Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has promised action and assistance for the family of the young girl who was allegedly set ablaze by her jilted lover in Hathras district on January 1. The 42-year-old accused had allegedly barged into the 18-year-old's house and set her on fire with kerosene. ...
02:36 PM, Jan 05, 2013
The 19-year-old girl in Alwar, Rajasthan, who had attempted to immolate herself after being harassed by her neighbour for over four years, succumbed to her injuries at a local hospital on Friday. ...
05:11 PM, Jan 04, 2013
A naked body of a girl has been found on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway. There was no cloth on the girl's body, which had several injury marks. The girl's age is between 20-25 years, sources say. ...
02:07 PM, Jan 03, 2013
In yet another shocking crime against women, an 18-year old girl was allegedly set on fire in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district by her jilted lover. Her family says the 42-year old man barged into her house and set her ablaze with kerosene oil. ...
04:48 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Playboy boss Hugh Hefner wed his girlfriend Crystal Harris at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills here on New Year's Eve. ...
02:18 PM, Jan 01, 2013
A 19-year-old boy who had allegedly harassed two girls on a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus committed suicide on Monday, fearing public anger and ignominy. ...
01:35 AM, Jan 01, 2013
A minor girl was gangraped allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poison at her residence on Saturday, police said. The 14-year-old girl's condition is critical and she has been put on ventilator, they said. ...
11:25 PM, Dec 29, 2012
As the government deliberates the issue of safety of women and the 23-year-old gangrape survivor battles for life, there are more reports of sex crimes against women from across the country. In Rajasthan's Barmer district, a 16-year-old girl was reportedly abducted and gangraped by three men inside a moving car on Thursday night. ...
07:32 PM, Dec 28, 2012
A local court on Thursday directed the police to investigate the complaint of a minor girl who has alleged that her parents were forcing her to marry a youth. ...
02:07 AM, Dec 28, 2012
In a shocker, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl was seriously injured after allegedly being thrown from the top of a building by her father who has been arrested, police said on Thursday. Superintendent of Police YS Ravikumar said the man Ramesh had been torturing the baby after birth and tried to kill her, as he wished for a boy. ...
09:13 PM, Dec 27, 2012
In a horrifying incident near Patiala in Punjab, a minor girl has committed suicide a month after she was allegedly gangraped. The girl in her suicide note stated that she was harassed and scared. ...
05:09 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A physically challenged minor girl was allegedly raped by two men in the suburban Chembur area of Mumbai, police said on Thursday. The two accused took the 15-year-old girl, who is hearing and speech impaired, to a toilet in Chembur area on December 27 afternoon and allegedly raped her. ...
01:03 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A Christian girl was shot dead by unidentified persons in her house in the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Wednesday, police said. The girl's body was found in her home at Brewery Road in Quetta, police officials said. ...
08:39 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Anger and outrage in the city against the gangrape of a 23-year-old girl has caused the civic agency-run primary schools in New Delhi to announce that girl students and woman teachers would be trained to defend themselves. ...
02:01 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Girls in the country are facing discrimination and to correct it, the prevailing mindset has to be changed, Louis Georges Arsenault, UNICEF's India head said in New Delhi on Tuesday. ...
01:03 AM, Dec 27, 2012
A Physical Education Teacher was on Wednesday suspended for allegedly misbehaving with a girl at Keezhadi Government Higher Secondary school some days ago, police said. ...
12:44 AM, Dec 27, 2012
A five-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour on Saturday in Hyderabad. The accused has been arrested, according to the police. ...
02:52 PM, Dec 25, 2012
A sessions court here on Tuesday sent a man to gallows for raping and killing a minor Dalit girl in 2009. The seven-year-old girl was raped and killed by Ashok in Bhuta area of the district in May 2009, prosecution said. ...
09:14 AM, Dec 25, 2012
A Sessions court in Bareilly on Monday sent a man to gallows for raping and killing a minor Dalit girl three years ago. The seven-year-old girl was raped and killed by Ashok in Bhuta area of the district in May 2009, prosecution said. ...
12:41 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Elisany da Cruz Silva, the world's tallest teen girl at 6ft 8in, dislikes hanging out with her 'tiny' boyfriend as one could easily mistake him as her little brother or son. Francinaldo da Silva Carvalho, who is just 5ft 4in tall, has to crane his neck to get a kiss. ...
06:56 PM, Dec 23, 2012
