UK MOD selects Smiths Detection for global contract
Smiths Detection has been awarded a new, multi-million pound contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide a wide…
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Electronic devices, banned in carry-on luggage for select US-bound flights
The US government is temporarily barring passengers on certain flights originating in eight countries from bringing laptops,…
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Security agencies clear the decks for Pune airport expansion
The expansion of the Pune airport will entail a complete overhaul of the existing security measures, officers of the city police…
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Want no private planes stuck at our airports: IAF
With sensitive defence airstrips often blocked by schedule carriers' planes that get stuck there due to technical reasons for…
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Terror alert: CISF wants to bring sensitive airports under its security cover
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has asked for the implementation of the counter-terrorism contingency plan (CTCP) at…
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Under-performing body scanner with 'multiple loopholes' at Delhi airport scrapped
The Indira Gandhi International airport has done away with the body scanner machine installed at Terminal 3 due to its poor…
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Record number of firearms found by TSA in carry-on bags in 2016
By now, most people have figured out the routine when arriving at airport security -- shoes off, laptops out of their bags and no…
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Airport Security to stop accepting driver s licenses as ID in 8 US States
Residents of the states of Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, or Washington in the…
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Draft CTCP for Tiruchi airport chalked out
A top-level security meeting regarding putting in place a Counter Terrorism Contingency Plan (CTCP) for the Tiruchi International…
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Singapore university researching air traffic management system for drones
Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are studying ways to let hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles,…
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Ministry shelves special airport security force plan
An internal panel of the Union Civil Aviation ministry has decided to shelve for now its earlier proposal to raise a specialised…
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Aviation ministry likely to introduce biometric screening at airports
Your thumb could soon be all the documentation required to enter an airport. And once the government is able to achieve this, the…
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