New Delhi: Against the backdrop of rising crimes against women, some startling facts have emerged. There's a shortfall of 2,500 lady officers in the Delhi Police. With less than ideal working conditions, even serving women officers are struggling to make a difference.
"I leave every morning at 8. I never know when my day is going to end," said a Maya, a lady officer in the Delhi Police. The lady in khaki, the helping hand for female victims of crime, is in fact overworked, underpaid and not treated as an equal by her male colleagues.
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09:52 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: India on Sunday night offered to train judges and judicial officials from the Maldives in formulation of rules and regulations. This was conveyed by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid to the Chief Justice of Maldives Ahmed Faiz Hussain, who is on a five-day visit to India. Hussain is in New Delhi at the invitation of the Chief Justice of India Altmas Kabir and will participate in a Roundtable...
10:14 AM, Jun 10, 2013
Mumbai: The CBI special court on Friday granted interim relief from arrest to three people accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case. The court granted relief to Vimal Patni, Director of RK Marble, senior IPS officer Narasimha Balasubramaniam and police inspector G Shrinivasan. The accused have been granted the relief till June 14 after they moved anticipatory bail applications claiming there was no evidence against them. The special...
03:09 AM, May 25, 2013
Bangalore: A passport scam has now surfaced in Karnataka. The state Lokayukta has indicted six senior government officers of taking bribes in return for issuing verification on passports. Over 1,000 such verifications were issued over a period of five months. The state anti-corruption unit in its report alleges that the senior officers, including a DGP-rank police officer and a retired IAS officer took bribes up to Rs 16,000 to verify...
10:01 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Claiming that recent bribery allegation in Railways is nothing new, the Federation of Railway Officers' Association has written a letter to the Cabinet Secretary alleging the Ministry "often plays by different rules or bends rules for postings of senior officers beyond recognition." The Association alleged that the Railway Ministry "often plays by different rules or bends rules for postings of senior officers beyond recognition." The letter comes in...
12:52 AM, May 08, 2013
Ahmedabad: In a major reshuffle, Gujarat government on Tuesday transferred 27 senior IAS officers, in which four principal secretaries were promoted to the rank of additional chief secretaries. RK Tripathy, Rajesh Kishor, Maheshwar Sahu and HK Dash have been promoted as additional chief secretaries from the rank of principal secretaries. RK Tripathy, who was the Principal Secretary to the Agriculture and Cooperation Department, has been promoted to ACS and transferred...
11:24 PM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Three Navy officers are being terminated from service for divulging secret information on social networking websites such as Facebook and the primary reason for these cases of indiscipline was "moral turpitude", the Defence Ministry has informed a Parliamentary panel. It also told the Standing Committee on Defence that in three cases of face-offs between troops and officers in the Army, the forces have taken action against 219 officers,...
09:11 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday shifted 23 senior IAS officers, including Commissioner of the state capital. The state government also gave posting to former NOIDA development authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur, who was removed from the post after a High Court order in November 2012. He has been made Commissioner social welfare, an official spokesman said. Commissioner Lucknow Sanjiv Dubey has been put on the waiting list while Commissioner...
10:03 PM, Apr 13, 2013
The country has just 5.33 per cent women in police forces despite growing demands for more representation in law enforcement agencies. According to Home Ministry statistics, out of 15,85,117 personnel working in state police forces, only 84,479 or just 5.33 per cent are women. ...
11:24 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Over 1,000 IAS officers have failed to submit their immovable property returns to the government within the stipulated time frame in 2013. Of the total of 1,057 officers who did not submit their IPRs for 2012, a highest of 147 are from Uttar Pradesh cadre, 114 of Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories (AGMUT), 100 of Manipur-Tripura, 96 of Jammu and Kashmir and 88 of Madhya Pradesh cadre among others, according to Department...
08:12 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Militants on Saturday shot dead two policemen in Jammu and Kashmir's Handawara town. The two policemen were admitted to a hospital but they both succumbed to their injuries soon after being shot. ...
01:03 PM, Mar 02, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two police officers who were part of as many squads that took part in the alleged fake encounter of teenage girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 in Gujarat. The duo were already under judicial custody in another alleged fake encounter case of Sadik Jamal. ...
09:12 PM, Feb 23, 2013
A case similar to Akshay Kumar starrer 'Special Chabbis' has been reported from Delhi. Eight people posing as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers arrived at a shop in Delhi's Lahori Gate area on Tuesday and tried to extort Rs 2 lakh from the businessman. But the businessman and his associates foiled their attempt to rob him. ...
02:21 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Giving a strict message to bureaucracy, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said that a long list of transfers was in the offing and once it was done it would not be cancelled. "A long list of transfers (of officers) are in the offing...once it is done transfer orders will not be changed," Yadav said while addressing party workers here. ...
07:25 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Clarifying his statements that prompted the Income Tax officers' body to seek an apology from him, former Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday denied threatening I-T officers who are probing allegations of dubious funding of his firm, Purti Group. "I never threatened the IT Department or its officials. I have full faith in the professional integrity of the department." Gadkari said in a statement. ...
07:38 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Two police officers shot and wounded during a gun battle on a New York City subway train have been released from the hospital, as authorities identified the man who opened fire and was later killed. The subway shooting was the second of two Thursday involving New York City police officers, prompting Mayor Michael Bloomberg to criticise the top US gun lobbying group. ...
09:50 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Lecherous males trying to misbehave with women on board crowded Metro trains could find themselves collared and fined by women paramilitary officers posing as passengers. ...
08:47 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Cyberabad is all set to get a Women Help Desk at every police station from 2013, police said on Friday. "Deputy Commissioners of Police have been asked to create help desks for women at all the police stations to curb the crime against women," Police Commissioner Ch Dwarka Tirumala Rao said at his year-end press conference. ...
07:49 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Ahmedabad: Nine accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, who were lodged in a city jail, were on Thursday sent to Mumbai under heavy security for their production before the special court there on November 23. Later, they all will be sent to a jail in Maharashtra, as per the decision of the special CBI court in Mumbai, before which they will be produced. The nine accused, including suspended...
06:57 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Panaji: Several retired IAS and IPS officers and also those from the army are set to join the campaign against corruption, veteran activist Anna Hazare said on Sunday. Speaking at annual event 'ThinkFest' here, Hazare claimed that about 100 retired officers from Army, nine retired IAS officers and several IPS officers including seven former director generals of police (DGP) were joining him. Announcing his plans, Hazare said that he would...
11:30 PM, Nov 04, 2012
