Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday defended the remarks by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who had said that rape incidents occurred in cities and not in rural areas. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad lambasted critics and said that the comments should be seen in their entirety, adding that the raging debate on his remarks was unnecessary. "Women empowerment, respect for women forms the core ideology of the RSS," a furious...
02:22 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Supreme Court on Friday served a notice to the Centre seeking its response on a PIL demanding fast-track trial of rape cases and implementation of existing laws for safety of women. ...
12:10 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. "Such crimes hardly take place in Bharat, but they frequently occur in India," Bhagwat said seeming to indicate that "westernization" in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rapes. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 04, 2013
A 19-year-old woman in Alwar, Rajasthan, attempted to immolate herself after being harassed by her neighbour for over four years. The woman suffered 90 per cent burn injuries and was admitted to a local hospital by her family. ...
09:49 AM, Jan 04, 2013
A lorry driver was on Monday arrested for raping his 17-year-old differently-abled teenaged neighbour at Machanayakanahalli, the police said. Prakash allegedly raped the girl on Monday after taking her out of the house, Deputy SP R Mallesh said. ...
02:15 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Even as the nation comes to terms with one of the most horrific gangrapes ever reported from its capital, CNN-IBN has compiled a list of measures, that if implemented effectively, can go a long way in curtailing the rising crime graph against women. ...
02:10 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Four youths were arrested for allegedly molesting a student when she was travelling on motorcycle with her brother on Delhi-Dehradun highway near Purkhaji town in the district, the police said here on Monday. ...
01:15 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Expressing shock and sorrow at the death of an Indian man Sunando Sen last week, Indian Americans have asked the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to separately track hate crimes against various religious communities in the country. ...
12:27 PM, Dec 31, 2012
The Madhya Pradesh government has issued directives for reviewing arms licences of those involved in crimes against women and girls and cancel the licences of persons found guilty prima facie. The directives to initiate steps for effective check on crimes against women and girls have been given to all the District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police in the state, an official release said here today. ...
12:04 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Protesters at India Gate demanded justice for the 23-year-old physiotherapist who remains critical. ...
09:05 PM, Dec 22, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday asked the government to take the strictest possible measures to ensure that there is no recurrence of incidents like the barbaric gangrape of a 23-year-old girl in the capital that has shaken the country. Sonia spoke with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and National Commission for Women Chairperson Mamta Sharma and told them to ensure that all...
10:20 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Under severe pressure after a nationwide outrage, the Delhi Police claimed four of the six men accused of raping a 23-year-old girl and throwing her out of the bus were arrested and said the horrific crime began with the bus staff first harassing the girl and her friend and when they resisted were attacked in a gruesome manner. After committing the horrific crime the prime accused Ram singh allegedly dropped ...
09:20 PM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: One person has been arrested in connection with the brutal gangrape of the 23-year-old para-medical student in a private chartered bus on Sunday night, the police confirmed on Tuesday. The arrested 32-year-old is the driver of the bus, Ram Singh. It was his brother Mukesh who was driving the bus at the time of the crime. He, along with four to five others have been detained and raids...
10:06 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: In yet another incident of violence against women, a para-medical student was allegedly gangraped by around five men in a private bus in the Vasant Vihar area of southwest Delhi. The girl, who hails from Dehra Dun and was interning with a hospital in Delhi, is in a critical condition and is in the ICU at Safdarjung Hospital. The duo had boarded the bus along with her male...
08:01 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Ranchi: A girl allegedly committed suicide on Saturday at Chatakpur in Ranchi after being molested. She poured an inflammable substance and set herself ablaze, a senior police officer with the Ratu police station said. She was upset over being molested and took the extreme step, he said. The officer added that further investigations were on to establish the details. ...
10:11 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Guntur: A creditor detained his debtor's wife in his house, demanding clearance of his dues, in Macherla town of Guntur district on Monday, the police said. A drunkard called D Gopala Reddi had borrowed Rs 50,000 from S Lakshmanaih three years ago and then gone missing, after which his wife Vijayamma was forced to vacate her rented house in Macherla six months ago and settle in a nearby village, eking...
08:27 PM, Dec 11, 2012
In Powai, a 61-year-old woman was allegedly raped and robbed inside her residence. The police have nabbed the accused. ...
11:46 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Kochi: In yet another shocker, a six-year-old girl from Kurumpady in Kerala's Ernakulam district was allegedly sexually abused by her 40-year-old father for six months after being forced to drink alcohol. Police have registered a case against the man, who is absconding, following a complaint by the girl's mother that he had been sexually abusing the child for the past six months. Police said the case has been registered under...
06:43 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Mumbai: Concerned over the spate of molestation cases in the state, the Maharashtra government is considering a proposal to make it a non-bailable offence. Minister for Women and Child Welfare Varsha Gaikwad told PTI that she will discuss the issue with Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and set up a committee comprising social workers and women legislators to examine a draft bill called the Maharashtra Prohibition of Eve-teasing and Harassment of...
06:00 PM, Dec 08, 2012
