Krishnanagar (West Bengal), May 5 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday expressed her discontent over the law and order situation in Nadia district and instructed police to maintain “strict vigil” to check…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Nirbhaya gang-rape was a case of “barbaric sexual violence against women” and also against society at large, Supreme Court Justice R. Banumathi observed on Friday, and said that in…
By Ashish Mishra and Anurag Dey New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Over four years have passed since the 2012 brutal gang rape of a para-medical student in Delhi that shook the collective conscience of the…
Rome, May 5 (IANS/AKI) Police in Rome on Friday began a probe after the mannequins of three Roma players were hung overnight from a footbridge beside the Colosseum beneath a banner advising them to “keep…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) “Wanton lust” and “servility to absolutely unchained carnal desire and bestiality” ruled the minds of the four convicts during the December 2012 gang-rape of Nirbhaya, the Supreme Court observed while…
Patna, May 5 (IANS) Akshay, a convict in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, deserved the death sentence, his family members said after the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) An FIR is not an encyclopaedia of facts, the Supreme Court observed on Friday as it rejected the contention of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape convicts that there was delay in…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday greeted the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for launching the South Asia Satellite, and said a new era of regional cooperation has begun. “Congratulations…
By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Nirbhaya and her male friend had just finished watching American survival drama “Life of Pi”, little knowing that their own lives will change forever after moving out…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Justice R. Justice Banumathi, who gave a separate but concurring judgment in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case on Friday, said the testimony of the rape victim must be appreciated in the…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The “brazenness and coldness” with which the men convicted in the Nirbhaya gang-rape picked up the young woman from a public space in the evening hours to carry out their…
Islamabad, May 5 (IANS) A special Pakistani court hearing a treason case against former President General Pervez Musharraf (Retd) restrained his counsel on Friday from presenting his arguments, noting that it could not hear the…
Lucknow, May 5 (IANS) The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has seized 2.5 kg opium, valued at Rs 50 lakh in the international market, from the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district, an official said…
Bengaluru, May 5 (IANS) Five persons, including a woman, were arrested here for allegedly selling fake marks cards and degree certificates of 38 universities across the country, police said on Friday. “They sold each fake…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A court here on Friday acquitted Utsav Bhasin, the son of a Haryana-based businessman of harsher charges of culpable homicide but convicted him under the lighter offence of causing death…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said the Supreme Court verdict in the Nirbhaya gang-rape reminded people of their duty towards guaranteeing women safety. “Nirbhaya case shook the conscience…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentences of all four convicts in the fatal 2012 gang rape of Nirbhaya in a moving bus here, a “rarest of rare”…
Patna, May 5 (IANS) The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) on Friday said it has rescued eight children from the clutches of a human trafficking gang in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district. In a joint operation with NGO…
Panaji, May 5 (IANS) The Goa Police on Friday charge-sheeted former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane’s son and MLA Nitesh Rane in connection with a 2008 assault and criminal intimidation case. Rane, a Congress MLA…
Raipur/Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), May 5 (IANS) Over 100 shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out on Friday morning in Maa Bamleshwari Temple in Dongargarh of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, police said. The shops…