New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday expressed concern over the worsening situation of illegal coal mining and theft in Dhanbad and nearby areas and suggested CISF deployment on priority as part of a larger “Zero Coal Leakage Plan”, an official said. During a review meeting also attended by Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy, HM Shah directed officials to include the coal sector in the priority list for CISF deployment, so that personnel can be deployed i…
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Guwahati, June 30 (IANS) Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport administration here has returned an unattended bag containing foreign currency worth more than Rs 10 lakh to its rightful owner after a coordinated effort involving airport authorities, the CISF, and officials from Hyderabad airport, officials said on Tuesday. According to airport authorities, the bag was detected during routine security screening at Terminal 1 on June 26 after Central Industrial Security Force (CI…
Jammu, June 28 (IANS) Eight Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel and a civilian driver were injured in a road accident near Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in J&K’s Reasi district on Sunday, police said,.Police said the accident occurred when a bus carrying them overturned along the Tarakote route to the shrine.The condition of three of the injured CISF personnel — Head Constables Sammy Kumar and M.M. Dubey and constable P.K. Traya — was said to be serious, officials said.The se…
Imphal, June 24 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel seized suspected cannabis (ganja) from a Delhi-bound passenger at the Bir Tikendrajit International Airport in Imphal, officials said on Wednesday. According to an official statement, CISF personnel detected 420 grams of a suspected contraband substance during a random X-BIS screening of baggage at Imphal Airport. Demonstrating high alertness and vigilance, CISF personnel intercepted the passenger during screening befo…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) The real story of NEET re-examination is not the leak itself but the scale of the response it triggered. Once the integrity of 3 May examination was compromised, the challenge before the state was far larger than conducting another test. It had to restore confidence among millions of students and parents, reassure the public that merit would prevail, and demonstrate that a national examination could still command trust. In just a few weeks, an extensive security and adm…
Agartala, June 12 (IANS) The Assam Rifles conducted a demonstration on drone operations and emerging aerial threats for personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at the Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport in Agartala, officials said on Friday. A defence spokesperson said that the drone awareness session focused on contemporary security challenges faced by the CISF and explored effective ways to counter them through timely detection, swift response and coordinated action.The interac…
Gandhinagar, June 6 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Saturday appointed Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Gyanender Singh Malik as the new Director General and Inspector General of Police (DGP) of the state, filling the vacant top post in the police hierarchy with immediate effect. In a notification issued by the Home Department, the government stated: “Gyanender Singh Malik, IPS (GJ:1993), Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad City, is appointed on the vacant cadre post of Director General and Inspec…
Mumbai, June 4 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel on Thursday intercepted a foreign national at the Mumbai airport and recovered illicit foreign currency worth Rs 1.39 crore, being carried by him in his baggage.The foreign national was subsequently taken into custody and handed over to the Customs officials at the airport for further interrogation and action.According to CISF officials, the said passenger was travelling from Mumbai to Addis Ababa with the unaccounted c…
Patna, May 15 (IANS) Following the formal handover of security responsibilities at Darbhanga Airport, Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Praveer Ranjan, visited the airport to assess operational preparedness and welfare arrangements for deployed personnel. He was accompanied by senior officers, including Binita Thakur and Senthil Avoodai Krishna Raj S.During the visit, the DG inspected barrack accommodations, mess facilities, the Security Hold Area (SHA), and other…
Nagpur, April 30 (IANS) A high-security alert has been sounded in Nagpur, Maharashtra, after an anonymous letter was sent to the Police Commissioner claiming that radioactive material has been dispersed at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in Mahal and the Dr Hedgewar Smriti Mandir in Reshimbagh. The letter, purportedly sent by an organisation calling itself ‘DSS’, has triggered a massive investigation involving the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the NDRF.The anonymous letter, w…