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  • Hyderabad: DRDL tours police command and control centre

    Hyderabad: DRDL tours police command and control centre

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    Hyderabad: DRDL team gets briefing on City Police control centre

    Hyderabad: A six-member delegation of the Defence Research and Development Lab (DRDL) visited the HCP (Hyderabad City Police) commissionerate and the Integrated Command and Control Centre here at Banjara hills on Friday.

    The officials of DRDL were briefed on how the facility aggregates information across multiple applications, CCTVs, and traffic sensors deployed across the state.

    The tech team of HCP also explained how the application smartly works in the backend to trigger alerts on crowd gathering, geo-fence alerts, un-attended baggage, traffic congestion etc.

    The delegation was then taken on a tour of the premises, which included the helipad, and auditorium.

    They have explored other key sections in the building state emergency operations centre (Dial 100), multi-agency operation centre and the technology fusion center.

    While touring the building, the delegates were briefed on the evolution of city police functioning and the modernisation of police organisation after the formation of Telangana.

    Later they called on the city police chief CV Anand and presented a memento who welcomed the delegation and said he was happy to have them at their workplace.

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  • Centre seeks state’s report on ‘Azad Kashmir’ question in Bengal’s test-paper

    Centre seeks state’s report on ‘Azad Kashmir’ question in Bengal’s test-paper

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    Kolkata: A day after a row erupted in Bengal over the recently-released compilation of test-papers for secondary examination released by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Examination (WBBSE) having a question on ‘Azad Kashmir’, the Centre on Wednesday sought an explanatory report from the state government on this count.

    WBBSE releases the test-paper compilation every year, which contains Class 10 final test examination (pre-board) questions of some leading schools. The compilation acts as a suggestion for the candidates appearing for the Class 10 board exams.

    However, page 132 of this year’s test-paper carried a question paper of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir, Malda, with a question that asks the students to point out ‘Azad Kashmir’ on the map.

    Sources in the state government said that a communique from the Union Education Ministry has reached the state secretariat, seeking an explanatory note from the West Bengal education department on this count.

    In the communique, it has been stated that the matter of ‘Azad Kashmir’ is an extremely sensitive issue and the Union government does not recognise ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir’ as ‘Azad Kashmir’.

    “The Education Ministry has sought clarification from the state government as to how such a sensitive issue managed to find a place in the test-paper,” said a state education department official, who refused to be named.

    Meanwhile, sensing the gravity of the matter, the state education department has already initiated an internal probe into the matter. Sources said that a total of nine teachers have been identified and cautioned in the matter by the WBBSE.

    Out of the nine teachers cautioned, six are members of the board’s history syllabus committee.

    A letter of caution has also been forwarded to the headmaster of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Vidyamandir, whose question paper carrying the controversial question on ‘Azad Kashmir’ featured in the test-paper.

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    ( Disclaimer: With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • “Tearing urgency, lightning speed”, Supreme Court questions Centre on appointment of Election Commissioner

    “Tearing urgency, lightning speed”, Supreme Court questions Centre on appointment of Election Commissioner

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    After the Center presented the original file of Election Commissioner Arun Goel’s appointment before the Constitution bench on Thursday, the Supreme Court questioned the lightning-quickness with which his name was finalised.

    This occurred the day after the Supreme Court stated that the Centre should not be afraid to produce the file “if they were right, as they claimed and that there was no hanky panky” in regards to the “process” by which the former IAS official was selected as the Election Commissioner last week.

    On Thursday, a five-judge Constitution Bench, presided over by Justice K M Joseph and made up of Justices Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy, and C T Ravikumar, said that the file was cleared within 24 hours and questioned the Centre as to whether there was any “tearing urgency” to do so. The petitions sought changes to the appointment of Election Commissioners.

    The Center, through Attorney General R. Venkataramani, asked the court to “hold its mouth” and asked it to look into the matter completely as the top court noted that the file pertaining to Goel’s appointment was cleared with “lightning speed.”

    Which type of evaluation is this? However, the panel stated that they were only criticising the procedure and not Arun Goel’s qualifications.

    When asked how the Law Minister selected the four names to be recommended to the Prime Minister, the Attorney General said it was done using a database that DoPT maintains.


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  • Centre accords ‘X’ category CRPF armed security to four BJP leaders in Punjab

    Centre accords ‘X’ category CRPF armed security to four BJP leaders in Punjab

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    Four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have been given ‘X’ category armed security protection by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) by the Central government, top government sources claimed on Saturday.

    After conducting a security analysis based on an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report indicating a threat to senior BJP leaders, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) ordered the CRPF to give “X-category” round-the-clock protection, reports news agency ANI.

    Among the BJP heavyweights who supplied the security protection were former Punjab cabinet ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu and Gurpreet Singh Kanga, former MLA Jagdip Singh Nakai, and Amarjit Singh Tikka. All four leaders recently left the Congress and joined the BJP.

    In October, the Centre also gave five BJP leaders in Punjab “Y” category security coverage based on a related IB report.

    As a result of threat assessments based on IB reports, the MHA used to offer security services in the “X,” “Y,” “Y+,” “Z,” and “Z+” categories through Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) like the CRPF and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).

    VIP security protection has been entrusted to the CISF and CRPF by the MHA. Each of the two paramilitary organisations has its own elite VIP security division of commandos that is equipped with cutting-edge close-protection weapons.

    (With inputs from agencies)


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