Sunday 11 October '09
Maharashtra’s Force One, the first state-level police SWAT team and the first urban terrorism combat squad in the country, has been undergoing intensive training since March. The Sunday Express visits the force’s training facility in Pune, where 211 of the toughest men in Maharashtra’s police force are waiting to be deployed....Thursday 8 October '09
With Assembly elections round the corner, the police have reduced or withdrawn the security of some ministers and public figures with a threat perception, apparently because they were not entitled to it.Monday
5 October '09A photograph speaks a thousand words. This is a thought Kalidas Kolamkar, a career politician and now a Congress candidate, endorses.Sunday
4 October '09When Amravati-based Alok Mishra visits his home town Jhansi, he ensures that he meets his great grandfather Thakurdas Swadeen’s friends and followers.Wednesday
30 September '09The Mumbai Police on Tuesday launched two more bulletproof boats — Koyna and Kaveri — touted to “be the fastest high-speed interceptor boats in Indian waters” at the Gateway of India.Tuesday
29 September '0911 have been arrested in the Malegaon case, among others, a sadhvi — Pragyasingh Thakur — and an Army officer — Lt Col Prasad Purohit.Tuesday
29 September '09For Central security agencies and anti-Naxal sleuths Kobad Ghandy may have been a relatively new face, but the Naxalite ideologue’s name...Tuesday
29 September '09For central security agencies and anti-Naxal sleuths last Monday’s “big catch” Kobad Ghandy may have been a relatively new face dodging them since the late 1980s but the name had made it to the police records in Mumbai much earlier, in 1975, months before emergency was declared.Wednesday
23 September '09When lawyer and rights activist Shakil Ahmed filed his nomination for Assembly polls from Sion-Koliwada, he said he hoped to bring...Wednesday
23 September '09Lawyer and rights activist Shakil Ahmed has always fought for causes and an ideology he believes in.Friday
18 September '09The zonal anti-corruption bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation has forwarded a list of 33 officers in the ranks of sub inspector and inspector for deputation in CBI units across the state to Director General of Police SS Virk.Monday
14 September '09The Force One training facility at Pune has completed grooming its first batch of quick responders, comprising 60 commandos from Mumbai and 30 from Pune.Friday
21 August '09The Mumbai unit of the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Bureau is said to have received two new complaints that Sarabjot Singh....Wednesday
19 August '09Leena Ganguly lives in Thane and works in Mandir Bazar; her cellphone was stolen on a train and the initial complaint was lodged with the railway police at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus...Sunday
16 August '09Somewhere in the noisy lanes of Dhobi Talao stands a picturesque shop; a little old fashioned, with a small cosy bench, and loads of memories.Thursday
13 August '09The Mumbai Police have decided to stock and supply masks and eucalyptus oil to its personnel as a preventive measure against swine flu.Monday
3 August '09The municipal workers lament that their plight, which is at the root of the alleged scam by Buta's son, has been ignored amid the frenzy over the latest political scandal.Saturday
1 August '09Eight months after the 26/11 terror attack exposed the disarray in the Mumbai Police despite a clearly laid out Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Maharashtra has revised the guidelines.Tuesday
28 July '09A meeting will be held by top state home ministry officials on Tuesday to take a decision on the land proposed to be allocated to Force One...Monday
27 July '09Long before T20 became so popular, a doctor in the Mumbai suburbs had already introduced the concept to the medical fraternity, as early as in the 1980s, although for different reasons.Sunday
26 July '09Commandos of Force One, the state’s first responders to terror...Sunday
12 July '09The state’s first responders in the event of another terror attack, Force One, have reached the final level of their training.Wednesday
1 July '09Force One-the state equivalent of the National Security Guard-will be ready and fully operational by August...Monday
29 June '09Home Minister Jayant Patil has become the latest to press for the return of the mounted police, once the backbone of policing in the city.Saturday
20 June '09A little common sense and some cyber-crime investigation helped the Powai police nab a hacker with the assistance of the Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS).
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