Criminology Current Affairs, GK & News

Projects along the line of Kerala’s Kaval program introduced

The state government of Kerala has introduced 2 more projects for offenders and victims under the POCSO Act in line with the successful Kaval program. Kaval is a project for rehabilitation of children in conflict with the law. The two new projects are: For first time offenders: this project targets the first time offenders under ..

Topics: Criminology • Penology • Psychopathy • Recidivism

National Police University to be set up at Noida

The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that a world-class National Police University (NPU) will be set-up in Greater Noida. The National Police University will provide for a dynamic, state-of-the-art learning and working environment for the advancement and dissemination of education and research in policing science and related areas. National Police University It will be a ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Criminology • Forensic science • Greater Noida • Noida • Police science

Union Government decides to set-up state-of-the-art National Police University (NPU) at Greater Noida

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to set-up  a world-class National Police University (NPU) in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The proposed state-of-the-art university will offer to the students formal education programmes leading to the award of the bachelor’s, masters’ and doctoral degrees as well as PG Diploma in specialized niche areas in police ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Criminology • Forensic science • Noida

The world’s first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics launched in India

The world’s first International Centre for Humanitarian Forensics was launched at Gandhinagar in Gujarat on June 20, 2018. It is a joint venture of the Regional delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in India, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives and also Gujarat Forensic Science University. This is a centre of excellence which ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Criminology • Forensic science • Gujarat

India’s first advanced DNA forensic laboratory to come up in Chandigarh

Maneka Gandhi, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD), has laid the foundation stone of India’s first advanced DNA forensic laboratory “Sakhi Suraksha” in the campus of Central Forensic Science Lab of Chandigarh as part efforts to reduce the backlog of cases needing advanced forensic analysis. It will be built at a cost ..

Topics: Academic disciplines • Branches of biology • Criminology • DNA profiling • Forensic science • Forensics • Heuristics

Govt to write to states for zero tolerance towards crime against NE people

Government will write to all states seeking them to have zero tolerance towards crime against people from North East. Referring to the recent death of Dana Sangma in Gurgaon near Delhi and of Richard Loitum in Bengaluru besides allegations of racial profiling against Tibetans during the recent BRICS summit, the Home minister P. Chidambaram held ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2012

Topics: BRICS • Crime • Criminology • Delhi • Government of India • Gurgaon • Law enforcement • Offender profiling • P. Chidambaram • Race and crime • Racial profiling • Zero tolerance