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India's most dangerous places for women
The only available
statistics are for 2013 from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In India, a crime against women happens
every 1.7 minutes. A rape case is registered every 16 minutes and one domestic
violence case is reported per 4.4 minutes.
v Andhra
Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are the states that top the list of
crime against women.
v Crime
per lakh of female population is the highest in Assam, Tripura and Rajasthan.
v Kerala
has the highest molestation rate: 24.28 per lakh of female population, compared
to the national average of 11.94.
v Madhya
Pradesh had the highest number of rape cases: 4,335 and 12.1 per cent of total
such cases registered in the country, followed by Rajasthan (3,285 cases, 9.78
per cent) and Maharashtra (3,063 cases, 5.52 per cent).
v Delhi,
India’s rape capital, reported 1,441 cases with 29.41 per cent of such cases
among 53 large cities in India. It recorded 11,449 cases (21.41 per cent) of
total crime against women; 35.1 per cent of kidnapping and abduction; 15.76 per
cent of dowry deaths; 25.76 per cent of molestation cases and 28.3 per cent of
incest rapes.
v Mumbai:
2,946 cases, 5.51 per cent of total crime against women
v Bengaluru:
2,608 cases, 4.88 per cent of crime against women.
v Ahmedabad:
2,449 cases, 4.58 per cent of crime against women.
v Kolkata:
2,399 cases,4.49 per cent of total crime against women
v The
rate of cognisable crimes against women was significantly higher in Vijayawada,
Kota, Gwalior, Delhi and Jaipur.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Jaya cannot hope for favourable verdict - Captain
AIADMK leader
Jayalalithaa cannot hope for a favourable verdict in the appeal filed against
her conviction in the disproportionate assets case in the Karnataka High Court,
said Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder Vijayakant. He was addressing an
International Women’s Day rally organised by the Women’s Wing of the DMDK in
Salem.
He also dismissed
the argument that the DMDK was losing its popularity among the voters. On the
contrary, the party was gaining in strength and fast becoming a powerful
political force in the State.
On the Mekedatu
issue, Mr. Vijayakant said that when the matter surfaced during MGR’s regime,
the former Chief Minister approached the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi,
who managed to pacify the then Karnataka Chief Minister, Gundu Rao, to shelve
the project.
The farmers of
Tamil Nadu who have been staging agitations in front of Parliament in New
Delhi, should agitate in front of
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s house, demanding that she direct the Congress
Chief Minister of Karnataka not to go ahead with this project.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Now a planet named ‘Vishy’
Here’s a question for
the nerds... what do Roger Federer, Jesse Owens, Arsene Wenger, Donald Bradman
and India’s Viswanathan Anand have in common? Well, apart from all of them
being connected to some sport, they all have
minor planets named after them. The former World Chess Champion joined
this unique club when a minor planet (4538), located roughly between the orbits
of Mars and Jupiter, was named after him.
The newly-named minor
planet, (4538 Vishyanand), was discovered by Kenzo Suzuki of Toyota, Japan, on
October 10, 1988. A staff members of Minor Planet Center, Michael Rudenko, was
invited to name the object as it remained unnamed for more than 10 years. Rudenko told that, the idea of naming a minor
planet for Anand was entirely his own. He added that, he chosen Vishwanathan
Anand’s name because in addition to being a great chess player he is also a gentlemen
and astronomy enthusiast.
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