Gujarat to recruit intelligence officers: Police chief

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has defended the central government's affidavit on the controversial killing of Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in an alleged fake shootout saying it was "not evidence or conclusive proof".

September 4th, 2009 JAMMU - The security forces Friday apprehended an 18-year-old youth who they claimed was a "fresh recruit" of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district. Defence spokesperson Lt.

September 3rd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Central intelligence agencies have cautioned Gujarat about an attempt by members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to regroup with a different name in the state, an official said here Thursday. "We have intelligence information on SIMI activists regrouping in Gujarat, particularly in south Gujarat, under the name of 'Wahadat-e-Islami'.

August 13th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat Government on Thursday set up a three members committee to probe the killing of Ishrat Jahan in an alleged fake encounter. The Modi Government took the decision following instructions given by the Gujarat High Court.

August 2nd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - To probe the alleged nexus between bootleggers and police, the Gujarat government has ordered scrutiny of the service records of the cops allegedly linked to the illicit liquor deaths in the state last month. The scrutiny is being carried out to know if these policemen were earlier posted in any other area in Gujarat where cases against bootleggers had been filed previously.

July 31st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - All field officials of the Punjab Police are to get mobile telephones to improve their connectivity and response time. The telephones will be given to all police officers and non-gazetted officers posted in the field, a police department spokesman said Friday.

July 19th, 2009 HYDERABAD - A terror suspect allegedly involved in the attack on the Akshardham temple in 2002 and arrested here soon after his arrival from Saudi Arabia has been taken to Gujarat. A team of Gujarat Police took Shoukatullah Ghouri into its custody and took him to Gujarat around midnight Saturday, police sources said.

July 1st, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - All 41 major and minor ports along Gujarat's 1,600-km coastline have been put on high alert following an Intelligence Bureau (IB) alert that terrorists could target maritime facilities on India's west coast. "All the key ports along Gujarat's coast at Kandla, Mundra and Pipavav were already on high alert after the Mumbai terror attack (of Nov 26) but now even the smaller ports have been put under heavy security cover," a senior Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) official said here Wednesday.

July 1st, 2009 HYDERABAD/GANDHINAGAR - Intelligence agencies have indicated a terror threat along India's west coast, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday but clarified that it did not mean a terror attack was imminent.

June 10th, 2009 2 Milwaukee officers expected to survive shootingMILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police say the two officers shot multiple times by a bicyclist are expected to survive. Police Chief Edward Flynn said the officers stopped the bicyclist Tuesday afternoon because he looked suspicious, and he shot them both before they had time to react.

May 25th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Senior police officers posted in various district headquarters in Gujarat would soon have access to all the crime data online without moving out of their offices or needing physical delivery of files from the police stations under their jurisdiction, officials said Monday. The Gujarat government is in the process of developing a fully computerised "Integrated Total Solution Network" for the senior police officers which would be connected to all the police stations in the state.

April 9th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat has sought more paramilitary forces for poll duty, pointing out that the state has been on the terror map, an official said here Thursday. 'As of now, the central government has allotted 100 companies of paramilitary forces for poll duty in Gujarat against the state government's demand for 375 companies considering that Gujarat is a potential terrorist target,' the senior home department official told IANS.

April 8th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L K Advani will file his nomination papers from Gandhinagar constituency today. According to sources, Advani will be accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

March 26th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Massive security arrangements are in place in Ahmedabad ahead of a rally to be addressed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday after an intelligence warning of a possible terror attack, a home department official said here Thursday.

March 19th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Central Election Commission (CEC) has asked district electoral officers across Gujarat to conduct a vulnerability analysis of religious minorities, tribals, backward classes and economically weak sections to prevent them from being threatened by political parties during the Lok Sabha polls, an official said here Thursday. The district collectors, who are working as electoral officers, have been entrusted with the responsibility of identifying all sections that could face harassment and be forced not to vote by political parties, a senior official at the State Election Office here told IANS.