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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: IPS Officer

Maharashtra’s 1st female police chief was called Jhansi ki Rani. She exposed a corrupt DIG

In this candid account of her thirty-six years in Indian law enforcement, Meeran Chadha Borwankar details the sensational cases that defined her career.

Who’s Prabhakar Chaudhary? IPS officer facing 18th transfer in 8 yrs after lathicharge on kanwariyas

Bareilly SSP Prabhakar Chaudhary was transferred hours after taking action against ‘unruly’ kanwariyas Sunday and terming their actions as a ‘clash of egos’.

Coimbatore DIG’s ‘suicide’ shocks Tamil Nadu, loved ones remember him as ‘positive & kind person’

Police say C Vijayakumar was suffering from 'OCD, depression', a claim dismissed by friends & colleagues. AIADMK says his alleged suicide 'raises suspicions', demands CBI probe.

‘Victims of TN custodial torture were offered bribes to retract statement against ASP’

At least five torture victims have allegedly been offered money to change their testimony against IPS officer Balveer Singh, according to a lawyer as well as one of the victims.

‘Chief justice calling’: How Bihar IPS officer ‘conned’ DGP into withdrawing liquor case

IPS Aditya Kumar has 'gone underground'. He & one Abhishek Agarwal plotted to get liquor case withdrawn, for which Agarwal called DIG posing as Bihar HC chief justice, police say.

Rags to riches — an IPS officer’s journey from police to youth icon

Published by HarperCollins India, ‘Win All Your Battle’ by Vishwas Nangre Patil will be released on 14 July on ThePrint’s SoftCover.

Senior Karnataka IPS officer Amrit Paul arrested in police recruitment scam

Commenting on the arrest of the ADGP rank officer, CM Basavaraj Bommai said the government had given a free hand to the CID and hence, they took action based on evidence.

N.C. Asthana — Retired IPS officer goes from ‘police brutality’ critic to cheerleader in 6 months

On Saturday, retired IPS officer shared purported video of Uttar Pradesh Police personnel thrashing riot accused with batons in custody, calling it a 'very beautiful scene'.   

NIA arrests gallantry awardee IPS officer for ‘leaking sensitive documents’ to Lashkar-e-Taiba

Arvind Digvijay Negi, who had served in the NIA for over a decade, was on the agency’s radar for a year and was called for questioning twice last year.

Fresh FIR lodged against ex-IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and his wife Nutan Thakur

The couple has been accused of assaulting police, obstructing govt work when security personnel went to arrest Thakur on serious charges of ‘abetting’ suicide of rape victim, friend.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.