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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Topic: NCRB

No farmer suicide numbers for second year in a row as NCRB releases crime data for 2017

The Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report – a crucial source for data on farmer suicides – brought out by NCRB was last published in 2015.

Rajasthan is the new UP-Bihar as crime rate spikes in tourist paradise

The Congress govt in Rajasthan finds itself fielding the same allegation it lobbed at its BJP predecessors in 2018 — crime is out of control.

Liberals accusing Modi of creating a fear complex in 2019 are guilty of doing the same

If you are openly naming and shaming a legitimate political party, you cannot claim to be “neutral”.

Another data mishap? NCRB’s new prisons report has no caste, religion breakdown of inmates

Representation of some social group in jails has been higher to their share in population but NCRB’s 2016 report takes away that understanding as well.

National Crime Records Bureau adds more than 5 lakh names to database of sex offenders

The database keeps a record of offenders convicted under charges of rape, gang rape, POCSO and eve teasing.

4 school students killed themselves in India every day, shows data

A National Crime Records Bureau report shows a total of 8,934 students committed suicide in 2015, up from 8,068 the year before.

Appoint grievance officer for WhatsApp, think tank urges Supreme Court

The CASC plea says shutting down internet services — as governments have been doing so far — is not a viable option.

Every 6 hours a girl is getting raped, what are you doing about it: SC pulls up Bihar govt

The top court's observations came during a hearing on the alleged sexual abuse of 34 minors and women at a Muzaffarpur shelter.

Indian cities are choking but there have been just 6 air pollution convictions in 2014-16

Uttar Pradesh, the state with four of the world’s 10 most polluted cities, registered just two cases in 2016, NCRB data shows.

Punjab’s losing war on drugs as tough narcotics law is punishing, not reforming, addicts

A report by Vidhi Center for Legal Policy has said that the NDPS Act has failed to meet its twin objectives of deterrence and...

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.