Bhubaneswar, Jul 17 (PTI) Normal life came to a standstill in Odisha on Thursday as opposition Congress and seven other political parties enforced a 12-hour bandh over the death of a college student who set herself on fire after being denied justice in an alleged sexual harassment incident. Though over six hours had passed since the strike began, there were no reports of violence or untoward incidents from any part of the state, a senior home department official said, adding that the bandh has ...Read More
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]July 17 (ANI): A FIR has been filed at the Bharathi Nagar Police Station implicating BJP MLA Byrati Basavaraj as the fifth accused (A5) in the murder case of Shivaprakash, also known as Biklu Shiva, a known rowdy-sheeter in Bengaluru's East Division. The incident occurred near Halasur Lake on Tuesday night, where 40-year-old Shivaprakash was attacked and killed by a group of assailants wielding sharp weapons. The assailants reportedly arrived in a car and launched a...Read More
BENGALURU: In a major reshuffle in the police department, 35 IPS officers were transferred on Monday. As proposed earlier, Bengaluru has got three new divisions (Law & Order) -- Electronics City, South West and North West Divisions. Uttara Kannada SP Narayana M has been appointed as DCP, Electronics City, while Anita Bhimappa Haddannavar and Nagesh DL have been posted as DCPs of South West and North West Divisions, respectively. DCPs of eight other divisions in Bengaluru city have also been cha...Read More
All three have been arrested and were produced in court. ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * After one of the teachers raped the student, the others blackmailed her and sexually assaulted her as well * All three have been arrested and were produced in court * A complaint was filed after the college student confided in her parents Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Bengaluru: Two teachers and their friend have been arrested for raping a college student in Benga...Read More
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued the order transferring Dr Sagar Preet Hooda from New Delhi to Chandigarh. Dr Sagar Preet Hooda was appointed as the director general of police (DGP) of the Union Territory of Chandigarh Tuesday. He is an Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1997 batch. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued an order transferring him from New Delhi to Chandigarh, effective immediately. Currently, I...Read More
Bengaluru: Karnataka State Women's Commission chairperson Nagalakshmi Choudhary has urged chief minister Siddaramaiah to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to probe decades-old allegations of disappearances, unnatural deaths, and sexual assaults of women in Dharmasthala, a major temple town in Dakshina Kannada district.In a letter on Monday, Choudhary wrote, "The Commission has taken serious note of reports aired by some media outlets on July 12, 2025, which included claims about the ...Read More
Bengaluru: A physics lecturer from a private college in Dakshina Kannada and two of his friends have been arrested by Bengaluru police for allegedly blackmailing and raping a student.When the mental torture by the trio became intolerable, the girl narrated to her parents how she was being exploited. Subsequently, she went to Marathahalli police station along with her parents on July 5 and lodged a complaint seeking action against the perpetrators. Acting swiftly, the cops arrested the trio the f...Read More
The Karnataka government transferred 35 IPS officers, replacing heads of the Bengaluru crime branch and the traffic police department, on July 14. Karthik Reddy replaces M.N. Anucheth as Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Bengaluru. Mr. Anucheth has been posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police, Recruitment. Ajay Hilori, Deputy Inspector General of Police, North Eastern Range, Kalaburagi, has been transferred and posted as Deputy Inspector General of Police and Joint Commissioner of Po...Read More
Bengaluru: In a major reshuffle, the govt Tuesday transferred 35 IPS officers, including Bengaluru traffic police chief MN Anucheth. IPS officer Karthik Reddy was appointed joint commissioner of police (traffic), Bengaluru city. Anucheth was posted as deputy inspector general of police (DIGP, recruitment). Some of the officers transferred and their new postings are: Chandragupta (IGP, north-eastern range, Kalaburagi); Ajay Hilori (joint commissioner of police, CCB, Bengaluru city); Ida Martin Ma...Read More
BENGALURU: Bengaluru city police arrested a person on charge of threatening a plywood trader to abduct his son and demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore from him, besides, three gangsters hired by him to execute the crime have also been arrested from Meerut of Uttar Pradesh. The plywood trader is residing at an apartment in Nehru Nagar under Sheshadripuram police station limits. After the arrests, the trader has been provided police security. On July 8, the plywood trader, whose identity was not dis...Read More
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], July 15 (ANI): The Golden Temple in Punjab Amritsar received another bomb threat on Tuesday. The dog squad has been deployed at the Golden Temple premises as part of a security check. The holy site for Sikhs received a bomb threat via e-mail for the second consecutive day. Pratap Singh, Secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), demanded strict action against the miscreants. Pratap Singh told reporters, Golden Temple is the centre of faith of t...Read More
Amritsar: Security has been ramped up at the Golden Temple complex following a bomb threat received via email by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The email, which warned of explosives planted within the temple premises, has prompted immediate and coordinated action from both SGPC officials and Punjab Police. Threat email mentions RDX, prompts urgent action SGPC Chief Secretary Kulwant Singh Mannan confirmed that the threatening email mentioned the presence of RDX and potenti...Read More
Kolkata: Three more persons were arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of Trinamool functionary Razzak Khan in Bhangar, bringing the total number of arrests to four. All three men were sharpshooters who carried out the murder under instructions from Mofazzel Molla, claimed local sources.Joint commissioner of police (crime & traffic) Rupesh Kumar announced the arrests of Azharuddin Molla, 25, Jahan Ali Khan, 50 and Raju Molla, 26, all residents of Bijoygarh Bazar in Bhangar. Earlier on...Read More
Lucknow, Jul 14 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said the state's health services must be made future-ready to keep pace with global advancements and effectively respond to emerging challenges. He was speaking at the foundation stone laying and inauguration ceremony of various health projects worth Rs 1,000 crore at King George's Medical University (KGMU) here. Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the Health portfolio, and Medical Education Minister ...Read More
Amritsar, Jul 14 (PTI) The SGPC on Monday received an email threatening to "blow up" the Golden Temple, prompting authorities to beef up police deployment around the gurdwara, officials said. A bomb disposal squad was pressed into service, they said. Amritsar Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, while confirming the email threat, said an FIR has been lodged on the complaint of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC). The email received by the SGPC mentioned that the Golden T...Read More
Amritsar, Jul 14 (PTI) The SGPC on Monday received an email threatening to "blow up" the Golden Temple, prompting authorities to beef up police deployment around the gurdwara, officials said. A bomb disposal squad was pressed into service, they said. Also Read | Donald Trump Threatens 100% Secondary Tariffs on Countries Buying Oil, Gas and Uranium From Russia; India Could Be Collateral Victim. Amritsar Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, while confirming the email threat, said an FIR ...Read More
SHIVAMOGGA: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to inaugurate the bridge across Sharavathi backwaters between Ambargodlu and Kalasavalli on National Highway 369E on Monday. The much-anticipated cable-stayed bridge over the Sharavathi backwaters is the longest in the state and second longest in the country, stretching 2.44 km. Built at Rs 472 crore, it will improve connectivity to several villages in Sagar and Hosanagara taluks, as well as to popular temples...Read More
NEW DELHI: An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. The driver, Kusum Pal, fr...Read More
Varanasi: A dedicated corridor between Prayagraj and Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi was created by reserving one lane of the Prayagraj-Varanasi national highway and internal roads of the city to facilitate movement of kanwariyas, with the auspicious month of Shrawan commencing on Friday.After ensuring enforcement of traffic diversions and briefing the police and paramilitary forces deployed for Shrawan security and crowd regulation exercises, police commissioner Mohit Agrawal said on Thursday...Read More
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): A day after political leaders raised concerns over glass pieces allegedly scattered along the Kanwar Yatra route in Shahdra District Dilshad Garden, Delhi Police on Sunday traced the source of the broken glass and detained an e-rickshaw driver in connection with the incident. Police said that an FIR was registered at PS Seemapuri based on a complaint from the Public Works Department (PWD), after a video showing broken glass pieces on the road near Chintamani Ch...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. Also Read | ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) An e-rickshaw driver has been detained after glass panels being transported on his vehicle shattered and scattered along a stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route in Delhi's Shahdara, police said on Sunday. The e-rickshaw was carrying 19 glass panels from Shalimar Garden in Uttar Pradesh to Seelampur in Delhi when it was allegedly hit from behind, leading to the panels breaking and falling on the road between Chintamani Chowk and Jhilmil Metro Station, they said. The driver, ...Read More
KOLKATA: A nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed by the Kolkata Police on Saturday to investigate the alleged incident of rape by a second-year student of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) on its campus. The West Bengal Commission for Women (WBCW) has also taken suo motu cognisance of the incident. WBCW Chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay said that they had filed a suo motu case on Friday in connection with the IIM-C incident. "We are trying to talk to the victim ...Read More
Siddipet: A man allegedly murdered his Aunt and tried to cover up the crime as an accident for claiming insurance money in Telangana's Siddipet under Thoguta police station jurisdiction, stated Police officials on Saturday. The accused confessed to Police that he was inspired by Drishyam movie to cover up the crime. Briefing to the media, Siddipet Commissioner of Police B Anuradha said that T Venkatesh (32), a resident of Pedda Masanpalli village in Thoguta mandal, had taken multiple insurance ...Read More
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City Police have arrested a doctor in connection with a drug peddling case, making it the ninth arrest in an ongoing investigation into a local narcotics supply network, officials said on Saturday. City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy identified the accused as Prajwal Peenyas, a native of Mangalapet in Bidar district and currently residing in Kodipalya, Kengeri, Bengaluru. He was previously a medical student at a private college in Mangaluru and had three drug-relat...Read More
Srinagar- To the world, he may be seen as extraordinarily lucky. But to 40-year-old Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of the Air India crash on June 12, survival has come at an unbearable cost. Vishwas, an Indian-origin British national, was the only person to walk away alive after Flight AI171, a London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. The crash claimed the lives of 241 passengers and crew membe...Read More
New Delhi: A speeding Audi car injured over five people sleeping on the pavement in southwest Delhi's Vasant Vihar early this week. Among the injured is an eight-year-old girl, who, along with another victim, is in critical condition. Police arrested the driver, a property dealer who was allegedly intoxicated at the time of the accident.The victims, all originally from Rajasthan, have been identified as Ladhi (40), Bimla (8), Sabami alias Chirama (45), Narayani (35), and Ramchandra (45). They we...Read More
Chandigarh: It has been three months since the beginning of the new school session and summer break is also over. However, Class V and Class VIII students in government schools across Chandigarh are still waiting for several updated NCERT textbooks. Despite repeated assurances and advance payments by the education department, the books are yet to arrive in many schools, forcing teachers and students to rely on stopgap arrangements.This delay is not new to the city's school system. In March-April...Read More
New Delhi: Compared with last year, murders rose by 4% this year between Jan and June, according to Delhi Police, though the crime data for the period showed that overall, there was a decrease of 8.4% in criminal cases.The data listed 250 murders in the current year, marking a slight increase compared with the 241 murders in the first six months of the previous year. A senior officer disclosed that the majority of this year's murders were unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment actions, triggered by ...Read More
Mangaluru (Karnataka), Jul 12 (PTI): Mangaluru City Police have arrested a doctor in connection with a drug peddling case, making it the ninth arrest in an ongoing investigation into a local narcotics supply network, officials said on Saturday. City Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy identified the accused as Prajwal Peenyas, a native of Mangalapet in Bidar district and currently residing in Kodipalya, Kengeri, Bengaluru. He was previously a medical student at a private college in Mangalu...Read More