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Thursday, November 7, 2024
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Topic: Police

Army vs police case in Odisha shows urgent need for police reform. Accountability is key

The police station is the soul of policing and enough time and effort must be dedicated to it to improve its functioning.

4am reporting, long wait, no doctor—What Jharkhand constable aspirants faced before death

Families of the victims allege that no one from the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission informed them about the deaths.

Professors, principals, civil servants — 57 sacked in 2 years for ‘supporting militancy’ in J&K

Most sacked from education department — 13 from schools & 8 from universities. DSP-rank officers among 11 fired from J&K Police, 3 senior doctors among 6 fired from health services.

Too many juveniles are locked up in adult jails. Police bias is to blame

The police decide whether a young person in custody will be treated as a child or an adult. Placing discretion with them is based on the erroneous presumption that age is clear.

Involve psychologists in police recruitment. Keep out criminal mindset against namaz, Muslims

Deviant behaviour of Delhi SI toward namazis is confirmation that our police force has become highly communalised and politicised. Change should start from recruitment process.

Rashmi Shukla appointed DGP of Maharashtra, first woman to hold the post

Shukla, a 1988 batch IPS officer, was embroiled in controversy during the previous state government’s tenure when she was named as an accused in phone tapping cases.

Woman dies 6 days after ‘accidentally’ being shot at Aligarh police station, sub-inspector on the run

Deceased Ishrat Nigar's son claims the shooting wasn't an accident & that sub-inspector Manoj Sharma shot her in the head after an altercation over her passport verification.

Protestors clash with police in Dublin after knife attack injures 5, including 3 children

Clashes reportedly broke out hours after the knife assault outside a school in central Dublin, rioters said to have hurled pyrotechnics and bottles at police.

Sikhs trained in kung fu — British India’s secret weapon to deal with Shanghai’s gangsters

Hong Kong’s Sikh police 'acquired a reputation amongst the British officers for their loyalty and martial prowess in service to the Empire'. This led to Shanghai seeking them out.

Jaipur bombing acquittal shows chinks in India’s criminal justice system. It has consequences

Comedic investigation in Jaipur blast case fuels conspiracy that law enforcement uses terrorism as a pretext to persecute innocent victims.

On Camera

India-China border can’t be changed. Formalising LAC as the redline is the answer

The India-China crisis has led to a de facto delineation of the 1959 Claim Line in Ladakh. Why can’t this delineation be extended to the rest of the LAC and the McMahon Line?

US President-elect Trump vows to slash trade deficit with India. How trade fared under him vs Biden

India-US trade in first 3 yrs under Biden was $122 bn, while it was $83 bn in Trump’s first term. Average trade surplus in India’s favour grew from $18 bn under Trump to $31 bn under Biden.

India, Bangladesh Army chiefs discuss issues of ‘mutual interest’

Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.