Riot Control Police

Riot control police is out and prohibitory orders have been imposed in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur after two groups clashed last night over the alleged desecration of a Ram Navami flag.

Fresh violence has been reported in West Bengal's Howrah which saw communal clashes during a Ram Navami procession on Thursday. The incident was reported despite heavy police deployment - including riot control force - in the area.

Several vehicles were set on fire as clashes between two groups broke out in West Bengal's Howrah amid Ram Navami celebrations today.

Mumbai police are set to deploy 11,500 security personnel along the State Reserve Police Force, Riot Control Police and Quick Response Teams (QRTs) at key locations in the city to manage rush on the road on New Year’s Eve.

The stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been slapped against 33 persons allegedly involved in a firing and rioting case on November 13 in Thane district's Ambernath area, a police official said on Monday.

As outrage spirals over tailor Kanhaiya Lal's murder on camera by two men with terror links, stone-throwing erupted briefly today during a protest march by hundreds in Udaipur. The riot police moved in to control the crowds.

At least 40 people have been arrested after three cases were filed to look into the violence on Sunday that allegedly left one man dead and several others injured, including policemen, in Gujarat's Kutch district. The arrests have been made on charges of murder, rioting, arson and conspiracy among others.

The Delhi Police received a whopping 7,500 calls for help in their police control room (PCR) helpline on Tuesday, the third day since violence broke out over the controversial citizenship law in northeast neighbourhoods of the national capital. Thirty-nine people have been killed. Hundreds are getting treated for injuries.

A school bus was damaged and a police booth was set on fire as clashes erupted at Seelampur in Delhi during a protest against the Citizenship Act on Tuesday afternoon. The police used batons and fired tear gas shells as some 2,000 protesters threw stones and set fire to vehicles. At least two policemen were injured, according to news agency Reuters...

The Nanavati Commission report on the 2002 Gujarat riots gives a clean chit to the state government then led by Narendra Modi, who has been Prime Minister of India since 2014. Action should be taken against the police who were ineffective in controlling mobs and did not show the "competence necessary" to do so, says the report tabled in the Gujarat...

Hundreds of protesting students of Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University clashed with the policemen brought in to control them this afternoon. Policemen in riot gear, completely outnumbered by the students, were seen jostling with the crowd that wanted to meet the vice-chancellor. The protesters toppled barricades and hurled shoes at the ...

As two women tried and failed to take the last few steps to the famed Sabarimala shrine in Kerala on Friday, blocked by fierce protests, a third woman started her climb. Only to be told by the police that she would have to make her way to the hilltop temple alone, unlike her predecessors, who went with heavy police escort and in riot gear. Mary Swe...

Riot police on Saturdaywere sent out to control a crowd of about 300 people, at one point firing water canon at revelers.

Gun wielding Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel had to be deployed today at Uluberia, about 30 km from Kolkata, to control a clash between Bharatiya Janta Party and Trinamool Congress workers.

An additional 700 riot control police personnel have been deployed in Karnataka to help the state government tackle protests over Cauvery river water sharing. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel have been sent to areas which have seen violent protests in recent days. Riot control personnel will be working with local administration to help rest...

Riot control police is out and prohibitory orders have been imposed in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur after two groups clashed last night over the alleged desecration of a Ram Navami flag.

Fresh violence has been reported in West Bengal's Howrah which saw communal clashes during a Ram Navami procession on Thursday. The incident was reported despite heavy police deployment - including riot control force - in the area.

Several vehicles were set on fire as clashes between two groups broke out in West Bengal's Howrah amid Ram Navami celebrations today.

Mumbai police are set to deploy 11,500 security personnel along the State Reserve Police Force, Riot Control Police and Quick Response Teams (QRTs) at key locations in the city to manage rush on the road on New Year’s Eve.

The stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) has been slapped against 33 persons allegedly involved in a firing and rioting case on November 13 in Thane district's Ambernath area, a police official said on Monday.

As outrage spirals over tailor Kanhaiya Lal's murder on camera by two men with terror links, stone-throwing erupted briefly today during a protest march by hundreds in Udaipur. The riot police moved in to control the crowds.

At least 40 people have been arrested after three cases were filed to look into the violence on Sunday that allegedly left one man dead and several others injured, including policemen, in Gujarat's Kutch district. The arrests have been made on charges of murder, rioting, arson and conspiracy among others.

The Delhi Police received a whopping 7,500 calls for help in their police control room (PCR) helpline on Tuesday, the third day since violence broke out over the controversial citizenship law in northeast neighbourhoods of the national capital. Thirty-nine people have been killed. Hundreds are getting treated for injuries.

A school bus was damaged and a police booth was set on fire as clashes erupted at Seelampur in Delhi during a protest against the Citizenship Act on Tuesday afternoon. The police used batons and fired tear gas shells as some 2,000 protesters threw stones and set fire to vehicles. At least two policemen were injured, according to news agency Reuters...

The Nanavati Commission report on the 2002 Gujarat riots gives a clean chit to the state government then led by Narendra Modi, who has been Prime Minister of India since 2014. Action should be taken against the police who were ineffective in controlling mobs and did not show the "competence necessary" to do so, says the report tabled in the Gujarat...

Hundreds of protesting students of Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University clashed with the policemen brought in to control them this afternoon. Policemen in riot gear, completely outnumbered by the students, were seen jostling with the crowd that wanted to meet the vice-chancellor. The protesters toppled barricades and hurled shoes at the ...

As two women tried and failed to take the last few steps to the famed Sabarimala shrine in Kerala on Friday, blocked by fierce protests, a third woman started her climb. Only to be told by the police that she would have to make her way to the hilltop temple alone, unlike her predecessors, who went with heavy police escort and in riot gear. Mary Swe...

Riot police on Saturdaywere sent out to control a crowd of about 300 people, at one point firing water canon at revelers.

Gun wielding Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel had to be deployed today at Uluberia, about 30 km from Kolkata, to control a clash between Bharatiya Janta Party and Trinamool Congress workers.

An additional 700 riot control police personnel have been deployed in Karnataka to help the state government tackle protests over Cauvery river water sharing. The Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel have been sent to areas which have seen violent protests in recent days. Riot control personnel will be working with local administration to help rest...