Karunanidhi’s security stepped up

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "exert diplomatic pressure at appropriate levels" on the Sri Lankan government to end the "untold sufferings" of the displaced Tamils living in relief camps there.

August 23rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - After ensuring peaceful Janmashtami, the district police of Kandhamal Sunday stepped up security as on this day last year Laxmananda Saraswati, a Hindu right-wing leader, was killed along with four of his associates at his ashram, sparking communal violence. "The Hindu groups have already celebrated the anniversary of Swami Laxmananda.

August 8th, 2009 MALDA - Security has been stepped up along the India-Bangladesh border ahead of Independence Day. "On the occasion of August 15, we are conducting a special operation.

August 4th, 2009 KOCHI - Chief of Indian Naval staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta has said that the navy was prepared to face any threat from the sea. Talking to reporters here on Monday, Mehta said, "Of course we are all well equipped.

July 23rd, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Thursday announced that his house at Gopalapuram here will be converted into a charitable hospital after he and his wife die.

June 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - A day after Kerala Governor R.S. Gavai gave his nod to the prosecution of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, security of the former has been stepped up following a threat call Sunday evening.

May 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's son, M K Stalin, was on Friday appointed as the Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. State Governor S.S.

May 16th, 2009 MADURAI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's son M.K.

April 29th, 2009 CHENNAI - Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs M Vayalar Ravi on Wednesday visited Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence to enquire about his health after the recent fast he kept for the Sri Lankan Tamil cause.

April 28th, 2009 CHENNAI - Police in Tamil Nadu Monday said no violence had taken place in the state during Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's fast in support of a ceasefire in Sri Lanka.

April 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - The security arrangements for a political meeting of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in northern West Bengal were stepped up Sunday following a threat call from the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) - an insurgent outfit active in that part of the state. 'We came to know that a local journalist got a threat call on his mobile phone from a KLO operative who reportedly issued a threat saying they would cause violence in the chief minister's meeting (at Toofanganj) in Cooch Behar district,' State Director (Security) A.K.

January 20th, 2009 LONDON - Security is being stepped up in hotels across Britain in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, British Home Minister Jacqui Smith said. She told a meeting of the British parliamentary home affairs committee Tuesday that hotels have been issued security guidance and the staff given training.

January 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Republic Day is five days away and security has already been stepped up across West Bengal, said the police. 'There was already high security across the state after the Mumbai terror attacks and it has been enhanced for Republic Day.

January 3rd, 2009 SILIGURI - Security was stepped up Sunday at the Bagdogra airport here after authorities received a mail threatening to bomb it, an official said. Bagdogra director Kalyan Kumar Bhowmik received a hand-written letter Saturday threatening to bomb the airport within the next seven days.

December 23rd, 2008 KOLKATA - Security has been stepped up at all the 17 Metro stations here after the city police received a tip-off about a possible bomb blast at one of the stations Wednesday, officials said. 'We have received information from a reliable source Wednesday afternoon that there will be a bomb blast at one of the 17 Metro stations by today (Wednesday) night,' Police Commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty told IANS in the evening.