Only 23% of 1,473 Mumbai restaurants comply with fire safety norms

After the Kamala Mills fire claimed 14 people in December 2017, the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) served notices to 1,557 commercial establishments for violating fire safety norms and granted them up to 120 days...

Homeland Security to test Face Recognition at U.S.–Mexico Border

Beginning in August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin piloting a new face recognition system at the Mexican border. Using a series of cameras, the CBP plans to use face recognition to...

Honeywell developing software to decode 100 Indian accents to make flying safe

With more than 100 languages and the ambition to connect even its smallest villages by air, India has become a testing ground for a new software being developed by Honeywell International Inc. that aims...

Belgium Police can now view footage from private security cameras to solve cases

People who have security cameras at their stores, companies or homes must now register them with the Belgium Home Affairs Department and the police will be able to use their images to find perpetrators...

CISF, NSG get home ministry nod to shoot down UFOs near Indira Gandhi airport

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and National Security Guards (NSG) can shoot down so-called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) seen near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, where several such instances have been reported in...

G4S wins contract with major US retailer

G4S has won a new, five year, Retail Cash Solutions contract with a major US retailer. The contract will begin mobilising in the second half of 2018. Under this contract, G4S will implement and...

Vehicle crime increasingly linked to other criminal activity

According to Interpol, in recent years, law enforcement agencies have seen a rapid evolution in the global vehicle crime landscape, as well as an increased convergence with other areas of organised crime. Stolen vehicles...

Delhi’s traffic to be managed by Artificial Intelligence soon

A third of the city’s traffic managed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), fewer traffic policemen, and depth sensors that will regulate traffic signals -- this isn’t a futuristic version of a first-world city, but a...

Honeywell appoints Vimal Kapur as President and CEO Of Building Technologies

Vimal Kapur has been named as President and CEO of Honeywell's Building Technologies. He will succeed Gary Michel, who has announced plans to leave Honeywell to become CEO of a non-competing publicly traded...

India ranks 10th in global cyber-security, needs foolproof ecosystem

Although India has become more active when it comes to cybersecurity, the country needs to put all the pieces together to protect businesses via a fool-proof ecosystem, a top executive from cybersecurity firm McAfee...