All Gujarat police stations to be networked by year-end

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four people accused of robbing a jeweller in Gujarat have been arrested by Delhi Police and 2.7 kg of gold jewellery worth about Rs.5 million has been recovered from them, police said Friday. "Bhagya Narain Mahto and Sunil Mahto were arrested from near New Delhi Railway Station Thursday while they were planning to escape.

September 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 22 new police stations in the capital, sanctioned by the home ministry recently, will be operational by Sep 21 to "reduce response time and simplify the police-public ratio" in the city that has been under threat from terrorists, police chief Y.S. Dadwal said Thursday.

September 3rd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Central intelligence agencies have cautioned Gujarat about an attempt by members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) to regroup with a different name in the state, an official said here Thursday. "We have intelligence information on SIMI activists regrouping in Gujarat, particularly in south Gujarat, under the name of 'Wahadat-e-Islami'.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The capital will soon have 29 more police stations and 6,478 additional policemen, as the central government took note of threat perceptions and growing needs of the city. I am glad to inform you that taking note of the growing needs of the metropolitan city of Delhi, the central government has sanctioned additional manpower of 6,478 policemen at a cost of Rs.199 crore per annum, Home Minister P.

August 13th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat Government on Thursday set up a three members committee to probe the killing of Ishrat Jahan in an alleged fake encounter. The Modi Government took the decision following instructions given by the Gujarat High Court.

August 2nd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - To probe the alleged nexus between bootleggers and police, the Gujarat government has ordered scrutiny of the service records of the cops allegedly linked to the illicit liquor deaths in the state last month. The scrutiny is being carried out to know if these policemen were earlier posted in any other area in Gujarat where cases against bootleggers had been filed previously.

July 28th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat assembly Tuesday passed the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (GUJCOC) bill, which had been returned three times by the central government. The GUJCOC bill was passed with only a minor amendment, of adding the word "terrorism" instead of "organised crime" throughout the bill as the Gujarat government does not have a single law exclusively to deal with terrorist activities.

July 20th, 2009 SURAT - The Gujarat government Monday launched a website dedicated to the total solar eclipse of July 22, an official here said. The state government launched the website solareclipsesurat.in jointly with the Surat Municipal Corporation and the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

July 11th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas Saturday rebuked liquor baron Vijay Mallya who had suggested the state review its prohibition policy after illicit liquor claimed at least 136 lives in Ahmedabad this week. "This is an internal matter of the Gujarat government and Mr.

June 26th, 2009 PORBANDER - The Gujarat Marine Police recovered three unidentified bodies on a boat off this Gujarat port Friday, an official said. The boat also bore no markings.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's 14,000 police stations will be linked via a cyber highway to improve connectivity and increase crime fighting abilities through an ambitious Rs.2,000 crore three-year project that received a cabinet panel's approval Friday. The project aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the police station level through adoption of e-governance, and creation of a nationwide networked infrastructure for an IT-enabled state-of-the-art tracking system for investigation of crime and detection of criminals in real time, Home Minister P.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police have registered a case of cheating against a quack, arrested in Ahmedabad for allegedly duping people to the tune of millions of rupees, as complaints of cheating poured in from across the national capital too. The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police's Crime Branch is investigating the matter.

June 3rd, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government will recruit about 50 intelligence officers for counter-terrorism operations, state Director General of Police S.S. Khandwawala said Wednesday.

April 9th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat has sought more paramilitary forces for poll duty, pointing out that the state has been on the terror map, an official said here Thursday. 'As of now, the central government has allotted 100 companies of paramilitary forces for poll duty in Gujarat against the state government's demand for 375 companies considering that Gujarat is a potential terrorist target,' the senior home department official told IANS.

January 30th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government will increase the number of compressed natural gas (CNG) stations in the state to 300 from the present 120 as part of its initiatives to promote clean fuel, Minister of State for Energy and Petrochemicals Saurabh Patel said here Saturday. Speaking at the concluding day of the 'Oil and Gas Conservation Fortnight' (OGCF-2009) campaign, Patel said: 'Eco-friendliness of natural gas is beyond doubt.