Pawan Kalyan speaks out against gang-rape, murder of 8-year-old girl by minor schoolmates in Andhra PradeshPawan Kalyan, addressing the issue of the accused, emphasised that the problem goes beyond physical education, noting that young minds are ...
12 Jul, 2024, 01.15 PM IST
BCI comes in support of SC over rape remarks, asks activists not to scandalise itOn Wednesday, an apex court official had said that the query of a three-judge bench, headed by the CJI, asking a rape accused whether he wo...
04 Mar, 2021, 08.39 PM IST
TMC, BJP tussle to win over women voters in BengalThe TMC and the BJP are tussling to win over women voters, who comprise 49 per cent of poll-bound West Bengal's draft electorate, by highli...
01 Jan, 2021, 05.05 PM IST
Sexual abuse at shelter homes: Existing mechanism not adequate to deal with problem, says SCThe bench was dealing with the matter in which 34 girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused in a shelter home run by an NGO at Muzaffa...
04 Oct, 2018, 04.49 PM IST
India needs 1,023 special courts to try cases of rape and child rape: Law ministryThe Criminal Laws (Amendment) Ordinance amended the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the Evidence Act and th...
29 Jul, 2018, 05.36 PM IST
Stung by women’s safety poll, Government contests resultThe poll attributed India’s ranking due to the high risk of sexual violence. Respondents also ranked India as the most dangerous country fo...
12 Jul, 2018, 08.04 AM IST
JD-U demands Bharat Ratna to former PM Charan SinghAnil Desai of Shiv Sena asked for effective measures to ensure security of womenp passengers in local trains in Mumbai.
21 Dec, 2015, 09.51 PM IST
- Drive to be launched to sensitise kids on abuse
"We will start an exercise with the help of NGOs as a part of which we will go to schools and make students aware about good and bad touch,...
17 Sep, 2014, 06.56 PM IST
MHA report confirms women, kids most unsafe in Akhilesh rule, crimes up by 50% in Uttar Pradesh in 2013This report is likely to be cited by the Central government to reinforce its claims of a breakdown of law and order situation in UP.
01 Jul, 2014, 09.27 AM IST
- Delhi gang-rape case: No decision by home ministry on Afzal Guru's mercy, says Shinde
Shinde said the relevant file has come to him and he wanted to send the government's recommendation on the mercy to the President as soon a...
10 Jan, 2013, 06.55 PM IST
Delhi gang rape case: PM Manmohan Singh's address to nation goes viral for wrong reasonGovernment had also faced criticism for its failure to come up with a swift and credible political response to the protests.
25 Dec, 2012, 06.52 AM IST
Delhi rape victim should have been careful: Andhra Pradesh Congress chiefWorse, he described the assault on the physiotherapy student as a "minor incident" for which Sonia Gandhi had reached out to agitating peop...
25 Dec, 2012, 02.04 AM IST
India emerges world’s child marriage capitalFour UN agencies urged India to take "incremental action" to fight the scourge of child marriages in the country.
12 Oct, 2012, 04.33 AM IST
- Karnataka: Laxman Savadi, CC Patil & Krishna Palemar resign for watching pornographic clip
The state that gives you all the drama about as much sleaze as you can take. Just who’d have thought that Karnataka politicians will manage...
09 Feb, 2012, 04.06 AM IST
- Justice eludes women victims
Crime against the fairer sex is steadily increasing.
31 Dec, 2008, 02.04 PM IST
- Crime against women increasing: Survey
Crime against the fairer sex is steadily increasing, and less and less number of the accused are getting convicted.
30 Dec, 2008, 09.25 PM IST
- SC notice over girl's marriageable age
A plethora of laws and recent rulings by high courts have made the question of a girl’s marriageable age highly contentious prompting Supre...
13 Jul, 2007, 03.55 AM IST