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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: Mumbai Police

Senior IPS officer Vivek Phansalkar takes charge as new Mumbai police commissioner

The officer’s appointment to the top post was announced by the Maharashtra home dept Wednesday. Phansalkar succeeded Sanjay Pandey, who retired from service.

Recce done before threat letter sent to Salman Khan, father, says Mumbai Police

Police suspect hand of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi; top officer meets state home minister on Tuesday to discuss way ahead.

Accused of mistreatment by MP Rana, Mumbai Police release video of her sipping tea at station

MP Navneet Rana arrested with MLA husband Ravi Rana Saturday. She wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla complaining about treatment in custody. MVA govt & Mumbai Police deny allegations. 

Mumbai police arrest MP Navneet Rana, her husband for ‘creating enmity’ between groups

The development came hours after the couple cancelled their plan to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence 'Matoshree'.

‘Who’ll probe murky affairs between echelons of power?’ Why SC handed Param Bir case to CBI

Supreme Court Thursday transferred all 5 FIRs against former Mumbai Police chief to CBI, citing need for ‘impartial inquiry’ & ‘advancement of principles of justice and fair play’.

Citizens don’t need to visit police station for passport verification: Mumbai police chief

The new order would require a constable to go to the address given by the applicant. The individual is to visit the station only in case of a discrepancy.

Bulli Bai suspects ‘idolised’ 19th-century Dogra king, discussed Chaturvarna, Mumbai Police find

Bulli Bai & Sulli Deals being investigated by Mumbai and Delhi police, both of which have filed chargesheets detailing alleged conspiracy behind portals seeking to 'auction Muslim women'.

Delhi Police file charge sheets in Sulli Deals & Bulli Bai cases, call them ‘illegal, inhuman’

Both cases refer to Muslim women, mostly from India, being put up ‘on sale’ online, seemingly in a bid to target and harass them, which had triggered outrage on social media.

Mumbai’s new police commissioner is ‘fearless’ IIT alum dubbed state govt’s ‘blue-eyed boy’ by HC

Sanjay Pandey, 59, was appointed commissioner of Mumbai Police Monday. He has earlier served as acting Maharashtra DGP, and is set to retire in June.

12th pass ‘orphan’, BCom & law students — 3 arrested in Clubhouse ‘rape threat’ case

All three were allegedly either participants, speakers or moderators of the two Clubhouse rooms in question. A fourth accused, Ritesh Jha, is 'absconding'.

On Camera

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.