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Sunday, March 30, 2025
TopicPolice reform

Topic: police reform

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.

PM Modi wants India to shed its colonial past. He should begin by reforming the police

Indian musical instruments in Army bands, new naval ensign, Raj Path renamed Kartavya Path. But one colonial legacy Modi hasn’t shown interest in eradicating is Police Act of 1861.

Reducing gun violence will require more policing, not less

If progressives make guns harder to get and don’t penalize illegal possession, then a future where only outlaws have guns is inevitable.

Only public pressure can bring police reforms now. Supreme Court order is gathering dust

15 years after the Supreme Court judgment in Prakash Singh case, we must ask what's holding up police reforms – Indians' lack of appreciation for good policing or the feeling of having given up?

Spare Army counterinsurgency tasks, police does it better. Look at Punjab, Andhra, Tripura

Indian experience points to the need for a nodal role for the state police in counterinsurgency operations. Military involvement is neither necessary, nor desirable.

Pandemic policing has no SOPs but it must move beyond restriction enforcement

It is important that the police carry out a thorough post-mortem of their performance during the pandemic.

An all-India Police Act, that’s what we need to curb Waze-like cases of corruption

The decision of the Supreme Court to not entertain the petition of Param Bir Singh, former Mumbai Police Commissioner, is disappointing.

Over 400 personnel suspended, 1,325 punished for misconduct in 2020, Delhi Police say

Taking disciplinary action against police personnel for their alleged practices and misconduct, 250 vigilance enquiries were also conducted last year, the police said.

Judging police performance by crime data is a bigger issue than politicisation: Neeraj Kumar

Police officers see several benefits in not registering a crime or delaying justice. Hathras case showed the UP Police in its true colours.

Killing Vikas Dubey doesn’t end crime. For that, parties must let go of control over police

India needs urgent police reforms, otherwise political parties will continue to shield Vikas Dubeys, turning them into rich politicians with no fear of law.

On Camera

Indian carmakers need more homegrown designers. Chinese are now a match to Europeans

Mahindra is expanding its design studio at its facility in Kandivali in Mumbai, and even Maruti-Suzuki and Hyundai have design teams in India.

ATM withdrawals to get costlier from 1 May. What you need to know

RBI lifted ceiling on interchange fee on ATM withdrawals through circular issued Friday. Interchange fee is amount one bank pays another to facilitate ATM transactions.

704 BRO personnel, 575 casual paid labourers killed in last five years, MoD tells Parliament

New Delhi: Between 2020 and 2024, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) recorded fatalities of a total of 704 BRO personnel and 575 casual paid...

Thank you Trump for putting tariff gun to India’s head. That’s the only way we’d be forced to reform

Trump threatening to pull the trigger might be just what is needed to wake up India’s self-congratulatory establishment from its headline-managing fantasies.