SP's MAI Issue No. 13 | July 01-15, 2013 - Internal Security Updates
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
TV actress sends toxic missives to VIPsShannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, a small-time television actress, was recently arrested in connection with the mailing of three letters containing a form of the poison ricin to US President...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Woman carries knife inside Gujarat secretariatLast week, a 35-year-old woman got into the new secretariat building of Gujarat with a long knife in her purse. In a major security breach...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Tripartite meeting with ULFAA tripartite meeting involving the representatives of Government of Assam, and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) was held recently under the chairmanship of outgoing Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh to review the progress made in talks with ULFA and also to discuss their demands.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Anil Goswami takes over as Home SecretaryAnil Goswami has taken over as Union Home Secretary. He succeeds Raj Kumar Singh who has retired from service. Anil Goswami is an IAS officer of 1978 batch and is from the Jammu and Kashmir cadre.
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INTERNAL SECURITY
Krishna Chaudhary appointed DG of National Disaster Response ForceKrishna Chaudhary has been appointed as Director General of the National Disaster Response Force and Civil Defence (NDRF&CD).
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INTERNAL SECURITY
LWE apprehendedInderjeet alias Kapil Yadav, operation commander of eastern regional bureau company of CPI (Maoist) and a close associate of Arvindji alias Deo Kumar Singh, Central Committee Member of the CPI...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
US Senate passes sweeping immigration billThe US Senate recently approved a sweeping immigration overhaul bill, the most important immigration measure since the 1986 Immigration and Reform Act (IRCA).
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INTERNAL SECURITY
UK raises budget to counterterrorismThe UK agencies responsible for fighting terrorism — MI6, MI5, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — will see a significant increase in their combined £1.9 billion budget...
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INTERNAL SECURITY
US and Canada announce first-ever binational border infrastructure investment planThe US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, along with Ray LaHood, Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure...
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Phuket Airport security staffer steals from touristThailand police recently arrested a baggage security worker at Phuket International Airport after the officer was found to have stolen $900 from an Australian tourist’s carry-on bag while it was passing through the x-ray machine.
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INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
Drones intercepted in IraqIn 2009, the Pentagon closed a security breach that allowed insurgents to hack into data feeds from pilotless “drone” aircraft that provide real-time video of war zones in Iraq.
