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More than 6 lakh Indians gave up citizenship over last 5 years: Govt

-PTI/ IndiaToday.in More than six lakh Indians have given up their citizenship over the last five years, the Lok Sabha was informed by Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai on Tuesday. Over six lakh Indians have given up their citizenship in the last five years, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said that as per the information available with the Ministry...

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Understanding the NCRB data on suicides with caution

The increase in the total number of suicides committed in India during 2020 in comparison to the previous years has hit the headlines recently. While some media commentators have stated that the economic distress (caused by job loss, income loss, failure of business, and growing hunger, among other things) in 2020 could have led to more suicides being committed, others have said that home isolation and deteriorating mental health (associated...

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Opinion: Judging Indian police performance by just the crime statistics is a blunder -Shailesh Gandhi

-Scroll.in Such methodology to gauge the effectiveness of policing has only resulted in underreporting of cases and institutionalising dishonesty. We are happy to blame the politicians and the government for the various shortcomings of India’s criminal justice system but are reluctant to understand certain underlying reasons for these and focus on possible solutions. Two of these problems are corruption and general unfriendly behaviour in the police department. Most citizens know how difficult it...

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Updated NPR form appears to retain contentious questions -Vijaita Singh

-The Hindu 14 parameters include mother tongue, place of birth of parents and last place of residence. The latest form of the National Population Register (NPR) appears to have retained contentious questions such as “mother tongue, place of birth of father and mother and last place of residence”, according to a document compiled by a committee under the Registrar General of India and shared with District Census officers. Though NPR was first compiled...

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The Real 'State' in India Is Its Criminal Justice System -NC Asthana

-TheWire.in The biggest tormentor of the people in India is paradoxically the Indian state itself. We are living in times that are both frightening and strange. They are frightening because the Indian society is being driven by a binary system. Either you conform to the majoritarian or official narrative, or you are branded a traitor of some sort – jihadi, urban Naxal, or ISI agent who must be jailed or tormented by...

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