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special protection group news

PM Modi asks SPG to reduce convoy size as austerity step amid West Asia conflict

The reduction was done while maintaining essential security components as per SPG protocol. (PTI file photo)
india news
Published on May 13, 2026 03:00 pm IST

R&AW chief Parag Jain gets additional charge of Secretary (Security)

Security personnel stand guard amid high alert at Vijay Chowk (Hindustan Times)
india news
Published on Nov 12, 2025 08:24 pm IST

Senior UP cadre IPS officer Alok Sharma appointed SPG director

The SPG is responsible for the security of the Prime Minister (FILE PHOTO)
india news
Published on Nov 17, 2023 08:12 pm IST

3 agencies including ED, SPG on lookout for new chiefs

Sanjay Mishra is a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service officer who got his first one-year extension in 2020.
india news
Updated on Sept 14, 2023 10:10 am IST

700 CRPF personnel to guard 43 state heads during summit

Preparations underway ahead of G20 Summit near Bharat Mandapam at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi on Friday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)
india news
Updated on Aug 26, 2023 12:17 am IST

Delhi youth held for wearing Brigadier’s uniform in Ambala Cantt

A case under Section 140 (wearing garb or carrying token used by soldier, sailor or airman) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at the GRP police station in Ambala cantonment. (Istock)
chandigarh news
Updated on Apr 01, 2023 02:26 am IST

Karnataka's Mudhol Hounds may be roped into service by Special Protection Group

The SPG showed interest in the Mudhol Hound and picked up two puppies for training on a trial basis from the Canine Research and Information Centre (CRIC) in Mudhol, a town in Bagalkote district.
bengaluru news
Published on Aug 21, 2022 10:10 pm IST

Priyanka Gandhi vacates govt bungalow in Delhi’s Lutyens’ zone

Security personnel load luggage onto a truck after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra vacated her bungalow in Lutyens’ area of New Delhi, on Thursday, July 30, 2020.
india news
Updated on Jul 30, 2020 06:45 pm IST

Centre’s notice over bungalow revives Priyanka Gandhi’s Lucknow plan

Priyanka Gandhi has been active on the ground in Uttar Pradesh. Just recently, she had a run-in with the local administration over organising buses to transport migrant workers stranded in other states back to Uttar Pradesh. (Photo @AjayLalluINC)
india news
Updated on Jul 02, 2020 03:41 pm IST

Security breach at Priyanka Gandhi’s home, selfie seekers barge in: Report

There was a security breach at Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s Lodhi Estate home last week
india news
Updated on Dec 02, 2019 08:19 pm IST

Cabinet nod to bill reducing ex-PMs’ SPG cover to a year

SPG and Delhi Police conduct mock drills ahead of Independence Day in New Delhi on August 13, 2017.
india news
Updated on Nov 23, 2019 01:26 am IST

Advocate files PIL in bid to restore SPG cover for Gandhi family

Congress President Sonia Gandhi with party leader Rahul Gandhi.
india news
Updated on Nov 12, 2019 12:04 am IST

After withdrawal of security cover; Sonia Gandhi writes to SPG, thanks them

The Gandhi family will continue to get Z+ security status and would now be protected by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
india news
Published on Nov 09, 2019 09:26 pm IST

Manmohan Singh’s security cover downgraded

Visits by people under SPG protection and the venues they intend to go to are cleared in advance by the agency after consultations with the local police.
india news
Updated on Aug 27, 2019 12:58 am IST

3,000 plus force provides security to just 4 VVIPs

Special Protection Group (SPG), an about 3000-strong “zero error” security force for the prime minister, former prime ministers and their immediate family members, guards just four people now, officials said on Monday.
india news
Updated on Aug 26, 2019 09:23 pm IST

Ex-prime minister Manmohan Singh loses SPG cover, to get Z+ security now

The security cover of two-time head of state Manmohan Singh was downgraded to Z+ from the elite Special Protection Group cover.
india news
Updated on Aug 26, 2019 03:42 pm IST

MHA makes changes to 24 leaders’ security covers

The highest security cover, Z+, given to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and senior politicians Satish Chandra Mishra (UP) and Babulal Marandi (Jharkhand), is set to be withdrawn.
india news
Published on Jul 24, 2019 01:03 am IST

‘SPG told me…’: Rahul Gandhi takes a swipe at PM Modi on notes ban

Rahul Gandhi also promised that he was willing to implement NYAY and other schemes promised by him, unlike BJP which had wasted the five years it got in cheating the people of the country.
lok sabha election 2019
Updated on May 17, 2019 04:09 pm IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Green light aimed at Rahul Gandhi was from mobile phone, not sniper: Centre

india news
Updated on Apr 11, 2019 04:08 pm IST

Elite force that protects VVIPs wants choppers, govt not keen

An AgustaWestland helicopter. (HT File Photo)
india news
Updated on Oct 24, 2018 09:08 am IST

PM Modi’s decision to walk at Vajpayee’s funeral surprised all

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah (R) pay tribute during the funeral of former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on August 17, 2018.
delhi news
Updated on Aug 18, 2018 05:15 pm IST

Full military honours as nation bids farewell to poet prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Mourners walks along the mortal remains of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at BJP headquarters, in New Delhi.
india news
Updated on Aug 17, 2018 04:40 pm IST

Ahead of PM Modi’s visit, high security in Kashmir after militants steal rifles

A security personnel stands guard in Srinagar on Friday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the city to inaugurate two projects in the state.
india news
Updated on May 19, 2018 07:12 am IST
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