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State to have women SHOs soon by G Anand

The police to become more accessible to vulnerable sections of society  4,000 domestic violence cases reported in 2008 PSC to start recruitment process soon Thiruvananthapuram: Police Stations in Kerala could soon have women as Station House Officers (SHOs). The State government has sanctioned direct recruitment of women to the post of Sub Inspector of Police in the General Executive Wing of the Police Department. The Kerala Public Services Commission (PSC) is expected...

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Social Banditry by Ramachandra Guha

The novelist and critic, C.S. Lewis, said he had no time for those who thought that since they had read a book once, they had no need to read it again. The great works of literature were to read again and again. The urge to go back to a book was prompted sometimes by aesthetics, the desire to savour once more its artful or elegant prose; and, at other times,...

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FIRs in firing line as cops strive to keep crime rate low by Mohit Sharma

To register a formal complaint with the police about snatched or stolen articles is often as tough as getting the item recovered. That’s an old axiom held by a good majority of Delhiites. And statistics go a long way into formalising it as a theory. Here’s from the police’s own record books: out of approximately 14,000 calls received by the Police Control Room (PCR) for “snatchings” this year, till November...

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A possible link between hydraulic fracturing and pollution of groundwater supplies causes concern.  Environmental groups contend that governments have been slow to react and are not looking hard for contamination Gas companies use at least 260 types of chemicals, many of them toxic, during the hydraulic fracturing process Victoria Switzer dreamed of a peaceful retirement. Instead, she is coping with a big hassle after a nearby natural gas well contaminated her family’s...

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