In the first phase covering 20 of the total 90 assembly seats, 223 candidates, including 25 women, are in the fray and as per electoral rolls, 40,78,681 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.
Unless you've been hiding under an Internet-blocking rock, you must have chanced upon some of the crisp, polite, informative and frequently witty posts crafted by the Mumbai police. Mrigank Warrier meets Sunchika Pandey, the brains behind the Mumbai police quips.
Students, parents and teachers gathered in large numbers at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai and demanded action against officials for allowing elements like dismissed constable Sunil More to find a place in the Mumbai police ranks.
The Naxalites carrying sophisticated weapons, including AK-47 rifles, targeted the two unarmed cops when they had just reported for duty at the mobile check-post on the inter-state border, an area that has witnessed a Maoist attack after a long time, they said.
Over 83 per cent of the more than 13 lakh electorate cast their vote on Monday in the single-day Nagaland state election which passed off by and large peacefully, Chief Electoral Officer V Shashank Shekhar said.
Dismissed RPF constable Chetansinh Chaudhary, accused of killing his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train, appears to have harboured "anger and grudge" towards a particular community and showed no remorse for the crime committed, the police said in its response to his bail.
Shots were fired "accidentally" by a Delhi Police constable outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Race Course Road residence in New Delhi on Wednesday night, sending security officials into a tizzy.
Seeing the fire engulf the mortal remains of his daughter, who was with him till last week, he fell to the ground and was rushed to a hospital.
Chaudhary not only killed his senior but also three others of a 'particular community' by making them specific targets, the court said.
Two constables, Prashant Chowdhury and Sandeep Kumar, were arrested after an FIR was lodged on basis of a complaint by Tiwari's colleague Sana Khan, who was travelling with him.
A Delhi police constable, who was severely beaten up near India Gate by protesters on Sunday, is on ventilator support and his condition is stated to be critical
Constable Vijender Kumar was on duty as protests unfolded in Firozabad. He was in his riot gear when a bullet fired by rioters tore his jacket but stuck in the wallet that contained a few coins, four ATM cards and a picture of Lord Shiva.
In a major breakthrough, former police constable and chief of the Karachi chapter of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi was on Tuesday arrested by the Pakistani police in Karachi.
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 97,17,834, pushing the national recovery rate to 95.77 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.45 per cent.
He was hit on the head by a stone when he went to end a traffic jam caused by the protests.
Suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt was on Friday detained in connection with a first information report filed against him by a police constable for allegedly threatening and making him sign a "false" affidavit about a high-level meeting called by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002.
'The government of India must deliberate, for how long the police personnel will be sacrificed in such a manner. This is a big issue which must be resolved for the sake of the people of Jammu and Kashmir'
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These jawans belong to Manipur SAP Company, IRB, a Gujarat Police release said in the night.
An FIR has been lodged against nine Delhi police personnel in connection with the gunning down of Manoj Vashishth in an alleged encounter at a restaurant in national capital, police said on Monday.
"The NIA categorically refuted allegations of mala fide in its Bhupatinagar blast case," an agency spokesperson said.
A 12-year-old boy was allegedly beaten up when he opposed three youths who were sexually harassing his sister-in-law in Muzaffarnagar.
Militants on Tuesday carried out two grenade attacks on security force installations in the city in a span of about five minutes, injuring three Central Reserve Police Force personnel.
The attack took place a kilometre away from the proposed venue of the meeting of the home minister with CRPF personnel on Sunday.
Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, who was hearing a petition by the deceased's mother seeking a speedy and proper investigation, said that the case was to be taken seriously and asked the investigating agency to 'take into account' the 'suggestions' by the petitioner in her plea.
The Special Investigation Agency (SIA) has arrested two more persons, including a policeman, for allegedly being part of a cross-border narcotic syndicate involved in terror funding in Jammu, officials said on Wednesday.
The Meghalaya home department has asked its Director General of Police to conduct an internal probe to find out why policemen are deserting the department and joining militant groups.
Three police personnel and two Maoists were killed in a gun-battle between security personnel and ultras in dense forests of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.
The enquiry commission's report tabled in the assembly on Tuesday said the police shooting on the protesters was unprovoked.
They posed as army personnel. After the killings they fled with the cops' service rifles.
This is for the first time that the state police have accepted that they have opened fire during the violent protests in the state. At least 17 people have been reported killed.
According to a close aide of the CM, his office-cum-residence 'Krishna' has been sealed for five days for sanitisation after some staff tested positive for the virus. This is the second time the office has been shut.
A police constable was killed while two others including a Central reserve Police Force personnel were injured in a landmine blast triggered by Communist party of India-Maoist at Dainmari in Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division of East Singhbhum district on Thursday.
The police constable who shifted Scarlet's body away from the beach came to know about her name a month later, that too through newspapers, he told the court on Wednesday.
"Five to 10 protesters charged at me. They thrashed me with lathis. I ran with some other personnel and hid near a washroom but they found us and thrashed us again. We were scared as all of us were injured," he said on Wednesday at Tirth Ram Hospital here, where he was taken after he managed to call DCP North Anto Alphonse.
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A suicide bomber struck a police vehicle at a city in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least five persons, including a child, and injuring 15 others.Deputy Inspector General of Police Iftikhar Khan said the bomber, who was on foot, targeted the vehicle near the main police station of Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Other officials said a police constable, a child and three civilians were among those killed.
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