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Women sexually abused during Jat stir can file complaints with judges: HC

26-Feb-2016

Feb 26 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Joel Joseph & Shubhra Pant ChandigarhSonipat TNN A day after it took suo motu cognizance of a newspaper report that said 10 women were allegedly raped by rioters in Sonipat, the Punjab and Haryana HC on Thursday said instead of going to police, victims of the…

Rohit Vemula death: Officials deny Minister’s charge

26-Feb-2016

YUNUS Y LASANIA HYDERABAD, February 26, 2016 The University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Thursday refuted HRD Minister Smriti Irani’s statement in Parliament that medical personnel were denied access to research scholar Rohith Vemula in the immediate aftermath of his suicide on January 17. University officials said that a doctor had reached his hostel within minutes…

BJP nationalism like Brahmin who turns Muslim, eats more onions: Ghulam Azad

26-Feb-2016

Ghulam Azad demanded that a House Committee be set up, with a member of the Opposition as its leader, to probe the matter. Written by Sagnik Chowdhury New Delhi Published:Feb 26, 2016, 5:09 Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accused the government of destroying educational institutions and creating rifts in…

Rohith mom does a Smriti fact-checkFinger at myriad “lies” in House

26-Feb-2016

Our Bureau New Delhi, Feb. 26: Rohith Vemula’s mother and friends today accused human resource development minister Smriti Irani of spreading falsehoods about the circumstances around the PhD scholar’s suicide and his troubles with his university. Rohith’s mother Radhika Vemula, brother Raja and friends Dontha Prasanth, Seshaiah and Vijay Kumar said they had counted multiple…

47-yr-old gets life term for raping minor daughter

25-Feb-2016

Feb 25 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Rebecca Samervel Mumbai `Accused Sexually Assaulted Girl When He Was In Inebriated State’ A special Protec tion of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Wednesday convicted a 47-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his minor daughter in 2013 The child, who was 11 years old…

Dalit women paraded nude in Orissa

25-Feb-2016

Feb 25, 2016 | Age Correspondent| Bhubaneswar Arujnagoda village under Pipili block in Orissa’s Puri district, which was in news in 2012 for the alleged gangrape and murder of a dalit girl, has once again hit the headlines for wrong reasons. Two women belonging to the Scheduled Caste community were recently paraded naked and made…

20 days later, daughter says father murdered by mother and her lover

25-Feb-2016

Feb 25 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Nishikant Karlikar Thane: Duo Smothered Man, Said It Was Heart Attack: Cops A 37-year-old wife, who conspired with her young lover and killed her husband, a manager with an electronics retailer, was arrested by the Kapurbawdi police on Monday after the couple’s 19-year-old daughter exposed the…

Study: 50% of girls sexually harassed on way to school

25-Feb-2016

Feb 25 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Himanshi Dhawan New Delhi:Half of girls are subject to various forms of sexual harassment like leering, pinching and groping while travelling to and from school, while nearly 32% were followed on their way to school or college. A 2014 study by NGO Breakthrough on 900 young…

Group demands ban on VD Savarkar book on Jesus Christ

25-Feb-2016

Feb 25, 2016 | AGE CORRESPONDENT With agency inputs| mumbai A Christian organisation has demanded a ban on a controversial book penned by the brother of Hindutva ideologue V.D. Savarkar, claiming Jesus Christ was a Tamil Hindu. The book, written by Ganesh ‘Babarao’ Savarkar in 1946, is being re-launched on February 26. “The present scenario…