Kokrajhar: One person was on Wednesday arrested in Kokrajhar railway station for allegedly molesting a co-passenger on board the Dibrugarh-bound 2423 up Rajdhani Express. Accused Moinul Islam of Hojai was beaten up by an angry mob at the railway station for misbehaving with a lady travelling in the same train and allegedly molestating her, GRP sources said. Islam harassed his co-passenger, an engineer on her way back to Kokrajhar after...
08:03 PM, Jan 25, 2012
This week on India Positive, a 84-year-old woman who plays matchmaker for the differently-abled. A village in Gujarat has handed over administration to a group of 12 educated girls. All of them were elected unopposed to the gram panchayat even before voting took place in December 2011. In Delhi a team of scientists are trying restore and restock Yamuna's original ecosystem. Today the Yamuna Biodiversity Park in Delhi with wetland ...
12:03 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: A young inventor, Manu Chopra, may soon change the way women travel in the country. He has invented an anti-molestation device for women, which can be worn as a wrist watch. Many women from the national capital have faced terror on the roads of Delhi, which has a high rate of crime against women. Some of them may have survived to tell the tale, but it has not...
10:05 AM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi witnessed an upward trend in crime graph for the third consecutive year in 2011 as it registered a four per cent increase compared to the previous year, prompting police to earmark special measures to combat street crime besides strengthening anti-terror mechanism. Though there was a dip in street crime like snatching and vehicle theft cases, heinous crimes were on the rise in the capital last year compared...
05:59 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Chandigarh: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) bench in Chandigarh has ordered restoration of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore's pension, which was stopped after his conviction in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. Sixty-nine-year-old Rathore was awarded six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1,000 by the Chandigarh CBI court in December 2009 for molesting the 14-year-old tennis player on August 12, 1990. The girl committed suicide three years later. A division...
10:09 AM, Dec 17, 2011
HYDERABAD: A 26-year-old research scholar at English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) was allegedly molested by her professor, who is also her advisory committee member, at the University guest house on Tuesday. The 45-year-old professor, Rajat Kumar Mohanty, is a faculty (UGC-ENCORE) at the varsitys Computational Linguistics department. The scholar, who hails from West Bengal, is residing in the Mahalaqa Bai Chanda womens hostel on campus and is pursuing her...
08:33 AM, Dec 15, 2011
Los Angeles: Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has decided to stop using his Twitter account after sparking outrage by defending ousted college football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was fired from his role as head coach of the Pennsylvania State University football team on Wednesday amid the growing sex abuse scandal surrounding his former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Paterno has come under fire for failing to take more action against Sandusky, who has...
12:31 PM, Nov 11, 2011
'SlutWalk' - a movement for women's equality that began in Toronto - is going to be held at Jantar Mantar on Sunday. ...
07:59 AM, Jul 31, 2011
Puri: As lakhs of devotees enjoyed the spectacular rath yatra of Lord Jagannath in Puri, the Orissa police which was already saddled with the responsibility of security and crowd management, was in for some embarrassment. It had to arrest one its own officers for allegedly molesting a minor on a train to Puri. The accused Inspector Santosh Mallick of the special crime branch fled from custody only to be re-arrested...
10:56 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Puri: The Jagannath yatra has begun but the festivities have been marred by the shocking news of molestation of a nine year old, allegedly by a policeman, on a train near Bhubaneswar. The policeman has been arrested along with the victim's father who allegedly attacked the suspect. The victim is from Bengal and was travelling with her family to Puri for the Rath Yatra. The incident took place in the...
08:24 AM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: In more embarrassment for the Mayawati government, BSP MLA from Bijnor, Shanawaz Rana has been suspended over a molestation case. Rana Has been suspended for alleged involvement in the abduction and rape attempt on two Delhi-based girls. The MLA's kin was involved in the abduction and rape attempt on the girls. Mayawati has also banned the entry of Rana in all party functions. "He has been suspended from...
04:08 PM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: Having made their point in Toronto, Melbourne and Montreal, the "sluts" now plan to walk in New Delhi as part of a global campaign against sexual violence. The now famous 'SlutWalk' started in response to a Toronto police officer who said "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised." It originated with an intention to protest against the belief that female rape victims are...
01:46 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Jaipur: Three Rajasthan policemen have been found guilty of molesting a girl, who was called as a witness to the Pratap Nagar police station in Jaipur to record her statement. The three policemen including SHO Ramniwas Bishnoi and Head Constable Ramlal Meena have been arrested on charges of attempting to rape her and extorting information but have not been charged for abetting suicide. The incident had taken place on January...
11:18 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Tel Aviv: Former President Moshe Katsav was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in jail for rape, a case that brought shame to Israel's highest office and sent a firm message to a transfixed public that no one was above the law. Katsav had denied charges he twice raped an aide when he was a cabinet minister in the late 1990s, and molested or sexually harassed two other women who...
02:30 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Houston: A US jury on Wednesday sentenced an elderly Hindu religious leader to 14 years in prison and fined a $ 10,000 on each of 20 counts of molesting two girls who grew up on the ashram he founded and led in Central Texas. Prakashanand Saraswati, known to his devotees as Shree Swamiji and head of the 200-acre Hindu ashram in Texas, was sentenced by a Hays County jury after...
01:46 PM, Mar 09, 2011
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