Security personnel stand guard as students protest against the “killing” of two missing students by unknown miscreants and demand peace in Manipur, Imphal, on September 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Top officials of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on October 18 discussed the evolving law and order situation in the country in the light … Read more
Sixteen human rights activists from Bastar and other parts of the country have alleged that they had to abort a fact-finding mission “on human rights violations in Sukma and Bijapur districts” of south Chhattisgarh after security forces harassed them. The activists had left Sukma on February 1 to visit the interior villages of the district, … Read more
The outlawed CPI (Maoist) has claimed that CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, who went missing after the April 3 ambush in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, is in captivity of ultras, and asked the state government to appoint interlocutors for his release. The Maoists have, however, not raised any formal demands for the release of the commando. … Read more
Recently, the Tamil Nadu government issued an order to deploy over 300,000 teachers in government and private schools for election duty for assembly polls in May 2021. Such poll work can typically go on for more than a month, counting the time for training, conducting the elections and then assisting with the declaration of results. … Read more
The Supreme Court Thursday said the Allahabad High Court be allowed to monitor the Hathras case in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died of injuries. The top court, which was hearing a PIL and several intervention pleas of activists and lawyers, was told that no fair trial was possible in Uttar … Read more
The security forces have prevented a major terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. According to sources, terrorists had planned a major terror attack on the lines of the Pulwama attack of February 2019, in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred. In a joint search operation launched today in the Karewa area of Gadikal, a hole … Read more
New Delhi: The Centre has ordered “immediate” withdrawal of about 10,000 paramilitary forces personnel from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. They said the decision was taken after the Ministry of Home Affairs reviewed the deployment of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) in the union territory (UT). A senior … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Centre has directed district commissioners in Jammu and Kashmir to ensure security of political workers and sarpanches (village headmen) by deploying additional forces from central armed police forces. Jammu and Kashmir police, along with the Central Reserve Police Force, will beef up security at accommodations of panches (panchayat members), political workers and … Read more