London: Indian-origin British television actress Shobna Gulati has said she was forced to quit micro-blogging website Twitter after suffering a stream of racist abuse. Internet users mutilated photos of the 45-year-old Coronation Street actress and posted them online with "sick comments", The Sun reported Monday. One user wrote, "You're not British, you're foreign", while another tweeted, "You have got to be the ugliest f***** I've ever seen". One post read,...
06:38 PM, Jun 25, 2012
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has received the highest number of complaints related to child abuse in schools from Tamil Nadu. ...
11:53 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Allahabad: After Haryana, comes another shelter shocker, this time from Uttar Pradesh. And again like the last time, it is the government-run shelters that are in the net. While four minor girls were allegedly abused in Allahabad, six went missing from Ghaziabad, many fearing that they may have been forced into the flesh trade. On April 5, 2012, a peon working at the Rajkiya Bal Grih in Allahabad, allegedly sexually...
01:58 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Police on Tuesday seized the passport of the French diplomat, who has been accused by his Indian wife of raping their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. The abuse began in 2010, claimed the diplomat's wife, when their daughter was a mere toddler aged one. Pascal Mazurier was arrested on Tuesday morning after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) gave a clearance, saying the diplomat did not enjoy any immunity. The...
12:40 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: An undertrial prisoner has alleged that two inmates sexually abused him inside Tihar jail and a case has been registered in this regard following a court direction, police said on Sunday. The 32-year-old victim, who is lodged in Tihar jail number 5, claimed that he had an argument with a jail official in May. He alleged that an inmate and the official demanded money from him and when...
09:27 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Ramanagar: Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda was granted bail by the district executive magistrate today, a day after he was re-arrested on charges of disturbing peace. Ramanagar Deputy Commissioner Sriram Reddy, also the executive magistrate, passed orders granting bail to Nithyananda on furnishing a bond for Rs 1 lakh and two sureties for like sum and directed him not to disturb peace. Public Prosecutor Nagaraj Reddy opposed bail for Nithyananda who...
06:29 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court's probe team has suggested that CRPF security be provided to the inmates of the shelter home in Rohtak that is at the centre of a baffling sex abuse case. The HC probe panel made the recommendations after its report found shocking details of sexual exploitation of the inmates. The report said that the children at the Apna Ghar hostel were forced to perform...
11:46 AM, Jun 15, 2012
In May 2008, when the economic slowdown was beginning to bite, I traveled to Rohtak for a feel-good TV story which I thought would go ...
07:17 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Bangalore: A court near Bangalore granted bail to self-styled godman Nithyananda on Thursday. He spent his first night in jail after surrendering on Wednesday. The self-styled godman was arrested in connection with an alleged assault on a TV reporter. He also faces new allegations of sexual abuse. Nithyananda, who had been reportedly absconding for days, surrendered in the Ramanagara district court in Karnataka on Wednesday. He was sent to a...
03:49 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court probe panel report on the Rohtak shelter home, Apna Ghar, has made shocking revelations. It says that the children were forced to perform oral sex and naked yoga. The report also says that about 101 inmates of the home were subjected to various forms of abuse. The shelter home inmates were used as construction labourers. A speech and hearing impaired girl was sold...
09:39 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Bangalore: A court near Bangalore will decide on self-styled godman Nithyananda's bail plea on Thursday. He spent his first night in jail after surrendering on Wednesday. The self-styled godman was arrested in connection with an alleged assault on a TV reporter. He also faces new allegations of sexual abuse. Nithyananda, who had been reportedly absconding for days, surrendered in the Ramanagara district court in Karnataka on Wednesday. He was sent...
09:27 AM, Jun 14, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda, who had been reportedly absconding for days, surrendered in the Ramanagara district court in Karnataka on Wednesday. He has been sent to a day's judicial custody and may apply for bail on Thursday. This came after the Karnataka High Court adjourned his plea for quashing the first FIR against him. Earlier on Wednesday, Nithyananda's ashram had issued a press release saying he would be back in...
03:33 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda faces arrest after the Karnataka High Court adjourned his plea for quashing the FIR against him to Friday. This means that if Nithyananda visits his ashram on Wednesday, he is likely to be arrested. Nithyananda's ashram had issued a press release on Wednesday saying he'll be back at the Bidadi ashram on Thursday. The police, however, are still on the look out for Nithyananda over allegations...
01:58 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda's ashram has issued a press release saying he'll be back at the Bidadi ashram on Thursday. The police, however, are still on the look out for Nithyananda over allegations of sexual abuse. The press release issued by Nithyananda's ashram raises certain open questions on the cases against the self-styled godman. Following is the full text of the ashram press release: Some open questions - Press Release...
01:36 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda's ashram has issued a press release saying he'll be back at the Bidadi ashram on Thursday. The police, however, are still on the look out for Nithyananda over allegations of sexual abuse. The police are expected to arrest all those named in an FIR filed after an altercation between the media and his followers. Nithyananda's lawyers moved the Karnataka High Court to quash the first FIR...
12:40 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Chandigarh: The four-member probe team looking into the Rohtak shelter abuse cases seems to be divided. Two members of the four-member probe team have submitted their report to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on reports of abuse in shelter home. But surprisingly, the other members claim they weren't consulted on the Rohtak shelter abuse case. The matter will come up for hearing in the High Court on Thursday. This...
09:54 AM, Jun 13, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Swami Nithyananda still remains on the run. The Ramanagara police have begun their search at his ashram in Bidadi. The police are expected to arrest all those named in an FIR, filed after an altercation between the media and his followers. Meanwhile, the Swami's lawyers moved the Karnataka High Court to quash the first FIR on Tuesday. The state government is also set to take over his...
08:53 AM, Jun 13, 2012
Bangalore: Ramanagaram police on Tuesday began search operations in Swamy Nithyananda Ashram in Bidadi. Sources said that police has been directed to arrest to all those named in the FIR including Nithyananda. SP Ramanagaram, Anupam Agarwal, said "If we find Nithyananda we will arrest him for charges of assault and threat to life, this has nothing to do with the sleaze tapes." Earlier, facing arrest Nithyananda moved the Karnataka High...
05:42 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Bangalore: Lawyers of the the self-styled godman, Nithyananda, have moved the Karnataka High Court to quash the first FIR lodged against him, after his supporters clashed with a TV reporter. The self-styled godman remains missing 24 hours after the Sadananda Gowda government launched a manhunt for him. There has been no clue of his whereabouts despite the state government having ordered a probe into allegations of sexual abuse against him....
03:32 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda remains missing 24 hours after the Sadananda Gowda government in Karnataka issued a manhunt for him. There has been no clue of his whereabouts despite the state government having ordered a probe into allegations of sexual abuse against him. However, Nithyananda's supporters claimed that he was not absconding. The government had also ordered the seizure and a search of his ashram property and asked the home...
01:34 PM, Jun 12, 2012
