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Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicPublic Safety Act

Topic: Public Safety Act

The Public Safety Act was meant to protect society. In J&K, it protects power

By placing preventive detention above ordinary law, the state implies that the machinery of justice is too weak or too slow to handle its critics.

J&K’s lone AAP MLA Mehraj Malik booked under PSA. ‘Jail can’t intimidate soldier of AAP,’ says Kejriwal

The AAP's J&K president was taken into preventive custody after videos circulating on social media purportedly showed him verbally abusing the Doda DM.

With PSA detentions getting quashed & revoked, how J&K cops are trying to make ‘tighter’ cases

J&K police in 2021 started training personnel in drafting dossiers to ensure there are no 'weak grounds or copy-pasting', so that detentions under Public Safety Act could be upheld & extended.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.