Kolkata police to have specialised anti-terrorist unit

October 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - An American woman, Cathelene Mary O'brian, was found dead Sunday in a flat here, police said. "We will get to know whether there is any foul play or not only after the post-mortem," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Supratim Sarkar.

September 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - In a bid to become more people friendly, Kolkata Police have started a blog where people can express their thoughts about the city police. "One can express his or her likes or dislike about the Kolkata Police in this blog," Police Commissioner Goutam Mohan Chakrabarti said.

September 16th, 2009 Police says shots fired during raid in IndonesiaSOLO, Indonesia — Counterterrorism forces opened fire during a raid on a house in Central Java, police and witnesses said, amid investigations into suicide hotel bombings in the capital in July. An anti-terror unit cordoned off a house in a suburb of the city of Solo, a stronghold for hardline Islamist groups, police Col.

August 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Snipers, X-ray machines and choppers are part of tight security measures taken across Delhi ahead of Independence Day Aug 15. The historic Red Fort, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will unfurl the tricolour, has virtually turned into a security citadel.

July 21st, 2009 SRINAGAR - A police officer was killed and three of his junior colleagues were injured when suspected militants fired a rifle grenade at a police camp in a south Kashmir village Tuesday, an official said. Guerrillas fired one grenade at the camp of the Special Operation Group (SOG) of police at Imam Sahib village in south Kashmir Shopian district, around 60 km from here.

July 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India (Marxist) patriarch and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Sunday was discharged from hospital following improvement in his condition. The 96 year-old was admitted to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) of AMRI hospital, where a panel of doctors had been attending to him for breathing problem and old age related complications.

July 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The furnace of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. naphtha cracker unit caught fire in the early hours of Thursday, according to a company spokesperson.

July 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - The eastern regional hub of the elite anti-terror force National Security Guard (NSG) was inaugurated in the West Bengal capital Wednesday. The Kolkata centre of the NSG is one of the four hubs the government had planned after the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack so that anti-terror commandos can be deployed to tackle an emergency situation in quick time.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday inaugurated the first of the four elite National Security Guard (NSG) hubs the government has planned after the 26/11 terrorist attack here to reduce the response time.

June 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Mumbai hub of National Security Guards (NSG) would become operational Tuesday, nearly seven months after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. "After the Mumbai terror attack, a need was felt to have the presence of NSG in other metros also for effective and quick response in countering such incidents.

June 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - A cameraperson of a Bengali television channel was beaten up severely allegedly by a group of ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists for capturing footage of a party rally in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, police said. Diganta Manna, 24, was admitted in the ICU (intensive care unit) of a private hospital.

May 28th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Police's anti-terrorist squad Thursday claimed to have nabbed a terrorist, who is alleged to have planted a bomb in the Chennai Express nine years ago. "Ishaq Khan was arrested on a tip-off from Madhavganj in Morena on Wednesday night.

March 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - An alleged Pakistani militant, who was on his way from Bangladesh to Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested by Kolkata Police here Thursday afternoon, an official said. 'Acting on a tip-off, the Special Task Force (STF) of the city police arrested a Pakistani terrorist, Shahbaz Ismail, from Fairlie Place (in central Kolkata) Thursday,' Rajeev Kumar, special additional commissioner of STF, told reporters at a press conference at the police headquarters at Lalbazar.

March 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Kolkata Police Sunday claimed that a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) linkman has formed a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh to operate in bordering Indian states. Abu Taher, an alleged associate of the Pakistan-based LeT formed Tanzeem-e-Mohammadi in Bangladesh, police sources said here.

February 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Three men were arrested Wednesday with heroin worth around Rs.10 million, police said here. 'Acting on a tip off, we arrested three people from Kolkata Race Course area in the southern part of the city.