
London: A newspaper embarrassed the organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games on Sunday by disclosing it had smuggled a fake bomb past two security checkpoints into the London complex housing the sporting festival's main stadiums. The best-selling Sun newspaper conducted the stunt on Friday, at the end of a week-long pre-Olympics military exercise that saw a warship sail up the River Thames and plans announced to put missiles on rooftops...

01:26 PM, May 08, 2012

Kolkata: In a security breach, a private car entered into the convoy of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee near Rabindra Sadan in Kolkata on Monday night, prompting police to intercept the vehicle. Kolkata Police said the driver of the vehicle, believed to be belonging to an industrialist, was later taken to the Hastings police station for interrogation. Banerjee was passing through the spot at 8:45 pm when the incident...

12:05 AM, Apr 03, 2012

Mumbai: MT Pavit, a small ship mysteriously grounded at Mumbai's Versova Beach, has literally turned into a giant jigsaw puzzle for India's coastal security agencies. Having not even a blip on the security radar, while it was adrift towards Mumbai for a month, has left alarm bells ringing. The ship owner claimed Pavit had sunk off the Oman coast on June 29 due to water ingress in its engine room....

08:31 PM, Aug 04, 2011

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said investigative agencies found nothing during their probe of the alleged security breach at his office in the North Block. Commenting on the reports of a possible breach of security in his and other senior officials' offices, Mukherjee told reporters on the sidelines of function, "In respect of news item, IB investigated into it and they found there is nothing." According to...

12:16 PM, Jun 21, 2011

New Delhi: The Indian Express has reported a security breach in the Finance Ministry, and said that a complaint was made by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in this regard. Sources in the Congress said that the incident took place a year ago and Pranab Mukherjee conveyed security breach to Manmohan Singh claiming his office and officials were under surveillance. All finance min officials dealing with crucial files were subject to...

09:18 AM, Jun 21, 2011

Washington: An American national, apparently of Ethiopian origin, was detained on Friday after being found with a suspicious device in a vehicle near Pentagon, following which security around the Defence Department headquarters was tightened and roads to the building closed for some time. Pentagon police spokesman Chris Layman said the person was taken into custody early on Friday, and that one or two other people may be involved. The suspected...

07:24 PM, Jun 17, 2011

New Delhi: Hackers had reportedly infiltrated the computer networks of America's top defence contractor Lockheed Martin. The security breach was first detected on May 22 and was hushed up. The company immediately moved in to damage control mode and shut down most of its remote access. It's not clear if any sensitive information was stolen or compromised. However, Lockheed Martin said it had successfully thwarted "a significant and tenacious" attack...

04:34 PM, May 29, 2011

New Delhi: There's been another security breach at the Delhi airport. A Go Air passenger passed through airport security undetected with eight kg gold. The gold was finally found when the passenger landed in Guwahati The passenger has been detained at the Guwahati airport. The incident happened just a few days after a Kingfisher passenger was allowed to enter the terminal and board a flight on a one-month old boarding...

03:13 PM, Mar 03, 2011

New Delhi: In a shocking case of security breach at Terminal 3 of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport - which is reputed to be one of the World's best, a Kingfisher passenger was allowed to enter the terminal and board a flight on a month old boarding pass. The CISF has ordered a probe after CNN-IBN exposed the security breach at Delhi Airport's terminal 3. On February 10 at 5.55...

10:38 AM, Mar 02, 2011

Allahabad: The Centre has asked the UP government to explain the security breach of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi. The security breach happened on Monday evening, when Rahul was on his way to Anand Bhavan, the ancestral house of the Nehru-Gandhis, after an interaction at engineering institute MNNIT. A group of SP youth wing activists, who were waving black flags and shouting slogans against him and the Congress, jumped in...

03:18 PM, Jan 14, 2011

Mallya boarded a private jet without getting himself security checked. ...

05:19 PM, Mar 26, 2010

Airlines need to carry out background check and antecedents of all staff. ...

06:53 PM, Mar 23, 2010

The incident has exposed the loopholes in Airport security. ...

03:37 PM, Feb 28, 2010

Airport authorities say he may have jumped over the perimeter wall. ...

09:55 AM, Feb 27, 2010

Man entered Newark Airport through an exit gate not meant for general public. ...

12:45 PM, Jan 04, 2010