-NDTV Supreme Court told the Home Ministry to give wide publicity of the nodal officers' contact details so that Kashmiris who need help can approach them easily New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed 10 states and the centre to ensure Kashmiris living across the country do not face social boycott, harassment or attacks, days after the Pulwama terror attack. The 10 states are Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,...

-The Indian Express In the wake of life’s savings lost to scams, children have dropped out of school, marriages have been put off, people have left homes, and suicide, say some, is the only option. The Indian Express on the stories forgotten in the headlines. Most days, Raqib Sardar can be seen hanging around a tea shop at Sonarpur Railway Station in South 24 Parganas district, 30 km from Kolkata, looking...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a bid to ensure timely and accurate entry of crime related data in its system, Delhi Police is in the process of creating cells at police station levels. The developments were shared during the crime review meeting held by lieutenant governor Anil Bainjal, along with senior police officers of Delhi Police, led by its commissioner Amulya Patnaik. Senior officers said that phase-I of the Crime...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For decades, the malkhanas in police stations, which store case properties and evidence, have been so poorly organised that legal proceedings have regularly been affected. On many occasions, the case properties have been misplaced, even stolen. At other times, the cops have wasted months trying to locate evidentiary items. These might now change with Delhi Police set to digitise all malkhanas. After a six-month effort, police...

-PTI New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Bureau of Immigration, an agency exempted from RTI Act disclosures, to give a person details of his travel as he needed it for defence in penal proceedings that landed him in jail. The CIC underlined that any impediment to a person's self-defence would be a breach of human rights. The case pertains to RTI applicant M. Dinesh, who had sought information related to...