Oscar awards Police and security personnel deployed as precaution.

In the city of Los Angeles, security measures have been beefed up for the Oscar award ceremony. Police and security personnel have been deployed near the Kodak Theater where the award ceremony is taking place.

Fire fighter will also be on standby as there will be about 500 guests in the hall. According to the administrators of the event, the workers for the assistance of the guest will be dressed in normal plain clothes.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929 and this will be the 82nd award show and viewership is expected above 40 million.

Malaysian police detain Pakistanis over kidnap

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police said on Tuesday they had foiled a kidnapping gang with the arrest of four Pakistani nationals who seized their own countrymen for ransom from the victims’ relatives back home.

City police chief Zulkifli Abdullah told AFP that the four, aged between 22 and 35, were arrested on Saturday, following a tip-off.

“As a result of our monitoring, we saw four Pakistani nationals acting suspiciously and followed them to a flat downtown where we found three other Pakistanis locked in the home and who were bound and gagged,” he said.

“One of the kidnappers tried to escape and jumped from the third floor of the flats, ending up breaking his hand,” Zulkifli added.

He said initial investigations showed the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 620,000 ringgit (204,317 dollars) for the release of the three men.

“The group’s modus operandi was to kidnap their countrymen who came to Malaysia to trade and do business and then seek a ransom from their relatives back in Pakistan,” he added.

He said the four would be charged in court shortly after police complete their investigations into the men, who are believed to also be linked to another seven kidnappings of Pakistani nationals in the country.