Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government announced fresh transfers and promotions of IPS and SPS officers on Saturday. A total of 57 transfers and 20 promotions have been announced in Indian Police Services and State Police Services (IPS/SPS). Panna Momaya, DCP Zone 4, Surat city, has been transferred as DCP Zone 4, Vadodara city. Vidhi Chaudhary, DCP-Zone...

New Delhi: The central government has removed the 4% quota for jobs for differently abled persons in IPS, Railway Protection Force and others. This will also be applicable for police forces in Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli. In a gazette notification, the Centre exempted all these services from...

Amitabh Thakur, a former Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer who has given premature retirement, will be contesting the Assembly polls in the state due next year against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The announcement in this regard was made by the former cop’s wife Nutan, saying that it is fight for “principles” for Amitabh. The former...

He was a 1984 batch officer Ahmedabad: Retired IPS officer Tirth Raj breathed his last in Ahmedabad early on Wednesday morning. The 62-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest which resulted in his death. Born on 1959, Tirth Raj was a 1984 batch IPS officer. He had a master’s degree in economics from Delhi. His last posting...

Total indented vacancies: 927 Total candidates recommended for civil services: 829 Social media users alleged that less number of candidates were recommended for civil services by the UPSC as against the vacancies indented by the government. Following a controversy over less number of candidates being recommended for civil services, UPSC has issued a clarification terming...

Kartik Jivani attempted the UPSC exams thrice, and topped in Gujarat twice. In 2019, he was one mark and two ranks short of making it to the IAS. He decided to attempt it a third time despite making it as an IPS officer Surat’s Kartik Jivani an IPS officer under training has topped the UPSC...

Four Gujarat-cadre Additional Director General (ADG) rank IPS officers are likely to be promoted to Director General (DG) rank by July-end. The Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) of the home ministry has cleared the name of the officers of the 1986 and 1987 batches on Wednesday. Three posts in the DG Rank are vacant in the...

The new Porbandar SP, Ravi Mohan Saini, who was earlier posted as the Rajkot Zone -1 Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) also happens to be a former Kaun Banega Crorepati winner who aced the quiz show and pocketed a cool Rs1 crore at the age of just 14 years, local media reports said. Saini had...

Anil Pushpangadhan: Seventeen IPS officers in the state are still waiting for their promotion. The 2006 batch of SP rank officers and the 2016 batch of ASP rank IPS officials were supposed to be given a promotion in January this year. But almost six months into the year, the officials have still not heard anything...

The Union government on Thursday granted three months extension to Gujarat Director General of Police Shivanand Jha, who was scheduled to retire from the service on April 30. Jha is a 1983-batch Gujarat-cadre IPS officer. The extension was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, the committee said in a release. “The Appointments Committee...

Gujarat director general of police (DGP) Shivanand Jha on Wednesday warned people not to step out of their home and loiter on the streets for unnecessary reasons during the lockdown or be ready to face strict action. Jha had earlier too requested people to follow the directives issued by the government and the local authorities...

Gandhinagar: Retired DG Geeta Jhori, Gujarat’s first woman IPS officer, who raided the den of slain underworld don Abdul Latif in Popatiawadi a highly-sensitive area in Dariyapur, two years after her retirement, the state government through the Gandhinagar police headquarters has allotted her security Jawans at her Gandhinagar residence in Sector 8. Retired DG Geeta...