Alok Kumar Verma will be new Delhi Police chief

Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma will be the new Police Commissioner of Delhi, succeeding B S Bassi who retires on February 29. Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday issued an order appointing......

Alok Kumar Verma to replace Bassi as Delhi police chief

Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma will be the next commissioner of Delhi Police, succeeding incumbent B S Bassi, who will hang his boots on February 29. A 1979-batch Union Territory cadre......

2 prisoners dig tunnel, escape from Tihar Jail

A policeman walks inside the Tihar Jail in New Delhi. Photograph: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters Two small-time burglars pulled off a near-impossible jailbreak from the high-security Tihar prisons in......

Delhi bus rapist's jail interview triggers a storm

As a British filmmaker's interview of one of the December 16 gangrape convicts for a documentary in which he showed no remorse triggered a storm on Tuesday, the government took a serious view of......