-The Times of India NEW Delhi: Sulphur dioxide (SO2), a significant contributor to air pollution, may be within the national ambient air quality standard in all major cities in India, but the country is the largest cumulative emitter of this pollutant in the world and thus prone to being a victim of a cocktail of several toxic air pollutants. As a reactive pollutant, SO2 reacts with other air pollutants to form sulphate...
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Fake 500 rupee notes up 121% in 2018-19, says RBI
-PTI * Counterfeiting of the newly-designed ?2,000 notes shot by 21.9% in 2018-19 in comparison to the previous year, the RBI said * RBI said that counterfeit notes detected in the denomination of ?100 declined by 7.5% New Delhi: Counterfeiting of the newly-designed Rs.500 notes shot up by 121 per cent and of the Rs.2,000 notes by 21.9 per cent in 2018-19 in comparison to the previous year, the RBI said on Thursday. Of...
More »Press release--Status of Policing in India Report 2019: Police Adequacy and Working Conditions
-Press release by Common Cause dated 27th August, 2019 New Delhi, August 27, 2019: Common Cause and Lokniti Programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), launched the Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2019 on the tough working conditions of the police in India at the India International Centre today. The release was followed by a panel discussion on ‘Indian Police and the Rule of...
More »SCs, STs, OBCs and women poorly represented in police force; STs, women less likely to be posted as officers -Fazil Khan
-News18.com All three communities, SCs, STs and OBCs, are poorly represented in Delhi – the only Union Territory included in the study. New Delhi: Disadvantaged communities such as the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes(STs), Other Backwards Castes (OBCs) as well as women are under-represented in the country's police force, a study has revealed. According to the Common Cause-CSDS Lokniti's 'Status of Policing in India Report 2019', while SCs are under-represented in 19...
More »Press Council criticises media curbs
-The Hindu In a letter to all PCI members, PCI secretary Anupama Bhatnagar said Ms. Bhasin’s petition was expected to come up in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. New Delhi: Facing criticism over its stand in the Supreme Court that reasonable restrictions on free speech were acceptable when national interest was at stake, the Press Council of India (PCI) on Tuesday decided to tell the court that it opposes any restrictions on...
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