The writer is former DGP, Punjab
October 27, 2015 00:00 IST
This has provoked a power struggle within the SGPC, as the longstanding hegemony of the increasingly discredited Badal leadership is challenged.
July 30, 2015 00:00 IST
You don’t prepare for terrorism after it has happened. And you don’t just learn from your own experience.
January 17, 2015 00:00 IST
Extremist ideologies cannot be allowed to flourish for fear of giving offence
September 26, 2014 00:12 IST
Court guidelines on encounters misread state of policing and police capacity.
April 03, 2012 02:55 IST
Bad politics over Rajoanas execution may cede ground to extremist forces
February 25, 2006 00:00 IST
Now that Delhi High Court, taking suo motu notice, has sought from the police the details in the Jessica Lall case, there’s finally som...
July 06, 2005 00:00 IST
Asked to write about the Gujarat riots of 2002 by an European magazine, I was groping for images to convey the abject and inexcusable failur...
February 21, 2005 00:00 IST
Once again, the ‘human rights’ lobby has launched a virulent and unsubstantiated campaign against the police in the case of the at...
October 24, 2004 01:06 IST
By agreeing to negotiate with Naxalite groups, the Government has only emboldened those who choose the path of violence to meet their politi...
January 07, 2000 00:00 IST
Three is a general tendency to verbal excess in crises and, in the aftermath of the recent hijacking, one leading columnist declares that ...