But it has taken on new urgency,coming one day after the World Health Organization raised its global swine flu alert to Phase 4 on the six-point scale.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Speaking to local media, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said intelligence agencies had expected attacks on security sites in the country and that authorities will remain on high-alert.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The alert focuses on five states: Bihar,Chhattisgarh,Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

General Fonseka,in the letter, says Sri Lanka asked India on October 15 to place troops on alert in case they would be needed to intervene to foil a coup on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14