-Outlook Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who today completed one year in office, claimed that his government has created 'path for permanent development' of the state and people's faith in democracy has increased. "We can claim that in the last one year we have created path for the permanent development of the state. The government has worked in every sector and taken the state forward," Akhilesh said here on the...
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Not even one in 10 cops in Maharashtra is a woman -Chittaranjan Tembhekar & V Narayan
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Barely one out of 10 police personnel in the state is a woman against the mandated minimum of three. The appalling ratio appears grave at a time when crimes against women have seen a jump. State home department norms require that at least 30% posts in the police force be filled by women, barring the top positions peopled by the Indian Police Service cadre. But women make...
More »15 Governors are former civil servants, Police Officers, Armymen -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu After the recent gubernatorial changes, as many as 15 of those now ensconced in Raj Bhavans are former civil servants, Police Officers or Army officers; four of them are ex-IAS officers, eight are former IPS officers, and one is an ex-Army chief. With the appointment of the former Central Bureau of Investigation boss, Ashwani Kumar, and ex-National Security Guards chief Nikhil Kumar as Governors of Nagaland and Kerala last week,...
More »SC raps Punjab, Bihar over police brutality-Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre, state governments and Union Territories on the status of police reforms till date. Citing its 2006 order on the issue that included enhanced police accountability, the court asked all chief and home secretaries and DGPs to file their responses on the extent of compliance within a week. A Bench led by G S Singhvi directed the Punjab DGP to file his own...
More »Save Yamuna brigade camps at Faridabad
-The Hindustan Times Traffic on Mathura Road remained affected for almost four hours as thousands of activists of Yamuna Bachav Yatra marched towards the Capital on Sunday. The march stopped just a kilometre ahead of the Delhi border. They are likely to enter Delhi on Monday. “Delhi Police told us to stay in Faridabad for one more night as the government does not want this huge yatra to enter Delhi,” said Sunil...
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