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Delhi gangrape: Police file chargesheet, seek utmost secrecy
Amid high drama, the Delhi Police today filed the chargesheet in the gangrape case in a Saket court. The chargesheet — of which the operative part is said to run into 33 pages — names five accused and charges them with 12 offences under the Indian Penal Code. The sixth accused #Chargesheet #Delhi gangrape #Delhi Police #NewsTracker
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Delhi admissions: How Aadhaar has put EWS candidates in a spot
The Delhi government has dropped a bombshell on unsuspecting parents seeking admissions for their children under the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in private schools. An income certificate is mandatory to apply for an EWS seat. As per the Right to Education Act, 25 percent of seats at the entry level #Aadhaar #Delhi school admissions #NewsTracker
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Delhi nursery admissions survey: Over 80 percent parents pessimistic
The sale of nursery admission forms has begun. And predictably, the admission season looks set to be an anxious and testing time for parents as they fight against the odds for a seat for their child. As per the Delhi Government admission schedule, the last date for submission of applications is #Delhi #NewsTracker #Nursery Admissions #Survey
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Why IMA wants a board to lay down rules for international patient transfer
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), which has questioned the Centre’s decision to airlift the critically injured 23-year-old gang-rape victim to Singapore, has proposed the formation of a national board that will lay down the criteria for official international transfer of patients. IMA’s general secretary Narendra Saini said medical circumstances for such #Delhi gangrape #Indian Medical Association #Mount Elizabeth Hospital #NewsTracker #Safdarjung Hospital
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After victim’s funeral, chargesheet in Delhi gangrape case likely this week
The outburst of public rage against the repeated failure of the police and legal machinery to check and punish violence against women, triggered by the brutal rape and attack on a 23-year-old student and her friend, seems to have succeeded in getting an otherwise reluctant system to get its act #Chargesheet #Delhi gangrape #Delhi Police #Legal #NewsTracker
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‘Parents of Delhi gangrape victim had invested everything in their daughter’
The parents had invested all their hopes in their daughter and believed she would recover soon, says the counsellor from Delhi Legal Services Authority, who had met the family on more than one occasion at the Safdarjung Hospital, where the gang-rape victim had been earlier admitted. After a nearly two-week long #Delhi gangrape #Family #OnOurMind #parents #Survivor
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Gangrape victim’s death: An eventuality doctors prepared themselves for
The demise of the 23-year-old girl who was brutally gang-raped on a moving bus on 16 December and had since been under intensive care battling multiple infections was an eventuality doctors attending to her had in the last few days prepared themselves for. On Wednesday night when the critically-injured patient was #Delhi gangrape #Mount Elizabeth Hospital #NewsTracker #Singapore
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Shift to Singapore hasn’t benefited the patient: Doctors
While the government has rejected criticism by doctors in the New Delhi, who have come down heavily against it for risking the critically injured gang-rape survivor’s life by airlifting her from Delhi to Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore, the patient’s rapidly deteriorating health condition indicates that the government has some #Delhi gangrape #Kelvin Loh #Mt Elizabeth #New Delhi #Samiran Nundy #Singapore #Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
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Delhi school admissions: More points for vegetarians, non-smokers
The early signs don’t bode well for the parents. The point-system appears to be back with a vengeance with few schools paying heed to the government’s advisory to make it more just. 1 January (Tuesday) is when the admission process formally begins. This follows the admission schedule announced by the Delhi #Delhi school admissions #HowThisWorks
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‘We are Afghanistan’s first feminist weekly’
Twenty-three-year-old Heleena Kakar is the leading force behind Afghanistan’s ‘first feminist weekly’. In India to explore social and business partnerships, Kakar is busy engineering a brave new world for Afghanistan’s next generation of women. Kakar and her audacious team of university students and young professionals with support from a UK-based feminist #Afghanistan #Heleena Kakar #VeryCloseUp