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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicCriminal Procedure (Identification) Bill

Topic: Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill

Criminal Procedure Act’s grand tech vision comes with dangers of police power, data violation

Sanjana Meshram -
Even if the conviction rate increases, it will happen at the expense of individuals who are vulnerable to India's power dynamics.

New Bill in Parliament allows biometric data collection on arrest or detention, Oppn up in arms

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Under Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, magistrate can direct those arrested or detained to give their biometrics. Those who refuse can be charged with obstructing a public servant.

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Opinion

Young India’s cultural assertion isn’t conservatism—it’s course correction

Sameer Prashanth Rao -
Indian Gen Z is assertive because boomers and millennials were docile and apologetic. We are Indian, and we are proud.

Why India fell off the global middle-class map

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

Economy

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Defence

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

National Interest

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Shekhar Gupta -
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.

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