After Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya drew flak for 'Lakshman rekha' remark, his senior colleague Babulal Gaur on Sunday said 'foreign culture' of women wearing jeans and T-shirts, drinking liquor and dancing with other men is not good for India. ...
11:51 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit opened up to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate and admitted to lapses on part of the police and the government in ensuring the safety of women. ...
08:28 PM, Jan 13, 2013
A 32-year-old man, who was released from jail for his good behaviour after serving sentence in a rape and murder case of a minor girl, was again arrested for allegedly raping and killing a girl in Shirdi, police said on Sunday. Sunil Suresh alias Pappu Salve was arrested on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a nine-year-old girl from Shirdi town of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra on December 28, 2012 following which...
03:14 PM, Jan 13, 2013
Six persons were booked on the alleged charges of molestation and beating up a woman in Gurdaspur on Saturday, police said. The molesters, identified as Gogan, Shaikhu, Ravi, Honey, Shamu and Rimpa passed lewd remarks at the woman near Geeta Bhawan Road in the city, Gurdaspur(City) SHO, Gurdeep Singh said. ...
06:37 PM, Jan 12, 2013
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her relative in Rasoolpur village under Satrikh police station area in Barabanki, police said. The girl had gone to the agriculture field on Friday evening when her distant relative Sanjay (30) lured her to a secluded place and allegedly raped her, they said. ...
01:14 PM, Jan 12, 2013
A court in Cuttack district on Friday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping a minor girl, while another court in Sambalpur district convicted a separate person on charge of rape and murder of a three-year-old girl. The additional district judge (Fast Track) Sushil Kumar Ray sentenced Minja Naik of Tigiria area to life imprisonment and penalty of Rs 2,000 for raping a minor girl. He was convicted under...
10:29 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A 70-year-old man was on Thursday arrested for allegedly having unnatural sex with a 13-year-old girl after a common acquaintance saw the video-clip of the act on his lost mobile phone, police said. Accused Niyaz Ahmed Hassan Raza, a trustee of a local mosque who used to teach Arabic, was apprehended from Shivajinagar for allegedly sexually abusing the girl student a month ago and filming it, they said. ...
08:40 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Facing public outcry, Puducherry government has dropped its plan to introduce a dress code making overcoats mandatory for girl students in the Union Territory to prevent sexual crimes. ...
01:36 AM, Jan 11, 2013
As part of an awareness drive, the Delhi Police on Thursday put up posters outside girls' colleges and schools mentioning helpline numbers and information regarding self-defence courses. ...
07:50 PM, Jan 10, 2013
A Bharatiya Janata Party leader on Wednesday said that the rape of grown-up girls and women might be understandable but if someone does this to an infant, he should be hanged. He said rape of minor is a heinous crime and those who commits such crime should be hanged. ...
11:04 AM, Jan 10, 2013
In a yet another story of crimes against women, a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Alwar, Rajasthan alleges that she was stalked and molested by upper caste men in her village because she wanted to study in college. "Boys harass me on my way to college just because I belong to a Dalit family. Everyday on my way to college, boys followed me, harassed me. It was a nightmare," says the...
10:28 AM, Jan 10, 2013
For ensuring safety and security to women, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has suggested to Justice Verma committee that co-education system should be abolished in the country. Tonight at 10:30, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel whether co-ed schools are necessary to reduce crimes against women. You can send your viewpoint and questions on the issue here or tweet them to us
@Face_the_Nation or
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09:53 AM, Jan 09, 2013
In the backdrop of recent rape cases in Delhi and Noida, a group of students of Amity Law School on Tuesday took pledge to help victims of road accidents, sexual or domestic violence and protect girls in distress. "We have asked the colleges to take affidavit from male students that they will treat the girl students with grace and not indulge in eve teasing or harassment within or outside the...
09:41 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Vishnu Wagh, a BJP MLA from Goa and Abu Azmi, a Samajwadi Party MLA, on Tuesday drew flak for their insensitive comments regarding women and sexual assault cases. ...
08:10 PM, Jan 08, 2013
The Karnataka police on Tuesday chargesheeted JDS worker Surendra Babu and his driver with murder in connection with the death of the former's wife, Kannada TV actress Hemashri last year. Babu and his driver Satish were arrested few days after the incident on October 10 last year. ...
05:52 PM, Jan 08, 2013
A total of six MLAs and two MPs in India are accused of serious crimes against women, including rape and sexual assault. ...
11:20 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The Janata Dal United has taken on the Bharatiya Janata Party over comments made by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat over rapes and the role of women in society. JDU leader Shivanand Tiwary on Monday compared Bhagwat with Akbaruddin Owaisi of the MIM, who is in the dock over a hate speech, saying that they both are products of similar ideologies. "The RSS ideology is propagated among Hindus and MIM's amongst...
04:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
A man was arrested for allegedly passing lewd remarks at a young woman who was waiting for her husband at a bus stop in central Delhi today, police said. ...
08:10 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Under fire over his 'India and Bharat' comment, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat got another jolt over an alleged comment on the role of women in society. "A husband and a wife are involved in a social contract. The wife has to take care of the household work and the husband has to meet her needs and protect her. If the wife violates the contract, the husband can disown her,"...
05:51 PM, Jan 06, 2013
A BJP party leader has defended RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on rape, and said that western culture and bikini-clad women in advertisements have a role to play in crimes against women. BJP member Sheshadri Chari made the remarks during CNN-IBN's India @ 9 show. He was speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai and said that both women and men need to observe the 'Lakshman-rekha'. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 05, 2013
