The proposed anti-rape bill which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack will be tabled in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
07:29 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The Cabinet on Monday decided to raise the age of consensual sex back to 18 years, after various political parties spoke against the move of reducing it. It has also diluted the clauses on voyeurism and stalking in the Bill, which is now expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Cabinet on Monday decided to raise the age of consensual sex back to 18 years, after various political parties spoke against the move of reducing it. It has also diluted the clauses on voyeurism and stalking in the Bill, which is now expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
08:38 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Cabinet at its meeting in the evening on Monday agreed to raise the age of consent to 18. The new legislation was cleared after the Cabinet failed to achieve consensus on the anti-rape bill at the two all-party meetings held on Monday. Emerging from the meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister said that the Cabinet had agreed to raise the age of consent and also made some changes to the Bill,...
07:26 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The new anti-rape Bill will be taken up by the Union Cabinet Monday evening after it failed to achieve consensus at two all-party meetings. Sources told CNN-IBN that the key sticking point of lowering the age of consent for sex may have been solved with the government agreeing to keep it at 18 years. However, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur said, "We don't want the age to be ...
05:37 PM, Mar 18, 2013
With the contentious issue of age of consent remaining inconclusive, the anti-rape Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The age of consent will also be decided in the House. ...
02:27 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The proposed anti-rape Bill, which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack, and lower the age of consent for sex to 16, is set to face hurdles in an the all-party meeting convened by the government on Monday. Samajwadi Party, which extends outside support to UPA, has openly come out against the provisions relating to stalking and lowering of consent age from...
07:08 PM, Mar 17, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it favours a strong anti-rape law but has certain reservations on some of the clauses in the Bill cleared by the Cabinet and will voice them in the all-party meeting here on March 18. "BJP agrees with most issues stated in the Bill and would like it to be passed. But some sections in the party have reservations on decreasing the age of...
09:36 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday said the Centre's decision to reduce the age for consensual sex from 18 to 16 years would affect the social order and increase rape cases in the country. ...
12:26 AM, Mar 15, 2013
The final draft of the anti-rape Bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday evening. "Anti-rape Bill has been cleared. All recommendations of the GoM accepted," said Law Minister Ashwini Kumar. ...
06:43 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Residents of Chennai say reducing age of consent may create problems. They are also demanding harsher punishments for rapists in the anti-rape Bill. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Human rights lawyer Vrinda Grover joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on new anti-rape Bill & whether it is right to lower the age of sexual consent from 18 to 16 years. ...
07:22 PM, Mar 13, 2013
The government is reportedly finalising the changes to the Criminal Law Amendment Bill and sources say that it has decided to lower the age of consent for sex from 18 years to 16 years. Also, acid attack and stalking will be considered sexual crimes, the sources said. Sources added that the new note also brings back the word 'rape' instead of 'sexual assault'. The ordinance had used the word 'sexual...
08:36 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Age of consent debate: Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, should 16-18 year olds be allowed to have sexual relations?
01:22 PM, May 02, 2012
Experts say 18 is the minimum age for marriage, but not the 'desirable' age. ...
03:17 AM, Feb 08, 2008
