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SP's MAI Issue No. 17 | September 01-15, 2013 - Internal Security Updates

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Lashkar-e-Taiba's 'bomb expert' Syed Abdul Karim 'Tunda' arrested

  In a major catch on the Indo-Nepal border, the Delhi Police recently arrested Syed Abdul Karim alias ‘Tunda’, a Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) commander who masterminded a series of bombing in North India in 1996-98.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Did Air India pilots allow actor Nitya Menon into cockpit?

  Two Air India pilots have been suspended because they reportedly allowed an actor to join them in the cockpit for a part of the flight from Bengaluru to Hyderabad recently. An inquiry is going on, according to media reports.

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  Yasin Bhatkal arrested

  In yet another major breakthrough for security agencies in India, Yasin Bhatkal, a key conspirator in several bomb blasts and cofounder of the banned Indian Mujahideen (IM), and another IM operative Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, were arrested from the India-Nepal border in Bihar’s Raxaul town.

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  India tightens security along Nepal border

  In an attempt to secure its porous border with Nepal, India has created five new border posts and deployed additional troops along the frontier notorious for illegal crossing over of terrorists, criminals and smuggling of arms.

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  Technology to boost security

  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 which can be integrated into the security...

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  Director General of ITBP

  The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that Dr Mahboob Alam, IPS, presently Additional DG, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will look after the duties of Director General, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) with effect from September 1, 2013...

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  Secret intelligence budget cited 4,000 NSA leaks: Report

  US secret intelligence budget files provided by National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden show that NSA had warned in 2012 that it planned to investigate up to 4,000 reports of possible internal security breaches.

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  13-year-old boy hitches ride in the wheel well of Arik Air flight

  A 13-year-old Nigerian who is said to be crazy about American movies stowed away and hitched a free ride from the Benin Airport to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Identified as Daniel Oikhena, he stowed in the wheel well of an Arik Air flight.

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  Teenager hacks and goes around the world

  Reece Scobie, a 19-year-old former employee at Thomsonaffiliated travel agency Cambridge Business Travel, logged on to the company’s system remotely for six months even after he had quit the company.