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TopicMaharashtra Police

Topic: Maharashtra Police

Educated, tech savvy & in running to lead Maoists. Why Mallojula Venugopal Rao surrender matters

Belonging to Telangana's Karimnagar district, he is one of most educated & technologically competent among contenders for top post. Maoist leader faces 26 cases in three states.

Maharashtra Police places order for US-made sniper rifles even as MHA recommends ‘Make in India’

New Delhi: The Maharashtra Police placed an order last week for 15 US-made Barrett Multi-role Adaptive Design (MRAD) sniper rifles and related accessories worth...

SC slams Maharashtra cops, orders SIT in Akola riots witness assault. What it said on ‘bias in uniform’

SIT to comprise policemen from both Hindu & Muslim communities, rules top court. Order came on plea of 17-yr-old, who witnessed a murder & was assaulted, said police didn’t register FIR.

What Panvel court said while handing life sentence to decorated cop for murder of lady cop

Abhay Kurundkar received the President’s medal for meritorious service on Republic Day, 2017, after the murder of woman inspector Ashwini Bidre-Gore.

Woman with US passport found chained to tree in Maharashtra jungle, shifted to Goa for treatment

A shepherd heard the woman's cries & alerted police. Aadhaar card with Tamil Nadu address & note mentioning 'former husband' also found in her possession.

‘Upright’, 26/11 hero & expert from terror to financial fraud: Who is Sadanand Date, new chief of NIA

From battling terrorists in Mumbai to cracking high-profile cases like Telgi scam and the Shakti Mills gangrape, IPS officer Date is known among his colleagues as an ‘all-rounder’.

9 killed, 3 critically injured in blast at explosives factory in Nagpur

Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis tweeted about the accident and said the state government will provide an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the families of the deceased in the blast.

Clicking photos of police station doesn’t violate Official Secrets Act: Bombay High Court

Solapur man was booked under Official Secrets Act for clicking photo of police station. HC said cops invoking section 3 of OSA without ‘application of mind’ is a ‘serious concern’.

From Param Bir to Sanjay Pandey — the sorry story of the ‘rot’ in Maharashtra Police

2 outgoing Mumbai Police chiefs — Param Bir Singh & Sanjay Pandey — ADG-rank officer Rashmi Shukla & deputy commissioner Saurabh Tripathi, are among officers being probed for offences.

Maharashtra police summons Nupur Sharma on 22 June over derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad

An FIR has been registered against the former BJP spokesperson in the state following her controversial comments during a television debate.

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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.