Andhra Pradesh government has ordered a high level probe in to the mysterious death of a State Armed Reserve force constable P Murlinath, who was sent to New Delhi at the behest of a senior Indian Police Service officer to work at the home of his daughter.
The Gujarat government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the petitioners who have sought a probe into the alleged fake encounters in the state from 2002 to 2006 need to explain the reasons for their "selective public interest" in raising the issue.
According to the police, these villages have never seen unfurling or hoisting of the national flag since 1947, but that will change when its residents will join the rest of the country in celebrating Republic Day, which commemorates the day when the Constitution came into effect in 1950.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by a deputy inspector general (DIG) of Gujarat Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former Indian Police Service officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, a senior official said on Sunday.
Criticising West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan for questioning the sudden transfer of police chief R K Pachnanda, Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Sultan Ahmed on Friday said he should 'behave in consonance' with his gubernatorial responsibilities and not as a 'former Indian Police Service officer'.
A local court on Wednesday remanded suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara in CBI custody till June 10 in the Ishrat Jahan encounter killing case.
In an open letter, they appealed to her to convey their concerns to the Union government and caution them that the attempt to change the character of the civil services is fraught with extreme danger and will 'spell the death of the constitutional government in India'.
A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's parliamentary constituency Gorakhpur on Sunday pulled up a woman IPS officer publicly leaving her teary-eyed, an incident which was captured on camera and triggered a spate of allegations.
Wankhede, a 2008-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Customs and Indirect Taxes cadre, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking protection from any coercive action by the anti-money laundering agency.
Stakeholders have shown a distinct lack of seriousness in bringing a law against corruption in Indian sports, a reason why someone like tainted former pacer S Sreesanth got away despite strong evidence of spot-fixing against him in the 2013 IPL, former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has said.
Prohibitory orders were imposed in parts of Ranchi city after some policemen, including an Indian Police Service officer, and others were injured in Ranchi on Friday while trying to control a mob near a temple, an official said.
In the season of scams, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and his close relatives were on Thursday dragged into a corruption scandal by a former India Police Service officer-turned-lawyer for benefiting a private developer by allegedly bestowing undue favours for the controversial Lavasa hill city project.
A Frost & Sullivan report to be released later this month states the number of seats in pure IP will grow from 10 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2013.
'When I am doing a film, that film is not propaganda for me. That's a true thing.'
Maintaining that action was taken against Durga Shakti Nagpal to 'teach her a lesson' for acting against the sand mafia, an Indian Police Service body has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to ensure justice to the young Indian Administrative Service officer.
The Gujarat high court on Friday rejected the bail application of suspended IPS officer Abhy Chudasama, who is one of the key accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case of 2005.
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday asked the Centre to examine how people with disabilities can be put under different categories in civil services.
The 52-year-old officer had allegedly attempted suicide at his Malabar Hill residence by setting self on fire on September 15
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla accusing Trinamool Congress's Mahua Moitra of taking 'bribes' from a businessman to ask questions in Parliament, has also written to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to investigate the IP addresses of her log-in credentials for the House.
'People in politics have lost the value of being connected to their own people.' 'Now it's all about vote share, vote bank, how many parties can you break and make them join you.'
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on Thursday announced it that would build the world's largest next generation under-sea cable network with an investment of $1.5 bn (about Rs 7,000 crore) over the next three years.
They include Geetha Johri, who was the Investigating Officer when the case was being probed by the State CID, according to CBI sources. The central agency has also called Rajneesh Rai, who was the one who had arrested three IPS officers, D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N, considered to be main conspirators behind the encounter of Sheikh and disappearance of his wife Kauserbi in November 2005, they said.
The Manipur government on Tuesday lifted the suspension on broadband internet conditionally in a 'liberalised manner', nearly three months after it was banned due to the ethnic violence in the state.
Stories of friendship, former life and fights against the system dominate the OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
Taking a serious note in delay in submission of mandatory annual immovable property returns (IPRs) by 550 Indian Police Service officers, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday advised them to submit the documents immediately.
Bharadwaj said it has not rained in Delhi in the last 3-4 days, yet still the water level in Yamuna reached 208.66 metres.
The BJP has been talking about Ram Rajya for years now. I have asked many a right winger what that means, but they cannot say beyond good government, notes A Ganesh Nadar.
There is little appetite among combat aircraft engine makers to share the IP that results from a co-creation project. But Rolls-Royce is willing to walk the Aatmanirbhar talk.
Lalduhoma's political journey has been all about battling against odds.
The Central Bureau of investigation on Thursday began its probe into the killing of young IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh allegedly by the sand mafia in Madhya Pradesh after it registered a case and dispatched a team of experts to the murder spot.
IPS officer R S Bhagora, currently serving in Gujarat, has been convicted along with four other policemen by the Bombay high court recently after the trial court had acquitted them.
Uttar Pradesh IPS officer D D Misra, who was put under psychiatric treatment at the Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University in Lucknow after he sought to term the Mayawati government as "most corrupt", now wants to be discharged from hospital.
Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) leader Lalduhoma was sworn in as the chief minister of Mizoram on Friday.
'If people don't see you, they might be hesitant, but once they see you, they are confident that this is the person they will vote for,' says political debutant Shambhavi Choudhury, 25, alumnus of the Lady Sriram College and the Delhi School of Economics.
In yet another evidence which proves the involvement of Pakistan-based terror groups in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, five out of ten Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used for the ghastly act has been identified to be located in that country.
Rising awareness and growing competition in the corporate world is expected to boost the requirement of Intellectual Property professionals in the country, with up to 25,000 jobs likely to be created for them in the next 2-3 years, experts say.
The top court was hearing a plea filed by Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, seeking speedy investigation in the case.
At least four FIRs related to extortion were registered against Singh in Mumbai and adjoining Thane.
