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Haryana IAS association puts weight behind Y Puran Kumar’s family, IPS body offers condolences

The two resolutions show sharp divide in civil & police arms of Haryana administration on the officer's 'suicide'. IAS body requests govt to provide support to wife Amneet, also an IAS.

IPS suicide rocks Haryana bureaucracy. Calls to remove accused officers with ‘power to influence probe’

Haryana officers say false FIRs & direct arrests of Dalits or those from weaker backgrounds among them are used by the anti-corruption bureau to show off its successes.

Haryana DGP booked over IPS ‘suicide’. Who is Shatrujeet Kapur, top cop with history of controversies

FIR comes after deceased cop Y Puran Kumar’s wife sought action against Kapur & Rohtak SP for 'abetting suicide'. Kumar accused several IAS, IPS officers of harassment in his note.

‘Not a simple case of suicide.’ Wife of IPS officer seeks prompt arrest of Haryana DGP, Rohtak SP

DGP Shatrujeet Kapur & Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia forced her husband to commit suicide, publicly humiliated & harassed him, & conspired to trap him in false cases, she alleges.

Haryana IPS died day after aide’s arrest in bribe case. Suicide note puts uneasy focus on top brass

The note, it is learnt, mentions at least 3 serving & past top IPS who 'authorised' a campaign to humiliate Y Puran Kumar, who was IG, Police Training College, Sunaria, when he died.

Senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar found dead at Chandigarh residence, suicide suspected

Known as an upright officer, Kumar often had run-ins with his fellow colleagues in the police force and senior civil servants.

Aligarh teen shoots himself dead after father refuses to get him an iPhone

A day before he allegedly took his own life, the 17-year-old left his home in a rage and was found by the police in Ghaziabad hours later.

MP Mohan Delkar’s death: Why SC upheld quashing of suicide abetment case against UT administrator, others

The tribal leader was found dead in a Mumbai hotel room in 2021. His son accused BJP leader Praful Khoda Patel, 8 others of harassment, conspiracy & abetment. Bombay HC had quashed the FIR.

Odisha student who self-immolated succumbs to injuries, CM vows harshest punishment to culprits

The student had set herself ablaze Saturday due to inaction against the professor who had allegedly sexually harrased her.

Nasir-Junaid murder: Accused gau rakshak who ‘killed self’ named Bajrang Dal Haryana chief in ‘last video’

Lokesh Singla, one of 21 accused in 2023 killing of Nasir & Junaid, 'died by suicide' on railway tracks in Palwal. He also named 2 others in video handed over by his family to police.

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Nepali student Bipin Joshi is also Hamas hostage. Friends & family don’t know if he’s alive

When the conflict is narrated, it is the Israelis and Palestinians who fill the frame, while the forgotten foreigners—like Bipin Joshi—are left on the margins.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.