SECURITY TODAY

The Indian government, in association with the private sector, is setting up a centre of excellence on internal security that will function as a "resource centre", do high-end research and develop cost-effective, state-of-the-art technology...

The city police have asked schools to run a background check on owners and drivers of private vehicles, including school vans and auto-rickshaws, in which children travel to and from school. Days after the...

In Gujarat’s Saurashtra region, fishermen are in a Catch-22 situation. With Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency (MSA) preying on Indian fishermen who accidentally cross non-demarcated sea boundaries in search of a good catch, banks are...

Fed up of hiccups in the tendering of the for Mumbai, the Maharashtra cabinet has suspended the high-power committee set up to scrutinize project bids. The panel, which had been given powers to...

A little over 40 per cent of security personnel posted at airports across the country, who are supposed to detect explosives and suspicious objects in the hand baggage of passengers, fail to do their...

If you thought that CCTV cameras are installed at the toll plazas on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway to manage traffic, surveillance and safety, think again. After a shooting incident in 2011 at the KherkiDhaula toll...

The BEST is stepping up the process of installing CCTV cameras in all its 4,100 buses on the roads in Mumbai. It has already installed the cameras in 3,850 buses and will fit the...

Indian airports should put in place enhanced security checks such as full body scanners to ensure that differently abled passengers do not have to take off their prosthetics at all or rise from their...

The Uttar Pradesh government will equip the police in Noida and Greater Noida with sophisticated weapons, new patrol cars, communication gadgets, a well-equipped forensic laboratory and surveillance cameras to help them fight crime and...

An exclusive specially trained paramilitary unit armed with the latest gadgets and weaponry has now been deployed for security of Parliament house complex. The team, drawn from the best trained men and women of the...