In the new world order, threats are varied and ever increasing -- whether it's the pandemic, terrorism, law & order situations or cyber-crimes, and Mumbai being the financial capital of the country is always at the centre of it. The 2021 Mumbai Police calendar, shot by ace photographer Pravin Talan, imaginatively projects the many facets of the force whether it is policemen in PPE kits or Bomb suit, ferocious Belgian Malinois dog, QRT commando teams with MP- 5 and Ak-47 patrolling at nights or the more emotional pictures like a policeman fixing a little girls bicycle. Take a look.
The skirmish took place around 5.30 am in the forest at Kotmi in Etapalli, where the Naxals had gathered for a meeting, said Sandeep Patil, Deputy Inspector General of Gadchiroli.
More than half of the Pakistan team arrived in Bengaluru only six hours ahead of their match against India on Wednesday due to unavailability of tickets on a single flight.
"He is being taken to Ghaziabad from Thane by road," the police official said.
The passengers were offloaded and the aircraft was moved to an isolation bay for further inspection, airport sources said.
Nangre Patil said the Mumbai cops were trained to handle law and order situations, the underworld and other sorts of criminals, but a 26/11-like terror attack was never anticipated.
A bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot after an unexploded bomb was found a few hundred metres away from the helipad used by Punjab and Haryana chief ministers in Chandigarh on Monday, officials said.
A 61-year-old lawyer suffering from cancer was found dead inside her house in Noida in a posh locality, with the police Monday arresting her former Indian Information Service (IIS) officer husband and charged him with the murder.
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A Kudumbashree worker, who had gone missing last week, was found allegedly murdered and buried in a ditch in the compound of a former colleague's house in Tuvvur in this district, police said on Tuesday.
A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to death 15 persons associated with the now-banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with the murder of Bharatiya Janata Party OBC wing leader Ranjith Sreenivasan in this district in 2021, the special prosecutor of the case said in Alappuzha.
It's a single phase polling in Mizoram while first phase of assembly elections is underway in Chhattisgarh.
The flight, operated by Russian airline Azur Air, was scheduled to land at the Dabolim airport in South Goa at 4.15 am, a senior police official said.
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'If we have to restrict and fight terrorism, first and foremost, we have to ensure communal harmony in the country.'
Earlier, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested one person from Pune for giving shelter to both the suspected terrorists.
After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention.
The IP (internet protocol) address of the sender has been traced to Pakistan, said the official.
The New York police has disbanded a controversial unit that conducted surveillance on Muslim neighbourhoods and monitored the daily lives of people from the community to detect terror plots.
The government has directed inspection of all maternity homes and centres for Medical Termination of Pregnancy across Beed district after two aborted female foetuses were found in a garbage dump on Saturday.
The accused, Ravindra Kumar and Atul Bhadoliya, allegedly raped the girl, bit her and inserted a hard object in her private parts on Thursday, police sources stated, but a senior official said this can be confirmed only after her medical examination report is received.
People who were present at the convention centre told media that the first blast occurred in the middle of a prayer.
Police have advised people to use the navigation app 'Mapmyindia' to get around the city till the restrictions are in place.
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Seema Ghulam Haider and Sachin Meena got in touch while playing PUBG in 2019 as a dramatic love story unfolded between the two living more than 1,300 km apart, in countries not too friendly to each other.
Shahrukh Saifi was apprehended from Ratnagiri in Maharashtra by the Anti-Terrorism Squad.
Rescue officials confirmed casualties in the incident, claiming to have already recovered 5 bodies from the heap of debris where the cracker manufacturing unit once stood.
ATS has found that Labhshankar Maheshwari, a native of Pakistan who was granted Indian citizenship in 2005, had agreed to be part of the conspiracy to expedite the visa process for him, his wife and two other family members wanting to visit the neighbouring country to meet relatives.
Shukla, incidentally, was accused of tapping phones of some political leaders while she was chief of the state intelligence department in Maharashtra.
Seema's questioning also comes at a time when a little-known right-wing fringe group in Greater Noida has threatened a protest if Haider, who illegally entered India with her four children, is not evicted from the country 'within 72 hours'.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said the arrest of Kurulkar is a "very serious matter" and alleged that it exposes the "anti-national face" of the RSS.
A man, who allegedly made the call in an inebriated state, has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended from there, they said.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, who shot dead his senior and three passengers on board a moving train last month, has been dismissed from service, an official said on Thursday.
The government has deputed a top police official to join the Indian team to oversee all the security arrangements.
Shah said there is a need to not only combat terrorism but also dismantle its entire ecosystem, and for this "we must work with the spirit of the whole of government and Team India".
A powerful suicide blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 people and injuring over 50 others gathered to celebrate Prophet Muhammad's birthday, authorities said.
More than 20 persons have so far been arrested in connection with the incident which took place in Malvani area of Malad on March 30.
Protesting wrestlers joined several of their colleagues to prepare for the Asian Games trials.
It is suspected that the IED might have been carried by a drone and dropped at the wrong site close to the border, sources said.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted three weeks interim bail to former police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran.
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