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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicPolice Commissioner

Topic: Police Commissioner

26/11 investigator, Fadnavis’s favourite cop & now Mumbai Police chief, who is Deven Bharti

The high profile IPS officer has had several key postings in Mumbai, but has also been embroiled in multiple controversies.

Khaki to khadi: Arup Patnaik to Bhaskar Rao, police commissioners who tried their luck in polls

Though many former IPS officers have tried luck in polls, the numbers are relatively less when it comes to police commissioners taking this route. BJD's Arup Patnaik is one of them.

Row over Mumbai Police’s 1st special commissioner — ‘Fadnavis’s blue-eyed boy’

Opposition says by creating new post & appointing Deven Bharti, BJP wants to create 'dual power structure' within police force. Deputy CM, however, says it's like 'adding missing link'.

Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh transferred days after Sachin Waze arrest

Maharashtra govt appointed IPS officer Hemant Nagrale to the post of Mumbai police commissioner. Param Bir Singh will take charge of Home Guards.

Don’t laud UP police commissionerates yet. You can’t be judge, jury, executioner: IAS officer

The Uttar Pradesh govt implemented the Commissionerate system in Lucknow and Noida earlier this year, but touting its success misses the bigger picture.

‘Leaked tapes’ of Karnataka IPS officer, murky power deal — scandal hits Yediyurappa govt

The clips, in which police chief Bhaskar Rao is purportedly talking to a power broker, have renewed allegations of political appointments in the police.

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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.