NEW DELHI: In view of the increasing number of custodial deaths and torture at police stations, SC on Monday proposed taking the help of artificial intelligence to monitor all CCTV cameras installed in the stations, which would automatically trigger an alarm to alert concerned authorities when a camera was switched off or became non-functional.A bench…
NEW DELHI: SC Monday said its ruling on petitions challenging the validity of the special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar electoral rolls ahead of the assembly polls in the state would apply in same rigour to EC’s decision for SIR across states from next year.As a litany of petitioners through their counsels competed to identify…
NEW DELHI: Govt will soon undertake a comprehensive security upgrade of the Parliament House Complex. Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has invited bids for the installation of an electric fence, a fibre optic-based Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS), and a CCTV camera surveillance network integrated with a centralised video management system (VMS).As per the tender…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB) received an overwhelming 15,75,760 applications for sub-inspector (civil police) and equivalent posts for “direct recruitment 2025”. The recruitment drive, one of the largest in recent years, aims to fill 4,543 vacancies, including posts for women in the newly formed PAC battalions.According to the board, notification for…
MUMBAI: For years, a rare form of male infertility, in which men are born without the tubes that carry sperm, was blamed on a single gene tied to cystic fibrosis. Now, researchers in Mumbai have identified a broader set of genes in Indian men, including one passed from mothers to sons, that help explain this…
NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has expressed disappointment over the SC’s interim order on the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, describing it as “incomplete and unsatisfactory” and sharing that the community feels that “those provisions not stayed at this stage shall be abused”.The board said that while SC has granted partial…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court’s prima facie endorsement of non-arbitrariness of provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, was principally based on a 100-year history of mismanagement and misappropriation of sprawling properties and valuable assets donated for charity by benevolent Muslims and the remedial regulations enacted since 1923.A bench of CJI B R Gavai and…
KOLKATA: Bengal police arrested a BSF jawan and his aide from Lucknow Sunday for allegedly killing a former CRPF jawan, identified as Lalit Mohan Adhikary of Nandigram in East Midnapore, whose body was found with his throat slit in North 24 Parganas district’s Ashoknagar last month, reports Sanjib Chakraborty. On Monday, police produced the accused…
PUNE/NAVI MUBAI: Probe into the abduction of a heavy vehicle’s helper by an SUV driver during a road rage incident in Navi Mumbai on Saturday found that dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s father, Dilip Khedkar, a retired state govt officer, was in the SUV, police said. Both he and his chauffeur have absconded in the…