Akshay Kumar: Schools should teach cyber safety apart from history and math, reveals his daughter was asked for nude pics onlineBollywood actor Akshay Kumar revealed his daughter was asked for a nude photo during an online game, highlighting the dangers of cybercrime...
03 Oct, 2025, 03.42 PM IST
WCD minister stresses capacity building to combat cyberbullying, online crimes involving minors"The budget allocation for child protection, which was around Rs 60 crore in 2009-10, has been increased to approximately Rs 1,500 crore fo...
29 Sep, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
Six lakh cyber crime complaints registered on govt portal since 2019: MoS Home Ajay MishraThe minister said the states and Union Territories are primarily responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution o...
20 Dec, 2022, 03.38 PM IST
Over 400% rise in cyber crime cases committed against children in 2020: NCRB dataIn 2019, 164 cases of cyber crimes against children were reported while in 2018, 117 cases of cyber crimes were committed against children ...
14 Nov, 2021, 01.35 PM IST
Parliamentary panel asks govt to consider reducing juvenile delinquency age to 16 under POCSO ActThe committee said that it believed that minor sexual offenders may commit more serious and heinous crime if left untreated and uncounselle...
16 Mar, 2021, 05.48 PM IST
3.17 lakhs cyber crimes in India in just 18 months, says governmentUnion Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said the Ministry of Home Affairs operationalised the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal...
09 Mar, 2021, 03.36 PM IST
Amit Shah inaugurates state-of-the-art portal to tackle cyber crimesA home ministry statement said the portal will let all cyber crime related complaints be accessed by the law enforcement agencies in the st...
10 Jan, 2020, 08.14 PM IST
Cyber space aspects should be made part of syllabus: Former CJICyber space and cyber crime, its control, impact and all other aspects should be made part of school and college syllabi to make students a...
21 Dec, 2019, 05.00 PM IST
Govt to strengthen POCSO Act & set up fast track courts to clear pending cases: ReddyReddy further said the government has determined that strong penal provisions will act as a deterrent. It intends to protect the interest o...
17 Jul, 2019, 04.42 PM IST
Government develops game to counter cyber crimes against children: NCPCRThe 'cyber trivia' app would have a set of multiple choice questions and children would rewarded points based on their answers, the Nationa...
23 Sep, 2018, 12.56 PM IST
33,531 cyber attacks in India in 2014-16Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir also said the Ministry of Home Affairs aims to train 27,500 police personnel across ...
07 Mar, 2018, 04.02 PM IST
Cyber Laws Part II: A guide for victims of cyber crimeThe procedure for reporting cyber crimes is more or less the same as reporting other crimes. The local police can be approached for filing ...
03 Nov, 2017, 04.15 PM IST
Government to involve private domain experts to check cyber crimesOne of the priorities of IC4 will be to check attempts by international gangs to penetrate Indian government's official communication netwo...
10 Apr, 2016, 03.00 PM IST
Government plans new body to crack down on child porn, online abuseThe initiative comes after an expert committee constituted to prepare a roadmap for effectively tackling cyber crime submitted its report t...
20 Sep, 2015, 12.52 PM IST
Not sex education, panel recommends cyber education for parentsExpert group, set up by MHA on cyber crimes, moots setting up of an advance cyber crime monitoring centre for proactive monitoring of crime...
18 Sep, 2015, 10.09 AM IST
Government plans Rs 500-crore coordination centre to deal with cyber crimeThe committee also suggested to the government to reduce dependence on foreign servers and ensure one dedicated secure gateway for all gove...
16 Sep, 2015, 06.09 AM IST
- IT act to be amended to help detection of cyber crimes
Centre plans to amend the Information Technology Act by incorporating provisions to treat as evidence in a court of law, cyber forensics de...
23 Aug, 2008, 11.59 PM IST