2 prisoners dig tunnel, escape from Tihar Jail

A policeman walks inside the Tihar Jail in New Delhi. Photograph: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters Two small-time burglars pulled off a near-impossible jailbreak from the high-security Tihar prisons in......

Bassi's parting shot: 'Delhi police's functional autonomy is sacrosanct'

Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi, who retired on Monday, said the men in uniform never work under ‘political pressure’. The top cop said it is a ‘misunderstanding’ that......

Alok Kumar Verma will be new Delhi Police chief

Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma will be the new Police Commissioner of Delhi, succeeding B S Bassi who retires on February 29. Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday issued an order appointing......

Delhi bus rapist's jail interview triggers a storm

As a British filmmaker's interview of one of the December 16 gangrape convicts for a documentary in which he showed no remorse triggered a storm on Tuesday, the government took a serious view of......