Lucknow: A new variety of mango, harvested at Uttar Pradesh's famous mango centre Malihabad, has been named Nirbhaya after the 23-year-old Delhi girl who was brutally gangraped on December 16, 2012 and died of her injuries two weeks later.
The new variety, its grower Kaleemullah Khan said, was his way of honouring the bravery and spirit of the young physiotherapist, whose rape and death galvanised the entire nation.
Kaleemullah Khan, who has been awarded with a Padma Shri, said he had planted the tree three years ago and was surprised that it bore fruit in such a short span. This year, he added, the mangoes were 'slightly small' but the next harvest would be hopefully be normal.
Kaleemullah Khan, 57, is a venerated mango grower and has his name registered in the Limca Book of World Records for growing 300 varieties of mangoes on a single tree. In 1999, he grew 54 varieties of mangoes on a single tree and gifted the tree to the president. This tree still finds place in the Mughal Gardens at the sprawling Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi....
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11:56 PM, May 22, 2013
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11:25 AM, May 22, 2013
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10:14 PM, May 21, 2013
Shillong: A 13-year-old mentally unstable girl was repeatedly raped by her maternal uncle for several months at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Khasi Hills district resulting in her pregnancy, police said on Tuesday. Bratstar Pariong (30) of Mawlaisyiem village committed the crime taking advantage of the mental condition of the girl, they said. While the minor girl lives with her family at the village, she would visit her uncle's...
01:06 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A fast track Delhi court hearing the December 16, 2012, gang-rape case on Monday dismissed the pleas of two accused seeking permission to undergo lie detector tests and also to subject the victim's male friend to a similar test. Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna dismissed the applications of Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur for their lie detector test and also their application to conduct polygraph test on the...
03:50 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped in Delhi by three people, including two neighbours, after giving her sedatives, police said on Monday. The incident took place May 17, 2013 in east Delhi's New Usmanpur area, police said. "Two of the three accused are minors. The third accused has been identified as Ajay who has been arrested. Ajay's younger brother has been sent to a juvenile home while...
03:15 AM, May 21, 2013
Moradabad: A 35-year-old woman has been allegedly gangraped and beaten up by four men in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The suspects allegedly assaulted the woman while she was working alone in a farm. She has been admitted to a local hospital, where her condition is critical. "They gangraped me and pushed a stick into my body. They also beat me up with the stick. I fell unconscious. I reached...
08:46 AM, May 18, 2013
Moradabad: A 35-year-old woman has been allegedly gangraped and beaten up by four men in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The suspects allegedly assaulted the woman while she was working alone in a farm. She has been admitted to a local hospital, where her condition is critical. "They gangraped me and pushed a stick into my body. They also beat me up with the stick. I fell unconscious. I reached...
08:37 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: A devastated mother of the Delhi braveheart on Friday made fervent pleas for justice for her daughter before a Special court trying four men accused in the case. The lawyer for one of the accused did not cross-examine her saying she is already in deep pain. The mother of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped and assaulted in a moving bus, deposed before the court of Additional...
07:00 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The mother of the Delhi braveheart will appear before the fast track court on Friday to depose as a prosecution witness. Meanwhile, the Tihar Jail Superintendent and medical officer also submitted their reports to Additional Session Judge Yogesh Khanna on the health condition of accused Vinay Sharma, who was admitted to the hospital following high fever. The accused is now admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital and receiving medical...
11:05 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Tihar jail authorities on Thursday told a special court here that one of the accused in the December 16 gangrape case is being given proper medical care in the hospital where he is admitted and the doctors there are not on strike. "It has been confirmed from the guard, who is escorting guarding the accused Vinay Sharma at LNJP Hospital that the doctors of the hospital are...
09:52 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: A 71-year-old tantric was arrested in New Delhi for raping a 10-year-old girl on the pretext of healing her, police said Wednesday. The girl, who had a migraine, had been advised by a neighbour to seek the tantric's help. Her mother took her to Kanu Lal, a tantric in Govindpuri area in south Delhi on Tuesday evening. Lal asked her mother to leave the room as he would...
04:26 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: An accused in December 16 gangrape case has been vomiting blood as his "food was being poisoned" over several weeks in Tihar Jail, his lawyer told a fast-track court on Wednesday, adding that he was critically ill. Additional Sessions Judge directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure that proper medical care is given to him. The accused, Vinay Sharma, was admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where he was...
12:46 AM, May 16, 2013
Jaipur: A 24-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by unidentified persons at her home in Kotdi area in Bhilwara district, police said on Wednesday. The woman was at her home with her children while her husband was away for some work when few persons came on a bike and gangraped her on Tuesday, they said. The case is being investigated, they added. ...
12:26 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said she was "pained" at society's failure to counter violence against women and called for it to be proactive in providing a safe and secure environment for women and girls. "We have been shocked by the violence that girls and women encounter on the streets and even in their homes. Of course this is not universal, but it is very widespread," Sonia...
04:05 AM, May 15, 2013
Batala: A 17-year-old girl was abducted and raped allegedly by a youth in Qadian area of Gurdaspur district. On Sunday night the girl was abducted allegedly by one Satnam Singh alias Satta, according to the complaint filed by the victim's mother. The accused took her to a nearby tubewell and repeated raped her, police said. Seeing the serious condition of her daughter, the girl's mother approached the police, who later...
02:25 AM, May 15, 2013
Ghaziabad: A woman was allegedly gangraped by two persons, who made a video of the crime after giving her sedatives in Kaila Bhatta area in Ghaziabad, police said on Tuesday. The woman, a resident of Meerut, for the past three years was living with a person named Naushad, who had promised to marry her, SP Crime Ram Abhilash Tripathi said. The woman in her complaint has alleged that Naushad and...
12:46 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday accused the Delhi government of "stonewalling" information required for a detailed investigation into the December 16 gangrape incident which had triggered massive public outrage in the city. "I am shocked to know that the file pertaining to the private bus in which the 23-year-old girl was gangraped has gone missing as reported in a section of media. Unfortunately, there hardly seems to be any...
10:03 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
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