Noted Marathi writer and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, who had been absconding, has surrendered after being accused of sexually exploiting 6 women. 63-year-old Mane allegedly raped and molested the women employees at a charity home where he was the working president. ...
10:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi called for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country. ...
02:56 PM, Apr 08, 2013
A 24-year-old British national was found dead inside a boathouse in Srinagar. Police have arrested the accused for the woman's murder while he was trying to flee after the incident. ...
09:59 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Former Odisha Minister Raghunath Mohanty's daughter-in-law said that her husband's family subjected her to dowry torture, demanded a Scorpio car and Rs 25 lakhs in cash. ...
07:38 PM, Mar 30, 2013
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sent a notice to the Chhattisgarh government. NCPCR official Vinod Ticu said it is a failure of the monitoring system. ...
04:00 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Breaking down repeatedly while addressing the media, Sanjay Dutt said he isn't seeking pardon and will surrender within the stipulated deadline. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 28, 2013
An IBN7 investigation exposed how young tribal girls are being sexually abused in government-run homes and schools in Chhattisgarh. ...
11:58 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Men from several cities and walks of life pledge to play a safer Holi, have you taken your pledge? ...
04:08 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The historic anti-rape Bill was finally passed in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Bill fixes the age of consent for sex at 18 years and the first offence of stalking is bailable. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Pakistan's women's rights icon Malala Yousufzai returns to school in Birmingham months after being shot by the Taliban. ...
09:00 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The historic anti-rape Bill was finally passed in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Bill fixes the age of consent for sex at 18 years and the first offence of stalking is bailable. Two amendments, seeking life term for trafficking of children and life imprisonment for acid attack, were defeated. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 19, 2013
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
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty, on the run for six years, will be taken back to Kerala from Rajasthan on Saturday. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 15, 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
Bitti Mohanty is being taken to Rajasthan by the Kerala Police. ...
04:31 PM, Mar 13, 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
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
