-The Hindu The latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau show that it is time to change our understanding of felony and its registration by the police With every passing year of writing on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)’s crime data, it has become increasingly clear that what I am forced to do is essentially compare apples and oranges, and then make a normative call based on that comparison. This...
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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 »Madhya Pradesh tops in foeticide: NCRB -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India BHOPAL: On October 6, 2011, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had sought the blessings at Peetambara Peeth at Ratangarh in Datia and launched the much-hyped 'Beti Bachao Abhiyan' all over the state with a pledge to protect girl child. Four years down the line Madhya Pradesh is top in the country in having maximum number of foeticide cases. In year 2014, thirty percent of the total cases of...
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 »The spectre of suicide -V Sridhar
-Frontline As rural Karnataka reels under an unprecedented wave of suicides by farmers, the State administration looks on, unwilling to address the reasons that have rendered rural livelihoods fragile. DEATH stalks rural Karnataka. In the 41 days between July 1 and August 10, as many as 245 farmers committed suicide, an average of six a day; since April 1, 284 farmers have taken their lives. As a bewildered State government gropes...
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