-The Indian Express Muslims were the only religious community in India whose representation in the force was separately provided in the NCRB report. In fact, such data was first made public in 1999 during the Vajpayee-led NDA government. For the first time in 16 years, the Union Home Ministry has decided to stop making public information about Muslims serving in the police force. Until last year, representation of SCs/STs and Muslims in the...
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Police overhaul: Case pending -Deeptiman Tiwary
-The Indian Express Over nine years after the Supreme Court asked all states and the Centre to bring in reforms to make the police forces more people-centric than ruler-centric, not much has changed on the ground. Few weeks back, following a spate of crimes against women and children in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “Modi-ji, please give up your stubborn attitude and let’s work together. Give police and ACB...
More »In Drought-Prone Maharashtra, This Farmer Leaves His Entire Crop for Birds to Feed On -Manabi Katoch
-TheBetterIndia.com Ashok Sonule and his family struggle every day to feed twelve mouths. But, whereas most farmers in the vicinity have barren fields, his are lush with jowar. And what does he do with it? Leaves the entire harvest to feed birds. He has not even installed a scarecrow and ensures the water bowl is always full for the thirsty birds. Read on. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Ministry...
More »Over 47k crimes against Dalits in 2014, 21 killed in Haryana: NCRB -Bharti Jain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi may claim that Dalits are being increasingly targeted under the present dispensation but statistics put out by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) during the last few years when UPA was in power show that crimes against Scheduled Castes rose almost steadily to 47,064 in 2014 from 39,408 in 2013 (19%), 33,655 in 2012 (17%), 33,719 in 2011, 32,712 in 2010 and 33,594 in...
More »MP loan scam: Interest subsidy for 1.77 lakh ‘ghost’ farmers swindled -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India BHOPAL: At a time when suicides by farmers in Madhya Pradesh following scanty rain and poor yield have brought back focus on their plight, allegedly more than 1.77 lakh ghost farmers benefitted from interest subsidies on their loans. Putting a question mark on the much hyped 0% interest farm loan scheme of the state government, a series of RTI queries by TOI revealed that between 2007-08 and 2012-13,...
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