32 Air India flights get fresh bomb threat

Amid a spate of hoax bomb threats issued to commercial airlines and several establishments across the country in recent weeks, 32 Air India flights on Tuesday received fresh bomb threats.
This came a day after seven flights of India-based carriers to and fro Kolkata received bomb threat messages through social media posts.
The threats, however, turned out to be a hoax and flights were operated.
Meanwhile, in the wake of a significant rise in airline threat calls recently, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has intensified its security efforts across the nation.
In the last two weeks alone, security agencies have reported receiving over 400 hoax calls, prompting widespread concern regarding the potential implications for passenger safety and national security.
To address these growing threats, the NIA’s cyber wing has launched a comprehensive analysis of these foreign threat calls. This investigation is focused on discerning the motives behind these calls and assessing their authenticity.
Taking a strong view of the hoax threat calls, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last week issued an advisory to all social media platforms, asking them to adhere to provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Rules and Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and make “reasonable efforts” to ‘promptly’ take down bomb threat posts or else “be held liable”.