-FirstPost.com Farmer suicides haven't gone up in Maharashtra: Why is Modi tweaking data? Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aggressively attempting to make the high incidence of farmers's suicide in Maharashtra an important election issue. The BJP is probably trying to make inroads in rural Maharashtra where it is not known to be strong traditionally. Modi has quoted government statistics to suggest Maharashtra has had more than 10 farmers committing suicide every day. Needless...
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Large holes in police website -Chhandosree
-The Telegraph Ranchi: Efficiency is another matter, but state police are as good or bad as their more hyped counterparts in Maharashtra or Delhi as far as not following Right to Information (RTI) Act goes. A nationwide study on proactive information disclosure through police and prison websites across 29 states by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, a New Delhi-based NGO, released yesterday, showed none followed the transparency regimen prescribed under RTI Act, Section...
More »Undivided AP witnessed 2014 farmer suicides last year
-The Times of India HYDERABAD: In what could be seen a possible reflection of an agrarian crisis, 2014 farmers -- 1211 in Telangana and 803 farmers in Andhra -- committed suicide in the undivided state in 2013. The data provides a comprehensive analysis and break-up based on age, gender and districts on all farmers' suicides recorded last year. Among districts, Mahbubnagar topped the list in Telangana with 287 deaths and in Andhra, this...
More »Suicide attempt cases go unreported -KV Aditya Bharadwaj and Tanu Kulkarni
-The Hindu Bangalore reported the second highest number of suicides after Chennai in 2013 The latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) figures indicate that Bangalore reported the second highest number of suicides after Chennai, and recorded 2,033 suicides in 2013. According to medical experts and psychologists, for every suicide there at least 10 attempt to suicide cases and they are not part of official records. What is more worrying, according to medical...
More »Crime records bureau data is all about cases registered only under laws till 1998 -Aditya Bharadwaj
-The Hindu NCRB officials blame it on old pro forma used to collect data Bangalore: The only official nationwide data of incidence of crimes, published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), shockingly does not reflect data on cases registered under many of the new laws enacted and laws amended by Parliament since 1998. NCRB officials blamed the anomaly on an old pro forma that they use to collect and collate data from...
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