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Topic: SSB

IPS officer returns President’s Medal, questions 360° review; cites campaign to link him with RSS

Posted in SSB, Dr Paresh Saxena wrote to President that now-retired IPS officer ‘initiated narrative that he has deep RSS base & successive DGs too misrepresented him as uncooperative’.

‘Miscarriage of justice’ — Delhi HC reinstates dog handler sacked by SSB after suicide attempt

High court chastised Sashastra Seema Bal for losing sight of constable’s mental health, and instead imprisoning him for over three months before dismissing him ‘without evidence’.

6 borders, 1 LoC, 4 forces—Challenges of guarding India in face of suicides, fratricides

BSF, ITBP, SSB, and Assam Rifles have been given the mandate of guarding Indian borders. These forces lose more jawans every year than the Indian army does during peacetime.

Probe in Army recruitment scam finds candidates in defence academy who paid ‘bribes’ to get in

CBI handed probe into Army recruitment scam, books 17 officers and personnel for alleged bribery & irregularities in admissions to National Defence Academy (NDA), Officers Training Academy (OTA).

Read my lips, forget the camera

Say the central forces' angry soldiers. They need reform, committed leaders. And very sensitive handling.

On Camera

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.