Allahabad: A college girl was abducted and allegedly gangraped in a moving car by four men in Colonelganj area of the city. The girl, who was gangraped on April 27, also alleged that she was threatened and slapped during her medical examination by a woman doctor, who asked her to withdraw her complaint. Two of the accused have been arrested, police said, adding the girl has identified one of them....
08:40 PM, May 01, 2013
Nagpur: The mother of the five-year-old girl, who died after being brutally raped at Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday said the accused should be given a "harsh punishment" so that no one in future dares to carry out such a heinous act. "The rape accused deserves harsh punishment and should be burnt to death publicly," said the emotionally choked mother of the deceased girl to...
02:10 PM, Apr 30, 2013
London: Essex were glad to have England captain Alastair Cook on board for a rare County Championship appearance as 15 wickets fell on a dramatic first day against Hampshire at Chelmsford on Monday. The opening batsman finished the opening day of this four-day Second Division clash unbeaten on 25 in an Essex total of 5 for 72 after the hosts had dismissed Hampshire for a seemingly meagre 197 featuring 60...
10:00 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday rose 117 points to close at a six-week high of 19,504.18 on funds buying in blue chips led by FMCG stocks such as Hindustan Unilever after its parent company Unilever Plc announces open offer to hike stake in its Indian arm to 75 per cent. The Sensex rose by 116.68 points, or 0.60 per cent, to 19,504.18, a level last seen on March...
09:34 AM, Apr 30, 2013
A five-year-old girl, who was raped by a 35-year-old man in Ghansore town of Seoni, died in a hospital in Nagpur on Monday evening. Her doctor said her condition was deteriorating and she died of a cardiac arrest. ...
08:42 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Jaipur: A 35-year-old hostel warden in a Jaipur school for visually impaired children has been accused of seeking sexual favours from a 15-year-old student. He has also been accused of harassing the girl who is the daughter of the school's sanitation worker and threatening her with expulsion. While school authorities have denied the allegations, the police have arrested the accused warden and have detained a teacher. The teen survivor said,...
07:59 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: Nearly two weeks after the horrific Delhi rape, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, East, has been shunted out. DCP Prabhakar has now been transferred to PM Security. The move comes a day after the vigilance department admitted that the SHO at Gandhi Nagar police station had tried to pay off the survivor's family. Prabhakar, a 2003-batch IPS officer, has been replaced by Ajay Kumar, an IPS officer of...
06:36 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Indore: A woman professor of IIM-Indore, who accused a senior colleague of sexual harassment, has been sacked after an inquiry panel found her charge to be false and baseless. The lady professor, who is on a two-year contract and living in the official campus, has been told about the termination of her contract, a senior official said. However, IIM's Public Relation Officer Akhta Pervez chose not to mention about the...
06:35 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Bikaner: A driver of a school bus was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The girl, a class X student of a private school here has charged her school bus driver with raping her and lodged an FIR against him with Khajuwala police station on Sunday night. The police have arrested the accused, identified as Rajesh Kumar (35), CO Babu Lal said on Monday....
04:29 PM, Apr 29, 2013
On the citizen Journalist - Agenda for change special we focus on stories of women who have survived rape and are fighting for their rights. ...
12:40 PM, Apr 29, 2013
As the country reels under the sheer number of cases of child sexual abuse and brutal sexual attacks on little children, it bears repeating that ...
11:35 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Key equity benchmarks closed in green after consolidating for most part of the day. The action was by and large limited around the stocks that had declared their results. Positive regional shares helped the Nifty to close above 5900 mark once again. Broking house Religare expects to see some correction in Indian stocks in May due to macroeconomic headwinds. The May selloff is likely despite the satisfactory January-March corporate...
09:53 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Jaipur: The warden of an educational institute for visually challenged children was arrested on Sunday for seeking sexual favours from the 15-year-old daughter of a sanitation worker in Jaipur, police said. An investigation is now on to confirm whether visually challenged girl inmates of the institute's hostel were also harassed by the named warden. Police said that the 35-year-old accused, Prashant Kumar, was the warden of Rajasthan Netraheen Kalyan Sansthan...
05:45 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The national capital on Sunday witnessed a rare event as artists and civil society members came together to protest against rising insidents of rapes and to register opposition to death penalty through poetry, discussion and songs. Those present at the event 'Violence no more' included personalities like Shabana Azmi, Usha Uthup, Syeda Hameed and Binayak Sen. The participants pitched for a case against the death penalty and paid...
05:11 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: A vigilance inquiry by Delhi Police has found fault with the SHO of Gandhinagar police station in Delhi for alleged lapses in investigation into the rape of a five-year-old girl. Sources said the SHO has been found prima facie guilty of dereliction of duty. The report has been submitted to Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. The family had alleged that police did not pursue the complaint vigorously after the girl's...
01:45 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police is yet to arrest the person who attacked a girl in a public toilet, slitting her throat and inflicting other injuries even as doctors are yet to confirm whether she was sexually assaulted. Police had earlier detained 22 people in connection with the incident which took place two days ago but no one involved in the incident has been arrested. "We are investigating the matter," a...
05:58 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Cuttack: The Odisha government is mulling to move the High Court challenging the January 23 decision of the State Administrative Tribunal in which it had set aside the government's dismissal order of a disgraced police inspector. Amulya Kumar Champatiray, in his capacity as inspector in-charge of Pipili police station in November 2011, had refused to register an FIR and conduct probe into a rape and attempt to murder incident of...
02:36 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: The father of the Delhi minor rape survivor was offered a bribe of Rs 2000 by the Station House Officer (SHO) of Gandhinagar Police Station, source said on Sunday. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) submitted report on the allegations of bribe by the police in the case. Sources added the victim's family has identified the SHO of the police station. The family had alleged they were offered...
12:31 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Producer Ekta Kapoor, who has been behind controversial films like 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka', 'Kya Super Cool Hai Hum' and 'Ragini MMS', believes Indian men need to change their mentality towards women. "Mentality of men in India is becoming a problem. Men do not feel any social responsibility. Our culture is stopping women everytime. The main idea behind making 'The Dirty Picture' was to make people aware of...
10:32 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Agra: A 32-year-old man was on Saturday arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl, whose body was found at the house of a CRPF sub-inspector in Kachaura area in Agra, police said. Shailendra alias Chintu, who was arrested from Achhnera Road near the village where the incident took place, would be prosecuted under National Security Act along with murder and rape charges, SSP Agra Subhash...
01:30 AM, Apr 28, 2013
