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Sunday, May 5, 2024
TopicCriminal records

Topic: criminal records

Another ‘MCU’ to help crack crime — efforts to build database for face recognition, DNA in full swing

Preliminary work to set up Measurement Collection Units as part of Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, done. Police officers say it would be a big push to crime-solving.

EC issues show cause notices to 104 candidates for not publishing their criminal records

Out of 1,066 candidates who contested in the first phase of polling in Bihar held Wednesday, 327 have criminal antecedents.

Advertisement of candidates’ criminal records to come under poll expenses, says EC

Some parties had approached the poll body asking if advertisement expenditure can be borne by parties and not candidates, who have a Rs 70 lakh cap on poll expenses.

On Camera

Balding men should know this—there’s an ideal time for a hair transplant

Men have a societal and personal stake in keeping their hair intact and are ready to go to any lengths to keep it. But a hair transplant can’t fix thinning hair. 

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.