The education sector has taken a major hit in ‘Naya Kashmir’, and students are worried about their futures The idea of bunking classes once in a while, or not attending school to have a lazy, carefree day or two, is fun for students in a “normal” society. But in Kashmir, things aren’t normal. It’s been […]

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PCR call centres and patrol vehicles are an essential link in police efforts to prevent crime and respond quickly enough to catch perpetrators. Here’s how it works A little before five in the morning on October 31, a call comes through to the Police Control Room (PCR). The caller, a girl, starts shouting, telling the […]

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Their Lordships have suddenly discovered that 383 Urdu and Persian words used in police reports are incomprehensible to the public — even to persons filing the report Hindi movie buffs who like crime dramas may well be aware of words like Saboot (evidence), Anjam (result), Jama Talashi (personal search), Hirasat (custody), Gair Kanooni (illegal), Mujrim […]

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RO companies are members of the organisation that declared Delhi’s water toxic. In an apparent conflict of interest, some of these companies are fighting an NGT order that prohibits the use of water purifiers in certain situations The Bureau of Indian Standards is currently under the radar for an ambiguous tapwater study that rated Delhi […]

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Some government functionaries are driven by their unflinching loyalty to the Constitution and the rule of the land. They are good examples to emulate Former election commissioner TN Seshan, who died last week, epitomised how an officer should conduct and be guided by the constitution and rule of the land. The former election commissioner enforced […]

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Such rags-to-riches stories with generous interventions of luck, only make fans experience the short, tantalising distance from their own slice of stardom In middle-class neighbourhoods of Indian cities and small towns, there is a type of boy or girl next door who undergoes voice modulation after a certain event. That event, however small, is usually […]

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Satisfaction does not have to come from a fancy job in posh surroundings. It can come from helping underprivileged children find their feet in the education system In the twilight years of his life, Sudhir Dar used too many words to say things that one could mistake as trite reactions of a political simpleton. His […]

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A 69-year-old patient with multiple benign bone tumours, called osteochondromas, has been successfully treated by a team of surgeons in fortis, Shalimar Bagh Doctors at Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, successfully treated a 69-year-old patient suffering from a rare knee condition, ‘hereditary multiple exostosis’. A condition in which multiple benign bone tumours called osteochondromas develop at […]

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