Mumbai: There is an Intelligence alert over a possible terror attack on the US Consulate in Mumbai and Kolkata, according to sources. Sources say that the Mumbai Police has been alerted by the Western Naval Command Headquarters about a possible terror attack on the US Consulate in Mumbai in July.
CNN-IBN has also learned that the US Consulate officials are the target after an anonymous letter with Al-Jihad logo was sent to them. The letter warns of an attack on not just the consulate in Mumbai, but also on the US Consulate in Kolkata.
The letter with the Mumbai Police has been sent to the US Consulate and a response is awaited. The police are in the process of checking the veracity of the letter.
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New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has re-appointed Jammu and Kashmir Governor Narinder Nath Vohra for another term, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said on Saturday. "The president is pleased to appoint Narinder Nath Vohra to be the governor of Jammu and Kashmir for a fresh term on the expiry of his present term," said the statement. Vohra was appointed governor of the troubled border state in June 2008. Joining the Indian...
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The Home Ministry's budget outlay for 2013-14 has seen a six-fold hike in allocation for police modernisation and increase in funds for organisations dealing with terror threats. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Hyderabad had been alerted specifically by the Intelligence Bureau and the Union Home Minister about possible terror strikes, sources said on Friday, a day after the Andhra Pradesh capital was rocked by twin blasts in which 15 people were killed and 118 injured. A total of three advisories had been issued for Hyderabad - two by the Intelligence Bureau and one by the Home Ministry. A general alert to all...
12:13 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Sources in the Home Ministry on Friday said that the Intelligence Bureau had issued three separate advisories to all states on February 16 and 19. The sources said that on February 20, the Home Ministry too issued an advisory to all the states. ...
10:24 AM, Feb 22, 2013
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12:50 PM, Feb 11, 2013
Indian Police Service officer SA Ibrahim on Tuesday took over as chief of the Intelligence Bureau, home ministry sources said, becoming the first from the country's main minority community to hold the post. Ibrahim, an IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, has taken over as from Nehchal Sandhu who retired December 31. He will hold the post for two years. ...
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New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Alok Joshi will be the new chief of RAW and Syed Asif Ibrahim will be the next Director of Intelligence Bureau, the first Muslim to head it with four officers senior to him having been shifted out. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cleared the name of Joshi, a 1976 batch officer from Haryana cadre, to succeed Sajeev...
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New Delhi: Nearly 10,000 phones are being lawfully tapped in various states, according to official data available on Friday. Over 4,500 phones were intercepted during the month of August in addition to more than 5,000 phones which were already being tapped. The interception is ordered by various intelligence agencies, police forces and Army. Besides phones, nearly 1,200 email addresses were also being intercepted under the Indian Telegraph Act, according to...
07:20 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did some plain speaking before the country's top police brass on Saturday in telling that capacity of the police to tackle inter-community relations has weakened and grass root intelligence collection system had "languished in some places". Singh underlined at an annual conference of state directors general and inspectors general of police which was also attended by seniormost intelligence officers, the security threats faced by...
01:55 AM, Sep 09, 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
New Delhi: With Assam still tense following the communal violence in some of its districts, the Central Government is trying to block offensive content on social media websites, which it claims have been responsible for the hate campaign against Northeast Indians. The government has given the microblogging site Twitter and other social media websites a deadline of 12 hours deadline to remove the objectionable content or face a shutdown in...
12:52 PM, Aug 23, 2012
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10:34 AM, Aug 23, 2012
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01:05 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat has been put on high alert in wake of Intelligence Bureau's warning of a possible terror strike in the state, after the Pune blasts, a top police official said on Sunday. "High alert is in force in the state and will remain till August 15. With IB inputs and festival season round the corner security has been beefed up in the state," the police official said. A close...
04:25 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has started inviting online applications from candidates willing to sit for the examination for appointment of Assistant Central Intelligence Officers (ACIOs) in its Intelligence Bureau (IB) 2012. Willing candidates may log on to https://www.onlinesubmit.in/mha/ to register themselves and apply. Up to 750 positions are up for grabs. The Intelligence Bureau was established in 1887 and rebuilt in 1947 after Independence. It is...
12:58 PM, Aug 03, 2012
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06:50 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Lok Sabha members would soon be able to use iPads in the house with a parliamentary panel clearing Wi-Fi connectivity in the Lower House of Parliament. The facility is already available in the Rajya Sabha. According to Lok Sabha Secretary General TK Vishwanathan, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked to extend Wi-Fi facility to the Lower House before the monsoon session, scheduled to begin in July....
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