
DNA Newspaper, Bangalore
It’s never too late to learn a how to defend yourself — after all, the streets aren’t getting any safer
You could be petite or small-built, but never underestimate what your body can actually do. And that goes even for the women. The world isn’t getting any safer and one of the best ways to [...]

Indian Express Newspaper
Sreenivas Janyala Posted online: Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 0259 hrs
Hyderabad : The changing security situation in the country has made training for the IPS probationers a lot tougher. From Krav Maga, an unarmed street fight perfected by Israeli soldiers, to scuba diving for steadier nerves, to guerrilla warfare in the jungles of [...]

Times of India Newspaper
“Twist and turn …straight punch” — an instructor barks out these orders in a room full of women learning to kick and punch their way out of trouble.
It’s a place where young female professionals are undergoing training in Krav Maga, the lethal Israeli martial art. With an alarming rise in crime against women professionals, many firms have started offering self-defence training courses [...]

Hindustan Times Newspaper
Let’s face it — it is easy to tire of workouts. Running on the treadmill every day or following the same weight-training routine for a few months can become boring. It also ceases being challenging when your body gets used to it.
It’s raining fitness clubs in India. Every month, there is a new chain of ‘the best fitness club’ making its foray into the country. Indian fitness companies are not too far behind either. Among these ‘world-class’ clubs, one name that still stands out rather prominently is Ozone
Fitness & Spa. Wait. Don’t pack your gym bag [...]

The Hindustan Times Newspaper
New Delhi, December 14, 2009
Abhay Deol is learning Krav Maga, an Israeli form of martial arts that Akshay Kumar is well versed with.

Dressed in fatigues of a soldier is Frank, Bangalore’s Krav Maga practitioner. Krav Maga is a system of self defence created by Israeli military and combines the various forms of martial arts. It is highly dynamic and street oriented…

The Asian Age Newspaper
Shruti Badyal
With crime against women continuing unabated in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, recently appealed to women to join self-defence training courses offered by the government and private agencies.
Live Mint Magazine
Gender parity is desirable for individuals and countries, but ultimately likravving your life as a woman involves not just competing with the males but also cherishing those qualities which make both women and men gloriously different and therefore unique.
Tomorrow, the World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit will begin in New Delhi. Between discukravssions [...]

Times of India
HYDERABAD: Terrorism has made life unimaginably tough for the latest batch of IPS probationers what with new combat techniques being introduced into the training schedule. The latest addition for budding police officers at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA) is “Krav Maga” an Israeli hand-to-hand combat technique that gives the fighter [...]

by NISHAL LAMA (http://mybangalore NULL.com/profile/nishal_lama) | 26. October 2009
Krav Maga is a form of martial arts that is used by some of the top defence agencies around the world. Find out how Bangalore’s taking up this latest fitness fad.
Krav Maga, a form of martial arts from Israel is attracting a lot of attention in the city. [...]

Abhay Deol surely knows how to make the best use of time. His differences with Sonam Kapoor on the sets of Aisha were discussed at length recently.
Sources on the sets of the much-awaited film reported that the two young- actors got into a non-friendly mode as Sonam reportedly took a long time in getting her make- up done, which [...]

Saranya Chakrapani
CHENNAI: As racial attacks are becoming nightmarish for the families of students in Australia, Sreeam says, “The Government of India can pressurise the Australian government to put an end to these attacks, but an individual by himself has to go that extra mile to repulse such assaults. That is when my years of training [...]

Krav Maga, the military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel, is flourishing at Calcutta’s Solace gym. Conducted twice a week, the gym also organises special classes for children on Sundays where they are taught self-defence moves…

Motorists Join Self-Defence Classes — From Karate To Krav Maga — To Cope With Violence While Driving
Chennai: You’ve heard of self-defence instructors modifying lessons to cater to women. Now, you’ve got martial art instructors in Chennai teaching men and women how to defend themselves against increasing incidence of road rage. And to make sure the [...]
Sreeram
Until January this year, martial arts were as alien to her as Martians are to humans. Now, she is a card-carrying follower of the Krav Maga system. Following my persuasion, she began to train in this combat form. But I did not expect her to take to it in such a big way.
Geetha
Fascinated with [...]
Mumbaiites are practising their lethal moves in the latest martial arts that have caught their fancy, and how! Clearly, they’ve found a handy way to deal with rising stress levels, work pressures, sexual harassment and their fitness issues with popular techniques like these…
Krav Maga
Push-ups, squats, kicks and stretching, after an intense 30 minutes [...]

New Delhi: With the PM hinting at fresh strikes from across the border, security concerns have once again taken centrestage. Post 26/11, the security industry was inundated with myriad demands. In what can be termed as a step further, private security guards in the country will now get trained in close combat along the lines [...]

A “Training of Trainers” for 40 trainers from Tamil Nadu Commando Force (TNCF), Special Task Force (STF) and Tamil Nadu Police Academy (TNPA) on unarmed combat, “Krav Maga” was conducted at Tamil Nadu Police Academy (23.03.09 to 27.03.09) by the New Delhi based Ultimate Tactical & Combat Pvt. Ltd.
The 40 hours duration “Fighter 1″ module [...]
Devesh K. Pandey
NEW DELHI: The Delhi police have set up a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team as part of their renewed counter-terror measures. Created some months ago in the wake of the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, the team has been participating in mock security drills being carried out in the city as part [...]

New Delhi has India’s highest frequency of crimes against women, including rape, but the females are fighting back.’
The police say the number of attacks is declining, but there are still hundreds of cases every year.
New Delhi has long been considered India’s crime capital. Over 1,000 rape and assault cases were reported there last year. Not [...]

June 12, 09
By V. Vishwanath
If there is one martial arts that does not require perfect fitness, upper body strength, and ability to learn complex nitty gritties, it is Krav Maga. The Israeli based technique is useful under a sudden violent attack and stressful attack when our minds shut down. Krav maga [...]
Manoj Sharma
New Delhi, June 27, 2009
Israeli self-defence
The setting is somewhat similar at Ultimate Tactical and Combat studio in Saket. It offers Krav Maga – an Israeli form of self-defence and combat tactics – training, engaging young women, clad in black, in hand-to-hand combats.
In Saket, portraits of the famed Israeli Krav Maga trainers and a poster [...]
Vicky Kapoor, director and chief instructor of the Krav Maga India, an organisation that teaches the Israeli self-defence form, says that “anybody from five to 55 can learn the moves if they aren’t suffering from serious heart or joint problems or abnormally high blood pressure”. At the organisation’s Delhi centre, older students get a separate [...]
Chennai, June 5: When under attack, there are no rules. You can bite, scratch, poke and even aim a kick on the groin — absolutely anything to get away in one piece.
These are the instructions given by experts from the Krav Maga federation to students and young professionals planning to go abroad to study or [...]
March 19th, 2009
Hyderabad
March 18: Employees of corporate and BPO firms are learning martial arts such as Krav Maga of Israel and Ninjutsu of Japan to deal with possible terror attacks. Security personnel of information technology companies are also picking up Krav Maga, which has become popular among police forces across the world.
Increasing attacks on women [...]

Deccan Chronicle Newspaper
6th, Jan, 2009
By Asit Jolly
Chandigarh
Recently “handicapped” by a High Court order significantly scaling down the number of security men and vehicles deployed to protect top politicians and bureaucrats, the Punjab police is now seeking to better its anti-terrorist skills by re-training its commandos in advanced martial arts and equipping them with state of-the-art [...]

With terrorists getting bolder and carrying out audacious attacks in Mumbai and Lahore, the Special Protection Group (SPG), established in 1985 after the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi, is training in Krav Maga, a martial art devised by the Israeli Army for hand-to-hand combat.
New Delhi: They are representatives of the people, for the people, [...]

MUMBAI: In continuation with its ‘De Taali’ campaign, BIG 92.7 FM’s, Delhi Station organized a special ‘Self-Defense’ training for the women of this city on 18 March 09 at ‘World Of Wonders’, Noida.
Special trainers from the prestigious ‘Krav Maga’ organistaion joined BIG FM to impart ‘self-defense’ techniques. Along with the enthusiast participants and trainers, [...]
Self-defence techniques learnt in a dojo can prove useless in a street fight. This is the first thing Vicky Kapoor tells anyone flaunting his titles in martial arts. Street fights are not governed by rules. While you tackle two attackers, three other s may suddenly show up and rain blows on you.
Trained in many traditional [...]

In the context of Woman’s Day, the article introduces KravMaga as a self defense system for women with average fitness. Also some tips on handling eve teasing and travelling alone.
Kungumam has emerged as the top-selling Tamil weekly magazine.

MUMBAI: With dance obsession reaching frenzy across the country, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, India’s hottest Radio station had tuned its listeners to the enjoyment mode for the forthcoming reality dance show ‘Jhalak Dikhla Ja’ on Sony Entertainment Television. In an attempt to provide the much needed leisure break from their daily routines, the station had [...]

GlobalPost.com Website
The terror attacks in Mumbai have sparked new fears, and new business opportunities, in India’s outsourcing capital.
By Saritha Rai – GlobalPost
India — During the week, Anoop Ramakrishnan, 25, an engineer in a Bangalore-based outsourcing firm, provides technical support for telecom networks in Canada and Europe. On the weekends, Ramakrishnan joins a dozen others learning [...]

The Week Magazine Health Supplement
By Vaidehee Deshpande
Welcome to the new generation of fitness workouts designed to engage your body and mind. These workouts improves self confidence and help in muscle toning and fat loss. The leader of this pack is a technique called Krav Maga. At first glance it might appear to be just another [...]

The Telegraph, Kolkata
Self Defense classes to stay safe.
It’s 10.30pm. You have just come out from a late show at the multiplex and you have no husband, brother or boyfriend as a chaperone. As you walk through the parking lot, you are a little nervous to see the group of boys lounging near your car…
A few [...]

Hindustan Times Newspaper
Soubhik Mitra, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, January 28, 2009
Through the week, Satish Nair helps software developers make user-friendly programmes for the bank he works with. On the weekend, the 33-year-old business analyst learns how to duck from a flying grenade and defend himself from hoodlums as part of his Krav Maga lessons, which teach the [...]

Times of India, Bangalore Times Newspaper
The Israeli army’s self-defence tactics for civilians are a fave among IT professionals
Did you watch helplessly as goons mugged you and took off with your valuables? Frustrated that you didn’t know what to do as you were pinned to the ground? How about learning to fight back? Well, a bunch [...]

The Sunday Indian :: Website
On the night of November 26, when terrorists stormed the Taj, in a room on one of the floors, there was one of India Inc’s bright young beacons lying on the floor, alive, but terrified, confused and unsure. Next to him on the floor lay others, some bleeding, others perhaps weeping… [...]

CNN IBN
Deepa Balakrishnan, CNN-IBN
Bangalore: Three IT companies in Bangalore recieved e-mail threats of attacks last week. Following this Bangaloreans are training themselves in the elite Israeli form of self-defence called Krav Maga.
Ashish Puri, a product manager for an IT company is learning Krav Maga. He deals with a hostage situation one minute, and the next [...]

UTVi News Desk
MUMBAI: In the times, when there may or may not be any security, self defense is the best defense and UTVi turns it attention to Krav Maga, which is an Isreali self defense.
Krav Maga, when translated literally means contact and combat. Martial arts has been around since quite sometime but what makes Krav [...]