Security and Intelligence Services to buy 60% in Henderson for Singapore entry
Security and Intelligence Services (India) Ltd has agreed to buy a 60% stake each in Singapore-based Henderson Security Services Pte. Ltd and Henderson Technologies Pte. Ltd for 43 million Singapore dollars (Rs 226 crore)...
IIT-Madras offers AI-based tech to help army predict stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir
A group of students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- Madras, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology for predicting crowd behaviour and offered it to the Indian Army for possible use in...
US at risk of increased cyber attacks during government shutdown
“Shutting down government functions in a standoff over a physical wall on the Mexican border leaves the United States vulnerable to digital cyber attacks by Russia’s GRU, Russian-sponsored hacker groups, and other state-sponsored threat...
CISF goes tech-savvy, adds technology wing to combat airborne threats
With close to 4,000 CISF personnel manning the Delhi airport premises, CISF has gone tech savvy by adding a technology wing. A senior official shared that in light of incidents where drones were often...
Bangladesh cuts duty for ATM, CCTV camera assembly
The National Board of Revenue in Bangladesh has reduced the tariff on import of parts of automated teller machines (ATMs) and closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to facilitate the gadgets' assembly in the hi-tech...
India issues rules for airport e-boarding process
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the regulatory body for civil aviation in India, has issued rules for an e-boarding process called ‘digi yatra’. Reports say that the digi yatra initiative has been...
Kenya to arm private security guards after al-Shabab attack
Kenya has announced that it will arm private security officers guarding public places in the aftermath of Tuesday's attack on a luxury hotel and office complex. The siege, which lasted 18 hours and left...
Drones to keep watch on Bangla border in Assam
The Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to induct Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) besides other technical gadgets for effective border management in Assam along the unfenced international border of India with Bangladesh. The...
UK Police to take cybersecurity courses to increase cyber crime knowledge
Law enforcement in the United Kingdom are now expected to tackle cyber crime such as online fraud, scams, and crimes being committed for the purposes of identity theft and financial gain. They must also...
Survey shows consumers are abandoning brands after Data Breaches
Three-quarters of consumers would stop engaging with a brand online following a breach and half would not sign up for an online service that had recently been breached, a new survey shows. The Ping...
















