Ria Chatterjee

It’s a powerful group that represents rank and file police officers across England and Wales.

Scotland Yard has set up a crime scene around a location in west London in the hunt for a man who they say left two suitcases of human remains on Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol on Wednesday night.

In India at least 116 people have been killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Local police say heat, overcrowding and a lack of safety measures could have been contributing factors to the crush. Ria Chatterjee has more, and a warning, her report contains distressing images.

Two years ago today, 35-year-old Zara Aleena was murdered as she walked home from a night out in east London.

At least five people have reportedly been shot dead in the Kenyan capital Nairobi after police opened fire on protesters outside the country’s parliament.

This year’s election in India has been described as the biggest anywhere in history, and if early polling was to be believed, the result was a foregone conclusion – Prime Minister Narendra Modi would easily win a third term.  

It’s been dubbed the ‘YouTube election’ with parties enlisting the country’s army of influencers, often for money, to boost their chances of winning by mobilising the all-important youth vote. 

India is more than halfway through its marathon six week-long general election, which is due to end on June 1st.

India is in the middle of a seismic general election, with around a billion people voting at a million polling stations over a seven-week period. Results aren’t expected until June, but most commentators assume Prime Minister Narendra Modi will comfortably hold onto power. His opponents claim India is on its way to dictatorship. But the…

To the biggest elections in the world now, in India, where opposition parties say the government is using arrests and detentions to stop them campaigning – calling it a “nail in the coffin of free and fair elections”.

Marseille has long held its unhappy reputation as one of Europe’s crime capitals.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will meet the Met Police Commissioner tomorrow to discuss community relations. 

Thousands of people are taking to the streets of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, angry at the impact mass tourism is having on the Spanish archipelago. 

Tomorrow the world’s largest election kicks off. In India, a billion voters at a million polling stations will spend the next seven weeks deciding their future, with a winner announced in June.

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