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Chennai: Tamil Nadu treported the most murders of senior citizens in 2023 with 201, show statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Besides, 211 other deaths of elderly people were reported under various crime categories during 2023.Tamil Nadu also reported the second most number of cases of culpable homicide not amounting to murder with 11 cases -- behind Uttar Pradesh, which reported 15 such killings.Overall, Tamil Nadu reported 2,104 cases of crimes against senior citizens, ranking fourth in the country -- behind Madhya Pradesh (5,738 cases), Maharashtra (5,115), and Telangana (2,150). As for offences such as theft, assault, and property disputes involving older individuals, Chennai police registered 399 cases and Hyderabad recorded 292. Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 1,361 such cases and Mumbai had 518. Safety concerns for the elderly have been repeatedly flagged by advocacy groups, who stress the need for better policing, stronger community vigilance, and improved legal safeguards.Retired police officer S Aravindan said, "the figures underline the vulnerability of elderly citizens, but they also show the seriousness with which Chennai police were pursuing cases by filing chargesheets swiftly." Social worker S Vetri Tamilan, from the Elderly Helpdesk in Guindy run by HelpAge India, said, "we are providing support to all elderly people stranded or abandoned on the road. Our volunteers admit them to nearby homes for senior citizens or provide necessary assistance."Another volunteer S Prabha, said: "We have rescued more than three dozen elderly people left abandoned at railway stations or bus termini."
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out searches at 15 places in Mumbai and Kochi in connection with the Mithi River desilting scam that caused a wrongful loss of more than Rs 65 crore to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), official sources said. The massive crackdown is underway at the premises across Mumbai and Kochi linked to the accused and suspects as part of an ongoing probe into alleged financial irregularities. According to the sources, the searches are being carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at locat ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) Every week in 2023, Delhi reported nearly 88 new cases of economic offences on an average, adding up to 4,586 in the year, which was highest among Union territories, according to the latest NCRB data. The picture that emerges is one of a city grappling with a wide range of financial crimes, from everyday scams to high-value frauds running into crores of rupees. Of the total cases in the National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) data for the UT, about 93 per cent (4,286 cases) were filed under forgery, cheating and fraud. Another 262 cases were linked to criminal breach o ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Indian equity indices opened lower on Friday as heavyweights like Axis Bank and Bharti Airtel were among the top losers in the BSE benchmark. At 9.25 am, Sensex was down 171 points or 0.21 per cent at 82, 087 and Nifty was down 35 points or 0.14 per cent at 25, 075. In the Sensex pack, M&M, Tata Steel, Power Grid, L&T, UltraTech Cement, Infosys, Tata Motors, BEL, NTPC, TCS, Trent and Maruti Suzuki were top gainers. Axis Bank, Bharti Airtel, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tech Mahindra , HDFC Bank, Eternal (Zomato), HUL, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, Titan and Bajaj Finserv ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana recorded the second-highest crime rate against women in the country in 2023, reporting 124.9 cases per lakh female population, behind only Delhi, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The state ranked ahead of Rajasthan, Odisha, Haryana and Kerala. Delhi remains the highest in terms of crime rate against women in the country. According to the report, a total of 23,678 cases of crimes against women were registered in Telangana in 2023, marking a 7 per cent rise from 22,066 in 2022 and 20,865 in 2021. The state's chargesheeting rate stood at 88.1 per cent - ...Read More >
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir has secured the top position among Union Territories, excluding Delhi, on the National Crime Records Bureau's CCTNS Pragati Dashboard as of March 1, 2026, marking a major achievement in technology-driven policing in the Union Territory. According to officials, Jammu and Kashmir ranked first among UTs, while Delhi secured the top position in the overall national ranking of States and Union Territories. The achievement has been attributed to the sustained efforts of the CCTNS team of the Crime Branch, J&K Police. The monthly performance assessment is carried out by th ...Read More >
Nagpur: The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) 2023 report positions Nagpur as a city navigating a complex crime landscape, ranking it fifth in murder rate, sixth in crimes against women, and seventh in juvenile involvement in cognizable IPC crimes among India's top 19 metropolitan cities. Earlier, Nagpur had tied with Patna for the highest crime rate in 2020 (3.9) and ranked second in 2021.These rankings reflect a stabilisation of crime trends amid urban growth, showcasing policing successes in some areas while highlighting persistent challenges in others, even as there is a national rise i ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 30 (PTI) India registered 27,886 cases of crimes against senior citizens in 2023, a marginal dip from 28,545 in 2022, with Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu among the states reporting the highest numbers, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said in its annual report. Crime head-wise, the highest number of cases (7,608 or 27.3 per cent) was registered under "simple hurt", followed by theft (4,130, 14.8 per cent) and "FCF" (forgery, cheating and fraud) (3,473, 12.5 per cent) in 2023, according to the NCRB's data. Madhya Pradesh accounted for 5,738 cases, Maharashtr ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The BJP rushed to the defence of the state government over its decision to introduce Hindi as an optional language for Classes 1 to 5 after the Thackeray cousins announced their decision to hold a joint morcha against "imposition" of Hindi in state schools.CM Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said Marathi is compulsory, Hindi is optional. "Basically, students can learn any Indian language. We have accepted the three-language policy. When NE was introduced, the Uddhav Thackeray govt was in office. An 18-member committee was set up to study the policy, and in 2021 the Thackeray govt accepted i ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday urged his Andhra Pradesh counterpart, N. Chandrababu Naidu, not to obstruct Telangana's irrigation projects He appealed to the neighbouring state not to obstruct Telangana's crucial irrigation initiatives, including the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme, as well as the Dindi, Kalwakurthy, Bheema, Nettempadu, and Koilsagar projects. "We demand Andhra Pradesh not to block our projects. We seek cooperation. If our appeals are ignored, we will fight and achieve our goal. I am ready to lead this battl ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Come Saturday and people can whistle into Srinagar on a train as Northern Railway has notifed regular Vande Bharat Express services between Katra and the city. PM Narendra Modi will flag off the first passenger train to the Kashmir Valley on Friday from Katra.The service will be operational for six days a week with no train on Wednesday, railways said. More trains would be deployed depending on demand at a later stage, officials added. From Saturday, a pair of Vande Bharat trains will operate on the Srinagar-Katra-Srinagar route with an intermediate halt at Banihal. Journey time wil ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A case was registered against RCB, event management firm DNA entertainment private limited, Karnataka State Cricket Association on Thursday in connection with the stampede near Chinnaswamy stadium here that claimed the lives of 11 people and injured 56, police said on Thursday. Following a complaint by a police inspector, the case was registered at Cubbon Park station, they said. In the FIR, RCB Franchise has been listed as accused 1, DNA entertainment private limited as accused 2 and Karnataka State Cricket Association Administrative Committee as accused 3, they said. The case h ...Read More >
Mumbai, Sep 30 (PTI) Maharashtra topped in recording abetment of suicide cases across the country with 1,389 offences in which 1,480 people died in 2023, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report. Madhya Pradesh was on the second spot with 1,153 abetment of suicide cases in which 1,211 persons killed themselves, while Uttar Pradesh was on the third spot with 1,075 cases and 1,186 victims, data in the report showed. As per the data published by the New Delhi-headquartered NCRB, a Union home ministry unit, Maharashtra was on the second spot with 5,96,103 cases in 2023 ...Read More >
Lucknow, Sep 30 (PTI) Lucknow recorded more cases of murder, rape, kidnapping, acid attack, culpable homicides and deaths due to negligence with a higher crime rate than Ghaziabad or Kanpur, according to the latest NCRB data for 2023. Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Lucknow are the only three places from Uttar Pradesh which are included in the annual crime data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in the category of the 19 "metropolitan cities" that have a population of over 20 lakh. The NCRB, which functions under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, uses the 2011 census figures for po ...Read More >
Chandigarh: As per a report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 112,720 cases were registered in Haryana in 2021, which increased to 125,435 in 2022. The figure peaked at 2023, with 129,294 cases. Based on an estimated population of 3 crore, the state recorded 426.3 crimes per lakh, and the chargesheet rate was 44.2%. In contrast, neighbouring Himachal Pradesh had fewer cases, and the chargesheeting rate was over 82%, while in Punjab, it was around 63%.Notably, there was solace for Haryana in the preventive cases under special laws, where it recorded a chargesheeting rate of ...Read More >
SRINAGAR, Apr 1: J&K has secured the top position among Union Territories, excluding Delhi, on the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) Pragati Dashboard, reflecting improved performance in technology-driven policing and citizen services. The ranking, released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, is based on monthly performance assessments of States and Union Territories. As per the latest evaluation dated March 1, 2026, J&K achieved first rank in the UT category, while Delhi topped the overall national rankin ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed that while the overall crime rate reduced in Mumbai between 2022 and 2023, it increased considerably in Pune and Nagpur during the same period. The number of crimes registered in Mumbai dropped from 69,289 in 2022 to 44,873 in 2023, while the other metro cities, Pune (12,542 cases in 2023 from 11,074 in 2022) and Nagpur (17,297 cases in 2023 from 12,889 in 2022) witnessed an upward spiral. Although the data shows that crime went down, Mumbai still topped the list among the country's metros for online cheating ...Read More >
Srinagar- Marking a significant milestone in technology-driven policing and improved citizen services in the Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir has secured a top position on the CCTNS Pragati Dashboard of the National Crime Records Bureau. According to official data, as of March 1, 2026, J&K ranked first among Union Territories (excluding Delhi), reflecting the sustained and coordinated efforts of the CCTNS team of the Crime Branch, J&K Police. In the overall national ranking of States and UTs, Delhi secured the top position. Pertinently, the rankings are part of the monthly performance asse ...Read More >
Chennai, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The latest Crime in India 2023 report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), released after more than a year's delay, has painted a mixed picture for Tamil Nadu's law and order. While crimes against Dalits and children have increased noticeably, the state has seen a decline in murders and other violent offences, keeping its overall crime rate slightly below the national average. According to the report, Tamil Nadu recorded a crime rate of 264.9 per lakh population in 2023, compared with India's 270.3. However, incidents registered under the Scheduled Cast ...Read More >