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

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  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