New Delhi : The Group of Ministers (GoM), which was set up on Tuesday to look into the tough law against rape and other crimes, is likely to finalise its report on Wednesday and send it to the Union Cabinet for consideration on Thursday. In the backdrop of persisting differences in the Cabinet, the GoM […]

New Delhi : The five men accused of the brutal gang-rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi want their trial to be moved from the city on the grounds that they cannot get a fair trial at a fast-track court in the capital. A Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice […]

New Delhi: The male friend of the Delhi gang-rape victim – the only witness in the case – on Friday spoke for the first time in front of the nation and exclusively told  that his friend was “positive” and wanted to live even after the horrific incident that took place on the night of December […]

New Delhi : Addressing a citizen’s meet in Silchar, RSS supremo Mohanrao Bhagwat stirred a hornet’s nest with his comments where he blamed western values for increasing rapes in urban India. Bhagwat claimed that violence against women, in the way of rapes and gangrapes, is a phenomenon restricted to urban India and went on to […]

Singapore: 23-year-old Amanat (NOT her real name) is in “extremely critical” condition, top officials at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said on Thursday evening. Amanat was admitted here earlier in the day after being flown out from Delhi on an air ambulance. “A multi-disciplinary team of specialists is taking care of her and doing […]

Bangalore : The state government plans to make public transport more secure for women with the help of technology. Equipping cabs and autorickshaws with GPS and KSRTC buses with surveillance cameras are some of the measures mooted, following the Delhi gangrape episode. “Our effort to install GPS in the form of green autorickshaw concept earlier […]