The final draft of the anti-rape Bill was cleared by the Union Cabinet on Thursday evening. "Anti-rape Bill has been cleared. All recommendations of the GoM accepted," said Law Minister Ashwini Kumar. ...
06:43 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Residents of Chennai say reducing age of consent may create problems. They are also demanding harsher punishments for rapists in the anti-rape Bill. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 14, 2013
There is headway in the anti-rape Bill draft, which is all set to be cleared by the Cabinet after much debate within the ministries. The Cabinet will take it up on Thursday evening. ...
03:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Human rights lawyer Vrinda Grover joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on new anti-rape Bill & whether it is right to lower the age of sexual consent from 18 to 16 years. ...
07:22 PM, Mar 13, 2013
After the meeting of the groups of ministers over the anti-rape Bill, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the GoM would meet again on Wednesday and the Bill would reach the Cabinet on Thursday. ...
11:03 PM, Mar 12, 2013
With the Cabinet divided over the government's proposed anti-rape Bill, Karan Thapar on his show 'The Last Word' asked if the confusion and indecisiveness has damaged the government's sincerity and resolve. ...
10:19 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Cabinet once again failed to approve the draft of the proposed anti-rape Bill on Tuesday. There are differences in the Cabinet over provisions like reducing the age of consent from 18 to 16 years. A group of ministers will not consider the draft and look into the points of differences and come back to the Cabinet by Wednesday. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar told CNN-IBN that the anti-rape law needs careful deliberation before it is passed. ...
02:06 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Is the govt sponsored anti-rape Bill good enough? Activist and former Miss India Gul Panag joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:46 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said one of the reasons for not making marital rape an offence under the latest ordinance was that marriage is not deemed to be a contract in India, unlike in other countries. ...
09:00 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has dismissed reports of alleged differences between the Home Ministry and the Law Ministry over the proposed new anti-rape bill. ...
08:34 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Tim Cook could be deposed in A lawsuit against Apple over alleged price-setting in the e-book market. ...
01:43 PM, Mar 09, 2013
While political leaders have been endorsing tough laws to deal with crimes against women, there is hardly action on the ground to show that women are any safer. While members of the government assured that tough anti-rape laws will be brought into effect soon, Parliamentarians called for unity to fight crimes against women during a debate on the occasion of Women's Day on Friday. ...
03:59 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Even as a strong anti-rape law continued to get delayed, more rapes were reported on Thursday. Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan said, "It's extremely frustrating when I see rapes happening and things not reaching to logical conclusion. I feel as bad as those women who have gone through this. ...
01:58 PM, Mar 07, 2013
After weeks of promising strong legislation to curb crime against women, it seems the Cabinet is dithering on the new anti-rape law. The bill was not discussed by the Cabinet on Thursday after some amendments proposed by the home ministry ran into opposition. ...
10:26 AM, Mar 07, 2013
After the brutal Delhi gangrape incident, the government faced pressure to come up with stringent anti-rape laws to curb sexual violence against women. The Justice JS Verma committee proposed certain amendments in the existing rape laws. The Home Ministry now has proposed a few changes in the ordinance. ...
09:06 AM, Mar 07, 2013
After the brutal Delhi gangrape incident, the government faced pressure to come up with stringent anti-rape laws to curb sexual violence against women. The Justice JS Verma committee proposed certain amendments in the existing rape laws. The Home Ministry now has proposed a few changes in the ordinance. ...
07:59 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Why is the government not willing to include marital rape in the new anti-rape Bill? Advocate Mihira Sood joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:59 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Cabinet is likely to finalise tough new laws on crimes against women with a new Criminal Law Amendment Bill this Thursday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the age of consent for sex is likely to be reduced from 18 to 16 as suggested by the Justice Verma panel. ...
07:58 AM, Mar 06, 2013
A Facebook Inc shareholder has sued the social networking company's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and others over its troubled IPO, potentially reviving legal claims that a different court dismissed in February. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 05, 2013
