As many as 394 personnel of the force were injured while 30 police vehicles were damaged during the violent protests on that day, the Delhi Police has said.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan apprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit Shah about the fire and sought assistance for dousing it, an official said.
A Delhi Police spokesperson said that nearly 500 personnel have tested positive for the deadly virus so far.
The probe committee comprises principal chief security commissioners of the Western Railway and the Central Railway, principal chief commercial manager of the North Western Railway, principal chief medical director of the North Central Railway and principal chief personnel officer of the West Central Railway.
I don't remember Rajinikanth beheading anyone so brutally in any of his previous films. Or glamourising so much of blood and violence. This is an altogether different version of a brutal Ra1jinikanth, something you and I had probably never imagined before, observes Divya Nair.
ACP Shivaji Pawar has been asked to file his affidavit by August 15.
"They (mosque authorities) have sent a letter to us expressing readiness to withdraw the complaint against her. But we sought certain clarifications from them," said B Reddenna, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Charminar division. He, however, declined to divulge the clarifications sought by the police.
A Delhi Police Crime Branch team led by encounter specialist Rathi had on March 31, 1997, fired indiscriminately after suspecting that the businessmen were Uttar Pradesh-based gangsters wanted by the police.
A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted 10 policemen, including suspended Assistant Commissioner of Police S S Rathi, for killing two innocent businessmen in the 1997 Connaught Place shootout case. The court is scheduled to pronounce the quantum of the sentence on October 24.
British police have recruited Syrian refugee mothers as the face of a new campaign to prevent young girls in the UK fleeing to join the Islamic State terror group.
No arrests have been made, but police have cordoned off the area, sources said.
Rhea wants a stay on the Bihar police probe.
Sisodia was arrested after nearly eight hours of questioning on various aspects of the excise policy for 2021-22, which the probe agency says suffered from irregularities both in its formulation and implementation, allegedly intended to benefit people with links to the AAP.
Rajbir Singh, a controversial Delhi Police 'encounter' specialist with over 50 kills to his credit, was shot dead on Monday night in neighbouring Gurgaon allegedly by a property dealer over a dispute on "investments" he had made with the realtor. The 48-year-old assistant commissioner, whose career had its share of both glory and controversy, was gunned down at the office of the real estate agent Vijay Bhardwaj after an altercation over payment of money in a property deal.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asked the Delhi police to extend full support to the Arvind Kejriwal government
Investigators are now trying to ascertain as to who made these alleged forged documents and whether an organised gang is behind it.
In a new twist to the burning of a Tamil Nadu state-owned bus near Kochi in September 2005, Soofiya Madani, wife of Peoples Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, was on Friday listed as an accused in the case, even as the Kerala high court declined to grant anticipatory bail to her. Assistant Commissioner of Police P M Varghese, who is heading the investigation in the case, filed a report in the Aluva Judicial First Class magistrate court today.
The thief -- identified as Prabhat Tripathi -- managed to escape with Rs 7 lakh in cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 30 lakh.
Five persons, including two children and as many women, were killed and 10 others injured in a stampede near Kanakadurga Temple at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
A former laboratory assistant of a Delhi University college, who had set herself on fire seven days ago after alleging sexual harassment by a college principal, succumbed to her injuries on Monday.
The recovered some "incriminating" documents and electronic evidence such as laptop, I-pad and mobile phones from Waze's office there, the official said.
M K Azhagiri, son of Karunanidhi, intimidated the voters to get an 'artificial victory,' Jayalalithaa alleged.
At least a dozen women from Melbourne have a "romanticised" view of the dreaded militants and want to become 'jihadi brides', police said.
Former assistant commissioner of police R P Tyagi was awarded capital punishment by a Delhi court for torturing two persons to death in judicial custody.
Despite legal deterrent in place to discourage people from doing so, by dusk, residents in many neighborhoods, including some areas in south Delhi and northwest Delhi, had started bursting crackers.
Admitting the appeal against Rathi's conviction and sentence in the shooting case, a Division Bench of Justice R S Sodhi and Justice B N Chaturvedi sought reply from the investigating agency by November 13.
Odisha's Health Minister Naba Kishore Das, a confidant of the chief minister, was shot and grievously injured when he got out of his car on Sunday, allegedly by a police officer who was captured, officials said.
'The prowess with which they executed the shootings unmistakably bear the imprint of someone who has had professional training.'
Body parts of the man's mother were found on February 19 near Cherrapunji.
Five people who were radicalised to carry out terror attacks have been arrested by the Central Crime Branch with firearms and ammunition along with 12 mobile phones confiscated from them, Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda said on Wednesday.
A senior police official who was allegedly shot at by his deputy inside a police station in suburban Mumbai, has died.
Scotland Yard is forging a special unit to tackle rising crime among South Asians in London.
The Railway Protection Force jawan who shot dead four railway passengers including an RPF ASI in the Mumbai-Jaipur Superfast Express, was not feeling well and had lost his calm, an official said on Monday.
The management of the Metro Rail has decided to stop services at 8:30 pm on Monday.
At least two farmers had ended their lives in Sillod during March 3 to 12, police had said. However, sources claimed at least six agriculturists had ended their lives in Aurangabad district in the Marathwada region during the same period, prima facie due to indebtedness.
Scotland Yard said that they are in the early stages of dealing with an incident at the London Bridge.
The Punjab government has ordered the closure of schools till July 13 while in Chandigarh schools are closed till Thursday.
The charge sheet, running into more than 2,500 pages, was filed under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
The SIT searched Mulani's houses in Pune and Satara on December 5 and 6 soon after his arrest.
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