Operationalisation of National Security Guard hub at Mumbai

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defence Minister A. K. Antony will inaugurate the regional Coast Guard headquarters in Gandhinagar on October 3 to strengthen the coastal security as part of measures taken by the government after the Mumbai terror attacks.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday met Indian Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma to assess the coastal security scenario in the aftermath of the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the Indian Navy being made the nodal agency for coastal security, navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma will Tuesday address the state police chiefs on the issue. The three-day state police chiefs conference started here Monday.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese robber sought help from a security guard at a residential complex to save himself from a tailing mob. Yang, in Chengdu, Sichuan province, was on the run after looting a woman in the morning when an angry mod started chasing him.

July 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - The Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued nine persons from a police patrol boat that got entangled in a fishing net under the newly opened Bandra-Worli Sea Link bridge in Mumbai. "We got the news around 7 in the morning that people were struck in swamp and thus were not able to come out due tidal conditions.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - After the Mumbai terror attacks, the National Security Guard (NSG) hub at Mumbai will become operational today. The NSG hubs at Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata will become operational on July 1.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Thursday set up a high level committee under the chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar to review the measures taken for coastal security at regular intervals and monitor developments taken after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The other members of the committee will include the Chief of Naval Staff, Secretaries of all concerned Ministries such as Defence, Home, Petroleum and Chief Secretaries of Coastal States.

March 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Arthur Road Jail here is being fortified with three security rings to keep Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, the sole 26/11 terrorist captured alive, safe from potential attackers, Maharashtra Minister of State for Home Naseem Khan said Tuesday. 'A crack team of the Mumbai Police will guard the outer periphery of the jail while the ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) will guard the precincts inside.

February 28th, 2009 KOCHI - The Indian Navy will be responsible for the overall maritime security of the country, including coastal and off-shore security, Defence Minister A.K. Antony announced Saturday.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Wednesday defended the fast track military hardware purchases in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, saying the acquisitions could not be left to normal procedures that would take three-four years to fructify. 'After Mumbai, we have to strengthen the Coast Guard and the navy,' Defence Minister A.K.

February 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Coast Guard and Mumbai Police were on alert after fishermen reported sighting two unidentified speedboats Sunday afternoon off the north Mumbai coast, an official said. Some fishermen saw the speedboats around 110 km to the north near Tarapur, where sensitive installations of national importance are located.

February 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Fishermen reported mysterious spotting and disappearance of two speedboats near the Mumbai coast, raising alarms here Sunday, but the Coast Guard later said the vessels belonged to the Indian Army. A Coast Guard spokesman said the army speedboats were on a sailing expedition from Mumbai to Porbandar in Gujarat when they were spotted around the Satpati coast near Palghar sub-district, around 110 km north of Mumbai.

February 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Mumbai Police, the Coast Guard and Indian Navy were on alert Sunday after fishermen reported sighting two apparently mysterious speedboasts off the coast near here, an official said. The Coast Guard's ships and an aircraft were searching the Arabian Sea coast off Mumbai to trace out the two mysterious speedboats, the Coast Guard official said in the evening.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - J.K. Dutt, chief of the National Security Guard (NSG), Wednesday blamed the Mumbai terror attack on Al Qaeda, Taliban and Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT).

January 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday sanctioned a grant of Rs.200 million for the welfare fund of the country's elite National Security Guard (NSG). 'Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sanctioned a grant of Rs.20 crore out of the National Defence Fund for augmenting the corpus of the National Security Guard (NSG) central welfare fund,' the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said here Tuesday evening.