New Delhi: Thanks to Aamir Khan's TV show 'Satyamev Jayate', Love Commandos has become a familiar term for thousands of television viewers. Fifth episode of 'Satyamev Jayate' talked about the issue of honour killing in India. Sanjay Sachdev, chairman of Love Commandos was interviewed by Aamir during the show. The name of this organisation sounds like a Bollywood film and they are the real heroes for many couples. In a...
06:37 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament House complex will soon be guarded by a special commando-trained squad of CRPF which will be armed with modern weapons and communication gadgets. The elite squad will be called the Parliament Duty Group (PDG) and this is the first time that the historic building will have a system of "uniform armed protection" for itself, a CRPF officer said. The Union Home Ministry had recently approved the creation...
04:39 PM, May 01, 2012
Abbottabad: Pakistani authorities have reduced the house where Osama bin Laden lived for years before he was killed by US commandos to rubble, destroying a concrete symbol of the country's association with one of the world's most reviled men. Workers completed the demolition job in the garrison town of Abbottabad in northwest Pakistan on Monday. The al-Qaida leader moved into the three-story house in 2005. Acting on intelligence gathered by...
12:12 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Mogadishu: Pirates moved an American hostage at least three times in 24 hours and threatened on Thursday to kill him after US Navy SEALs rescued an American and a Dane in a bold, dark-of-night raid that raises questions about whether other Western captives are now in greater danger. "If they try again, we will all die together," warned Hassan Abdi, a Somali pirate connected to the gang holding the American,...
03:28 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mogadishu: US special operations forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued two hostage aid workers after killing their nine kidnappers, a rare and daring raid in the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives. American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, of Denmark, humanitarian aid workers for a Danish demining group, were rescued three months after they were kidnapped on October 25 in the town of...
04:36 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Hyderabad: Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday inaugurated a regional hub of the elite anti-terror National Security Guard (NSG) here. The hub has come up at a cost of Rs.37.96 crore on 22 acres of land at Tirmulghery in Secunderabad, Hyderabad's twin city. Speaking on the occasion, Chidambaram said the NSG were being provided modern weapons and the world-class training to thwart terrorist attacks and hijacking of airplanes. He...
11:23 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Washington: LeT is engaged in imparting commando training to its recruits, including teenagers, at its terror camps inside Pakistan, besides being involved in their religious indoctrination, according to an FBI complaint. In the complaint submitted before a federal US court in Virginia on Friday, the FBI said this is reflected in the communication of Jubair Ahmad, a Pakistani national on legal permanent residency in the US who was arrested on...
10:39 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Washington: US President Barack Obama, who is confident of his re-election for a four-year term in November next year, has joked that he would use his Secret Service commandos to keep boys away from his two daughters. "When I'm re-elected, what I will be getting them (his daughters Sasha and Malia) is a continuation of Secret Service so that when boys want to start dating them, they are going to...
12:35 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: A senior National Security Guard official's computer has been hacked into. Miscreants sent out a number of letters on behalf of Major General RS Pradhan who is in charge of operations to numerous people on Friday. Senior officials alerted the Intelligence Bureau the moment they discovered the breach. The NSG's internal mail system has been suspended and an overhaul in the security system has been ordered. Sources said...
10:28 AM, Jul 03, 2011
Lahore: Pakistani intelligence agencies have taken into custody a former naval commando, who was court martialled earlier, and two other persons for their alleged involvement in a terrorist attack on a naval airbase in Karachi that killed 10 security personnel. Kamran Ahmed, a former personnel of the elite Special Service Group-Navy, was picked up with his younger brother and a friend from Gulberg area of Lahore on Friday, sources said....
04:10 PM, May 30, 2011
Islamabad: A Pakistani marine commando from the Waziristan tribal region posted at the PNS Mehran naval airbase which was attacked by terrorists this week was arrested in January for his links with militants and had warned about an impending attack, a media report said on Thursday. The commando, who belongs to South Waziristan Agency, was arrested for his links with the Taliban and al-Qaeda affiliates, The News daily quoted its...
12:24 PM, May 26, 2011
Washington: As many as 79 crack US commandos in four helicopters flew into Pakistan's Abbottabad city on a moonless night to take out Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a single shot to the world's most wanted man's head completed their mission. New York Times quoted officials as saying that the American commandos in four choppers arrived at the $1 million mansion where Osama was hiding. The US Navy...
02:16 PM, May 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday disapproved the idea of arming local people to counter the Maoists and sought an explanation from the Chhattisgarh Government for creating an anti-Naxal armed group of special police officers - Koya Commandos. "What is this Koya Commandos? How are they appointed and how are they given training etc? It is very dangerous, giving them arms to fight," a bench comprising justices B Sudershan...
10:17 PM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi is not the safest city in the country for women. Last year as many as 585 women faced some sort of sexual harassment. But, to rein eve teasers and trouble makers in, Delhi Police has now started giving specialised commando training to its recruits. After the training is complete, the feisty young women will be able to fight, strike and immobilise anyone who dares to break the ...
09:13 AM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi is not the safest city in the country for women. Last year as many as 585 women faced some sort of sexual harassment. But, to rein eve teasers and trouble makers in, Delhi Police has now started giving specialised commando training to its recruits. After the training is complete, the feisty young women will be able to fight, strike and immobilise anyone who dares to break the...
09:13 AM, Feb 03, 2011
New Delhi: Love commandos, a group of volunteers who claim to be on a mission to help "love birds", said that all the states must set up block level love birds help committee to promote love, peace and a casteless society. "We demand setting up of block level love birds committees by the state to empower the couples so that the country can move towards a casteless society which can...
05:26 PM, Jan 13, 2011
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11:31 AM, Nov 18, 2009
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