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IPS on deputations leading CAPF cadres: New law stokes old conflicts

A decisive constitutional confrontation is unfolding in the Supreme Court over the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026. As native paramilitary cadre officers challenge the statutory lock-in of IPS deputation quotas, the battle exposes a deep institutional friction between executive security policies and judicial directives.

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Punjab insurgency victims remembered through photographs, memorials and fading records while perpetrators retain public prominence

The victims that Punjab politics chose to forget

Local memorials, police webpages, press-freedom records and family recollections preserve fragments of those killed, while incomplete archives, political commemorations and cultural narratives continue shaping which victims remain visible and which gradually disappear from public memory.

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