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New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) Praveer Ranjan, a 1993-batch IPS officer, on Tuesday took charge as the new director general of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at its headquarters here. He was handed over the ceremonial baton from retiring DG R S Bhatti, a senior officer said. Ranjan, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the AGMUT cadre, was earlier serving in the CISF as the Special DG of the airports sector. The Union government had appointed him as the new CISF chief on Septemb ...Read More >
Tensions escalated across Uttar Pradesh, particularly in Bareilly, Barabanki, Mau, and Varanasi, following "I Love Muhammad" campaign protests. Bareilly experienced violent clashes, prompting extensive police raids, arrests of a prominent cleric, and massive security deployment. Authorities are investigating pre-planned conspiracies to disrupt communal harmony. Tensions escalated across Barabanki and Mau districts following violent clashes in Bareilly over the "I Love Muhammad" campaign, prompt ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Tension simmered in Indana village of Nuh on Saturday after a police raid to investigate a case of vehicle thefts from Punjab escalated into violence. The confrontation resulted in several policemen being injured after being pelted with stones, shots being fired, and multiple vehicles damaged.According to officials, the incident occurred around 11.30am when a joint team of the Tauru and Punhana CIA units raided the house of Azad, a former councillor and main accused. As soon as Azad spo ...Read More >
Tensions escalated in Barabanki and Mau districts as protests over the 'I Love Muhammad' campaign turned violent in Bareilly with police carrying out overnight house-to-house raids to nab the culprits and arresting a prominent cleric. IMAGE: A protest in front of the Vidhan Bhavan after an FIR was lodged against over 20 people in Kanpur, for putting up 'I love Muhammad' signs during Milad-un-Nabi celebrations, in Lucknow on Saturday. Photograph: ANI Photo Officials said on Saturday that securi ...Read More >
CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas on Friday wrote to Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golchha, seeking a high-level, impartial probe into the alleged assault and humiliation of two students from Kerala near the Red Fort on September 24. Brittas claimed the students - Aswanth I T and Sudhin K, both studying at Zakir Husain Delhi College and hailing from Birbhum district - were falsely accused of theft, beaten by a mob and allegedly subjected to custodial brutality by police. In his letter, Brit ...Read More >
Bareilly (UP), Sep 27 (PTI) Police on Saturday detained Tauqeer Raza Khan, a local cleric and chief of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, whose call for a protest supporting the 'I love Muhammad' campaign led to a violent clash between demonstrators and police after Friday prayers in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly, officials said on Saturday. "Tauqeer Raza has been taken into custody, and further legal proceedings are underway. The situation is peaceful and under control," Bareilly SSP Anurag Arya told the me ...Read More >
KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI, Sept 26 (Reuters) - At least 33 of the demonstrators killed during anti-corruption protests in Nepal this month were struck by "live bullets" fired from "high-velocity firearms," the medical institute that conducted the postmortem examinations told Reuters. The findings were described to Reuters by a member of the forensic medicine department of the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. An institute spo ...Read More >
Bareilly (UP), Sep 26 (PTI) Clashes broke out between locals and police outside a mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly after Friday prayers on Friday after several protestors gathered ther in support of the "I Love Muhammad" campaign on the call of a local cleric and Ittehad-e-Millat Council chief Maulana Tauqeer Raza. Police said large crowds gathered outside the cleric's residence and near the mosque, both in the Kotwali area, after Friday prayers, with people expressing their anger over the la ...Read More >
KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI - At least 33 of the demonstrators killed during anti-corruption protests in Nepal in September were struck by "live bullets" fired from "high-velocity firearms", the medical institute that conducted the postmortem examinations told Reuters. The findings were described to Reuters by a member of the forensic medicine department of the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. An institute spokesperson sub ...Read More >
VARANASI: Six police personnel were suspended and another five sent to district lines after a BJP worker died in police lathicharge in Ghazipur district Thursday. The district police chief has requested the DM to order a magisterial probe into the alleged police action.On Tuesday afternoon, a protest over power crisis at Nonhara reportedly turned violent and police rained batons at demonstrators, injuring 7-8 people, including BJP worker Siyaram Upadhyay, alias Jokhu Upadhyay (35). His death lat ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid heartfelt tributes to freedom fighter Mangal Pandey on his birth anniversary, remembering him as a "pioneering warrior" who challenged British authority and remains a lasting symbol of courage and patriotism. Recognised as one of the earliest voices of resistance, Mangal Pandey played a key role in the events that sparked the Revolt of 1857, which eventually led to the dissolution of the East India Company and the establishment of ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the city police on a plea moved by Mohd Khalid, an accused in the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots case that led to the death of head constable Ratan Lal. Justice Shalinder Kaur, on July 14, directed the police to file their response before the next hearing scheduled for October 14. The prosecution also reserved its right to argue on the maintainability of the petition. Khalid was arrested in June 2023 after being named as an accused in the fifth s ...Read More >
Jaipur: Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot criticised the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led BJP govt in Rajasthan, accusing it of surrendering to the sand mafia and failing to uphold law and order in the state. Speaking on the birth anniversary of senior Congress leader Late Girija Vyas at PCC Tuesday, Gehlot said, "The sand mafia has completely taken over. Sand prices are skyrocketing, and the common man can't even afford to build a home. During our tenure, we faced challenges to ...Read More >
T'puram/Kannur: The SFI marches to the headquarters of Kerala University and Kannur University turned violent on Tuesday. The protesters stormed into the Kerala varsity office, reaching up to the chamber of the vice-chancellor. The protest was organized alleging that the governor, who is also the chancellor of the universities in the state, was saffronising the universities.The protest at Kerala University continued for hours as police remained mute spectators. Even after the SFI workers broke t ...Read More >
Shillong: The Meghalaya State Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has directed the state police to submit a detailed report on the alleged custodial torture of a 19-year-old at the Sohra police station. MHRC Chairperson Justice (Retd) T Vaiphei stated that the commission has taken cognisance of the incident and instructed the Superintendent of Police (SP), East Khasi Hills district, Vivek Syiem, to submit an action-taken report by July 31. The commission will decide on further action based on the co ...Read More >
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): A chaos erupted during the Muharram procession in Ujjain on Sunday night, after some people from the rally broke barricades to enter the restricted routes. This led to a stampede-like situation, with hundreds of people running around to save themselves. As a result, people carrying the huge tazia lost balance and the holy structure fell down. In the videos going viral on social media, people can be seen standing on the barricades and jumping, while the police are contin ...Read More >
The Tamil Nadu Director-General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal has transferred the investigation to the CB-CID. The custodial death of a 27-year-old temple security guard, B Ajith Kumar, in Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga district has sparked public outrage and led to the arrest of five police personnel, raising serious questions about police brutality and custodial torture. What do we know about the case? Late Monday night, five policemen were arrested in connection with Ajith Kumar's death following ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 1 (PTI) Senior IPS officer Ravada A Chandrasekhar took charge as the new Kerala state police chief on Tuesday morning at the police headquarters, a day after he was appointed to the key post by the Left government. He succeeded Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retired on Monday. He was welcomed by senior officers and officially assumed office at around 7 am. The baton was handed over to the new police chief by ADGP (Law and Order) H Venkatesh, to whom the charge had temporaril ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 1 (PTI) Senior IPS officer Ravada A Chandrasekhar took charge as the new Kerala State Police Chief on Tuesday morning at the police headquarters here, a day after he was appointed to the key post by the Left government. He succeeded Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retired on Monday. He was welcomed by senior officers and officially assumed office around 7 am. The baton was handed over to the new police chief by ADGP (Law and Order) H Venkatesh. After taking charge, Chandrase ...Read More >
The incident took place on Thursday night in the Ecovillage-1 society. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Residents at Greater Noida high-rise were assaulted after complaining about a power outageThe incident occurred Thursday night in the Ecovillage-1 housing societyGuards and maintenance staff were seen hitting residents with sticks in viral videos Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Greater Noida: Residents living at a high-rise housing complex in Greater Noida ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India has forcibly expelled hundreds of people, mostly Bengali-speaking Muslims, to Bangladesh without trial, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling. Officials from both India and Bangladesh confirm the expulsions. New Delhi claims the people deported are undocumented migrants particularly those from neighbouring Muslim-majority Bangladesh -- with top officials referring to them as "termites" and "infiltrat ...Read More >
Greater Noida: A power outage on Thursday evening at Supertech Eco Village 1, a gated community in Greater Noida West, led to a dispute and physical violence between residents and the maintenance staff. Videos shared on social media depict security guards and maintenance workers attacking residents with sticks, batons, and even their fists. Residents reported that the electricity had been out for three hours when they approached the maintenance office for answers. The staff allegedly refused to ...Read More >
Etawah/Lucknow (UP), Jun 26 (PTI) Days after the alleged caste-based tonsuring of a Bhagwat Katha preacher and his aide in Etawah's Dandarpur village, tensions escalated on Thursday as members of Yadav groups staged protests demanding the arrest of all accused and withdrawal of the case registered against the victims. According to police, large crowds began gathering near the Agra-Kanpur highway and at the village in the Bakewar area in the afternoon. Purported videos showed unidentified perso ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Friday directed protesting teachers and other staff of West Bengal government-run and -aided schools, who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling, to shift their protest venue in the interest of public convenience.The court also limited the number of participants to 200 at any given time.Hearing petitions filed by the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum, under whose banner the protest is being organised, and the state government, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh ord ...Read More >
Kolkata, May 23 (PTI) The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed protesting teachers and other staff of West Bengal government-run and -aided schools, who lost their jobs due to a Supreme Court ruling, to shift their protest venue in the interest of public convenience. The court also limited the number of participants to 200 at any given time. Hearing petitions filed by the Deserving Teachers Rights Forum, under whose banner the protest is being organised, and the state government, Justice Tir ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Three minors were involved in the violence that erupted in Sambhal on November 24 over a Mughal-era mosque survey, a senior official confirmed Wednesday. Moradabad divisional commissioner Aunjaneya Kumar Singh stated the number could change as the investigation continues. "The number of minors involved in the case was 3 until yesterday. But this number can change." The minors are undergoing counseling and will be enrolled in educational and skill development programs. Authorities a ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Dimple Yadav said on Wednesday that the violence and ruckus in Sambhal that claimed the lives of four and left many injured right after the election results raises a 'big question' on the 'neeyat and neeti' (policy and intentions) of the government and the BJP. Speaking to ANI here on Wednesday, Dimple Yadav said, "The administration did the work of booth-capturing and today, when we are celebrating Constitution Day, we want our coun ...Read More >
Chattogram, Nov 26 (UNI) A lawyer was killed on Wednesday during a clash after arrested Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was denied bail by a court in this port city of Bangladesh. Following the denial of the bail, his followers clashed with lawyers and law enforcers in the afternoon, Prothom Alo reported. The president of Chattogram lawyers association, Najim Uddin, told Prothom Alo that the demonstrators hacked the lawyer to death near his chamber. The deceased is Saiful Islam ali ...Read More >
Chattogram, Nov 26 (UNI) A lawyer was killed on Wednesday during a clash after arrested Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari was denied bail by a court in this port city of Bangladesh. Following the denial of the bail, his followers clashed with lawyers and law enforcers in the afternoon, Prothom Alo reported. The president of Chattogram lawyers association, Najim Uddin, told Prothom Alo that the demonstrators hacked the lawyer to death near his chamber. The deceased is Saiful Islam ali ...Read More >
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