The two men involved in the recent rape case of the five-year-old admitted that they had been drinking for hours and had even watched porn on their cellphone before assaulting the little girl.
The men who gang raped a 23-year-old in a bus last December (the Delhi rape case that made national and international headlines) had also admitted that they had been drinking at home, before hitting the roads.

The dry state policy — a never ending debate, an issue so sensitive that discussion is altogether avoided and opinions often muted. A law accepted on paper but not in head or heart; so easily ignored, so blatantly violated that its relevance has to be questioned.

Debates and discussions that roll the country in turmoil after every infringement of the legislation against women are not and will not be of much help; amendments are not magic wands that will improve the condition of women in an instant. A real change will only come about by overhauling the patriarchal mindset of society.

Saturday was a deeply unsettling day for all Indians. After all the efforts and protests after the Nirbhaya case, an even more severe rape case, if that was even possible, was reported as a five-year-old girl was captured and then raped. Now being touted in the media as Gudiya, she was captured by her neighbour, kept in a room for days and then brutally raped.

Indian-American student wrongly targeted as Bomber as well Four days after the Boston Marathon Bombings, a wild man hunt ended [...]

On April 16th, a Pune court convicted Mirza Himayat Baig, the only man arrested for the 2010 German Bakery terror attack in Pune. He was yesterday sentenced to death under Indian Penal Code Sections 302, 307 (murder and attempt to murder), 435, 474 (mischief by fire and explosive and forgery) and 120(b) (criminal conspiracy), besides other charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Explosives Act.

The blasts at the Boston Marathon course on Monday has left at least three people dead – including a twenty nine-year-old woman, a Boston University graduate student from China and an eight-year-old boy, who was cheering the runners with his family.

BJP’s national general secretary Vani Tripathi got into a frightening situation in Delhi on Thursday. She was going back home at around 9.30 p.m. from a meeting. She was in Greater Kailash, a posh area in Delhi, when a Scorpio car hit hers.

Today is the day that many will let out a sigh of relief. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill was finally signed by President Pranab Mukherjee. The law has now replaced the ordinance that came to existence on February the 3rd that was to expire on April the 4th.

One of the accused in the Delhi gang rape case was a teenager. The 17-year-old was one of the offenders in the case that enraged the public. The teenager was charged with the same number of offences as the five men but was to be tried separately in a Juvenile court. The public protested that the accused was old enough to differentiate between the right and wrong. He knew what he was doing and should be punished with the rest of the accused.