-The Hindustan Times The skyrocketing prices of onions, a key ingredient used in making dishes ranging from curries to biryanis, reflects India’s inability to insulate staples from weather-induced supply disturbances. On Thursday onions traded at Rs 4,900 a quintal (or Rs 49 a kg) at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, India’s largest wholesale market for the crop. Inadequate supplies have pushed up prices sharply over the last few weeks. Already, retail onion prices have...
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8,765 arrested for environmental offences in 2014: NCRB
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A total of 8,765 people were arrested across the country for various environment-related offences in 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has said in its latest report. The NCRB has added this fresh category in which it has given details of crimes registered under acts like the forest act, wildlife protection act, Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986, Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, Water (Prevention and...
More »Delhi is unsafe for children too, reveals NCRB data -Rajesh Ahuja
-Hindustan Times Delhi is most unsafe for children with a whopping 166.9 cases registered for every 100,000 children, the latest data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed. According to the NCRB, crimes against children include offences like murder, infanticide and rape against the country's population below the age of 18 years. Out of the total 89,423 cases of crime against children registered in the country, the maximum number or 15,085...
More »NCRB data show rape accused known to victim most of the time -Rajesh Ahuja
-Hindustan Times Out of every 100 cases of rape registered in India, the accused is known to the victim 86 times, and in around 8.5% of these known cases the accused happens to be a relative, the 2014 data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) from across the country has revealed. Out of a total of 37,413 cases of rape registered in India in 2014, in 32,817 cases, the accused...
More »Litigation policy to dispose of cases involving govt in 3 yrs -Chetan Chauhan
-Hindustan Times The cabinet is to take up a law ministry proposal that aims to dispose of in three years cases involving the Centre and also minimise litigation by the government, the country’s biggest litigant. The new litigation policy — the draft of which has been seen by HT — wants the government to be a facilitator of justice and not a blocker by being a “compulsive litigant”. “We want to transform...
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