Lauding the achievement of the daughter of an auto-rickshaw driver from the state who topped the nationwide Chartered Accountant examinations, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced an award of Rs 10 lakh for her. ...
07:35 PM, Jan 24, 2013
The school headmistress, who was arrested following the alleged rape of a seven-year old girl student on the school premises, has claimed that she is being made a scapegoat in the case. Police had on January 20 arrested headmistress Sharlet Furtado for negligence on her part which led to the rape of the girl in the toilet of the school in Vasco town on January 14. ...
02:15 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Surmounting all odds, Prema Jayakumar, daughter of a Mumbai-based auto rickshaw driver, has topped the all India Chartered Accountancy (CA) examination. Residing in a crammed one-room chawl in suburban Malad with her parents and brother, the 24-year-old topper said she was ecstatic to have secured the first rank in the examination. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 22, 2013
A month after releasing the three-digit emergency number for women in Delhi, the government on Monday said it will make available the '181' women helpline number to all states of the country. "We will give single emergency number 181 to women across the country," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters. ...
03:20 PM, Jan 21, 2013
In the wake of the state-wide protests over the Kanker rape case, Raman Singh-led BJP government has decided to send a proposal to the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court to set up fast-track courts in all the districts for speedy disposal of rape cases. ...
03:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Police on January 20 arrested five youths for allegedly raping a teenage girl in the district and preparing her obscene video on a mobile phone. The arrest was made under Sections 376 (rape), 292 (sale etc of obscene video), 506 (criminal intimidation) and some other Sections of the IPC, police said. ...
01:52 PM, Jan 20, 2013
A student of the Allahabad University allegedly sent an e-mail to a classmate he was infatuated with, threatening her that she will meet "the same fate as the victim of the Delhi gang-rape" if she spurned his advances, a varsity official on Saturday said. ...
03:54 PM, Jan 19, 2013
An 18-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by a group of dacoits at a village near here, police said on January 19. A gang of 5-6 dacoits, in the age group of 25 to 30 years, struck at the huts in Nawargaon village under Kuhi taluka in Nagpur rural last night between 8 and 10 PM. ...
01:53 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A bus conductor has been arrested for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in a school bus in Mumbai. The accused bus conductor has been sent to police custody till February 1. ...
01:10 PM, Jan 19, 2013
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth, meanwhile in a separate incident a man allegedly raped his widow daughter-in-law, police said on January 19. The 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Airchira Kalan village in Safidon sub-division on January 18. ...
12:44 PM, Jan 19, 2013
The brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old para-medical student in Delhi in December 2012 was perhaps one of the worst examples of public apathy. In another unfortunate incident in Ambala, the passengers in a bus stood watching when the conductor was stabbed for taking on molesters. ...
08:02 AM, Jan 19, 2013
A six-year-old rape survivor in Delhi has been facing trauma during test identification parades that require the victim to come face-to-face with the accused. Her father has turned Citizen Journalist demanding sensitive investigation. ...
09:02 AM, Jan 18, 2013
Union Minister of State for Home RPN Singh travelled in DTC buses at night to check security for common people especially women, in the wake of the brutal gangrape and killing of a 23-year-old girl in New Delhi in December. ...
12:46 AM, Jan 18, 2013
The parents of a minor girl, who was raped in a Goa school four days back, have alleged that the school staff tried to destroy the evidence of the crime. "School teachers washed her clothes, gave her bath and cleaned the toilet after the sexual assault," the parents alleged. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 17, 2013
Hollywood's favorite grandpa Christopher Walken will be starring in several upcoming movies. The first is 'The Power of Few', which is like part heist and part weird science cloning experiment. Even though the film doesn't boast of an A-list cast, there is quite a buzz around its first look. The film hits US theatres this February. ...
04:55 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The former wife of author Salman Rushdie said she never skips breakfast and also takes on green tea every time. ...
01:57 PM, Jan 16, 2013
Fifty per cent rape cases in Rajasthan still await justice and forty per cent cases are dismissed as 'false' by the police in the state. Outraged people protested outside the Sodala police station in Jaipur against an officer who refused to register a case of sexual assault on an 11-year-old by a construction worker. His explanation was that 'it wasn't a rape after all'. ...
09:10 AM, Jan 16, 2013
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to testify before Congress on the attack on their consulate in Benghazi, Libya which left its ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead on September 11, 2012. She is also expected to appear before the House foreign affairs committee on January 23. ...
07:30 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Anindyo Chattopadhyay makes his acting debut in Anik Dutta's 'Aschorjo Prodip'. ...
04:19 PM, Jan 15, 2013
