[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

New Delhi: The capital got no respite from the bitter cold as the minimum temperature today settled at 2.9 degrees Celsius - four notches below average. The Met office has forecast a clear day ahead. "The city was enveloped by the fog in the morning, but the day will be clear. The maximum tempera

New Delhi: Rapes are rare in "Bharat" (rural India) but occur frequently in "India", said Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the right-wing RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The organisation is the ideological mentor of the main opposition party, the BJP. "You go to villages and forests of the count

The Supreme Court would on Friday hear matters related to setting up of fast track courts for speedy trial in rape cases and effective implementation of existing laws for safety of women. The Petition signed by retired lady IAS Officer Promilla Shanker was listed before the bench following Thursd

The commercial hub of Lal Chowk and adjoining areas on Friday observed a two-hour shutdown against the acid attack on a woman here earlier this week. All the shops and other commercial establishments in Lal Chowk and surrounding areas downed their shutters from noon as a mark of protest against t

In April last year Google was planning three data centres in Asia and invested $300 million in the Hong Kong facility in 2011. Now fresh reports from The Economic Times suggest that Google's new data centres that are likely to become operational this year, are set to increase speeds of Google's serv

New Delhi: Delhi’s Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna has asked the Delhi Metro to extend its services to enhance safety and security of commuters in general and women in particular, an official said on Thursday. “A group of college students from I P College in Delhi university and many women organisati

Taking its investigation into the 2006 Malegaon blast forward, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested an RSS member as one of the main planters of the bombs. The agency arrested Manohar Singh from Gurdakhedi village in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district on Saturday. Sources said