Filmmaker, writer Natasha Badhwar talks about the police and government apathy in the wake of recent cases of sexual crime against women. ...
01:13 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 protests continued in Delhi over the rape case of a five-year-old girl, at the centre of the storm was Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. A man who both the Opposition and activists held responsible and answerable for the increase in crimes against women in Delhi. They are demanding his resignation. ...
12:02 AM, Apr 23, 2013
A 10-year-old girl and her mother were put behind the bars when they reached a police station in Bulandshahr to file a rape complaint. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 11, 2013
A 10-year-old girl and her mother were put behind the bars when they reached a police station in Bulandshahr to file a rape complaint. ...
12:11 AM, Apr 11, 2013
In a yet another case of police brutality, a 10-year-old rape survivor was locked up in the jail when she reached a police station to file a complaint. "Mujhe thappad mara (I was slapped)," alleged the girl, who spent more than 15 hours in the jail with her mother. ...
11:09 AM, Apr 10, 2013
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, "I think the Italian government has been very sensible. It took time to be persuaded. I have no problem to say that they have done a good job." ...
10:40 PM, Mar 29, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution asking the Centre to stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 27, 2013
With emotions running high in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lanka issue, the state Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution asking the Centre to stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country. It also calls for a referendum on a separate Eelam among Tamils in Sri Lanka and Lankan Tamils abroad. ...
10:06 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Jayalalithaa pointed out that an IPL team owned by Karunanidhi's grand-nephew has 2 Sri Lankan players, including the captain. ...
09:10 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Sri Lanka's High Commission to India Prasad Kariyawasam says, "We have nothing to do with IPL. Our concern is security of cricketers. That should be taken care of." ...
06:40 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The government's attempt to reach a consensus on the Sri Lankan resolution failed on Wednesday as party after political party opposed a country-specific resolution. ...
11:34 PM, Mar 20, 2013
It is perhaps the first time that a resolution pushed by one country, the US, against another country, Sri Lanka, has destabilised the government in a third country. Away from the political heat for the UPA government, is the anger on the streets of Tamil Nadu, against the treatment of Tamils in Sri Lanka. Is the UPA government guilty of ignoring them? ...
10:44 PM, Mar 20, 2013
UN envoy Dilip Sinha is in Parliament to meet PMO officials. He is briefing the government on amendments to the UNHRC resolution. ...
05:45 PM, Mar 20, 2013
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said it is not right to order an independent nation's probe into the affairs of Sri Lanka. "No independent country can interfere in the affairs of another sovereign nation. Just last week we condemned Pakistan Assembly's resolution on Afzal Guru's hanging," he said. ...
03:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
India's envoy to Geneva Dilip Sinha is in Parliament to meet PMO officials. Sources say he is there to brief the government on how exactly to move an amendment to the UNHRC resolution. ...
02:20 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK is in no mood to reconsider its decision of withdrawing support to the government. "There is no question of reconsidering when the resolution is to be passed day after tomorrow as there are just two days left now. In no ways is India helping the Tamils," DMK leader TKS Elangovan said. With the DMK out, the government is depending on Mulayam and Mayawati and significantly, the Samajwadi Party ...
11:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The DMK withdrew support from the UPA on Tuesday over the Sri Lankan war crimes issue. ...
10:09 PM, Mar 19, 2013
The DMK has demanded that the UPA government should take a very strong stand on the alleged war crimes resolution against Sri Lanka and threatened to pull out its ministers from the Union Cabinet if India did not vote in favour of the US-sponsored resolution. ...
09:04 AM, Mar 19, 2013
DMK, however, could consider extending outside support to the government after 3 top ministers failed to satisfy Karunanidhi on the resolution. ...
09:00 AM, Mar 19, 2013
