Airline hoaxers to face a hard landing as new law takes offIndia strengthened its aircraft safety rules. The government can now put hoax bomb threat makers on a no-fly list. This follows a rise in s...
17 Dec, 2024, 11.56 PM IST
Hoax bomb threats loom over aviation industryIndia has been grappling with a surge in hoax bomb threats targeting airlines, causing significant disruptions and financial losses. Despit...
16 Nov, 2024, 11.30 PM IST
Geopolitical analysis, VIP onboard among criteria in new norms to check hoax bomb threats to flightsTo address evolving security challenges and the rise of hoax bomb threats on social media, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security issued new...
30 Oct, 2024, 04.46 PM IST
BTAC protocols tweaked in wake of hoax bomb flurry to airlines; 30 categorised non-specific on MondayProtocols for India's Bomb Threat Assessment Committee have been revised to better address recent online threats to airlines. Though 140 fl...
22 Oct, 2024, 07.21 PM IST
7 flights get bomb threats via XSeven flights, including one to the US, received bomb threats via social media on Tuesday. Security agencies performed counter-terrorist dr...
15 Oct, 2024, 08.43 PM IST
Full emergency declared at Trivandrum airport after Air India flight from Mumbai receives bomb threatAn Air India flight from Mumbai to Thiruvananthapuram faced a bomb threat, leading to a full emergency at the airport and evacuation of 135...
22 Aug, 2024, 09.44 AM IST
NIA probe into hoax call by a Chennai residentThis will be the second case to be investigated by the NIA under the newly amended Anti- hijacking act. A businessman from Mumbai, was conv...
15 Nov, 2019, 09.10 AM IST
Ministry orders NIA probe into a hoax call to DIALThis will be the second case to be investigated by the NIA under the newly amended Anti- hijacking act. A businessman from Mumbai, Birju Sa...
14 Nov, 2019, 08.05 PM IST
Life term for Mumbai man for hijack hoaxThis is the first case against an individual under the amended Anti-Hijacking Act, 2016 (amended) in the country.
12 Jun, 2019, 10.44 AM IST
Plaint of gun shots at Porbandar Naval base hoax: PolicePolice said it received a complaint this morning from one of the guards at the communication room of the Naval base, which said that he had...
13 Jul, 2018, 10.40 PM IST
Hijack threat: Love-struck millionaire wanted to start ‘Royal Airlines’ for 'girlfriend'The multi-millionaire jeweller, arrested for allegedly placing a note about hijackers and a bomb in the plane’s lavatory, was planning to s...
01 Nov, 2017, 01.59 PM IST
MP youth held for making 'threat call' to AI; says did it for funHe was produced before a local court which remanded him to police custody till December 2.
28 Nov, 2015, 04.01 PM IST
Government okays changes to anti-hijacking law, introduces harsher punishmentThe government approved amendments to anti-hijacking law that provides for death penalty even if ground handling staff and airport personne...
29 Jul, 2015, 10.16 PM IST
Make hoax call punishable offence: Parliamentary panel on anti-hijacking billThe proposed anti-hijacking legislation should make hoax calls a punishable offence and provide adequate compensation for victims of hijack...
11 Mar, 2015, 07.27 PM IST
Bill in Rajya Sabha to provide for death penalty for hijackersThe Anti-Hijacking (Amendment) Bill 2014 was introduced by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju after he withdrew a similar bill of...
17 Dec, 2014, 04.15 PM IST
Anti-hijack bill in next session of ParliamentA bill to award death penalty to hijackers is likely to be brought in Parliament in the next session.
20 Aug, 2014, 05.12 PM IST
- Impersonator-terrorist, combined with dumb administration, almost caused war
Kandahar-released omar sheikh called up zardari impersonating as Pranab after 26/11.
27 Nov, 2009, 03.43 AM IST