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Bihar witnesses decline in number of major criminal cases of murder, dacoity, riots
Bihar’s crime numbers have slipped this year—murders down a little over ten percent, dacoity down more than thirty, and riots nearly nineteen percent compared with last year.
The state’s anti‑Naxal drive has cleared the last pockets of Maoist activity, wiping out the 22 districts that were flagged in 2013.
Police have logged about two hundred thousand arrests by June and expect another fifteen to twenty percent rise before year‑end, while they’re clearing four to five thousand cases a month to chip away at a backlog of roughly three‑hundred‑seventy‑five thousand.
Forensic support has ballooned twenty‑fold since the ’90s, and the force itself has swelled to about 121,000 officers after adding over twenty‑two thousand new constables and building six hundred fresh stations.
Cyber‑crime complaints are climbing, with around seven thousand FIRs filed—the highest in the country—and about sixteen percent of the stolen money being recovered.
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Burnham’s Strategy Against a Fractured Right Is Coming Into View
Addressing a private meeting of Labour’s ministerial advisers this week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he’d moved on from believing in the “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” maxim popularized by Ronald Reagan.
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Modi Maps India’s Growth Push With Youth Focus
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CJP’s Instagram handle briefly taken down, restored later
The official Instagram account of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) was taken down on Saturday morning (August 15, 2026), but it was later restored, with the outfit alleging that the move was an attempt to silence its voice on Independence Day. The CJP, which was at the helm of the recent students’ protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, said it had successfully recovered the account. "What a shame that those who oppose CJP chose India's Independence Day to try to muzzle our voice. We will not be intimidated by such cowardly acts!" the outfit said in a post.
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Trump, 80, Forgets Name of Candidate He Just Endorsed
President Donald Trump appeared to have a memory lapse on Friday, when he seemed to forget the name of the woman he just endorsed to be New York’s attorney general. In a speech before law enforcement officials on Long Island, the president first blasted current New York Attorney General Letitia James as a “dirty cop.” James won a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his Trump Organization in 2024, resulting in a penalty of more than $450 million against Trump and his company for inflating asset values.
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Why Mumbai’s established neighbourhoods are winning homebuyers
Every real estate cycle brings a familiar debate: should buyers and developers look at the next emerging corridor, or should they stay invested in established neighbourhoods? While new growth pockets will always have their place, the market today is favouring locations that have already proven themselves. Across Mumbai, established neighbourhoods are continuing to outperform newer markets not only in terms of price appreciation but also in buyer demand, rental strength. This isn’t a short-term trend; it reflects how home buyers have changed over the last few years.
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Four-month RERA extension: Why homebuyers may bear the cost
The Centre has advised the state Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs) to enforce a four-month extension for housing projects due to the ongoing conflict in West Asia, which has caused material shortages and supply chain disruptions. According to the advisory, issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, this extension applies to projects registered on or before February 28, 2026. This move has been appreciated by developers and builders, who collectively believe that the temporary pause will help in absorbing the damage and speed up pending projects.
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When a Kerala Facebook collective brought Rajinikanth’s iconic Baashha roaring back in a throwback to analogue cinema
The screening was about more than the superstar or the film. It was an attempt to recreate the movie-going experience of pre-digital era and draw attention to a fast disappearing world of film reels, projectors and theatre jobs
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Tourism pressure threatens Kerala’s fragile Madayipara
Influx of visitors to an amusement-cum-eco park in the vicinity is posing harm to the rare flora, birds and other wildlife in the region, according to environmentalists, who reiterate that the park is functioning without mandatory permissions. Madayi panchayat authorities too say that licence has not been issued to the park
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Delhi High Court upholds conviction of man for sexually assaulting 11-year-old boy
The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with the conviction of a man accused of sodomising an 11-year-old homeless boy. In a judgment passed on August 10, Justice Chandrasekharan Sudha upheld the trial court’s August 2025 decision to convict him under Section 377 (unnatural offences) IPC and Section 6 (Punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the POCSO Act. The court, however, modified the trial court’s 20-year jail term to ten years on the grounds that at the time of the offence, the corresponding sentence was a decade.