Apart from the Indian Coast Guard, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has also deployed teams in the Gangasagar area to prevent any untoward incidents.
The caller has been identified as Jayesh Kantha, a jailed gangster, serving imprisonment in Belagavi jail, who made threatening calls to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's office from inside the jail, police said.
This is a democratic country and people have the 'Right to Speech' but people should also have a sense of responsibility, said Raj Singh the Director of Ganga Vilas Cruise.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the world's longest river Cruise, MV Ganga Vilas in Varanasi, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday took a dig at the BJP, saying Bharatiya Janata Party has the tradition of re-inaugurating the existing things as the cruise
The Mumbai Police have arrested six people for putting up posters including an organiser of a kabaddi programme celebrating gangster Chhota Rajan's birthday on Saturday and Sunday.
Makar Sankranti is a festival in the Hindu calendar, in which devotees make offerings to the deity Surya. The day marks the first day of the sun's transit into the Makara, marking the end of the month with the winter solstice and the start of longer days.
Several Naga Sadhus in the transit camp drew attention as they travelled thousands of kilometers to take a holy dip in Gangasagar on the occasion of Makar Sankranti.
Asserting that India is entering a robust phase of tourism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that curiosity about the country is also increasing with a growing global profile.