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TopicHemant Karkare

Topic: Hemant Karkare

Sometimes, it’s late to reach for the gun. Doesn’t mean Karkare wasn’t gallant: IPS officer

PKH Tharakan -
Officer responds to ThePrint article on India's gallantry awards system to say 'those killed in 26/11, Parliament attacks were heroes'.

Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings have Indian links & pose a serious security threat

Brahma Chellaney -
New Delhi must outlaw the Tamil Nadu NTJ. India cannot become a victim of Thowheed Jamat terror after warning Sri Lanka about the bombing plot.

Ashok Chakra to Hemant Karkare shows why India must overhaul its gallantry award system

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Nine Ashok Chakras & 10 Kirti Chakras in 2001 Parliament and 26/11 Mumbai attacks raise disturbing questions about India’s gallantry award system.

Appalling how many justified Pragya Thakur’s Karkare remark with twisted logic: IPS officer

Harsha Vardhan Mandava -
Dishonouring Hemant Karkare, who laid down his life and can’t defend himself or his family, takes the level of public debate to a new low.

4 years ago, NHRC gave clean chit to Karkare on Thakur’s allegations of police torture

Ritika Jain -
An NHRC panel had noted that the 'allegations were not substantiated by facts and evidence on record from the prison, court, hospitals and the ATS'.

A Sadhvi-sized hole in BJP’s nationalism as two arch rivals unite in UP

Soham Sen -
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Sadhvi Pragya’s Karkare rant ‘embarrasses’ BJP, which sees her as a ‘double-edged sword’

Ruhi Tewari -
BJP’s Bhopal candidate Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, said Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare died because she had ‘cursed’ him.

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Opinion

Indian judiciary must stop panicking over AI

Siddarth Raman -
To assume courts weigh every word committed to paper is to ignore reality. The Indian judiciary has long had a "Control+C" problem.

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

India eyes 6th generation FCAS, looks at tying up with France for possible collaboration

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Initial talks held on the possibility of India entering the programme that was started in 2017 between France, Germany and Spain to ensure European sovereignty in defence and security.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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