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India's crime rate falls 6%, cybercrime crosses 1 Lakh cases: SBIIndia reports a decrease in overall crime, attributed to public investment, digitization, and enhanced surveillance. Cybercrime, however, i...
Digital arrest: How India’s fastest-growing scam uses fake investigations and video calls to siphon off croresThey pose as the police, put you under ‘digital arrest’, and tether you to a video call till your savings are gone. How India’s fastest gro...
Rukmini Vasanth deepfake controversy: Kantara actress responds to her AI images circulating online, issues warningRukmini Vasanth has reacted after AI-generated bikini images falsely claiming to show her went viral on social media. Calling the visuals “...
Most non-consensual intimate images being removed in two hours: officialsSocial media platforms are now removing non-consensual intimate imagery within two hours of complaints, a significant improvement from the ...
Gangster Queens: Inside the rise of women in organised crimeYoung, educated women are increasingly taking central roles in criminal networks across India's National Capital Region and beyond. These w...
'Pink Manifesto': Congress MP Jebi Mather says UDF to prioritise women's safety, interests in 2026 Keralam pollsThe United Democratic Front has officially presented its election manifesto for Keralam, showcasing a strong commitment to women's rights a...
Cybercrimes spike in Karnataka, CM Siddaramaiah pushes for tech-savvy policingKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has warned police about increasing cybercrimes and drug-related offences. He stressed the need for st...
Crime against women highest in Delhi; 13,366 cases in 2023: NCRB data showsDelhi led metropolitan cities in crimes against women during 2023. The capital recorded the most dowry deaths and rape cases. Overall cases...
Nine lakh SIMs blocked, Rs 5.5K crore saved in cyber fraud war"MHA has set up the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) as an attached office to deal with all types of cybercrimes in the country...
More than 3,500 people arrested in over 14,000 cybercrime complaints in 2021The number of complaints reported under the online financial fraud category of the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal from January 2021 ...
Cases targeting women with explicit content double in 3 yearsEven as the Mumbai police arrested a third suspect involved in the Bulli Bai app case, the NCRB said in a report that Uttar Pradesh (2,120)...
Govt asks people to register as cyber crime volunteers to check unlawful online contentCyber Expert category volunteer will help deal with specific domains of cybercrime, forensics, network forensics, malware analysis, memory ...
NCW conducts consultation on amending IT Act to protect women better onlineThe step comes at a time when the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) is working on revamping the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 ...
Experts suggest proper grievance redressal mechanism to tackle cybercrimes against womenIn its fifth law review consultation on cybercrime against women, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said experts from the cyber world...
WE HUB collaborates with Hyderabad City Police to incorporate new technologies into policingThe Hyderabad city police and WE HUB organised a 36-hour hackathon aimed at solving problems in the fields of cybercrimes, crimes against w...
MPs working on plan to make online space safer for womenGovernment officials, particularly of the IT and women and child development (WCD) ministries, informed the members through presentations a...
Sloppy probes, poor training blamed for low conviction rate in KarnatakaOnly one conviction has been achieved in September 2018, when Shivaprasad Sajjan, a techieturned lawyer, was sentenced to two years’ impris...
Over 60% cases at state women’s panel on social media harassmentAccording to the monthly crime statistics compiled by the Karnataka state police, in December 2018, 26 cases of cybercrimes against women w...
Cybercrime: SC issues notice to Google, Yahoo, Facebook and MSA bench of justices M B Lokur and U U Lalit issued notice to these companies and sought their reply on the plea by January 9.
Speed up project for women's safety: Rajnath SinghThe measures in the project involves a distress SOS being sent to the police by pressing a button on the mobile phone, proposed to the gove...