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 youths. 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...
09:46 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: A 19-year-old girl was pushed off a moving train in Kottayam by a man on Friday. Witnesses said the man barged into the Ladies' section of the Ernakulam-Kottayam passenger train and got violent with the girl. He was caught by passengers and handed over to the police. Last year, a woman called Soumya was pushed from a moving train and raped near Thrissur. ...
11:55 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: While the nation prays for 2-year-old Falak, who is receiving treatment for severe injuries at AIIMS, it is the story of the 14-year-old teenage girl who brought the baby to the hospital that exposes the dismal state of a girl child in India. It is not just the baby, but the teenager too, who is a victim of abuse. Police have arrested 4 people, including her father Vijender,...
08:01 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Raipur: Police in Chhattisgarh's Korba district launched a search on Monday for a man who threw out a minor girl from a running train after a failed rape attempt. "The accused has been identified as Ramdayal Kevat, aged 35 years. He knew the 13-year-old girl's family. Late Sunday, he took her to a train and tried to rape her. He pushed her out when he failed," officials at the police...
06:59 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Murshidabad: Enraged by the continuous bawling of his infant daughter, a man allegedly flung the two-month-old baby down a drain resulting in her death in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said on Monday. "Mujibur Sheikh, a mason, was at his home and got irritated by the continuous crying of his baby. He asked the mother to calm the baby, but she failed. Enraged, he threw the baby into a drain...
04:53 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...
11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak's condition was very critical, but stable on Wednesday. Doctors attending to her said that it was getting difficult to control her infection. "We are giving anti biotics but dont think we can control the infection," Dr Deepak Agarwal said. He also said that the chances of Falak's survival were now less than 50 per cent. Falak's neurological condition remained the same and she was in...
12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: The United Nations has released new data, which shows that India is the most dangerous place in the world for the girl child. An Indian girl child aged between 1 year to 5 years is 75 per cent more likely to die than an Indian boy of the same age, making India the worst gender differential in child mortality in the world. India and China are the only...
12:02 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Vanity Fair unveiled the cover of its annual Hollywood issue on Tuesday, featuring 'fresh stars of 2012' who were chosen for the impact they made through movies, including Oscar nominees Rooney Mara and Jessica Chastain. "We're looking for actresses who are doing great work on the screen. And if they're young and beautiful, well that doesn't hurt either," wrote Vanity Fair features editor Jane Sarkin in an email...
11:52 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak continued to remain critical on Wednesday with meningitis and brain fluid infection. Doctors have now inserted a pipe into Falak's spinal cord to drain out the water from her brain. Though her vitals are still strong, she remains on a ventilator. Doctors have said that the next 48 hours will be critical for her. Doctors will decide on Wednesday on a new set of antibiotic...
10:20 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Baby Falak who was found battered and abandoned, continues to be critical and has been put on the ventilator again by the doctors at AIIMS. As doctors perform surgery after surgery on the two-year-old, there are still no concrete leads to who the child's biological parents are. The 2-year-old was on ventilator from Sunday night due to lung infection. With a CT scan showing fluids in her...
08:55 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Monday claimed that it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in AIIMS here as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother. Investigators said they have identified a crucial link and a woman named Lakshmi is being questioned. The baby Falak was admitted to AIIMS with severe injuries and is battling for life after...
02:23 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: All those waiting for the release of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in India are going to be disappointed. As reports go " the India release of this crime novel turned movie " has been cancelled. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book of the Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson has been turned in to a movie starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Directed...
03:16 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Cuttack: Even as the state government on Friday indicated that there is no scope to review the decision of dismissing former Pipili police inspector, the Odisha Police Association (OPA) has threatened to step up its protest for revocation of the dismissal order. DGP Manmohan Praharaj had dismissed former inspector-in-charge of Pipili police station, Amulya Kumar Champattiray, for 'dereliction of duty' under Article 311 (2) of the Constitution on January 24....
11:24 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said even highly-educated girls from very good families were stepping into sex trade "driven with desire of high lifestyle" and asked the government to spell out its rehabilitation programme for sex workers. "We find girls from very good families even at the university level education entering the profession driven with desire of high lifestyle and going to the malls every second day. If...
09:00 PM, Jan 27, 2012
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