R. Kaushik

A local court on Wednesday granted 25 days time to the CBI to reply on a plea seeking to make former Gujarat minister Amit Shah and ex-DGP K R Kaushik accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.

The craze to watch the first show of Vijay-starrer ‘Beast’ on its release day on Wednesday cost a 21-year-old man his life, after the car he was travelling in hit a concrete slab on the road shoulder on Ukkadam-Sungam bypass road near Valankulam lake and overturned, killing him on the

Gujarat's top cops seem to have found a new calling after retirement. At least three former director generals of police have joined the country's top corporates as security advisers after retiring from government.

CBI is likely to summon former police commissioner K R Kaushik for questioning, after additional director general of police PP Pandey claimed that he had merely forwarded the input from Kaushik to his subordinates, in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.

AHMEDABAD: In view of the worsening law and order situation in Rajkot city with elections due on Thursday, the state government has posted Additional Director General of Police (CID, crime) K R Kaushik, Jamnagar SP Satish Verma and Rajkot Rural SP Ajay Tomar on election duty in Rajkot.

AHMEDABAD: In view of the worsening law and order situation in Rajkot city with elections due on Thursday, the state government has posted Additional Director General of Police (CID, crime) K R Kaushik, Jamnagar SP Satish Verma and Rajkot Rural SP Ajay Tomar on election duty in Rajkot.

AHMEDABAD: The rath yatra on July 12 will wind its way along its traditional route, which passes through some communally-sensitive areas of the city, the state government decided on Friday. Police commissioner K.R. Kaushik had earlier expressed his fears about conducting the yatra.

AHMEDABAD: Residents of Ahmedabad can now get their regular dose of bottled oxygen at major cross-roads in the city from Friday. Traffic policemen as well as general public can inhale oxygen at oxygen bars.

A complaint was filed in the city crime branch against 17 policemen for killing a bicycle thief, Sadiq Jamal Mehtar of Bhavnagar, in 2003 by branding him a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative who had come to kill chief minister Narendra Modi.

AHMEDABAD: Security was tightened at the US visa application centre here on Friday soon after chief minister Narendra Modi's press conference where he condemned the decision of the Bush government to deny him a visa.

After cracking the whip against senior police officials said to be close to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the EC ordered appointment of K R Kaushik as the new state police chief.

AHMEDABAD: Following directives from the Election Commission, the commissioner of police K R Kaushik, transferred B R Patel, senior police inspector of Amraiwadi police station, on Thursday.

Pande had been removed from the post by Election Commission, just prior to the state assembly elections. KR Kaushik, who was the director of Anti-Corruption Bureau, had replaced Pande.

Pankaj Tripathi's daughter Aashi Tripathi has stepped into the world of showbiz with her maiden music video titled "Rang Daaro." The acclaimed actor said that it was an emotional moment for him and his wife, Mridula, to see their child on-screen.

AHMEDABAD: PI of Kalupur police station B R Patel has been placed under suspension on charges of insubordination. Orders to this effect were passed by the police commissionerate on Monday night.

AHMEDABAD: The Kalupur police have lodged two cases in connection with Sunday night's violence in the area that left one person dead and five injured.

AHMEDABAD: Commissioner of police K R Kaushik effected the transfer of 10 police inspectors in the city on Saturday.

AHMEDABAD: Some more heads may roll in the city police ranks for not having taken the Bijal Joshi's gang rape case seriously.

AHMEDABAD: An all religion meeting, presided over by Jain religious leader Acharya Mahapragya, on Saturday adopted a resolution appealing to all sections of the people to maintain peace and harmony during the annual Rathyatra to be taken out in the city on July 12.

AHMEDABAD: Separate polling booths would be set up for the people of minority community in some riot-affected localities of the city for maintaining peace during the coming assembly elections in Gujarat, a top police official has said.

Here's a look at the festive platters that are prepared

AHMEDABAD: As many as 101 more couples would enter wedlock at a glittering ceremony to be held at Dariakhan Gummat relief camp on Sunday.

The accused cops in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case submitted before the special CBI court on Tuesday that certain pages were found missing in six of the important witness statements in the copy of chargesheet served on them last week.

AHMEDABAD: A habeas corpus petition was filed in the Gujarat High Court on Friday which has CP K R Kaushik, joint CP (crime) P P Pandey and three PIs of the crime branch as the respondents.

AHMEDABAD: Huge voter turnout was reported in all the 2,193 gram panchayats which went to the polls on Sunday.