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 commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...
INSV Kaundinya (File photo)— By Cdr Neeraj Vashisth“Be it for spices, beads, jewellery, cotton, or the richness of our culture, the thriving sea-lanes served as bridges of commercial and intellectual exchange. For centuries, this nurtured...
The Supreme Court of India. (File photo)With over a million personnel in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),...
INSV Kaundinya with the Gandabherunda insignia on its sail. (Photo: Indian Navy)New Delhi: The Indian Navy ceremonially inducted INSV Kaundinya, a full-scale stitched sail ship inspired by the seafaring ingenuity of 5th-century India, into its sailin...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying a wreath on the casket carrying the body of Dr Manmohan Singh. New Delhi: The home ministry has declared seven days of national mourning on the passing of India’s 13th prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, ...
Dr Manmohan Singh (September 26, 1932 – December 26, 2024)Dr Manmohan Singh, the distinguished economist who served as India’s 13th prime minister and fundamentally transformed the nation’s economic landscape, passed away on Thursda...
(File photo for representation.)In his insightful analysis of police reforms, Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan, who was a distinguished ICS officer and former undersecretary of the United Nations, once observed a troubling pattern in his article...