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MUMBAI/THANE/NAVI MUMBAI: The city police have geared up for Thursday's Ganeshotsav bandobast. Nearly 20,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city, including eight additional police commissioners, 25 deputy police commissioners, 45 assistant police commissioners, 2,866 officers and 16,250 constables. A total of 35 platoons of State Reserve Police force (SRPF), Rapid Action Force (RAF), Quick...

MUMBAI/THANE/NAVI MUMBAI: The city police have geared up for Thursday's Ganeshotsav bandobast. Nearly 20,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city, including eight additional police commissioners, 25 deputy police commissioners, 45 assistant police commissioners, 2,866 officers and 16,250 constables. A total of 35 platoons of State Reserve Police force (SRPF), Rapid Action Force (RAF), Quick...

PALGHAR: Police were rushed to tackle chaos at a hospital in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Saturday after an injured teen, who apparently tripped trying to escape cops, was declared dead, an official said on Saturday.The police asserted that Vinod Bhoir (18) likely experienced a heart attack while attempting to flee, leading to his demise. However, the family members of the young...

KALYAN: The Mahatma Phule police have served a notice to Ganesh mandal run by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vijay Salvi for targeting the Central government through its decoration.The mandal's theme this year is 'Democracy is at peril' where it has shown that the Centre has captured all the four pillars of democracy. The mandal called Vijay Tarun Mitra Mandal is celebrating its 60 years. Last year, the cops...

NOIDA: A 17-year-old boy who allegedly fell from his apartment on the 24th floor of a building in a group housing society in UP's Noida died on Tuesday, police said. The police suspect the incident, which took place in Gaur Saundaryam society in the Bisrakh area of Greater Noida, to be a case of suicide."Around 6.30 am on Tuesday, a supervisor of the housing society alerted the police that a 17-year-old...

KOLKATA: The city cops on Thursday evening arrested an 11-member team of fraudsters from Jamtara after KKR's home match at Eden Gardens. The men, all sporting KKR jerseys, were seated in the G-block stand when they were spotted by detective department officers deployed there. The sleuths followed them after the match and arrested them when they reached their hotel.The accused are part of a gang that has...

COIMBATORE: Around 2,000 police personnel would be deployed from Masinagudi to Theppakadu on April 9 to provide security for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Theppakadu elephant camp in the Nilgiris to honour mahout Bomman and his wife Bellie, heroes of Oscar-winning short documentary film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’.The 7km stretch, which is situated at the trijunction of Tamil Nadu,...

RISHRA: An uneasy calm prevailed in the area near Rail Gate 4 at Rishra on Tuesday. Shops downed shutters and empty roads bore telltale signs of Monday night's flare-up - stones, shreds of broken bottles and remains of a half-charred police van. Cops have by far outnumbered locals on the road, exercising Section 144 CrPC. Police arrested 50 people since Monday - 38 of them on Tuesday. The prohibitory...

KOLKATA: The sexual assault and murder of the seven-year-old girl in Tiljala was a planned crime, with the accused, Alok Kumar Sah, having stalked the child for at least two weeks, police said. Alok had clicked her photographs and studied her movements, especially her whereabouts on weekends, the probe revealed. Cops said Alok had chosen the day of the murder carefully. "Alok Kumar Sah had been...

Performing car or bike stunts on public roads not only poses a threat to one's own life, but also puts the lives of other road users in danger. However the ever-growing need for validation on social media makes some indulge in such nuisance acts. One such incident has emerged from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, where a case as registered against a vlogger for stunting on his Kawasaki Ninja ZX10R superbike,...