-The Hindu Only the ‘principal offence' in an FIR gets into NCRB data The National Crime Records Bureau, India's official source of crime data, is systematically undercounting virtually every crime in India on account of a statistical shortcoming, The Hindu has learnt. The December 16 gang rape, which prompted much examination of data on sexual assault in the country, will not even figure in NCRB data on rape owing to this statistical flaw. The...
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‘One in four men across Asia admit to having committed rape’-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Nearly one out of four men in a United Nations study of 10,000 men in Asia admitted to having committed a rape, a report released on Tuesday shows. Marital rape was by far the most common type of rape, followed by the rape of an intimate partner. Sexual entitlement - the "belief that men were entitled to sex regardless of consent" - was the top reason men gave for committing...
More »‘Bihar, U.P. will form workforce of the future’-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Growing child population puts these two States at an advantage; developed States of Kerala, Tamil Nadu have hit their peaks, say census data The workforce of the future will come from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, with developed States like Kerala and Tamil Nadu hitting - or even bypassing - their peaks, new census data shows. Two simultaneous and opposing processes are going on in India, the ‘single year age data' released...
More »Demographic dividend at its peak-Rukmini S
-The Hindu If there was ever a time for the demographic dividend that India is banking on to start paying off, it is now. Census data released on Friday shows that India's youth bulge is now sharpest at the key 15-24 age group, even as its youngest and oldest age groups begin to narrow. The office of the Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner released ‘single year age data' for the...
More »Delhi delivers, but not equally to all: Report-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Among basic services, sanitation - public toilets in particular - ranks as national Capital's worst public service Despite an overall improvement in the quality of life it offers its citizens, Delhi is home to large inequalities in access to basic services, the Capital's latest Human Development Report, which was released by Vice-President Hamid Ansari and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday, has revealed. Seven years after coming out with its first...
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