Though there is a drop in total number of misdeeds against kids, child marriage has increased 50 per cent and online abuse has increased 400 per cent in one year...

Female labour participation rate in India fell to 16.1 per cent in 2020, while child marriage cases rose by about 50 per cent...

Evidence of the changing nature of criminal transgressions has been brought to light, once again, by data collated and published by the NCRB for the year, 2020...

Crime rate registered decrease from 1.8 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2020...

Crimes against women, children witness a drop in 2020; disobedience cases go up drastically...

Data from the National Crime Records Bureau show that in 2019 there were over 4,05,861 cases of assaults on women — a 7% spike over the figure reported in 2018...

Readers write in from Calcutta, Chennai, and New Delhi...

Nityanand Rai also informed the parliament that 46 cases of cyber terrorism have been reported in the country during the same period...

Bengal has recorded the highest number of lightning strikes from cloud to ground per square km in India in 2020 as per the 2020 South Asia Lightning Report...

According to the National Crime Records Bureau data shared by him, in 2019, a total of 49,608 such cases were registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act ...