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KANPUR/LUCKNOW: Asim Arun, a 1994-batch Indian Police Services (IPS) officer, who was untill Saturday holding post of Kanpur Police commissioner has resigned from services, opting for voluntary retirement scheme (VRS), to join the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh. “I feel its a matter of privilege that I have chosen to opt my rest […]

NEW DELHI:  Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday said that model code of conduct (MCC) has come into force with immediate effect as it signalled that elections in five poll-bound states Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand will be held on time. “Situation is very dynamic. Lemme article 172 (1) that every legislative […]

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: 1987-batch IPS  Viresh Kumar Bhawra, who served at key postings in Punjab and centre at Intelligence Bureau (IB), has been made the new director general police (DGP) of the state. His appointment comes at a time when Punjab is caught in a controversy over security lapse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his […]

FEROZEPUR/NEW DELHI: Barely hours before the Supreme Court was to hear a plea seeking court-monitored probe into breach involving PM Narendra Modi’s convoy on a flyover in Punjab’s border district of Ferozepur, the Channi government on Thursday registered an FIR on the incident. The FIR, however, skips any reference to presence of Modi in the […]

SHIMLA: As the threat of yet another wave of rapid spread of Covid-19 cases looms large over the country, a group of research scholars from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, have come up with some significant findings that map the spread of the virus in specific areas. According to these researchers, the spread […]