Airport Security

Friday, Apr 26, 2024 | Last Update : 02:32 PM IST

The Parliamentary panel urged the civil aviation ministry to provide adequate funds to enable facial recognition technology to be used at sensitive airports

Introduce facial recognition tech at sensitive airports this year, Parliamentary panel tells aviation ministry

The technology could alert law enforcement to loan defaulters and other fugitives trying to flee the country

12 Mar 2020 7:19 PM

The realistic replica gun was designed to spin paper instead of bullets. (Photo: AP)

Decorative not deadly: Gun shaped toiler paper roller held at New York airport

TSA finds gun-shaped toilet paper roller in bag at airport.

01 Nov 2019 12:35 PM

A crypto-miner stealing compute cycles from an airport IT system has potential widespread repercussions in a large region and beyond.

Cyberbit claims to find cryptomining software at international airport

Cyberbit says its computer security software uncovered a large infection of cryptocurrency mining software at an unnamed european airport

18 Oct 2019 3:34 PM

We all may have been embarrassed by our parents, but not like this. (Photo: Facebook/ Ted Andressen)

Dad plants 12'' dildo in son's luggage; records moment airport security flags it

The video has garnered 24 million views, over 130,000 reactions and about 473 thousand shares.

13 Feb 2018 3:42 PM

Passengers are likely to pay more for flight tickets as the government mulls increasing passenger services fee by at least 38 per cent to meet airport security costs. (Representational Image)

Flight tickets to get costlier as govt plans hiking passenger services fee

The government had earlier said the fee will not be raised and all security costs will be taken care of by the Consolidated Fund of India.

23 Nov 2017 1:24 PM

The airport said in the statement it would tighten safety rules and boarding procedures as a result of what it called the ‘highly regrettable incident’. ( Representational Image | Photo: AFP)

7-yr-old manages to board plane without ticket, airport security stumped

The girl managed to get into a plane, was spotted by an official, stopped, and handed over to police.

01 Nov 2017 11:39 AM

The United States announced the new rules in June to end its restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats. (Representational Image | Photo : AP)

US: New security rules, strict passenger screening in effect from Thursday

They will affect 325,000 airline passengers on about 2,000 commercial flights arriving daily in the United States.

25 Oct 2017 4:33 PM

A security guard keeps vigil outside the Mumbai airport on Sunday. (Photo: File/Asian Age)

To avoid trip with girlfriend, Hyd man sent hijack threat mail to airports

Security was stepped up at Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai airports on April 16 following the hijack threat call.

20 Apr 2017 3:44 PM

Stamping, tagging of fliers' hand baggage at airports to end from April 1

The move, the CISF chief said, will enhance

30 Mar 2017 6:51 PM

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