The Cabinet on Monday decided to raise the age of consensual sex back to 18 years, after various political parties spoke against the move of reducing it. It has also diluted the clauses on voyeurism and stalking in the Bill, which is now expected to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Centre will bring the anti-rape Bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after most of the parties voiced their opinion against lowering the age of consent for sex from 18 years to 16. ...
07:47 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The new anti-rape Bill will be taken up by the Union Cabinet Monday evening after it failed to achieve consensus at two all-party meetings. Sources told CNN-IBN that the key sticking point of lowering the age of consent for sex may have been solved with the government agreeing to keep it at 18 years. However, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur said, "We don't want the age to be ...
05:37 PM, Mar 18, 2013
In Madhya Pradesh, the blamegame continues over the gangrape of a Swiss tourist in Datia on the outskirts of Gwalior. The survivor was camping with her husband while on a cycling trip. ...
05:09 PM, Mar 18, 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
Sources said that in the final draft, the word 'sexual assault' has been replaced by 'rape', thus making the anti-rape bill women-centric. The age of consent for sex has been reduced from 18 to 16. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Bitti Mohanty is being taken to Rajasthan by the Kerala Police. ...
04:31 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Did Tihar jail authorities ignore Delhi Police's inputs on threats to the Delhi gangrape accused? In the middle of January, the Delhi Police had intercepted a phone call made from inside the jail premises. The call was made by an inmate and revealed a plot to kill all the accused. ...
11:08 PM, Mar 12, 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
Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Union Law Minister Ashwini Kumar expressed confidence that the anti-rape law will be tabled in Parliament in the ongoing Budget Session. He also refuted reports that there were fundamental differences within the cabinet over the key provisions in the proposed law. ...
06:17 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said that she is confident that the bill will be passed, however, will take sometime. ...
05:26 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
Former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, father of rape convict Bitti Mohanty, has been holed up inside his house and has refused to come and speak to the media. Mohanty had denied allegations that he has been helping his son run from the law for the past seven years. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The main accused in the Delhi gangrape-murder case, Ram Singh, was found hanging in his Tihar Jail cell under mysterious circumstances on Monday morning, raising questions over monitoring of undertrials in the prison. The preliminary reports suggests it is a case of suicide. ...
11:53 PM, Mar 11, 2013
In a dramatic twist in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case, prime accused Ram Singh was on Monday morning found dead in his cell in Tihar Jail. While initial report suggested that Ram Singh committed suicide, the family of the accused refused to believe that Ram Singh could have killed himself and alleged that he was killed inside the jail. ...
11:40 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Delhi gangrape accused Ram Singh was found hanging in his cell in Tihar jail in the early hours on Monday. Jail authorities have said it is a suicide case and has ordered a probe into the death. ...
09:29 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Krishna Kumar, Director of Education of Chinmaya Institute of Technology, where the rape convict Bitti Mohanty received his MBA degree, said Mohanty was an exemplary student and was an affable person. ...
05:10 PM, Mar 11, 2013
