Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 30 (ANI): A four-member investigation committee on Monday including Satpal Singh, Meenakshi Lekhi, Biplab Kumar Deb and Manan Kumar arrived in Kolkata to investigate the alleged gang rape case in Kolkata. Former Union Minister and committee member Satpal Singh stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stood with daughters and sisters of the state, further stating that if the committee was not granted permission to meet the Police officials and the Chief Se...Read More
Kolkata, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A four-member team of the fact-finding committee, formed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for probing alleged lapses in the Kolkata gang-rape case and studying ground realities in its aftermath, reached the metropolis on Monday. The four-member team includes former Union Ministers Meenakshi Lekhi, Satpal Singh and MPs Biplab Deb and Manan Kumar Mishra. The fact-finding team will investigate the alleged security lapse at the Kolkata law college where the gh...Read More
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has appointed Rawada Azad Chandrasekhar as the state's new Director General of Police (DGP). Chandrasekhar, who was the second name on the list submitted by the UPSC, is returning to the Kerala cadre after a decade. The appointment came after the government bypassed the first-ranked officer on the list, Nitin Agarwal, and the third-ranked, Yogesh Gupta. A native of Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh, he is a 1991-batch Kerala cadre IPS officer. Until Rawada ...Read More
Bengaluru: A day after an unidentified woman's body was found stuffed in a sack and dumped in a garbage truck in Bengaluru, an initial investigation revealed that she was killed by her live-in partner. The accused, Mohammed Shamshuddin, has been arrested by the police. After the body was found, the police started scanning the CCTV footage and on the basis of other evidence they managed to track the 33-year-old accused, reported NDTV. The accused is reportedly a native of Assam. As per the repor...Read More
Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 30 (PTI) The Kerala government decided to appoint senior IPS officer Ravada A Chandrasekhar as the new police chief of the state, the Chief Minister's Office said on Monday. A special cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, on Monday decided to appoint Chandrasekhar to the top post, succeeding Sheikh Darvesh Saheb, who retires today. The cabinet selected Chandrashekhar from the shortlist of senior officers provided by the empanelment committee of th...Read More
The Kerala Cabinet, which met virtually on Monday (June 30, 2025) under the chairmanship of Chief Minster Pinarayi Vijayan, decided to appoint Director General of Police (DGP) Ravada A. Chandrasekhar as the new State Police Chief (SPC). The decision ends weeks of speculation over the successor to incumbent SPC Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retires today (June 30). A 1991-batch officer of the Kerala cadre, Mr. Chandrasekhar currently serves as the Special Director in the Intelligence Bureau. He has ...Read More
Nizamabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who visited Nizamabad city on Sunday, was given a grand welcome by senior officials and public representatives. The latter reached the Nizamabad Integrated District Offices Complex (New Collectorate) at 2.15 pm by a special helicopter. Senior officials and public representatives welcomed Amit Shah with bouquets at the helipad. Union Minister Kishan Reddy accompanied Amit Shah to Nizamabad in a helicopter, while Union Minister Bandi Sanjay, MP Arvind, U...Read More
Ludhiana: Sadar police have nominated a relative of Kuldeep Singh, who was personal assistant to a former MP of Shiromani Akali Dal, in the case of his murder. According to the police, his relative arranged the car used in the crime and was present when Kuldeep was hacked to death with swords at the Missing Link-2 area near Dhandra Road on Friday night.The assailants first hit Kuldeep Singh's car, forcing him to stop. When he alighted from the car, they attacked him brutally with swords. A woman...Read More
Navi Mumbai: A day after a newborn was found abandoned on a street outside an oprhanage in Panvel, the biological parents were traced on Sunday. The police identified the child's father as a 23-year-old Bhiwandi resident, Aman Kondkar, an engineer who is currently unemployed. He told the police that he was in a relationship with a 20-year-old distant relative woman from Mumbra.The two-day-old girl had been placed in a plastic basket which was left on a pavement outside an orphanage in Takka Colo...Read More
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday demanded that hotel, dhaba and eatery owners on the Kanwar Yatra routes should display their names and identities on boards outside their business establishments. The owners, who hide their identities under fake names, on the Kanwar Yatra routes should not be spared, he told reporters here. "Tampering with faith of the Hindu devotees during the Kanwar Yatra will not be tolerated," said the Unnao MP. The food shops on the Kanwa...Read More
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Bengaluru Crime: A woman's body, believed to be between 30 and 35 years old, was found stuffed inside a sack and dumped in a garbage truck in Bengaluru early Thursday. The identity of the woman is yet to be confirmed. Police said the sack was discovered by BBMP sanitation workers who immediately alerted the authorities. The body was found with her hands and neck tied, raising strong suspicion of murder. Officials stated that the body had been placed inside a gunny bag before being thrown into t...Read More
Bengaluru: Top police officers suspended for the June 4 stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium Saturday appeared before the one-man judicial commission led by Justice John Michael D' Cunha. The officers are former Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayananda, former additional commissioner of police Vikash Kumar Vikash, and ex-deputy commissioner of police Shekhar Tekkananavar. They submitted statements in connection with the incident.As many as 11 persons died and 75 were injured in the stampede o...Read More
Chennai: Following the dismissal of anticipatory bail plea of Puratchi Bharatham MLA Poovai Jaganmoorthy in a case of abduction of a 17-year-old boy from Thiruvalangadu, CB-CID have launched a coordinated search operation to arrest him. CB-CID's four special teams, each led by an assistant commissioner of police, are scanning multiple locations across Tamil Nadu, including offices and residences of key functionaries of the Puratchi Bharatham party.The case relates to an inter-caste marrige of Dh...Read More
Bengaluru Power Cuts: Citizens of Bengaluru brace yourself for long hours of power outages from June 29 and June 30. More than 100 areas will be impacted as BESCOM undertakes its quarterly maintenance work in various of its division. Bengaluru Power Outages June 29: According to the update by BESCOM on its X handler, there will be power outages in Kittaganahalli, Palasandra, Saptagiri, Maruthinagar, Sankapur, Raghavendra Nagar, Goolarivee, Baddihalli, Kesaramadu, C.M Badawan, Kalalli and SKS v...Read More
Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti has said that Mumbai city is now completely free from instructional loudspeakers. He stated that the police had earlier successfully carried out a comprehensive drive against public address systems installed on all religious structures. The Commissioner confirmed to the Free Press Journal (FPJ) that the police have removed about 1,500 instructional loudspeakers from religious structures across Mumbai, and they will ensure that such loudspeakers ar...Read More
NIZAMABAD: Union home and co-operation minister Amit Shah will visit Nizamabad on June 29. The official machinery and BJP leadership have made full arrangements for his arrival. He will fly in from Ahmedabad to Begumpet Airport on Sunday, then proceed by helicopter to the Integrated District Offices Complex (IDOC) in Nizamabad. At 2 pm, he will inaugurate the National Turmeric Board office in Vinayaknagar and address the board's meeting at Baswa Garden. Afterwards, he will travel to the Kantesh...Read More
Kolkata, Jun 28 (PTI) CCTV camera footage obtained from South Calcutta Law College has corroborated the gangrape allegations made by a first-year student in her written complaint to police, an investigating officer said on Saturday. The footage, spanning over seven hours -- from 3.30 PM to 10.50 PM on June 25 -- captured movements around the college premises, including the victim being forced into the guard's room. "The CCTV footage confirms the girl's allegations. It shows the movements of th...Read More
Kolkata gangrape case: Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra on Saturday said that the gangrape incident in Kolkata has sent a message to girls that they should not go to their college if it's closed and someone is calling them to offer them a position in the student unit. A female student was allegedly gang-raped inside the South Calcutta Law College in Kolkata's Kasba on Wednesday, June 25. "This incident has sent a message to girls that if someone calls you when the college is closed offeri...Read More
Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) found ₹9.35 lakhs cash in Jhalawar Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jagram Meena's vehicle at Shivdaspura Toll, Jaipur. A statement by the Rajasthan ACB said that on the orders of the Rajasthan ACB Headquarters, a vehicle of Jhalawar Additional SP Jagram Meena was checked by the ACB team at Shivdaspura Toll. ₹9.35 Lakhs were found in his vehicle in the surprise check. More details are awaited in the case. Meanwhile, according to a press release ...Read More
The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) uncovered Rs 9.35 lakhs in cash from a Jhalawar police vehicle. In related actions, two individuals were arrested in Sawai Madhopur for bribery and former Delhi Health Ministers are under investigation for corruption in health projects. The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has unearthed a significant sum of Rs 9.35 lakhs in cash from the vehicle of Jhalawar Additional Superintendent of Police, Jagram Meena, during a routine check at Shivdaspura T...Read More
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 28 (ANI): Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) found Rs 9.35 lakhs cash in Jhalawar Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Jagram Meena's vehicle at Shivdaspura Toll, Jaipur. A statement by the Rajasthan ACB said that on the orders of the Rajasthan ACB Headquarters, a vehicle of Jhalawar Additional SP Jagram Meena was checked by the ACB team at Shivdaspura Toll. Rs 9.35 Lakhs were found in his vehicle in the surprise check. Also Read | Maharashtra Deputy C...Read More
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): In a continuing crackdown under Operation Chakra-V, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted coordinated search operations at multiple locations in Ahmedabad and Mumbai on June 25 in connection with a transnational cyber extortion case, the probe agency said on Friday. CBI said that the searches led to the recovery of incriminating evidence. The main suspect behind a transnational cyber extortion syndicate was arrested on June 26 in Mumbai. Also Rea...Read More
New Delhi: The Commission on Air Quality Management, in a joint conference on Friday, confirmed that end-of-life (EOL) vehicles would be denied fuel in Delhi from July 1. Not only that, such vehicles would be impounded on the spot and taken for scrapping. The press conference was also addressed by officials of Delhi govt's transport department and Delhi Traffic Police, who said that they had identified hotspots where most EOL vehicles still operated.The officials said that between June 1 and 23,...Read More
Kolkata: A law student of a south Kolkata college was allegedly gang-raped at the campus security guards' room on Wednesday evening after being offered a key union post.Cops arrested three persons -- college alumnus and ad-hoc staff Manojit Mishra and current students Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed -- after a medical test on the survivor corroborated her complaint. Mishra was thrown out of the college's Trinamool unit in 2021 and graduated in 2022, after which he started practising law. He, how...Read More
Lucknow: In preparation for Muharram, which will be observed across Uttar Pradesh from June 27 to July 6, Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Krishna has issued detailed instructions to maintain law and order. Officials across all districts have been directed to ensure peaceful conduct of events and remain on heightened alert throughout the period. Through a video conference with zonal ADGs, IGs, police commissioners, DIGs, SSPs, and SPs, the DGP instructed that processions will follow pre-...Read More
Mumbai, June 27 (UNI) An escalating controversy surrounds Italian luxury house Prada following its presentation of sandals strikingly similar to traditional Kolhapuri chappals in its Men's Spring Collection at Milan Fashion Week. The dispute, now a significant issue in Maharashtra, centres on Prada marketing the design for 1.2 lakh rupees without acknowledging its Indian origin, the artisans, or its deep cultural significance. The Kolhapuri chappal, granted Geographical Indication (GI) status ...Read More
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of the gang-rape of a female student at a South Kolkata law college. Expressing serious concern, the NCW Chairperson has written to the Kolkata Police Commissioner, demanding an immediate and time-bound investigation under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The commission emphasized the need for swift justice and stringent action against the accused....Read More
Kolkata, June 27: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognizance of the rape of a law college student within her college premises on Wednesday night, in which three persons including a former and two present students of the same college have been arrested. In a statement issued on Friday, the NCW has also sought a report from the Commissioner of Police (CP), Kolkata, Manoj Kumar Verma, on the matter and directed the latter to send the report to the commission within the n...Read More
Bengaluru Man Viral Video: A shocking scene unfolded outside the Embassy Apartments on Ali Askar Road in Bengaluru, where a young man suffered serious injuries after falling from a jackfruit tree near the Police Commissioner's office. The entire incident has now gone viral. Eyewitnesses say the youth had climbed the tall tree, possibly under the influence of alcohol, to pluck jackfruits. A nearby security guard spotted him and raised an alarm. As the man panicked and tried to escape, he ended up...Read More
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], June 27 (ANI): Ahmedabad Police Commissioner GS Malik visited the command and control room on Friday to oversee security arrangements for the 148th edition of the Jagannath Rath Yatra, which is being organised in Ahmedabad and is the longest in the country. According to GS Malik, the Rath Yatra began in the morning, and he monitored the AI system in the control room, which receives feeds from drones and static CCTV cameras. Also Read | Surendra Dubey Dies: Noted Hi...Read More