Professional autonomy, non-interference and an external accountability mechanism are imperative to make policing in India more effective, experts say. At a national level seminar here Friday on police reforms, police accountability and community policing, judges, accountability commission chiefs, senior lawyers, top police officials, bureaucrats and NGO leaders advocated reforms in policing and voiced concern over […]
Six Indian think tanks figure among the top 150 global think tanks, according to the “2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report” of Pennsylvania University’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP). At 268, India had the fourth largest number of think tanks after the US 1828, China 426, and United Kingdom 287. The seventh […]
Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee has described the Padma Shri awarded to him on the Republic Day as “a great honour”. “It is a great honour to be recognized by India in this manner,” said Mukherjee, best known for the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, for […]
Suspected militants triggered a bomb blast here Sunday, minutes before the start of the Republic Day Parade, police said. No one was reportedly injured. The area where the bomb went off is close to the official residence of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh. “A powerful bomb was exploded near the deputy commissioner’s office in the […]
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Sunday accused the central government of usurping the power of the states over the years, saying the authority of the state governments has been eroded by doing this. In his address after hoisting the national flag on the 65th Republic Day in the industrial city of Ludhiana, Badal said […]
The Assam Police Friday announced cash awards to the tune of Rs.5 lakh on some leaders of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO). Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) A.P Raut told media persons here that cash awards have been announced on seven KLO rebels. “The KLO, which mainly operates in Assam and West […]
More than one lakh Delhi government employees working on contract will be given permanent jobs, Education Minister Manish Sisodia announced Friday. A 13-member committee headed by Chief Secretary Sanjoy Kumar Srivastava will decide the policy and guidelines for this, the Aam Aadmi Party leader told the media. According to an official, the contract employees are […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asserted that he was set on creating new administrative units in the state despite a scheduled meeting of the cabinet to discuss the issue being postponed at the last minute Friday allegedly due to differences between the ruling alliance partners. The cabinet was scheduled to meet here to […]
Eleven militants were killed by Kyrgyz troops near the border with China Thursday, according to the Kyrgyz border service. The masked militants, carrying hunting rifles and knives, were spotted in Pikertyk, some 40 km from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border, by camp ranger Alexander Barykin, who was brutally killed by them, Xinhua quoted State Border Service chief […]
One student was shot on campus in South Carolina State University of the US Friday, police said. “Police have not yet apprehended a suspect but they are currently in pursuit of the person they believe to be the perpetrator,” the university said via its twitter account, Xinhua reported. As the police continue to search for […]