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SP's MAI Issue No. 23-24 | December 01-31, 2012 - Internal Security Updates

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  Water wars
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  India constitutes 16 per cent of world population but only four per cent of the world’s freshwater sources.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  HM and LeT dominant militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir: Home Minister

  The Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) continued to be the dominant militant groups...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Ranjit Sinha takes over as CBI Chief

  Ranjit Sinha, a 1974 batch Indian Police Service officer, has taken charge as the 25th Director of the country’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  India-Bangladesh to strengthen borders

  The Home Ministers of India and Bangladesh have jointly stated after a meeting that it would accord highest importance to bilateral relations. The meeting was attended by the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  India-Pakistan discuss drug trafficking

  The Ninth Director General level talks between Narcotics Control Bureau, India and Anti-Narcotics Force, Pakistan on drug trafficking and related matters were held at New Delhi recently.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  No intelligence inputs on threats from Taliban: Minister

  The central intelligence agencies have no specific inputs indicating threat from Taliban. However, the available intelligence inputs indicate abiding interest of militant outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Indian Mujahideen (IM), Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF)...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  FBI arrests 10 people on charges of international cybercrime

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested 10 individuals from around the world, including the United States, which it alleges are part of an international cybercrime ring linked to the Yahos malware.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Government websites come under cyber attack

  Websites of some important government organisations, including an Advisor to the Prime Minister and the defence establishment’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), reportedly have been hacked...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / CYBER
  Eurograbber costs €36 million

  Over 36 million euros were stolen in 2012 from some 30,000 bank accounts in Europe in a cyberattack dubbed “Eurograbber”, according to a report published by two companies that focus on Internet security.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Drunken students remove barricade near Rasthrapati Bhavan

  Three students allegedly drunk breached the security at Rashtrapati Bhavan and were detained by the Delhi Police and were questioned by the Intelligence Bureau.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Okonjo's son blames security for mother's kidnap

  One of the children of the Okonjo family, Onyema Okonjo, recently blamed security lapses for the kidnap of his mother, Prof. Kanenne Okonjo. Kanenne (82), is the mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Security breach at US nuclear bomb plant

  The US Government Oak Ridge facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium was temporarily shut recently after anti-nuclear activists climbed over security fences.

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  CPI (Maoist) responsible for 80 per cent of Naxal violence: Minister

  The CPI (Maoist) is the largest left wing extremist organisation operating in India. It is responsible for almost 80 per cent of the total Naxal violence reported during the current year, according to R.P.N. Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Gujarat as regional hub for NSG

  The Ministry of Home Affairs has conveyed to the Government of Gujarat its ‘in principle’ approval for setting up of a regional hub of National Security Guard (NSG) in Gujarat...

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  No deployment of defence forces in anti-Naxal operations: Minister

  There is no proposal for deployment of defence forces for antinaxal operations in the left-wing extremism (LWE) theatre.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Lapse at Chennai airport

  Police are inquiring into a serious security lapse recently during a brief transit through Chennai by L.K. Advani, senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has ‘Z Plus’ security.