Why maids keep dying in Saudi ArabiaIn Kenya, women eager for new opportunities in Saudi Arabia often face dire conditions instead. Promised decent wages, many encounter abuse...
16 Mar, 2025, 10.36 AM IST
Kolkata Court sentences man to death for rape and attempted murder of infantA special Pocso court in Kolkata sentenced Rajiv Ghosh to death for the brutal rape and attempted murder of a seven-month-old girl. Describ...
18 Feb, 2025, 09.32 PM IST
Sandeshkhali violence: NCPCR seeks probe into child being thrown away by miscreantsSandeshkhali has been tense with a large number of women in the locality accusing Trinamool Congress strongman Shajahan Sheikh and his supp...
16 Feb, 2024, 04.23 PM IST
71-year-old, Manchester man who arranged to rape 12-week-old baby receives 80-month prison sentenceA 71-year-old man, Mark Whalley, has been sentenced to 80 months in prison for conspiring to sexually assault a 12-week-old baby at a Manch...
24 Oct, 2023, 10.34 PM IST
How Arab fighters carried out a rolling ethnic massacre in SudanArab tribal leaders have denied engaging in ethnic cleansing in El Geneina, and the RSF has said it has no involvement in the tribal confli...
22 Sep, 2023, 04.14 PM IST
Unnao gang-rape: Accused set minor Dalit victim's house on fire; her infant son and sister fight for lifeThe injured babies include the rape victim's six-month-old child - born after the 11-year-old was impregnated in the sexual assault - and h...
18 Apr, 2023, 04.48 PM IST
On their way to the US: Perilous, roadless jungle becomes a path of desperate hopeThe thousands of Haitians who crossed the border into Texas last month, jolting the town of Del Rio and thrusting the Biden administration ...
03 Oct, 2021, 08.24 AM IST
Citizen Trump: What will Donald Trump do after White House? President's next steps explainedIn the near term and possibly longer, Trump’s post-presidential options will be circumscribed by the fallout over his Jan. 6 speech egging ...
19 Jan, 2021, 08.47 AM IST
Ideas for a better Budget: Women’s health, maternal leave and safety for economic growthFinance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman, due to announce the Union Budget for 2021-22 on February 1, must surely be searching for high growth id...
11 Jan, 2021, 12.55 PM IST
SC upholds conviction in rape case, says people suffering from mental illness deserve special careObserving that the convict had exploited the victim by taking undue advantage of her mental illness, the apex court dismissed his appeal ag...
05 Dec, 2020, 12.58 PM IST
Crime against women in 2015: Somnath Bharti, TERI boss R K Pachauri, Mahmood Farooqui faced courtsAAP MLA Somnath Bharti played hide and seek with the law before surrendering after getting a rap from the Supreme Court.
30 Dec, 2015, 11.51 AM IST
Dalits’ rise upper castes’ envy in HaryanaIn the wake of the Faridabad killings, Dalit activists wondered if the pictures of two charred infants could shake the nation's conscience.
22 Oct, 2015, 11.42 AM IST
High Court strived in 2013 to make Delhi safer place for womenThe high court, which took a bold step by throwing open the gangrape trial for national and international media is now hearing on day-to-da...
26 Dec, 2013, 08.53 AM IST
- Rape of grown-up girls may be "understandable" but assault on infants heinous: BJP MP
Political parties slammed Ramesh Bais for his remark with the BJP saying the age of the victim is of no importance while the Congress conde...
10 Jan, 2013, 07.42 PM IST
- Gang rape case: Delhi not safe for women of any age, feel MPs
The members, in chorus, vociferously demanded capital punishment and filing of murder charges against perpetrators of such heinous crime.
18 Dec, 2012, 06.03 PM IST