New Delhi: Despite initiating steps to prevent crime in trains and stations, there has been an increase in cases of misconduct against women passengers. As per data available with the Railways, a total of 712 cases including rape, murder, robbery and eve-teasing were reported against women and children in railway premises in 2011 as against 501 cases in the previous year. There were 15 rape and 362 eve-teasing cases reported...
09:22 AM, Mar 25, 2012
In a state infamous for female foeticide, Prakash Kaur is mother to 60 abandoned girls in Jalandhar. ...
04:40 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Hoping that attitudes would change with education, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday that women were being treated as chattel and that was one reason for crimes against women. "I certainly share the view that women are treated as chattel... one reason why crime is committed against women is because they are treated as chattel," Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha. "I hope the attitude will change...
02:59 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Gonda: A 25-year-old woman suffered serious burn injuries when she was set ablaze by a youth for foiling a rape attempt at Shuklpur village under Dhanepur police station area in Gona on Saturday. A youth of the same village tried to rape the woman but as she raised an alarm and villagers started rushing to her house, he sprinkled kerosene kept in the house and set her on fire before...
09:00 AM, Mar 11, 2012
One of the most shambolic criminal acts off late has been the recent spate of rape's occurring in the country. In a country which prides ...
02:12 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The city of Indore witnessed the third case of gangrape in the last 7 days as the modesty of a 30-year-old woman was allegedly outraged on Friday, letting people to ask is Indore becoming the new rape capital of the country? The incident may sent shock waves to the local administration as the police suspect the involvement of a policemen in the case. However, police has registered an...
09:16 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Indore: Eleven persons have been arrested for allegedly gangraping two teenaged girls at Betma town in the district, police said on Monday. The accused included the son of a BJP corporator and grandson of a Congress corporator, they said. The two victims, aged 18 and 19 respectively, were allegedly sexually assaulted by 15 people at a farm near Betma town, about 35 km away from Indore, on February 10, police...
07:58 AM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: A 13-year-old student kidnapped and raped by a 30-year-old after she snubbed his friendship request; a teenaged girl gang-raped by two men in a car and another yet to be traced after being forced into a car by two young men. It was a night of shame for Delhi on Thursday as the three incidents were reported from the city within hours. In one of the incidents, one...
05:21 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: A young inventor, Manu Chopra, may soon change the way women travel in the country. He has invented an anti-molestation device for women, which can be worn as a wrist watch. Many women from the national capital have faced terror on the roads of Delhi, which has a high rate of crime against women. Some of them may have survived to tell the tale, but it has not...
10:05 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: A 14-year-old Brazilian girl says she was raped by multiple men at a prison in the Amazonian state of Para. Para's governor suspended the warden and 20 guards at the Santa Izabel Penal Colony pending an investigation of the charges, authorities said on Monday. The prison, located about 50 km from Belem, the state capital, currently holds around 350 male inmates. The teenage girl went to police...
12:25 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Nashik: Three teenagers were on Wednesday arrested on charges of raping a minor girl at her residence before setting her on fire in which she suffered 96 per cent burns, police said. In a ghastly incident, the accused trio forcefully gained entry into the house of the the 14-year-old victim at Aringale Farm in Nashik Road area when her parents were away and took turns to rape her, they said,...
06:48 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: One in three Indian women between the ages 15 and 49 have experienced physical violence. One in ten has experienced sexual violence. These are the dismal findings from the latest National Family Health Survey. Deepa Dasmunshi, Indian National Congress candidate from Raiganj said, "Women atrocities are increasing rapidly. Figures higher in rural areas than in cities." According to the third National Family Health Survey nearly two in five...
07:59 AM, Aug 20, 2011
Nat Purwa: Chandralekha, who was born in a village where every girl is raised to be a prostitute, spent her life making sure the next generation of girls break out of the tradition. Thanks to her efforts, the girls are now going to school, getting married and are even employed. Explaining her story, Chandralekha said, "A drunk man abused me at gun point. That's when I broke down completely and...
10:03 AM, Aug 05, 2011
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After a lot of anticipation and speculation, Delhi finally got its first edition of the SlutWalk. The capital's version of the protest was much tamer ...
06:57 PM, Aug 01, 2011
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