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Lessons in explosives, blasts for commandos

Sunday 26 July '09

Commandos of Force One, the state’s first responders to terror...
Force One likely to take guard by August

Sunday 12 July '09

The state’s first responders in the event of another terror attack, Force One, have reached the final level of their training.
Force One will be ready in two months: Chavan

Wednesday 1 July '09

Force One-the state equivalent of the National Security Guard-will be ready and fully operational by August...
Mounted police: once pride of city force, now an idea again

Monday 29 June '09

Home Minister Jayant Patil has become the latest to press for the return of the mounted police, once the backbone of policing in the city.
Woman gets obscene mail from own id; cops, Cyber Crime Cell, ATS unite to trace hacker

Saturday 20 June '09

A little common sense and some cyber-crime investigation helped the Powai police nab a hacker with the assistance of the Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS).
Learn to be the Jack of all trades, new ATS chief tells his officers

Friday 19 June '09

State Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief K P Raghuvanshi has given his officials a clear brief: “Learn to be the Jack of all trades — in intelligence, interrogation and technical and cyber investigations.
A century of busting crime

Monday 8 June '09

This may be a memorable year for the Mumbai Police Crime Branch mainly due to the months-long probe into 26/11, perhaps Mumbai’s most brazen terror attack yet.
IPL breaks betting tradition: no finer details

Saturday 2 May '09

The newly introduced ‘strategic break’ of 7 minutes 30 seconds in IPL matches has apparently changed the way cricket bookies and punters bet in the super-short format of the game.
Vote or not, security counts for kin of 26/11 victims

Thursday 30 April '09

The night before every election, 26/11 police hero Tukaram Omble would come home and complain he could not vote.
Sonia a gamble at Rs 18, Manmohan ‘safe’ at 1.35

Thursday 30 April '09

The odds offered on Lal Krishna Advani becoming the Prime Minister are pegged at Rs 2.40 against every rupee one bets, while those for Manmohan Singh are Rs 1.35.
Scanner on foreigner over passport forgery

Wednesday 22 April '09

Arrested in a case of forgery and cheating, a Nigerian national has now been booked again by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police after her lawyers submitted a forged passport while seeking bail for her in the earlier case.
Ctrl access: candidates log in to new technologies like never before

Thursday 16 April '09

In 2004, the communication and media wing of Priya Dutt’s campaign team spent a “better part of a day” sending nearly 400 faxes and dispatching photographs through workers on a daily basis.
Syllabus for Service

Monday 13 April '09

In October last year when Matthew Duffy, physical education teacher with the American School of Bombay at Bandra Kurla Complex....
They Cannot Walk, But They Drive

Monday 23 March '09

In 1988, when a batch of 20 disabled-friendly cars were sourced by Maruti Suzuki, Geeta Castelino, a consultant with the fashion industry, was one of the beneficiaries.
Ram temple CDs resurface, Nanded tense

Wednesday 18 March '09

An audio-video CD with communally inflammatory visuals and songs about rebuilding Ram temple in Ayodhya has mysteriously reappeared in Maharashtra.
IPL may yet return to Brabourne ground

Sunday 15 March '09

The Cricket Club of India’s Brabourne Stadium may yet get to host a large number of Indian Premier League...
Carboncor wears off roads but BMC wants another go

Monday 2 March '09

Once the monsoon arrives, Mumbaikars can expect shoddy pothole repairs and bumpy rides.
After The End

Monday 16 February '09

The phone call from Bombay Hospital was brief: “Bullet injury marks and possibility of many more bodies”.
Six unidentified DNA samples found on Kuber

Wednesday 11 February '09

The forensic analysis of the fishing trawler MV Kuber, used by the Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists to reach Mumbai for the 26/11 attacks....
Mecca Masjid blasts: yah koyi ISI-waala aakey nahi kar raha tha...yah apna hi koyi aadmi tha

Sunday 25 January '09

That’s the Malegaon-accused retired Major at a meeting, says ATS chargesheet; Hyderabad police say no leads yet but they will probe any ‘link’
Did 2 successful operations in the past: Lt-Col in ATS chargesheet

Saturday 24 January '09

The September 29 Malegaon bomb blast may not have been the first such attack allegedly orchestrated by Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit...
Tibet, Kosovo inspired Malegaon accused

Friday 23 January '09

The Malegaon conspirators sought to gain inspiration from conflicts around the world to justify their need for a new govt-in-exile.
Purohit planned Israel-based Hindu govt-in-exile, support from Thai contacts: ATS chargesheet today

Tuesday 20 January '09

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chargesheet in the Malegaon blast case claims that as per statements from the accused the town was singled out for the blast as “it was the ideal place where the Muslim community crowd...
A free run

Thursday 1 January '09

Four years ago, when 17-year-old Angad Dugal took a few steps in his garden, his family saw it as a big leap of faith....
Tough measures on anvil to plug loopholes in coastal security

Saturday 27 December '08

After the 26/11, the coastal security agencies have geared up to take stringent measures to ensure that another Kuber is not repeated.
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