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Topic: Crimes

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Just as central ministries and state departments are represented by designated spokespersons, police headquarters should also appoint media officers for daily briefings.

Philippines deportee Joginder Geong is ‘Arsh Dalla’s man, remote-controlled targeted killings in Punjab’

Joginder fled India in 2018 after killing a person in Panipat on suspicion that the person provided police with information that led to the encounter of his brother, Surender, in 2017.

Hospital transplant coordinators ‘exploited poor donors’ — Delhi Police bust inter-state ‘kidney racket’

Racket active in Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat and arranged 34 kidney transplants in 11 hospitals, investigation finds. 'Kingpin' among 15 arrested.

24% spike in cybercrime in India, shows NCRB data. Fraud, extortion & sexual exploitation top motives

The crime rate in the country has also gone up, to 4.8% in 2022 from 3.9% in 2021, according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Rise of AAP and fall of law & order — for Punjab, 2022 was a year of terror & high-profile murders

While AAP says crimes came down in state under its rule, the year saw at least 3 cross-border terror attacks, murders of a popular singer & a sacrilege accused, and a Hindu-Sikh clash.

Delhi Police to get CSI-style forensic vans with voice & bullethole testing, explosive detection

Procured from National Forensic Sciences University, 15 vans will be assigned across police districts. Focus is to boost conviction rates & to reduce burden on existing labs.

Muslim spiritual guru Khwaja Sayyad Chishti shot dead by 4 men in Nashik

The community religious leader, popularly known as 'Sufi Baba', was shot Tuesday evening in an open plot in the MIDC area of Yeola town, around 200 km from Mumbai, the police said.

Deleted photos, broken phones: How Delhi’s cyber-forensics lab helps crack ‘blind cases’

The National Cyber Forensics Lab digs out invisible clues lingering in hardware or the internet ether to help solve cases ranging from murder to extortion to cybercrime.

‘Only 8.5 tonnes of metal and Rs 3 lakh’: The real story behind Bihar’s ‘grand’ bridge theft

Villagers in Rohtas are getting calls from as far as London about brazen theft of a footbridge. But, had old rivalries and resentments not surfaced, there might have been no story.

Violence goes viral — Dalits in Rajasthan have a new tool against atrocities, their phones

What happens when a video of a crime against a Dalit in Rajasthan goes viral on the internet? The police and state can’t ignore it.

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I’ve been driving an EV for 2 years—Indian roads are ready to switch to electric

Driving an electric vehicle for months, the Hyundai IONIQ5, BMW iX and now the Kia Carens Clavis electric, has convinced me of the viability of EVs for city and mid-range commutes.

Rupee’s turmoil has echoes of 2013

With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.