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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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EC to issue notice to Sadhvi Pragya Thakur for her Hemant Karkare remarks

PTI -
BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya Thakur triggered a political storm after she said Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare died in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks because she had ‘cursed’ him.

Sadhvi Pragya’s aide says that the BJP leader has apologised for statement on Karkare

PTI -
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur had said that police officer Hemant Karkare died during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack because she 'cursed' him.

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

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Amana Begam -
India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.

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As Gaza peace plan takes shape, does India have a role?

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

+TFP Debdutta Chakraborty -
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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