-The Hindu Scrutiny reveals 242 men and 129 women commit suicide every day Kollam: As many as 1,35,445 people committed suicide in the country last year. Statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) show that excluding West Bengal, 79,773 men and 40,715 women had taken the extreme step. West Bengal, where 14,957 suicides were reported, did not provide classification statistics to the NCRB. The rate of suicide last year stands at...
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For 10th year in a row, Tamil Nadu tops India in road accidents -Karthikeyan Hemalatha
-The Times of India CHENNAI: It isn't a record to be proud of: For the last 10 years, Tamil Nadu has topped the National Crime Record Bureau's charts for road accidents in the country. In 2003, the state recorded a little more than 51,000 accidents, the highest in the country. Ten years later, in 2012, close to 68,000 were registered, again the largest number in the country. Close to eight accidents occur every...
More »CID fails Mamata's chargesheet date -Sanjib Chakraborty
-The Times of India BARASAT: Mamata Banerjee has again failed Kamduni, where a college girl was gang-raped and brutally murdered on the night of June 7. Even 15 days after the crime, the CID has failed to file the chargesheet as promised by the chief minister when she visited the victim's family on June 17, ten days after the ghastly crime. Mamata's self-imposed deadline passed on Saturday. "We have the postmortem report...
More »Lethal surveillance versus privacy-Shalini Singh
-The Hindu There has been no public debate on the level of watch citizens can be put through, and on what the red lines should be while using intrusive mechanisms The tussle between government agencies' need for a better, faster and real-time interception, surveillance and monitoring mechanism through the Central Monitoring System (CMS), on the one hand, and demands by privacy, civil rights and free speech activists, for ensuring higher privacy for...
More »WHO study: Third of women suffer domestic violence
-Associated Press London: In the first major global review of violence against women, a series of reports released Thursday found that about a third of women have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it "a global health problem of epidemic proportions," and other experts said screening for domestic violence should be added to all levels of...
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