Crime in India 2022 Report
Report is released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) that functions under Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Crime rate registered per lakh population has declined from 445.9 in 2021 to 422.2 in 2022.
- Majority of cases under crime against women were registered under ‘cruelty by Husband or relatives’ (31.4%).
- The rate of major crimes (in comparison to 2021) has increased such as
- Economic offences by 11.1%.
- Cybercrimes by 24.4%
- Human Trafficking cases by 2.8%.
- Crimes against Scheduled Caste (SC’s) by 13.1%.
Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS)
SWIS the second instrument in the Aditya Solar Wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload is operational.
- SWIS measures the Ions in the energy range of 100 eV to 20 keV
- ASPEX’s primary objective is to understand the solar and interplanetary processes in the acceleration and energization of solar wind particles.
- ASPEX measures low as well as high energy particles of solar wind.
AUKUS
AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom, and United States) group has signed agreement to jointly operate Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC).
- A trilateral security partnership, launched in 2021.
- It is intended to strengthen the ability of each government to support security and defense interests (such as providing nuclear submarine to Australia).
- It will promote deeper information sharing and technology sharing; and foster deeper integration etc.