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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
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Who will watch the watchmen? How my guidelines helped SC put down laws for police action

In ‘From the Trenches’, lawyer and Congress politician Abhishek Manu Singhvi writes about SC’s decision in D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal case on police safeguards.

The lathi rule, a Gandhi-mukt Congress and Jammu and Kashmir’s version of democracy

The best cartoons of the year, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Don’t just blame India’s courts, it’s the police that can’t solve criminal cases in time

Unoccupied police posts, inhumane work hours, lack of training are some reasons why investigations of thousands of criminal cases are pending in India.

Uttarakhand Police gets a mongrel, and he’s better than any Labrador or German Shepherd

Dog squads are usually reserved for Western breeds, but Thenga has outperformed them in training and been recruited to the State Disaster Response Force.

Not just Delhi, there is growing disconnect between police leadership & constabulary in India

The policeman in the video outside Delhi's Saket Court complex didn't retaliate against violent lawyers. But not because he was a coward.

Row over parking leads to clash between lawyers & police at Tis Hazari, police car burnt

Eyewitnesses say an argument over a parking issue between lawyers and the police at Tiz Hazai turned ugly, police care burnt

IPS officers defending hegemony over CAPFs is like British justifying their rule over India

Law and order situation in most Indian states makes people question the abilities of IPS officers to manage CAPFs, as does their many ill-conceived decisions.

Can changes in British-era IPC alter police attitude towards people or more reforms needed?

The Narendra Modi government has decided to revamp the British-era Indian Penal Code.

Unnao crash with CBI: Why do people prefer ‘caged parrot’ instead of the state police?

A woman from Unnao who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar was critically injured and two of her relatives killed Sunday when a truck collided with the car she was travelling in.

Kathua rape case cop convicts to move HC, say evidence was tampered with, not destroyed

The three policemen — SPO Surender Kumar, SI Anand Dutta and head constable Tilak Raj — have been sentenced to 5 years for destroying evidence.

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.

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.