Though many former IPS officers have tried luck in polls, the numbers are relatively less when it comes to police commissioners taking this route. BJD's Arup Patnaik is one of them.
Opposition says by creating new post & appointing Deven Bharti, BJP wants to create 'dual power structure' within police force. Deputy CM, however, says it's like 'adding missing link'.
The Uttar Pradesh govt implemented the Commissionerate system in Lucknow and Noida earlier this year, but touting its success misses the bigger picture.
The clips, in which police chief Bhaskar Rao is purportedly talking to a power broker, have renewed allegations of political appointments in the police.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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