New Delhi: 7:02 pm: Congress President Sonia Gandhi visits AIIMS to meet the rape survivor. 7:02 pm: AIIMS Medical Superintendent DK Sharma gives a health update of the rape survivor. He says the condition of the girl is stable; she is also alert, speaking to her parents and responding to the treatment well. Sharma adds she has been put under close observation. 5:16 pm: Accused in the Delhi minor rape...
07:19 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old in Delhi intensified on Saturday even as Section 144 was imposed at India Gate. Police also requested the protesters to clear the road in front of the police headquarters even as several parts of the city witnessed protests. ...
04:54 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: 5:16 pm: Accused in the Delhi minor rape case, Manoj Kumar, is brought back to the national capital from Bihar on transit remand. 4:15 pm: India Gate is vacated as Section 144, which prohibits the gathering of groups of people, is imposed in the area even as small protest is held outside Congress President Sonia Gandhi's residence at 10 Janpath. 3:56 pm: Police request protesters to clear the...
04:42 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Former top cop and social activist Kiran Bedi said that the police officials need to be trained better. ...
03:34 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The brutal sexual assault of a five-year-old girl in Delhi brought protesters out on the streets again, with a large number of them gathering outside Delhi Police Headquarters and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday demanding action and justice for the minor survivor. Holding banners and shouting slogans against the government and police, over 300 protesters demanded Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar's resignation, saying...
02:49 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Muzaffarpur: People in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district expressed anger and shame on Saturday that one of their own was involved in the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi. Manoj Kumar, who allegedly raped the girl after confining her in his Gandhi Nagar room in east Delhi, is from Bharthua village under Aurai police station in Muzaffarpur. He was arrested early on Saturday. Some people in Muzaffarpur said he deserved...
01:21 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The five-year-old girl undergoing treatment after she was brutally raped for two days is responding to treatment, the doctors said on Saturday, adding that her condition had stabilised. The rape survivor, who was shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday for better treatment, was examined by a team of eight doctors. A medical superintendent at AIIMS said, "The baby had perenial injuries but...
12:59 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: 3:56 pm: Police request protesters to clear the road in front of the police headquarters. 3:27 pm: Congress General Secretary Janardhan Dwivedi says, "The society has to be alert and vigilant." 3:18 pm: Around 50 to 60 protesters, predominately from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) try to march to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's house. The police stop them 200 metres away from the house. 2:56 pm: Delhi BJP...
10:04 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Muzaffarpur: A 25-year-old youth allegedly involved in the rape of the five-year-old girl in the national capital was arrested in Muzaffarpur on Saturday morning, police said. Manoj Kumar was apprehended from Chiknouta, his in-law's village, at around 2.00 am from Muzaffarpur in Bihar, about 50 kms from Patna. The youth was arrested by a team from Delhi with the help of local police. The accused, who has come here by...
04:45 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Phagwara: A day after a man succumbed to his injuries after a robbery attack, the family of the victim on Friday staged a protest against alleged police inaction outside the office of SDM carrying his body. Parwinder Singh (35) was attacked by three unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants on March 29, 2013 when he was returning back home in Chachoki village from his mobile store. Grievously injuring Singh, the attackers took away...
02:42 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday night suspended one of its Assistant Commissioner for slapping a young girl inside a hospital during a protest against the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl and two other officials on the charge of trying to hush up the case. ACP BS Ahlawat slapped the girl at least four times inside the Swami Dayanand Hospital hospital when she and others were on protest. He...
02:03 AM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: The national capital once again witnessed anguish, anger and helplessness on Friday as details of the rape of a 5-year-old girl emerged, shocking citizens who have been demanding stringent measures for safety of women in New Delhi, where barely months ago the rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student sparked public fury. Despite the government bringing into effect a new set of anti-rape laws, the accused brutally raped the...
10:16 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Manama: About 10,000 opposition protesters took to the streets of Bahrain on Friday to push their demands for political change two days before the Formula One Grand Prix that puts the Gulf Arab kingdom in the international spotlight. The atmosphere was largely peaceful as groups of men, women and children carrying Bahraini flags walked down a highway and converged at a rallying point, witnesses said. But a handful of youths...
10:02 PM, Apr 19, 2013
The culture of political violence in Bengal is not even sparing holy grounds such as Presidency College (now University) which were till now protected from acts of violence and hooliganism. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Aligarh: A six-year-old girl was found dead in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, leading to clashes between protesters and the police. The protesters pelted stones at the police and the latter resorted to lathicharge to control the crowd. However, the visuals of the protest clearly showed the police brutally beating up women protesters and dragging them away from the protest site. What was even more shocking was that the police...
02:14 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Cairo: Egypt's prosecution on Wednesday ordered that former president Hosni Mubarak be sent back back to Tora Prison Hospital, Xinhua reported quoting official Al-Ahram news website. Prosecution spokesman Mahmoud al-Hifnawi said Prosecutor-General Talaat Ibrahim Abdullah decided to discharge Mubarak from Maadi Military Hospital and send him back to the prison hospital "according to today's reports of the forensic medical commission that examined the ex-president in the military hospital". Also on...
06:33 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The Students Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday apologised for the attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra in New Delhi earlier this month. The duo were heckled by SFI activists as they made their way to the Planning Commission building in the capital. Mitra suffered injuries during the melee and had to be hospitalised later on. SFI General Secretary Ritabrata Banerjee,...
07:45 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Caracas: Venezuela's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday seven people have been killed and 61 injured in protests following presidential elections in which the opposition candidate is demanding a recount. Prosecutor Luisa Ortega did not provide any details about the deaths or injuries or how they occurred. But she said the seven killed were humble members of the working class, a suggestion that the opposition might be to blame. Chavez's chosen...
11:29 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government team would soon visit Delhi to take up with the Centre the issue of attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra during a protest in the national capital. "A ministerial-level delegation from the state will soon leave here for Delhi after the chief minister fully recovers," state's Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata on Tuesday. Describing the incident as "most...
10:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
