that reports of suspicious activity on a bus, which set off a massive emergency response and forced the closure of a section of a major highway in central England, were unfounded. The "culprit"? An electronic cigarette. Armed police evacuated passengers from the bus and bomb disposal units, ambulances and fire engines descended on the Weeford toll plaza of the M6 highway in the West...
04:52 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Mumbai: Juhu airport in Mumbai is the nerve centre of helicopter and small aircraft operations in Western India. Intelligence Bureau terror alerts last year warned the airport could provide a launch pad for terror attacks on the city. But despite urgent alerts by the intelligence bureau, CNN-IBN finds glaring loopholes in security and infrastructure at the airport. Even as the air traffic control tower, hangars and helicopters lie unsecured, rows...
06:50 AM, Jun 25, 2012
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
