[caption id="attachment_20404" align="alignleft" width="380"] Arjun Munda. Image courtesy PIB[/caption] The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha today announced that it was withdrawing support to the Arjun Munda-led Bharatiya Janata Party state government over differences on the rotation policy of the chief mini

[caption id="attachment_20391" align="aligncenter" width="380"] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Mumbai: Three people were killed when police fired at a mob after clashes broke out between members of two communities at Dhule town in north Maharashtra today, leaving 50 people, mostly poli

Panaji : After the brutal Delhi gang-rape, Goa Police Monday launched a media drive to encourage women to file complaints against sexual harassment. Deputy Inspector General of Police O.P. Mishra told reporters here that a women's helpline has been relaunched and every police station would have w

THANE: In the backdrop of rising cases of crime against women, four Thane students have come up with a 'Robotic sandal' for the rescue of women in distress. Four students of class VII and IX have made a ladies sandal by fitting certain devices at the bottom of the normal footwear used by women.

New Delhi : The national capital continues to remain tightly gripped by the severe cold wave. The minimum temperature improved slightly from yesterday to 2.4 degree Celsius in Delhi, but the temperature is still five degrees below normal. What's making matters worse is the icy-cold wind. Yesterda

Five men charged with last month's rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi will be produced before a court in the Capital on Monday. Ram Singh, Mukesh, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur are expected to be brought to the Saket court a little past noon. The court has tak

[caption id="attachment_20230" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Sunmeet Kaur with her price - Rs 5 crore cheque - Viral Bhayani[/caption] Mumbai: For housewife-cum-tuition teacher Sunmeet Kaur Sawhney, knowledge is the key to success and it got rightly proved in her case as she won Rs five crore

[caption id="attachment_20222" align="alignleft" width="380"] Former India prime minister Indira Gandhi. Reuters[/caption] Amritsar: Two assassins of prime minister Indira Gandhi were on Sunday honoured by a senior Sikh clergyman to mark the 24th anniversary of their hanging. The head of Akal

[caption id="attachment_20218" align="alignleft" width="380"] RSS head Mohan Bhagawat.[/caption] Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) supremo Mohan Bhagwat has done it again. This time the RSS boss raised questions on the sanctity of the institution of marriage by saying that married women should li

[caption id="attachment_20214" align="aligncenter" width="380"] MNS chief Raj Thackeray. Parag Shinde/Firstpost[/caption] Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has blamed Bihari migrants for the recent case of gangrape of a girl in New Delhi. “All are talking about the Delhi g

The Delhi Police on Saturday rebutted allegations of callousness made by the gang-rape victim’s male friend and said Police Control Room (PCR) vans reached the scene within minutes of the crime and removed the duo to hospital swiftly. In a television interview aired on Friday, the 28-year-old sof

The cold wave across the north seems to be worsening. It is the coldest day of the season in Delhi so far. The minimum temperature has dropped to 1.9 degrees in the capital, which is five degrees below normal. The maximum temperature is 12.8 degrees, which is eight degrees below normal. Yester

Hyderabad, January 05: The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) sees a conspiracy by the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh to target its leader Akbaruddin Owaisi by slapping serious charges of waging war against the nation. Police in Hyderabad, Adilabad and Nizamabad districts, during the

Hyderabad, January 05: Following Delhi gang rape incident Home Minister Sabitha Indira Reddy has put forth a proposal, to make martial arts as part of the school and college curriculum, so that women and girls can cope with any untoward incident. It remains to be seen whether the government

  AHMEDABAD: "Mujhe teg karna ne, bhai," says Shahbaz Khan via Facebook chat. Khan, who is a car mechanic, dropped out of class VII during the 2002 riots. Make him sit before a laptop and he becomes nervous. Keyboards make him jittery. But give him a touch-screen smartphone and he is in fami

NEW DELHI: Women's groups have criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's view on rape in "India" and "Bharat" for being regressive. But data shows that not only are Bhagwat's views regressive, they're also plain wrong. While the National Crime Records Bureau does not split registered cases of sexual a

NEW DELHI: While Nirbhaya's brutal gang-rape horrified the nation, the events that followed the crime revealed shocking callousness on the part of both citizens and the police. In his first public statement, Nirbhaya's friend said on Friday that the two of them lay naked on the road for more tha

The Madras High Court has ordered the transfer of the investigation of a case relating to the alleged gang rape and murder of a 37-year-old software engineer in January 2011, to the CB-CID for further investigation. Passing the order on a petition by the woman’s husband, Justice A. Arumughaswamy