Over 700 hospitals, nursing homes in Mumbai flouting fire safety norms:...

The fire audit conducted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has found lapses in fire safety norms in around 701 hospitals and nursing homes...

Mumbai: 50,000 CCTV cameras installed in private premises in 2 months

As an ambitious government project to get over 12,000 CCTV cameras for Mumbai crawls through an atrophied bureaucracy, city police chief Param Bir Singh...

New law requires DHS to start scanning every vehicle at border

A new U.S. law requires every vehicle, truck and freight train that crosses into the United States from Mexico or Canada to be scanned...

Co-driver airbag made mandatory for all cars manufactured in India from...

All cars manufactured in India from August 31, 2021, will have to be mandatorily fitted with a co-driver airbag, the Central government has announced....

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates skill development centre for fire...

In any fire tragedy the nation loses precious lives and valuable assets, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said as he inaugurated a Skill Development...

Cops in Karachi put on roller skates to stop street crimes

Police in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, are deploying an armed rollerblading unit to curb theft and harassment on its teeming streets. Gliding in a...

800 CCTV Cameras to be installed on fast-track mode by Nashik...

In a recent development, the Nashik Smart City Development Corporation announced the launch of two integrated command and control rooms for the much-awaited CCTV...

Lauretta AI to provide analytics tech in support of TSA airport...

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $199,950 to Lauretta AI for a video analytics technology that would reduce physical human interactions as Transportation...

NEC India wins smart city contract as deployments accelerate

NEC Corporation of India has won the contract to be master system integrator for the smart city project planned in Thiruvananthapuram, one of 100...

Victoria to trial roving robots in quarantine hotels

The Victorian government will trial the use of roving autonomous security robots in its hotel quarantine program in the wake of several infection control...

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Chinese hacker groups target at least dozen Indian organisations

Chinese state-sponsored groups intruded into the computer networks of at least a dozen Indian state-run organisations, mainly power utilities and load dispatch centres, since...

ONVIF Announces New Chairman

ONVIF® has announced the appointment of Leo Levit as the new chairman of the ONVIF Steering Committee. Levit serves as director of System Integration...

Audit finds slow down in Customs and border protection security programmes

Customs and Border Protection has deployed just 28% of its planned border technologies—despite receiving more than $743 million to do so since 2017, according...

Mitie Security teams up with Crimestoppers

Mitie Security has teamed up with the independent charity Crimestoppers in an innovative new partnership to help keep communities and businesses safe from crime...

TENON bags facility management contract in Kashmir region with J&K Bank

Tenon- India’s leading Integrated Security & Facility Management Service Provider has secured a contract for facility management with Jammu & Kashmir Bank across the...

EU civil rights groups want ban on biometric surveillance

Civil and digital rights groups have launched a petition seeking the support of one million Europeans to help pressure the European Union to ban...

Tech Mahindra deploys CCTNS for Himachal Pradesh Police

Tech Mahindra has announced it has implemented Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) for Himachal Pradesh Police to facilitate registration of FIR,...

Commercial security market set for 9% growth to 2026

The latest information from Marketsandmarkets on the Commercial Security System market with Covid-19 impact analysis to 2026 predicts that the sector will grow from...

Minneapolis becomes latest city to ban use of facial recognition technology

The Minneapolis City Council passed an ordinance that prohibits the city from buying facial recognition technology or using any data derived from it. Notably,...