Being the most populous country, India should be aware of the dangers that unregulated overcrowding in public spaces can cause. And this needs an all-encompassing approach.
IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash had challenged Karnataka govt’s order suspending him in connection with stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on 4 June.
The 30 retired IPS officers say suspended cops, including Commissioner Dayananda, are being victimised while those who contributed to Chinnaswamy stampede were let off the hook.
Letter contradicts Siddaramaiah govt's claims that confusion arose due to lack of clarity from law enforcement agencies. The Bengaluru top cop was suspended day after the incident.
Every tragedy is a chance to learn. The Bengaluru stampede should serve as an eye-opener for Indian cricket fans. Euphoria must not drive them into a frenzy.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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