National Crime Records Bureau

Ranjan, a 1991-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as the Director, NCRB for a tenure up to his superannuation on June 30, 2026

Why National Award for Aattam and Justice Hema committee report’s release are silver lining in our dark times

70th National Film Awards: Anand Ekarshi’s debut Malayalam indie 'Aattam: The Play' won three National Awards as the Justice Hema committee report, on women’s working conditions in Malayalam film industry, released to reveal dark, ugly truths of the Malayalam film industry.

National Award winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry: ‘I belong to a generation that began the new wave of Indian documentary cinema’

70th National Film Awards: Miriam Chandy Menacherry has won the Best Non-Feature Film Direction for her documentary film 'From the Shadows', on missing girls and girl child sex trafficking. She talks about making her ‘toughest film’ and the documentary movement in India.

As India simmers, data on heatwave-linked mortality turns foggy

The number of heat wave days has been on the rise, but data maintained by government agencies differs from each other.

RC Bhargava questions NCAP credibility after Maruti cars fail crash test

The chairman of India’s largest car company said the focus should be on the causes of accidents and preventing them.

115 daily wage earners, 63 housewives committed suicide every day in 2021, government tells Lok Sabha

Sharing data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said a total of 42,004 daily wage earners and 23,179 housewives committed suicide last year.

Cybercrime cases are getting harder to solve for want of evidence, shows data

Jurisdictional issues, lack of resources and poor training make investigations harder, say experts. There are a lot of regulations for companies as far as finance, etc., are concerned. But when it comes to sensitive data such as medical data, there isn’t enough scrutiny, says a cybersecurity expert.

Cyber crimes in India rise 6% a year in 2021, Telangana tops list: NCRB data

Bengaluru tops the list among cities, followed by Hyderabad and Mumbai. Jurisdictional issues are a major hindrance in solving cyber cases, says a Hyderabad-based police official. The rate of conviction in cyber cases is still low, points out a Supreme Court lawyer.

Economic offences rise 19 percent in 2021, Mumbai tops among cities: NCRB

Forgery, cheating and fraud accounted for more than 87 percent of the reported cases, while Mumbai saw over 44 percent jump in cases. Only 5,531, or 29.4 percent, out of the 18,839 cases which completed trial in 2021 resulted in a conviction.

India saw 31 children die by suicide every day in 2020; experts say Covid upped psychological trauma

According to the National Crime Records Bureau data, 11,396 children died by suicide in 2020, an 18 per cent rise from 9,613 such deaths in 2019 and 21 per cent rise from 9,413 in 2018.

Drug busts won’t fix India’s growing drug problem

As news breaks of the drug haul from a raid on a cruise ship off Mumbai, Indians ought be reflecting on whether the punishment fits the crime. And whether it helps to solve the underlying problem.

Is Bihar really safer under Nitish Kumar's rule? Here’s what crime records say

Bihar did witness a dip in the number of murder and dacoity cases recorded. As per NCRB data, rate of dacoity cases dropped by 80 percent, from 1.5 in 2004 to 0.3 in 2019. However, theft cases have increased significantly in the state.

Average 79 murder cases in India daily in 2019, kids victim in 66% kidnappings: NCRB data

The country also recorded a decline of 0.7 percent in cases of kidnapping and abduction in 2019 over the previous year, even as women and girls were victims in 78.6 percent of the overall cases.

Suicides by daily wage earners doubled in six years, Tamil Nadu recorded maximum cases in 2019

The numbers also revealed that suicides by male daily earners are much higher than female earners. In 2019, out of the total 32,563 daily wage earners- 29,092 males, 3,467 females and 4 transgenders died by suicide.

Average 381 suicides daily in India in 2019; 50% cases from just 5 states: NCRB

The rate of suicide (incidents per 1 lakh population) rose by 0.2 percent in 2019 over 2018, as per the data.

10 Indian states that have the highest number of crimes against women

Overall, 3,59,849 crimes were reported against women across the country. Here is a list of the 10 states where the number of crimes were highest.

Budget 2016: Farmers look to FM for details of revamped crop insurance scheme

This comes after National Crime Records Bureau registered 5,650 farmer suicides in 2014, more than half from Maharashtra, due to unseasonal monsoon and two consecutive years of drought.

India launches website to find missing children

The "Khoya Paya", or "Lost and Found", website khoyapaya.gov.in was launched by Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi, who said the portal would allow parents to register details of missing children and citizens to report sightings.

Maha govt taking steps to curb police suicides

As per the National Crime Records Bureau data, between 2006 and 2013, Maharashtra reported 267 police suicides, the highest among all states.

How India's police and judiciary fail rape victims

For decades, rape victims in India have endured an archaic, poorly funded, under-resourced and insensitive criminal justice system which has failed both to care for them medically and to deliver justice, human rights groups and lawyers say.

Govt has a new cyber security plan; PC hardware to come with statutory warning

In light of the rising instances of cyber crime in the country, the government reportedly, has some changes lined up. The Times of India reports that the

Scammers use social networks commonly during holiday season, warns McAfee

Security software maker McAfee has warned users of the most common ways of attacks used by cyber criminals during the festive season, especially highlighting social networks and malicious mobile apps...

294 government websites hacked between Jan-Oct 2012: CERT-In

Shocking figures by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reveal that more than 14,000 websites have been hacked by cyber criminals till October this...

Mumbai resident loses Rs 1.75 lakh to cyber crime

What Dash is experiencing paints a harsh picture of our preparedness, or the lack of it to such instances.

Over 1,600 arrested for cyber crime in 2011, reveals Government

In a revelation that the government made yesterday, it said that last year, more than 1,600 people were arrested for cyber crimes registered under