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 and inspected at ports of entry with X-ray or similar...
Co-driver airbag made mandatory for all cars manufactured in India from August 31
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. In December 2020, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways...
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates skill development centre for fire safety training
In any fire tragedy the nation loses precious lives and valuable assets, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said as he inaugurated a Skill Development Centre (SDC) for Fire Safety Training of DRDO that will...
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 circle with their weapons pointed inwards, and lifting and lowering...
800 CCTV Cameras to be installed on fast-track mode by Nashik Smart City Corporation
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 project under the Smart City mission. Under the project about...
Lauretta AI to provide analytics tech in support of TSA airport screening
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 Security Administration (TSA) personnel conduct airport security checks amid the...
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 cities identified for development in phase three of the Ministry...
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 breaches over the past eight months. The agency leading the...
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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 mid-2020 in an attempt to insert malware that could cause...

















