The girl who was arrested for posting a Facebook comment criticising the Mumbai shutdown over Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray's death, has said that she stands by her post. ...
10:59 AM, Nov 24, 2012
A woman was allegedly abducted and held captive for 12 hours. She was found in an unconscious state and rescued. Police have begun investigations. The woman has undergone a medical examination to determine if she was raped. ...
09:53 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Following the gangrape of a teenaged Dalit girl in Jind, who went on to commit suicide, a khap member in Haryana seemed to blame the victims for the rape. Speaking to a CNN-IBN reporter, khap panchayat member Sube Singh said that the only solution to rapes was to get girls married at the age of 16. His explanation for how it would prevent rapes was equally bizarre. He said that ...
03:30 PM, Oct 08, 2012
A 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan who was charged with blasphemy is expected to be declared innocent by a juvenile court on Monday. Police say that Rimsha Masih was not only innocent but that she was framed by a Muslim cleric in her home town. Masih reportedly suffers from Down Syndrome. The cleric said that he saw her tearing down the Quran's pages. ...
10:01 AM, Oct 01, 2012
A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by eight "upper caste" men on September 9 in the Dabra area of Hisar. ...
04:40 PM, Sep 23, 2012
American runs football academy for tribal girls, school on wheels educating slum children and more inspiring stories. ...
07:36 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested an 11-year-old Christian girl with Downs' Syndrome after her neighbours claimed that she burnt pages of the Quran. ...
10:48 AM, Aug 21, 2012
A 14-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in the Sindh province of Pakistan on Thursday. ...
09:17 AM, Aug 10, 2012
A Class 11 student of a junior college in Andhra Pradesh lost her voice after her seniors strangulated her with a rope in a ragging session. ...
11:35 AM, Jul 23, 2012
One of the accused arrested by the Assam Police in connection with the Guwahati molestation incident has said he left the area soon after the ruckus started. ...
01:56 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Activist Akhil Gogoi has alleged he suspects that News Live staged Guwahati's horrific molestation incident. ...
03:44 PM, Jul 14, 2012
The atrocious incident of a teenaged girl being molested in full public view by a mob of around 20 men at a busy road in Guwahati has outraged the entire country with Home Minister P Chidambaram exhorting the state government to take action. ...
03:59 PM, Jul 13, 2012
The atrocious incident of a teenaged girl being molested in full public view by a mob of around 20 men at a busy road in Guwahati has outraged the entire country. The channel, that shot the incident and aired it, defends itself for doing so. ...
02:42 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Kamrup district collector Ashutosh Agnihotri has said that strict action will be taken against the accused in the Guwahati mob molestation case. ...
11:28 AM, Jul 13, 2012
A teenaged girl was on Monday night beaten up, molested and groped in full public view by a mob of around 20 people. The assault continued for 30 minutes. ...
09:48 AM, Jul 13, 2012
A nationwide outrage over a Visva-Bharati warden asking a class 5 student to drink her urine for bedwetting notwithstanding, social activist Swami Agnivesh claimed on Tuesday that this was a "traditional cure" for such a condition. ...
03:50 PM, Jul 11, 2012
In a shameful and shocking incident of corporal punishment at West Bengal's Visva-Bharati University, a 10-year-old girl was forced to drink her urine as punishment for bed wetting by her hostel warden. ...
10:22 AM, Jul 10, 2012
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has demanded an explanation over the Class 5 girl at the prestigious university of West Bengal, who was made to drink urine by her warden as punishment for bedwetting. ...
10:10 AM, Jul 09, 2012
The deteriorating law and order situation in the state has forced Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to crack the whip. ...
09:39 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Delhi High Court has ruled that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty. ...
11:30 PM, Jun 07, 2012
