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Cops outnumber crowds at Gateway on New Year’s Eve

Friday 2 January '09

New Year’s eve this year was bereft of the usual hum drum as several residents chose to stay indoors.
A special police station to keep tab on cyber crime

Thursday 1 January '09

This new year, even the Mumbai Police are all set to undergo a transformation. According to sources, the police department has decided to set up a new police station exclusively to tackle rising cyber crime rate in the city.
Double murder case: no background check on accused by employer

Saturday 27 December '08

The Malad police have revealed that the security agency which had hired Sanjay Mishra, who was arrested on Wednesday from Surat...
Lesson from 26/11: Pvt security guards first line of defence, not policemen

Saturday 27 December '08

The 26/11 attacks in Mumbai have highlighted the importance of private security guards, as they are the first line of defence at potential terror targets like five-star hotels...
With six break-ins in a day, robbers keep cops on toes

Friday 26 December '08

A string of robberies in the same locality on the same day has left the police baffled. The Vishnu Nagar police are conducting enquiries to trace the robbers who allegedly broke into six houses in Thakurwadi on December 15...
Computer freak arrested for helping men dupe bank

Thursday 25 December '08

The Andheri police on Tuesday arrested a youth who allegedly helped a gang of five conmen in forging documents and acquiring credit cards of a well-known bank.
Credit card frauds dupe bank of over Rs 12 lakh, 5 held

Tuesday 23 December '08

The Andheri police have arrested five persons for fraudulently procuring HDFC Bank credit cards and duping the bank for over Rs 12 lakh.
Paanwallas united... sorry, divided, by a name and a moustache

Tuesday 23 December '08

Till a few days ago, Ram Tiwari, whose father Jaishankar Tiwari owns and runs the Muchhad Paanwalla near Kemps Corner on Warden Road in south Mumbai had been under the impression that his was the only shop to cater to customers under this name.
The policeman who never retired

Monday 22 December '08

It’s been eight years since Jayant Ambaye (68) retired as Senior Administration Officer from the Mumbai Police Department.
Shiv Sena attack on lawyer willing to represent Kasab

Tuesday 16 December '08

Last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai have catapulted an unlikely person into limelight — Mukesh Deshmukh (40), a lawyer practising criminal law in Amravati for the past 10-12 years without ever holding any brief that attracted significant media attention.
Shiv Sena workers attack lawyer for agreeing to represent Kasab

Tuesday 16 December '08

Last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai have catapulted an unlikely person into limelight...
Profiles in courage

Monday 15 December '08

Rahul Shinde came from a typical farming family in a village called Mada in Maharashtra.
Only Akshay Kumar can play my role, says Girgaum encounter hero

Friday 12 December '08

Assistant Police Inspector Hemant Bawdankar does not know who ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan is, and nor did he offer the terrorists at Girgaum Chowpatty to go on, make his day.
Ill-equipped cops turn to fishermen

Thursday 11 December '08

At any point of time, the Thane rural police have just one boat to patrol 120 km of coast to patrol from Uttan near Bhayandar to Zai near Dahanu.
Armed with lathis and handguns, they saved the day

Thursday 11 December '08

For Senior Inspector Nagappa Mali from the D B Marg Police Station, November 26 was just another day. Until the news of terror attacks reached police stations across the city through the walkie-talkies and control room phones.
Peers remember cop who died at Girgaum Chowpatty encounter

Wednesday 3 December '08

“A very soft spoken man who would never raise his voice in any situation,” recalls a colleague of Assistant Police Inspector Tukaram Umble who died at the fateful day while chasing terrorists in a Skoda car.
We buy cheapest, poorest quality bullet-proof jackets, says senior cop

Wednesday 3 December '08

The bullet-proof jackets that the bravehearts of the Mumbai Police Department were wearing while confronting the terrorists, were not good enough to prevent bullets...
This Inspector died taking bullets so that terrorist Ajmal could live, and tell

Wednesday 3 December '08

Catching alive a terrorist on a suicide mission is almost impossible. The Maharashtra Police have to thank Assistant Sub-Inspector Tukaram Gopal Omble...
No bullet hit Kasab, no active treatment on, says hospital’s dean

Tuesday 2 December '08

Contrary to initial reports that Ajmal Ameer Kasab, the only Mumbai attacker captured alive, was badly wounded in the encounter and lost a lot of blood, doctors have said that’s not the case.
Attack fallout: private security meet called off

Monday 1 December '08

The Fire and Safety Association of India’s press meeting that was supposed to take place on Thursday was cancelled in the wake of the terror attack at the Oberoi...
Hours before being shot, teacher SMSed student: “I am all right. One of thousand hostages”

Sunday 30 November '08

Karan Singh, a 17-year-old student, is perhaps the last to have spoken to Roopinder Randhawa or Ruby maam — as she was fondly known to her students — before she was killed by terrorists inside the Taj Hotel in the wee hours of Thursday.
‘When told to stop, they turned on full beam, wipers’

Sunday 30 November '08

If one incident did not go according to plan in the otherwise ruthlessly executed Mumbai blasts...
Colleagues remember braveheart Shashank Shinde

Saturday 29 November '08

Hardworking and sincere, that’s how most people, including former Deputy Commissioner of Police (Government Railway Police) Ramrao Pawar, describe Railway Police Inspector Shashank Shinde...
50 hours on at Taj, they still waited for

Saturday 29 November '08

There was a sense of obvious anticipation among the crowd of mediapersons, policemen and firefighters camping outside Taj Hotel.
Vandalised Bhayander church keeps the faith, to resume mass today

Sunday 23 November '08

A week after the prayer meet at the Hebron Prayer Hall of the Church of God in Bhayandar was vandalised during which the pastor was seriously injured...
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