India

New Delhi, December 31: Demanding justice for 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped in a moving bus, the protests refuse to die down, as people are gathering at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi again Monday, a day after she was cremated. Various student groups, women activists and citizens said the protest would continue. "We will fight for the girl. I'm on hunger strike for the past three days and

Ahmedabad, December 31: Days after making a political point by having a range of regional leaders attend his swearing-in, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi once again reached for a larger national profile by being the only chief minister to speak on national affairs at the NDC meeting on Friday. Recent praise from union minister Praful Patel of the Nationalist Congress Party, a UPA partner, has

Patna, December 31: Even as the gang-rape victim was cremated in New Delhi, an eerie silence prevailed at a nondescript village Karmalahang in Bihar’s Aurangabad district. This is the native place of one of the accused Akshay Kumar who was arrested by the Delhi Police on December 21, two days after he gave the police the slip. With the death of the victim, the villagers in general and Akshay’s

Jaipur, December 31: A Bharatiya Janata Party MLA in Rajasthan has demanded a ban on skirts as uniform in schools to keep girls away from “men’s lustful gazes”. Alwar (Urban) legislator Banwari Lal Singhal has written a letter to the State Chief Secretary C. K. Mathew, demanding that skirts should be replaced by trousers or Salwar-kameez. “The intention of this demand is to keep girl students away

New Delhi, December 30: As outrage against the death of the Delhi gang-rape victim, Congress has decided to propose a tougher law to check crimes against women which could include a provision like chemical castration of perpetrators of rape in rare cases. The final draft of the Congress' bill, which is to be submitted to the Justice J S Verma-led Committee set up by the Centre in the wake of the

New Delhi, December 30: Delhi Police "forced" the family of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim to cremate her body before sunrise after she was flown here from Singapore early Sunday, a local BJP leader alleged. "The family members refused to cremate the body before sunrise. But they were forced by the police to do the cremation. The family were forced to do the last rites before sunrise," Delhi

New Delhi, December 30: She fought bravely for two weeks, but doctors always knew that her chances were very slim. The brutal assault by six men with a rusty iron rod damaged her abdomen so severely that the doctors at Safdarjung Hospital in the capital had to remove almost the entire small intestine (23 feet long) in multiple surgeries last week. Small intestine is required for food absorption

New Delhi, December 30: “You don’t give me one chappati when I am hungry, but try to shove food down my throat when I am dead. What’s the use of such help,” says Rajesh (name changed) cousin of the gang-rape victim, who breathed her last in Singapore. Son of victim’s paternal uncle, Rajesh believes that though the accused threw her out of the moving bus believing that she was dead, there were more

New Delhi, December 30: Amid outpouring of anger and grief in the country, the body of the 23-year-old gang-rape victim was flown to New Delhi from Singapore early on Sunday morning and cremated within hours. The mortal remains were flown to the capital in a special aircraft of Air India and after landing at IGI airport, the plane was taken to its technical area where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), December 29: The head of Pakistan’s Taliban said his militia is willing to negotiate with the government but will not disarm, a message delivered in a video given to Reuters on Friday. The release of the 40-minute video follows three high-profile Taliban attacks in the northern city of Peshawar this month: an attack by multiple suicide bombers on the airport, the