Vikash Kumar

Blaze broke out At 8.15am but first call made at 8.48am, officials said

A 19-year-old Agniveer trainee from Bihar died by suicide at INS Chilika Naval Training Centre. His body was found hanging in the gym. Police have registered an unnatural death case. This is the second such incident on the campus in recent weeks. Another trainee from Uttar Pradesh also died by suicide on April 8.

A devastating accident unfolded on the Ara-Chhapra highway, leaving 22-year-old Sanju Kumar dead and his friend Vikash Kumar in critical condition after being struck by a speeding truck. The local community reacted with fierce anger, staging protests that resulted in damaged vehicles as they demanded accountability.

Ranchi's gig workers and restaurant owners are grappling with an LPG shortage, leading to reduced menus and significantly lower incomes for delivery partners. Many are struggling to meet daily expenses as order volumes have dropped, impacting their livelihoods. Restaurant owners are forced to simplify offerings, fearing potential shutdowns if the crisis persists.

In Patna, the student hostel scene is in turmoil as a crisis looms over LPG cylinders. With commercial supplies running dry and residential ones hard to come by, hostel owners are pivoting back to cooking with coal and wood.

Continuation of best practices of predecessors, especially a directive exempting police personnel aged above 55 from active field duty during the pandemic will be priority for Vikash Kumar Vikash, the 10th city police chief.

Mangaluru City Police while handling the frontlines against the global pandemic, has cracked down on illegal sand mining and drugs in a big way during July and August. Laying down this fact in a press communique, city police commissioner Vikash Kumar on Monday said that Mangaluru City Police had taken up concerted action in these two types of crime across the city commissionerate limits.

The death of a young newly married couple in a ghastly accident at Thokkottu flyover on Tuesday evening saw the Mangaluru city police brass descend there a day later, seeking solutions. With Mangaluru city taffic police (MCTP) officers in tow, city police chief Vikash Kumar Vikash deliberated on the situation arising from the accident threadbare with officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

A 19-year-old man, found severely injured at Malhipur Bahiyar village in Begusarai district on Sunday morning, succumbed to his injuries during treatment at sadar hospital in the evening.

Amid the unprecedented rise in Covid cases in the state, the Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport has witnessed a sharp decline in number of daily passengers and flight movement. As per the data shared by the city airport, the air traffic has nosedived by 42.

Cattle theft and illegal transport detection squad constituted by Mangaluru City Police on October 5 made its first major publicised bust on Sunday. Based on a tip-off about cattle being illegally transported in a pick-up vehicle from Bantwal to the city, the squad with personnel of Kankanady Town police station intercepted the vehicle at Ujjodi near Mahavir (Pumpwell) circle and thwarted an attempt at illegal transportation of cattle.

The Mangaluru city police held a special phone-in programme with a focus on drug abuse grievances, but not a single phone call was received related to the topic. Instead, all the calls were related to traffic issues.

After renaming 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh and objecting to Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to the northeastern state, China has now released a video of a 41-year-old Indian expatriate from Bihar, Vikash Kumar Singh, working as Adjunct Faculty teaching Hindi at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, propagating the communist nation’s development activities.

The ongoing police investigation into the alleged hoax call that Vasanth - a 33-year-old agricultural labourer, resident of Mudradi in Karkala taluk of Udupi district - made about bomb being planted at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) in Karnataka will cover all possible angles, city police chief Vikash Kumar said on Thursday.