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New Delhi, April 9 The NHRC said on Thursday that it has issued notices to the chief secretary and director general of police of Jharkhand over reports that a person died and seven others sustained serious injuries after an explosion at a private steel plant in the Ramgarh district recently...

Chennai, April 9 AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday defended the Election Commission's decision to transfer the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and DGP, saying the move was aimed at ensuring free and fair elections in the state.Questioning Chief Minister M K Stalin's opposition to the...

Bengaluru, April 7 The BJP on Tuesday demanded the arrest of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and the registration of a case against him for his alleged provocative statement during an election rally in Assam.In a complaint to the Karnataka Director General of Police M A Saleem, BJP...

Bengaluru, April 7 – The Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has criticised Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge over his alleged remarks about "killing BJP and RSS workers" in Assam, and said that terrorists appear as angels to the Congress.Commenting on the issue, Leader of...

Chandigarh, April 7 The Punjab government is believed to have sent a panel of 14 senior IPS officers to the Union Public Service Commission to shortlist three candidates for the post of regular Director General of Police in the state, sources said on Monday.Currently, IPS officer Gaurav Yadav...

Chandigarh, April 6 The Punjab government is believed to have sent a panel of 14 senior IPS officers to the Union Public Service Commission to shortlist three candidates for the post of regular Director General of Police in the state, sources said on Monday.Currently, IPS officer Gaurav Yadav...

Gandhinagar, April 6 – With less than three weeks remaining for Gujarat's extensive local body elections, the state's top police leadership has directed an intensified crackdown on criminals and preventive action across districts to ensure a "free and fair" polling process.The directive was...

New Delhi, April 6—The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the investigation into the incident in West Bengal’s Malda district, where seven judicial officers deputed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly held...

April 6th, Aizawl: Mr. Sharad Agarwal, IPS, Director General of Police (DGP) of Mizoram, inaugurated 15 Ather electric scooters at 11:00 a.m. today at the premises of the Police Headquarters.The scooters, procured under the Police Modernization scheme, are intended for use by various police...

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has transferred the investigation of the Malda case to the National Investigation Agency. The NIA team will arrive in West Bengal today. Yesterday, the Supreme Court took serious note of seven judicial officers who were taken hostage in the Malda...

Chennai, April 2 The ECI appointed senior IPS officer Sandeep Rai Rathore as the new DGP of Tamil Nadu, replacing G Venkataraman, who previously held the position of in-charge DGP and head of the police force.Venkataraman has been serving as the in-charge Director General of Police for Tamil...

Kolkata, March 31 – A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday dismissed two public interest litigations (PILs) filed by a Trinamool Congress leader challenging the decisions of the Election Commission of India regarding the large-scale transfers of bureaucrats and police officers in...

Ranchi, March 30 The Jharkhand High Court took suo motu cognizance of the rape and brutal murder of a minor girl in the Vishnugarh area of Hazaribagh district on Monday and issued notices to the State Home Secretary and the Director General of Police (DGP), seeking their responses.The court...

Nagpur, March 22 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday that a high-level inquiry, led by the Director General of Police (DGP), is underway in the case involving Ashok Kharat, a self-proclaimed religious figure arrested for rape, and asserted that no one will be spared...

New Delhi, March 19 AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal voiced his support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, stating that she is fighting to protect democracy and accusing the BJP of using the Election Commission (EC) to win the upcoming state assembly elections.The former...

Kolkata, March 17 West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the EC, alleging that senior administrative and police officers were being transferred ahead of the assembly polls at the behest of the BJP.She warned that the poll body and the...

Kolkata, March 16 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday night, expressing "deep concern and surprise" over the election panel's orders to transfer four top state officials shortly after the announcement of the assembly elections...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 The Election Commission has removed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, and Kolkata police commissioner, among others, in an unprecedented administrative shake-up in the state ahead of the high-stakes assembly polls.The EC's...

Kolkata, March 16 – Several West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police officers who were transferred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier in the day were given new postings by the state government on Monday.The Election Commission removed officers holding the posts of Director General...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 In a move unprecedented in West Bengal's administrative history in terms of its scale, the Election Commission removed the state's bureaucratic and police top brass, including the chief secretary and the DGP, in the run-up to the next month's assembly polls.Although...