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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBhaskar Rao

Topic: Bhaskar Rao

‘AAP whimsical, don’t trust leaders’, says ex Bengaluru top cop Bhaskar Rao after switch to BJP

Rao had joined AAP in April last year, but quit Tuesday and joined BJP a day later. His exit from AAP ahead of assembly polls in Karnataka later this year being seen as blow to party.

How ex-IPS Bhaskar Rao, Chennai-born ‘Bengaluru boy’, aims to boost AAP’s Karnataka push

Bhaskar Rao joined the AAP this week after a 32-year career in IPS that saw him serve as Bengaluru Police commissioner as well as ADGP, and battle some controversy.

Bengaluru gets 3 police chiefs in 14 months — why the post is mired in controversy

Congress has accused current chief Kamal Pant of political collusion, but his predecessors Bhaskar Rao and Alok Kumar have also faced multiple accusations.

Karnataka IPS tapes: ‘Ahmed Patel said I will make him commissioner, Revanna will support’

Bengaluru Commissioner Bhaskar Rao is under the scanner for allegedly trying to get himself the job through a power broker close to Congress.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.