New Delhi: Military institutions across South Asia share a specific institutional assumption that has proven consistently wrong: that the combination of physical security perimeters, rank hierarchy, and institutional discipline is sufficient to ...
2003-batch IPS officer Vikas Vaibhav (File photo) Patna: Vikas Vaibhav, a 2003-batch Indian Police Service officer from Bihar cadre, has been appointed inspector general of the Magadh range, a posting that brings a two-decade career of counter-t...
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo for representation via X/@BSF_Rajasthan)When the-then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, wrote to KF Rustamji, the director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), ...
Fresh officers during a pass-out ceremony at the CRPF Academy at Kedarpur, Gurugram, Haryana. (File photo for representation.) When Parliament passed the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, it did more than legislate...
CRPF personnel deployed in an anti-Naxalite operation in Chhattisgarh. (File photo) Let me say this plainly, and without apology: the claim that officers of the Indian Police Service are inherently superior to cadre officers of the central armed...