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Against the backdrop of the anti-CAA agitation and to improve the law and order situation in the state, Uttar Pradesh has decided to implement the long-pending plan for a police commissioner system in the state, starting with Noida and Lucknow. ADGs Sujit Pandey and Alok...

The slowdown has shown no signs of ebbing. Every shred of data that keeps coming to public domain looks more depressing than the earlier. Government data released Wednesday showed India’s exports dropped 1.8 per cent to $27.36 billion in December 2019, the fifth straight month...

Some years ago an NGO was asked by the state government to run a gaushala in Patiala. They did, on condition that the food would be supplied to the cows by the municipality. The municipality gave the contract for chara (green fodder) to a person....

The arrest of Davinder Singh, a DSP with Jammu and Kashmir Police, on suspected terror links is a strange case. Davinder had, in 2004, been named by Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the Parliament attack of 2001 and hanged to death. Afzal said Davinder...

Energy is undoubtedly one of the biggest essentials in the growth of any country. While fossil fuel still dominates, developed nations have been focusing on renewable energy for quite a while now. Germany tops the list with renewable energy at more than 12 per cent...

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figure for farmer and agricultural labourer suicides in 2018 is 10,349. Although this number has shown progressive decline from 2016 (11,379) and 2017 (10,655), according to figures released recently, the numbers are still not very encouraging. Going by the...

The Citizenship Amendment Act has been notified and has become effective. The protests against it around the country have made no difference to the strong posture of the government in favour of it. The fact that it may be seen as a law that is...

A rather ugly war has broken out in the higher echelons of UP Police. Senior IPS officer and Noida police chief Vaibhav Krishna has alleged murky dealings in the transfer and posting of police officers in the state. In a written complaint to the Director...

The US air strike on Iranian General Qasem Soleimani last Friday has escalated tensions between Washington and Teheran. In retaliation, Iran Wednesday fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at US airbases in Baghdad, making the region super explosive. Immediately after the US killing of Soleimani...

Nature has a reason for everything. A creature’s environment plays the main part in deciding how its eyes develop and function. For instance, starfish have five eyes at the end of each arm, but they can only see shade and light and huge masses of...