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Cantonments: The Row over Roads

Above: Police arrest Congress activists demanding opening of roads passing through the cantonment area in Secunderabad/Photo: UNI The recent decision by the defence minister to throw open cantonmen...

Psychologists Testifying: Healing Rape Victims

In 2002, the Delhi police passed a standing order that clinical psychologists should provide trauma counseling to sexual abuse victims. This has helped many get access to justice and can be the founda...

Medical Negligence: Private Healthcare on Steroids

Above: A doctor in a government hospital in Patna examines a child suffering from brain fever/Photo: UNI Due to compromised Medical Councils, greedy corporate hospitals and their target-driven doct...

The Brahminisation of Hindustan

~By Murad Ali Baig The Brahmins were the priestly class of the tribe of the Aryas (not Aryans). There is, however, no unanimity about where these Aryas came from. There was also a tribe of Aryas in a...

Why always status quo when change is the only constant?

Administrative services: Proposal to give weightage to performance in the foundation course could be a change that might be able to boost performance ~By Abhishek Dixit On May 17 the Prime Minister’...

The Media: Manufacturing Consent

~By Dilip Bobb Back in 1988, Noam Chomsky co-authored a book titled Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.  The book laid down five filters of ‘editorial bias’ which define...

Anti-sexual Harassment Committees: Keeping a Watch

Above: Lady lawyers need specific provisions under the sexual harassment Act for their protection/Photo: Anil Shakya The apex court’s directive to high courts to form Anti-sexual Harassment Committ...

All India Services: Dangerous Tampering?

Above: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with officer trainees at a yoga session at LBSNAA, Mussoorie/Photo: UNI A proposal by the PMO that the service and cadre of an AIS probationer be allotted based ...

Videography in Investigation: Filming Evidence

Above: Installation of CCTV cameras at police stations would bolster India’s criminal justice system/Photo: UNI A Supreme Court directive to include videography in crime probes will help upgrade th...

Sunanda Pushkar Case: Crime and Abetment?

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor vows to fight “vigorously” the Delhi Police’s chargesheet, which he terms “preposterous”   ~By Aabad Ponda   More than four years after Sunanda Pus...

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