23:59
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, legislator RP Jaiswal and seven other accused in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam were today produced before a CBI court.Kushwaha, BSP MLA Jaiswal, industrialist Naresh Grover, RK Bhasah, former director of CNDC branch of Jal...
23:58
A Pariamentary committee on empowerment of women today slammed the Delhi police for its 'poor image' among the people and asked it to list out steps to improve the safety of women in the state.Thecommittee had summoned Home Secretary R K Singh and Delhi police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar in the...
23:23
An earthquake of slight intensity today hit Gangtok. The quake, measuring 3.0 on the Richter Scale struck around 8.24 pm, a statement by the Meteorological Department said.
22:53
Shankaracharya of Puri Peeth, Swami Nischalanand Saraswati, today said harsher punishments such as chemical castration and death penalty were needed to curb sexual assault of women.Several incidents of rape and sexual harassment are reported from Delhi as well as from other states everyday. There...
22:46
A 22-year-old salesman has been arrested on the charge of eve-teasing after he, along with three of his friends, passed lewd remarks against a woman in suburban Chembur here, police said today.The 23-year-old victim, also a salesgirl, was going to buy food at 8 am on December 30 when the...
22:26
Venezuela's vice-president is returning home from visiting Hugo Chvezin Cuba and said the ailing president's condition remained delicate three weeks after cancer surgery.With rumours swirling that Chvez had taken a turn for the worse, Nicolas Maduro said he had met with the...
21:57
Venezuela's vice-president is returning home from visiting Hugo Chvezin Cuba and said the ailing president's condition remained delicate three weeks after cancer surgery.With rumours swirling that Chvez had taken a turn for the worse, Nicolas Maduro said he had met with the...
21:10
More than 60,000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.Dozens were killed in a Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an...
20:48
Corruption is a disease like cancer which if not detected in time will spread its malignancy in the polity of the country, the Supreme Court said today. Corruption in a civilised society is a disease like cancer, which if not detected in time, is sure to spread its malignancy among the...
20:03
The government has imposed around five per cent cut in the Rs 1.93 lakh crore defence budget this year in view of the economic slowdown. The ministry of finance recently conveyed to the defence ministry that there would be a cut of around Rs 10,000 crore in the Rs 1.93 lakh...
20:03
Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad has been granted an Indian visa that will allow him to attend the final one-day mtach of the ongoing limited-over cricket series between the two countries in New Delhi on January 6. Due to Miandad's family ties with Dawood...
19:56
Two Bangladeshi cattle smugglers were shot dead by the BSF and a jawan was injured in their attack at Habibpur area of Malda district in West Bengal, BSF sources said. The incident occurred at Beldanga locality under Tilason border outpost when a group of rustlers were...
19:53
The Tata Group will invest over Rs 45,000 crore in the next two years, Chairman Cyrus Mistry told employees on Wednesday.
19:27
With the fiscal cliff deal done, US President Obama today returned to Hawaii to resume his traditional end-of-the-year vacation with his family. Obama boarded Air Force One about 30 minutes after White House remarks applauding the House of Representatives vote...
19:25
Rajani Patil, Congress candidate for a Rajya Sabha by-election from Maharashtra, is set to get elected unopposed as the opposition Shiv Sena-BJP is not fielding anybody. The by-election was necessitated by the death of former chief minister and Union minister Vilasrao...
19:14
The Delhi high court today reserved its verdict on a plea against the imposition of prohibitory orders in and around India Gate during the recent anti-rape stir,saying the legal provision of Section 144 of CrPC may lose its sanctity if invoked without proper...
18:55
Dinesh Yadav, the owner of the bus in which a 23-year-old woman was gangraped on December 16, has been arrested. Earlier, a FIR was filed against Yadav for providing false information.
18:47
The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on a plea against imposition of prohibitory orders in and around India Gate during the recent anti-rape stir, saying the legal provision of section 144 of CrPC may lose its sanctity if invoked without proper procedures. There are rights to movement...
18:45
The entire North India today shivered due to intense cold wave as plummeting mercury claimed 15 more lives in Uttar Pradesh, with thick fog cover throwing normal life out of gear in many places of the region. Delhi witnessed its coldest day of January in past 44 years, with the maximum...
18:43
A complaint was today filed against AIMMM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for his alleged inflammatory speech made last month in Andhra Pradesh. Social activist Shabnam Hashmi filed the complaint in Parliament Street police station drawing the attention to the speech made on December 24 in Nirmal town.In...
18:36
On the Economic Times, a must-read interview with economist Jagdish Bhagwati and his co-author Arvind Panagariya, also a professor of Indian economics at Columbia University. Among other things, they say the unthinkable: Criticise Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen for his anti-growth assertions....
18:29
He also said the law needs to be amended so that boys over 14 years of age will be treated as adults.It may be recalled that one of the six accused in the murder and rape of the Delhi girl is a minor. A bone test is being conducted to determine if the youngest suspect in the case is indeed a...
18:23
Just in: CNN IBN: The father of the Delhi gang-rape accused has thanked the entire. country for standing up for his daughter. If a law is named after her, it will be an honour. I believe the law needs to be amended to punish the guilty.
18:20
The Supreme Court today granted another two weeks to West Bengal Government to respond to its notice on a plea by a Park Street gang rape accused against denial of bail to him by the Calcutta High Court. A bench of justices A K Patnaik and H L Gokhale had issued notice to the state government on...
18:03
The first Congress reaction on Union HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor's tweet that the new law on gang rape should be named after the Delhi victim. The Congress has said the minister should first air his views in the party and government fora before going public. Remember Tharoor's 2009 tweet about...
17:50
A determined crowd of Delhi youngsters has done what countless seminars by sarkari feminists could not accomplish: put safety of women slap bang at the centre of the political discourse. Safety for women is normally the very lowest priority, an issue imprisoned in the zenana dabba of a...
17:23
India is essentially a village, and because it is a village it is a woman's ancient foe. Even the country's apparent cities are overwhelmed by deep and enduring infestations of rural tradition and the fellowships of the conservatives who hold women in low esteem. The Parliament and...
17:05
At Jantar Mantar today, students, activists and professionals continued to protest against the gang rape, and subsequent death, of the 23-year-old girl on a moving bus in Delhi last month.The crowds have thinned from the large numbers seen in the past but the enthusiasm of those still ensconced...
16:57
Abhijit Mukherjee still trending on Twitter. Oculus @daddy_san: Haha! A friend was on the same flight as Abhijit Mukherjee. Apparently the passengers chanted PAINTED AND DENTED, embarrassing him a lot.No clue about what that means? Read this
16:52
One of Afghanistan's most feared warlords has launched a withering attack on Prince Harry, who has spent Christmas serving in the country, labeling the prince a 'jackal' who was 'drunk' while hunting innocent Afghans. Read
16:41
India's politics is about to take a sinister turn. The coming year may be the last one of relative stability for the country. Read
16:27
Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare's plan to launch a country-wide campaign against corruption on January 30 from the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna has hit problems after the district administration refused to grant permission for a rally. Read more.
16:20
Britain's government is warning its citizens not to visit the center of Delhi due to the fear of protests over the death Saturday of a 23-year-old student who was gang raped last month. On Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, protesters clashed with police in central Delhi, injuring 85 people, mainly...
16:10
Parliament's Standing Committee on Home today summoned senior Delhi Police officers, including Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar and Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Dharmendra Kumar to appear before it.The senior police officers are likely to be questioned about the December 16...
16:01
Delhiites love for the bottle is well known. But the Capital, which used to break new grounds as far as consumption of liquor was concerned, has suddenly witnessed a decrease in the number of people hitting the bottle. Read more
15:55
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned and suspended the leaders and activists who were caught on camera heckling and throwing money at hired women dancers at one of its founding day celebrations. TMC leader and spokesman Derek O'Brien said that a disciplinary committee may even...
15:54
Hundreds of women, including Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, today participated in a silent march demanding justice for the 23-year-old girl who lost her life after being gang raped and brutally assaulted even as a group of people continued their fast at Jantar Mantar on the issue. Dikshit flagged...
15:38
Just in: A girl has been attacked with acid in Sringagar. Two men have been held and a case has been filed. The girl has been hospitalised. Details awaited. So much for a better, more safe India.
15:30
Lawyers at a Delhi court have said they will not defend the six people standing trial for the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student whose case has shocked the country and provoked a national outcry for safety of women. Hearings are expected to begin on Thursday at the Saket...
15:27
Hundreds of women inquire about gun licences following woman's murder, showing the lack of faith in law enforcement. Read
15:20
In other news: Myanmar has sought India's help in untangling an insurgency knot involving the Kachin Independence Army and the NSCN (Khaplang).The KIA, the armed wing of Kachin Independence Organisation, rules the roost in Kachin state, which also has the presence of NSCN (K), a rebel group led...
15:05
We are a country of angry, angry people. But we have moved on already. There are no 'breaking news' tickers running on news channels telling the world that the 23-year-old is 'optimistic about her future'. Or that she has just had two teaspoons of apple juice. Or that her father -- who is living...
14:59
TMC spokesperson and MP Derek O'Brien still on damage control mode over the dirty dancing incident. O'Brien tweets: In Bengal and in Trinamool there is zero tolerance for anti-women behavior. Zero tolerance means quick,strong action,not vacuous apology.Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghose Dastidar probably...
14:49
Rape is not about sex.Rape is about violence, writer Gloria Steinem says, proving 'masculine' superiority; often inserting guns and other objects into women's bodies; playing out hostility to other men by invading the bodies of 'their' females, including old women and babies; occupying wombs with...
14:45
There are at least two reasons why no anti-sexual violence law, however stringent, will work. One is our police. The other is, sadly, ourselves, says Rediff.com's Sumit Bhattacharya. Read
14:34
In other reads: A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI.The monarch was killed by guillotine by French revolutionaries more than 200 years ago, on 21 January 1793. Read
14:32
India is now being offered help to protect its women. Read
14:29
For rape victims, the trauma doesn't just end with the conviction of the guilty party, it goes beyond that. To argue that naming rape victims will help fight stigma, is naivete at its best. Read
14:17
The brutal bus gang rape on December 16 has sent women scurrying for gun licences in Delhi but activists say nothing will come of it unless police shed their bias against issuing the permits to women.Dealers selling stun guns -- devices that emit an electrical shock to immobilise a potential...
14:14
In other reads: On Marine Drive, a popular seafront area in Mumbai, you will invariably find a few couples cuddling on the wall facing the sea, seemingly oblivious to the blazing afternoon sun and the endless stream of cars just behind them. In this city of cramped homes and crowded public...
14:12
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has written to the HRD ministry asking it to introduce in school textbooks chapters on respect for women as part of moral education.The letter was sent last week while protests raged against the December 16 bus gang rape in Delhi.The PMO has said it has received...
14:09
Dwarka, is the sad place where the young woman who was raped on a New Delhi bus last month was cremated Sunday morning.The area, on Delhi's western reaches, is both one of the most notorious regions in the city for dumping dead or raped bodies as well as a preferred residential destination...
14:05
What are the pitfalls in fast-tracking the Delhi gang-rape case? Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa speaks to legal experts to find out how delays can be avoided in the case and yet the demands of justice are met in time. Read
14:02
Drawing the ire of green activists, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has reportedly stayed and celebrated New Year in a private resort, declared illegal and directed to be closed by court, in the Bokkapuram forest area coming under the elephant corridor. The Madras High Court had...
13:59
Despite concerns of pollution and women's safety, the Delhi Transport Corpo-ration (DTC), which runs 5,500 buses every day, has failed to scale up its fleet. The transport department is struggling to increase the number of cluster buses -- monitored by the government but run by private operators...
13:45
The Delhi police will a e-chargesheet in the gang-rape case to maintain secrecy in the case. Delhi Police will today submit the 1000-page chargesheet in the brutal gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old girl, before the High Court bench. A senior police official said the chargesheet, which is...
13:00
Just in: Politics begins on the Delhi gang-rape. The Delhi BJP has written a letter to PM Dr Manmohan Singh seeking the Ashok Chakra for the gang-rape victim. The award is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
12:58
TMC MP Derek O'Brien in damage-control mode: For Trinamool, cultural sensibilities and gender sensibilities are paramount.After 34 years of mocking,we are committed to redeem these.At the Trinamool Congress' founding day party on Tuesday, party workers threw money and heckled hired female...
12:53
When a political party puts up candidates with criminal charges, it results in the alienation of large sections of people from the political class and politics itself. Read(The writer, Navin Chawla was Chief Election Commissioner from April 2009 to July 2010)
12:50
Another anti-rape blog: The Uncouth India. Read
12:45
Sonia Faleiro's op-ed piece about for the New York Times. For 24 years in New Delhi, a city where sexual harassment is as regular as mealtime. Every day, somewhere in the city, it crosses the line into rape. Read more
12:42
Meanwhile, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's government will put under scrutiny what the media writes, shows or puts on the web. The TMC-led government is hiring a private agency to scan all reports on the government appearing in the print, electronic and web variety and submit daily...
12:39
A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir will hear tomorrow the PIL which also sought suspension of MPs and MLAs in case a charge sheet is filed against them for crime against women. In her PIL, retired IAS officer Promilla Shanker has pleaded with the court to direct the government to set...
12:35
More on the driver of the bus, Ram Singh, 33: Bus driver for two schools in Delhi and Noida each. He is the main accused. A local bully in south Delhi's Ravi Das slum cluster, he was drunk at the time of the incident and triggered the altercation which snowballed into the horror. He was tracked...
12:25
Over two weeks on, a case has finally been registered against the bus driver in the Delhi gang-rape case. All the six accused have been charged with murder, kidnap and assault.
12:18
Derek O'Brien on Twitter: On Jan 1, thousands of events marked Trinamool's 16th birthday.At one event there is an abhorrent incident involving ladies dancing. It was an isolated incident and the strictest action will be taken against any party worker involved. This is absolutely...
12:06
A day after Union Minister Shashi Tharoor favoured naming the revised anti-rape law after Delhi gang-rape victim, her family members today said they have no objection to it and the move would be an honour to the girl. The family members of the 23-year-old girl said that if her name is made public...
12:04
Sushma Swaraj may have mercilessly labelled rape victims as 'Zinda Lash', but people, for sure, haven't taken that kindly. Bakht Arif, from Pakistan, reprises 'Zombie', the legendary song that the Cranberries created to protest against the Warrington bomb attacks. Called 'Zinda Lash', this one is...
11:59
Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit will flag off a silent march against on women's safety today. The march is set to begin from Bal Bhawan and end at Rajghat. Cabinet ministers are expected to join the protests. The march is being organised by the Delhi commission for women.
11:46
The Supreme Court will hear a PIL tomorrow seeking the suspension of MPs and MLAs in case a charge sheet is filed against them for crime against women.
11:41
The inmates of coastal district central prisons of Rajahmundry and Visakhapatnam observed a five-minute silence in the memory of the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim. The prisoners condemned attack on girls while condoling the death of the 23-year-old victim, who died last month at a hospital...
11:37
Nirbhaya was not only beaten up and brutalized in a moving bus, the six accused would have run over her, had her friend not pulled her aside in the nick of time.The revelation came from top sources in Delhi giving the final touches to the chargesheet that is expected to be filed by the weekend if...
11:32
Just in: The Nifty hits the 6000 mark for the first time since January 2011. Details awaited.
11:31
Just hours before the Delhi gang-rape victim's ashes were immersed in the Ganges, a 17-year-old girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly sedated and raped by two men at a New Year's party in the upscale Safdarjung Enclave area of south Delhi, police sources...
11:23
Meanwhile, Pakistan and India began the new year by exchanging lists of their respective nuclear facilities as part of an agreement which bars the two neighbours from attacking each others' nuclear installations. The exchanges have taken place on the first day of the year since 1992. Pakistan...
11:18
In the plains of Punjab and Haryana, Narnaul braved the lowest temperature with a minimum of 1.9 degree Celsius. Churu in Rajasthan also recorded a minimum temperature of 1.9 degree Celsius, 2 degrees below normal. An unabated cold wave also swept through Kullu district of Himachal...
11:16
There was no respite from cold and dense fog for Delhiites today as mercury dipped two degrees below normal to stay at 4.8 degree Celsius. A thick blanket of fog accompanied by icy winds left people in the national capital shivering. Flight operations were also disrupted as there was a drop in...
11:13
The first of five fast-track courts to try rape cases will be inaugurated today.
11:06
The Supreme Court agrees to hear a PIL seeking directions to the government to ensure safety of women and to conduct fast-track court proceedings in all rape cases.
10:50
In a setback for Narendra Modi government, the Supreme Court has upheld the appointment of Gujarat Lokayukta Justice R A Mehta. In 2011, Gujarat Governor Kamla Beniwal had appointed Justice Mehta, which was later challenged by the Modi government.
10:38
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he had fulfilled a campaign promise to make the US tax system fairer with the deal to avert the fiscal cliff crisis. While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the...
10:35
Overcoming Republican resistance, the US House of Representatives late Tuesday night passed the fiscal cliff bill by 257 to 167 votes, ending a dramatic New Year's Day showdown over income taxes and deep federal spending cuts.The bill, which was passed by the Senate (89 to 8 votes) in the wee...
10:22
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi were affected on Wednesday after dense fog disrupted the schedule of over 30 flights, including diversion of an international flight to Mumbai.Air India's flight (AI 314) from Hong Kong was diverted to Mumbai, while seven...
09:57
The rupee strengthened by 37 paise to trade at fresh two-week high of Rs 54.31 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on increased dollar selling by exporters and banks amid sustained foreign capital inflows.A higher opening in the domestic equity...
09:38
The BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday gained nearly 144 points in early trade on sustained buying by funds amid a firming Asian trend.The 30-share barometer rose by 143.57 points, or 0.73 per cent to 19,724.38 with all the sectoral indices, led by realty and metal, trading in positive zone with...
09:04
The Supreme Court will deliver its verdict in the case concerning the Gujarat Lokayukta's appointment today. The apex court will decide if the appointment of Justice R A Mehta as Lokayukta by Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal is legal. Justice R A Metha was appointed by the Governor in...
09:02
The 1000-page chargesheet prepared by the Delhi Police in the horrific Delhi gangrape case will be presented before a high court bench on Wednesday, a day before it is submitted at the Saket district court which will hear the case. The police has said it will be charging all the accused for...
08:33
A New Year's Eve tradition for some in France of torching empty, parked cars has continued. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said that 1,193 vehicles were burned overnight around the country, where the stunt began in the 1990s. There was no way to compare this figure to recent ones...
08:32
Ten people, including four children, died and 120 were hurt in a stampede at an evangelical vigil in the Angolan capital Luanda on New Year's Eve, Angolan news agency Angop reported. It quoted civil protection spokesman Faustino Sebastiao as saying the victims were crushed by the crowd and...
08:32
Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has resigned from the post of the state Congress Committee president. Singh, who had hinted to resign as HPCC chief immediately after taking over as Chief Minister, has sent his resignation to party high command, AICC General Secretary and incharge of...
08:30
Osmania Univ student murdered; former classmate suspect Gangrape case: Police to include Singapore doc as witness Spl task force to look into safety issues of Delhi womenPak pacers sweat it out in the nets at Eden Cricket commentator Martin-Jenkins dead
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