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Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission has directed tight coordination among central forces deployed for the West Bengal Assembly elections, a senior official said on Wednesday.Under the new directives, all central security personnel, including those from the CRPF, BSF, CISF, and other...

Kolkata, March 18 – The West Bengal government on Wednesday assigned new responsibilities to 19 IPS officers who had been removed from their posts by the Election Commission. They have now been appointed to new positions, a senior officer at the state secretariat, Nabanna, said.The state...

Aizawl, March 15 The Mizoram government is likely to extend its ongoing anti-drug campaign, "Operation Jericho," beyond its March deadline, officials said on Sunday.The initiative, launched jointly by the state police, excise department, and the Young Mizo Association (YMA) on September 1...

Kolkata, March 10 The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to provide a list of police officers, including station officers and their senior officials, who were on duty during the post-poll violence in 2021, officials said.A full bench of the EC held a meeting...

Puducherry, March 10 The Election Commission's Special Observer, Pratap Singh, held a meeting on Tuesday with officials from enforcement agencies to assess Puducherry's preparedness for the upcoming assembly elections.A release from the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Puducherry, P Jawhar...

Hyderabad, March 10 In the wake of declining Maoist activities in Telangana, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has hinted that senior police officials should consider scaling down the staff of the Greyhounds, a specialized commando force that deals with the problem of Left-Wing Extremists...

Kolkata, March 9 Several political parties in West Bengal on Monday suggested that the upcoming assembly polls be held in one or two phases, as the Election Commission warned of strict action against any lapse in law and order and asserted zero tolerance towards poll-related violence.The...

Kolkata, March 9 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar warned on Monday that any lapse in maintaining law and order ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections would not be tolerated, officials said.Kumar also questioned the absence of a Narcotics Advisory Committee in the state.The...

Kohima, March 9 Several Nagaland legislators expressed concern in the Assembly on Monday over the recruitment criteria for state police constables, with some suggesting a review of the balance between physical and written tests.The MLAs raised the issue during Question Hour over the recent...

Kolkata, March 9 A BJP delegation met the full bench of the Election Commission of India here on Monday and demanded that the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election be conducted in no more than three phases.The party also demanded that the Election Commission should take measures to ensure a...

Gangtok, March 6 Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang announced on Friday that 500 constables would be recruited into the state police, and 30 per cent of the vacancies would be reserved for women.Tamang made the announcement at the 18th Raising Day of the third Indian Reserve Battalion in...

Gandhinagar, March 6 – A state-level workshop was held in Gandhinagar to strengthen the implementation of the PM-RAHAT scheme in Gujarat, aimed at ensuring that victims of road accidents receive immediate medical treatment during the critical "golden hour" without financial barriers.The...

Guwahati, February 27 Fact-checker Mohammed Zubair faced backlash on social media on Friday for allegedly mocking the Hindi accent of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma while referring to the BJP leader's large family in the context of the state government's stance on families with more...

Shimla, February 27 Two days after a Delhi Police team was detained by the Himachal Pradesh Police near Shimla and booked for "kidnapping," Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu defended the state police's action on Friday, stating that the Constitution grants rights to every state, and Himachal...

Guwahati, February 27 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that three individuals have been arrested for allegedly smuggling banned Yaba tablets worth approximately Rs 4 crore and liquor in two separate operations carried out by the state police.He praised the police personnel for the...

Cuttack, February 26 The Orissa High Court has directed the state police and the home department to ensure proper training of police personnel on the constitutional requirement of furnishing written grounds of arrest to every person taken into custody.The order was passed last week by Justice...

Kolkata, February 26 – After three unsuccessful attempts, the NIA will again try to produce the seven accused, arrested in the Beldanga unrest case in West Bengal, before a city court on Thursday.This would be the fourth attempt to bring the accused to court, as on the previous three...

Patna, February 25 Of the 14,699 children reported missing in Bihar last year, 7,772 have been located, while efforts are ongoing to locate the remaining ones, officials said.The state police announced these figures after multiple instances of misleading information related to alleged...

New Delhi, February 24 In an effort to improve transparency, the Election Commission has ordered that from now on, the random assignment of state police personnel to polling stations on election day will be carried out in the presence of central police observers deployed in the constituencies...

Hyderabad, February 22 Top Maoist commander Thippiri Tirupati alias Devji, a native of Telangana, has surrendered to the state police, local media reports claimed on Sunday.However, there has been no official confirmation from the Telangana Police regarding Devji and other members of the...