Panaji: A seven-year-old girl was raped at her school in the port town of Vasco, resulting in huge protests in Panaji on Monday night. Police have detained the headmistress of the school on charges of negligence. The second grade student was sexually abused in the school toilet next to the off

New Delhi: A 20-year-old married woman from Karnataka was sold in New Delhi for Rs. 1 lakh a week ago by a human trafficking gang and raped by her buyer who kept her at his house, police said today. The incident was reported to Ghazipur police station in east Delhi on January 9 when the victim ma

[caption id="attachment_21774" align="alignnone" width="240"] General Bikram Singh[/caption] New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) Angry over the beheading of Indian soldier on Line of Control, Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh today issued a clear warning to Pakistan saying India reserves the right to retaliate at th

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee released a Commemorative Postage Stamp on ‘Silk Letter Movement’ at a function at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi today (January 11, 2013). Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the sacrifices of individuals and groups, such as those associated with the

Ahead of the India-Pak flag meeting in Poonch, Army Chief General Bikram Singh on Monday said that India won’t remain passive when attacked and termed India’s response to Pakistani firing at its posts in LoC as ‘measured and perfect’. “India reserves its right to retaliate against Pakistan at

HYDERABAD: India has denied award-winning British journalist Yvonne Ridley  a visa. She was scheduled to address the Spring of Islam conference being held here by the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. The London-based journalist, who was captured by the Taliban on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan in 2

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night. Police arrested six suspects, including the bus driver, after the alleged Friday ni

Sagar: After Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijaywargiya drew flak for 'laxman rekha' remark, his senior colleague Babulal Gaur on Sunday said 'foreign culture' of women wearing jeans and T-shirts, drinking liquor and dancing with other men is not good for India. "Women in foreign countries wear

New Delhi: Admitting that the protests after the gangrape incident were a “wake up” call, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has taken on the Delhi Police for lack of faith the people have in it due to its “insensitive” approach. She also suggested that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh‘s address to the n

BANGALORE: The appointment of Lokayukta and Upa Lokayukta will be initiated soon, after consulting legal experts, said chief minister Jagadish Shettar on Saturday. Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict in the Upa Lokayukta case, the CM claimed that the SC order vindicated his government's stand that t

Bangalore (DHNS) - Another deadline set by KJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to topple the State government is taking on the impression of being a farce. His professed loyalists in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who have kept him on tenterhooks, with promises of joining the KJP, are now said to have

Six men have been arrested by Punjab Police Saturday for allegedly gang-raping a 29-year-old married woman in this frontier district, police said. The victim, in her complaint to police, said that she was travelling in a bus to her in-laws’ village, Gukla, Friday evening when the bus driver and c

NEW DELHI: The government will decide on raising diesel and kitchen fuel prices along with raising the annual cap on the number of subsidized cooking gas cylinders "as quickly as possible," oil minister M Veerappa Moily said on Friday. He said the decision would be taken by the government through

New Delhi: Cooking gas consumers can now change their dealers as the government has launched LPG portability scheme on the lines of mobile phone services. However, unlike cellular services where consumers have the option to switch between different mobile companies, LPG consumers would have the l

Tensions between India and Pakistan are showing no signs of abating, despite statements by both sides that the recent tensions caused by the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers should not get in the way of improving bilateral relations. Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said she hoped th

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today upheld the Karnataka High Court's decision to quash the appointment of Justice K Chandrashekharaiah as state's Upa Lokayukta (deputy ombudsman). The High Court had quashed the appointment in April last year, holding it unconstitutional. The High Court had said t

Citizens can seek services through SMS and IVRS After broad-basing e-governance, the State government is now set to launch mobile (phone) governance under which citizens can seek services from its different departments either through SMS or interactive voice response system via mobiles. Announ

Udupi, Jan 10, 2013, DHNS: 24 hours power supply in rural houses through Jyotigrama Yojane The newly appointed Coastal Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Tingalay Vikramarjuna Hegde said that elaborate plans have been made to develop the three coastal districts of the State. Athradi-Bajpe four-l