Securitas named a 2018 Business Superbrand

Securitas has announced that it has been awarded Business Superbrands status for 2018. Tracking and celebrating the UK’s leading brands since 2001, the Business Superbrands are identified by surveying 2,500 business professionals from across...

‘Trinetra’: Gujarat CM Rupani launches Drone-based Surveillance to check illegal sand mining

Drones will now keep an eye over rivers in Gujarat in a bid to contain illegal mining in riverbeds by unscrupulous elements. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched “Trinetra”, a new drone-based surveillance system to...

Have access to 2 lakh CCTV cams: Police

The Delhi Police has access to footage from over two lakh CCTV cameras installed under the Nigahen scheme. In a report submitted to the Lieutenant Governor, police said it has 1,054 cameras from which...

Railway police stations asked to ensure distress calls attended

Days after a woman was molested outside the New Delhi railway station and claimed not to have received any aid when she dragged the accused to the nearest police post, Delhi Police has issued...

Grenfell Tower insulation ‘never passed fire-safety test’

Insulation that burned out of control on the Grenfell Tower never passed a fire-safety test and should not have been used, a BBC investigation has claimed. It is alleged by Panorama that the product...

MHA forms new division to deal with women’s safety, calls it top priority

Months after the Kathua and Unnao rapes that triggered countrywide public ire, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has created a new division to deal with all issues of women’s safety in coordination with...

Taking calls while driving not against law, rules Kerala High Court

The Kerala high court has ruled that talking on the mobile phone while driving is not an offence, unless it can be established that the act, in the particular instance when the driver was...

Hikvision Artificial Intelligence to watch over kids in Chinese school

High school students in one Chinese school may want to think twice before dozing off in class. Artificially intelligent cameras with facial recognition tools will be watching. The Hangzhou No. 11 Middle School has...

North Eastern Railways to beef up security for women passengers in trains

With a view to strengthen security of women passengers in trains, the North Eastern Railway (NER) plans to deploy women police personnel on trains during night hours as well as install to 'panic buttons'...

All Dubai taxis to have surveillance cameras this year

All of Dubai’s taxis will have surveillance cameras by this year end, monitoring drivers’ behaviour and compliance with the professional driving standards, the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced. As part of RTA’s...