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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Topic: Police

25 years on, 1993 Mumbai blasts fading from public memory

Mainstream gives it a miss; no memorial or prayer meeting organised for those killed in India’s first organised urban terror attack.

How CISF transformed itself into a revenue-earning modern security force

CISF, which marks its raising day on 10 March, guards critical infrastructure like airports & nuclear facilities & corporates such as Reliance, TATA & Infosys.

UP encounters: One ‘mistaken identity’, another killed after ‘raising hands in surrender’

Cities in Delhi’s neighbourhood have seen 3 encounters in the last 5 months, and locals say each of the slain gangsters was frequently visited by the police.

Rapes, murders and riots: Faith in Khattar’s Haryana hits rock bottom

Faith in Haryana police is at rock bottom, and fingers are being pointed at greenhorn Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who also holds the home portfolio.

How I blew the whistle on Lalu Prasad Yadav and the fodder case: Amit Khare

People ask me: Was I not afraid for my career and the security of my family? Some even commented that the state police would implicate me in these cases.  

Data says India’s safest city for women is Coimbatore. But is it really?

Official data says the city in Tamil Nadu didn't have a single case of rape in all of 2016. That may be too good to be true. 

Cops use memes and videos to tackle drugs abuse, drunken driving & cyber bullying

Police in big cities are turning to social media to spread their message and connect with young, net-savvy Indians.

Security forces kill 120 Pakistani militants in Valley, but lose 54 civilians in a record year

Overall 200 Pakistani militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir this year, the highest in nearly a decade.

How crime-ridden are India’s biggest cities? Here’s what the latest data says

What the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau reveals about the crime rate in India's biggest cities.

The worrying rise of militarisation in India’s Central Armed Police Forces

Once one has a hammer, one tends to see a nail everywhere — the use of lethal force by organs of the state against its own citizens needs utmost vigilance.

On Camera

Trump has called Delhi a big abuser of tariffs. India-US economic ties are about to change

How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.

How Adani halving power supply to Bangladesh could land the country in ‘dire straits’

Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.

Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020

Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.

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.