Overview
- Mumbai has deployed more than 17,000 police with checkpoints and specialized units, while Metro Line 3 will run overnight alongside special BEST buses and extra suburban trains.
- Delhi has barred vehicles from Connaught Place from 7 pm without passes, listed designated parking zones, rolled out Saket-area diversions, and deployed roughly 3,000 personnel with over 50 checkpoints.
- Bengaluru has closed MG Road, Brigade Road, Church Street and nearby stretches from 10 pm to 3 am, shut 50 flyovers from 11 pm to 6 am, and intensified drunk-driving enforcement after hundreds of cases were recorded.
- Hyderabad has ordered all events to end by 1:00 am, launched drunk-driving checks at 120 locations from the evening, and warned of strict penalties for violations.
- Globally, security has been reinforced with NYPD secondary screenings at Times Square, National Guard support in New Orleans, Sydney’s largest police presence for harbor fireworks, and event cancellations in Paris and Tokyo.