-The Telegraph A set of numbers, portents of atmospheric changes in the skies over India, had told meteorologist Om Prakash Singh something rare was going to happen over northwest India. It was Thursday, June 13, and a supercomputer that routinely crunches out five-day forecasts had consistently predicted a confluence of two weather systems, likely to take place by the weekend and deliver copious rainfall. As Singh and his colleagues at the India Meteorological...
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Where rape is a conspiracy -Prasenjit Chowdhury
-The Hindustan Times It is really sad for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to accept that as per the latest figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) West Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year on the trot. The NCRB Statistics said West Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 - of which 2,046 were rape cases. Senior administrative and police...
More »‘Stranger rape’ rises over 10% -Rukmini Shrinivasan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Was 2012 the most dangerous year for women in the capital in the recent past? One statistic would seem to suggest so: the proportion of rapes committed by men who were strangers to the victim rose above 2% for the first time in five years to cross 10%. 'Stranger rape' of the type that occurred in Delhi on December 16 last year tends to form...
More »More rapes in Delhi in 2012 than 4 metros put together -Dwaipayan Ghosh
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Delhi's shame continues. The National Crime Records Bureau's report for 2012, released on Wednesday, iterates through Statistics what every woman in the city knows by experience - that it remains the most unsafe for women among 88 important cities of India. With 5,959 cases of crime against women registered last year, Delhi accounted for a staggering 14.88% of all women-related crimes reported from these 88 cities....
More »Bengal contests data ranking it highest in crime against women
-IANS Kolkata: As the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released figures showing West Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year on the trot, the state government contested the data, claiming its disclaimers were not published. The fresh NCRB Statistics said West Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 - of which 2,046 were rape cases, 4,168 kidnapping, 593 related to dowry deaths, and...
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