Rakesh Asthana

A lawyer who has filed a contempt action plea in the Supreme Court against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for appointing Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police chief has sought an urgent hearing of his petition.

A two-member bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Surya Kant will hear on Thursday a petition challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner

NDRF Director General SN Pradhan on Thursday took over the additional charge of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) head from IPS officer Rakesh Asthana, who has been recently appointed as the Delhi Police Commissioner.

The Delhi Assembly has passed a resolution against the appointment of former CBI officer Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner. The resolution asks the Union Home Ministry to reverse the appointment.

Hitting out at the Centre over Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana's appointment as the Delhi Police Commissioner, the Congress on Wednesday said it was in "direct contravention" of a Supreme Court judgment.

Rakesh Asthana, senior IPS officer formerly from the Gujarat cadre and now from the AGMUT cadre, took charge as the Commissioner of Delhi Police today.

Rakesh Asthana, a former officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was appointed Delhi Police Commissioner on Tuesday, just three days before his retirement.

The recent incident of drones dropping bombs on the Indian Air Force base in Jammu is "very serious and very dangerous", and there is an urgent need to develop technology to counter this challenge, Border Security Force chief Rakesh Asthana said.

The CBI has absolved its former Special Director Rakesh Asthana of allegations of taking bribes from fraud-accused pharma company Sterling Biotech, sources have said.

A Chandigarh-based dentist Monday withdrew his plea from the Supreme Court seeking directions to investigate and launch criminal prosecution against Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chief Rakesh Asthana on the basis of his allegations.

Pakistan is very effectively using drones for surveillance and smuggling arms, explosives and narcotics across the border, BSF Director General Rakesh Asthana said on Wednesday.

Amid a spike in infiltration attempts by terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC), the BSF chief on Thursday said the period before very heavy snowfall in Kashmir is "very suitable" for terrorists to cross over to this side and that security forces were prepared to tackle the situation.

Border Security Force Director General Rakesh Asthana on Friday visited the International Border (IB) in Jammu frontier and reviewed the security situation, a spokesman of the force said.

IPS officer Rakesh Asthana today took charge as the new Director General (DG) of the Border Security Force that guards India's fronts with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Rakesh Asthana, the chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, has been appointed the Director General of Border Security Force. The former officer of the Central Bureau of investigations had made headlines with his bitter public clash with his then boss Alok Verma and was subject to long investigation in a bribery case in which he was allegedly i...

A lawyer who has filed a contempt action plea in the Supreme Court against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for appointing Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police chief has sought an urgent hearing of his petition.

A two-member bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Surya Kant will hear on Thursday a petition challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner

NDRF Director General SN Pradhan on Thursday took over the additional charge of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) head from IPS officer Rakesh Asthana, who has been recently appointed as the Delhi Police Commissioner.

The Delhi Assembly has passed a resolution against the appointment of former CBI officer Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner. The resolution asks the Union Home Ministry to reverse the appointment.

Hitting out at the Centre over Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana's appointment as the Delhi Police Commissioner, the Congress on Wednesday said it was in "direct contravention" of a Supreme Court judgment.

Rakesh Asthana, senior IPS officer formerly from the Gujarat cadre and now from the AGMUT cadre, took charge as the Commissioner of Delhi Police today.

Rakesh Asthana, a former officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), was appointed Delhi Police Commissioner on Tuesday, just three days before his retirement.

The recent incident of drones dropping bombs on the Indian Air Force base in Jammu is "very serious and very dangerous", and there is an urgent need to develop technology to counter this challenge, Border Security Force chief Rakesh Asthana said.

The CBI has absolved its former Special Director Rakesh Asthana of allegations of taking bribes from fraud-accused pharma company Sterling Biotech, sources have said.

A Chandigarh-based dentist Monday withdrew his plea from the Supreme Court seeking directions to investigate and launch criminal prosecution against Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chief Rakesh Asthana on the basis of his allegations.

Pakistan is very effectively using drones for surveillance and smuggling arms, explosives and narcotics across the border, BSF Director General Rakesh Asthana said on Wednesday.

Amid a spike in infiltration attempts by terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC), the BSF chief on Thursday said the period before very heavy snowfall in Kashmir is "very suitable" for terrorists to cross over to this side and that security forces were prepared to tackle the situation.

Border Security Force Director General Rakesh Asthana on Friday visited the International Border (IB) in Jammu frontier and reviewed the security situation, a spokesman of the force said.

IPS officer Rakesh Asthana today took charge as the new Director General (DG) of the Border Security Force that guards India's fronts with Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Rakesh Asthana, the chief of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, has been appointed the Director General of Border Security Force. The former officer of the Central Bureau of investigations had made headlines with his bitter public clash with his then boss Alok Verma and was subject to long investigation in a bribery case in which he was allegedly i...