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Dilli Ka Dil? Minor girl knifed 34 times, people walk by. Times when Delhi-ites were caught sauntering past gory murders
Yesterday's incident was not the first time that Delhi-ites have walked past a murder. They have been caught on camera—just sauntering past victims and their attackers as if nothing mattered
To hell and back: Even after broken teeth, shattered bones, Taliban forcing divorced women back to abusive husbands
The Taliban government adheres to an austere interpretation of Islam and has imposed severe restrictions on women's lives that the United Nations called "gender-based apartheid". Several women have reported being dragged back into abusive marriages
A woman gang-raped for being out at 8 pm: The rise of ‘sexual barbarism’ in Pakistan
Protests have erupted across Pakistan after a woman was gang-raped at gunpoint in Islamabad’s Fatima Jinnah Park. The incident is a grim reminder of the ‘rape epidemic’ in a country which is known to exploit its women
Serial rapist sacked from London police force
David Carrick's guilty plea to 24 counts of rape against 12 women and a string of other sex offences over two decades has caused widespread shock, undermining public faith in the police
Why Western media continues to perpetuate negative stereotypes of India
While one can always lambast UK magazine ‘Times Higher Education’ for helping perpetuate negative stereotypes of India, as it has done with its latest report on higher education, some of the responsibility surely lies with Indian academics, whose corrosive role contributes to the problem
Woman murdered, buried illegally in Delhi graveyard; three arrested
The incident took place in New Delhi's Nangloi area. The woman was a resident of Avantika Enclave in Mangolpuri. She was reported missing since January 2
EXCLUSIVE: West Bengal Dalit woman security guard alleges years of sexual abuse by St Xavier’s varsity senior official
The woman alleged that Gopal Prasad Gupta, working as a liaison officer at St Xavier's University, Newtown, Kolkata, physically and mentally abused her by threatening her of dire consequences
10 years on, remembering the Delhi gang rape and how it changed our lives
Ten years ago on this day, 16 December, a young woman was brutally gang-raped on board a moving bus. The incident sparked much soul-searching in India and also led to the introduction of harsher penalties for rapists
Pakistan: 11-year-old girl raped, strangulated to death by paternal uncle
“The slain girl’s father works as a gatekeeper at a park. The girl was alone at her home while her siblings went out to their school. They came to know about the incident after returning home," an official said
Housemaid raped, murdered by industrialist’s son in Pakistan
“My 17-year-old daughter works as a housemaid at industrialist house, she has been murdered by 5 employees including industrialist’s son. The accused confessed that they strangled my daughter to death,” the victim's father said
Mumbai: Three men gang-rape woman, burn her private parts with cigarettes
The men attacked the victim with a sharp weapon on the chest and both arms. One of the accused took a video of the incident and threatened to circulate it if she approached cops, the police said
Odisha: 18-year-old girl's 'mutilated' body found on Puri beach, family alleges rape and police inaction
The girl who hailed from Madhya Pradesh had come to Puri for a visit with her family. She went missing on 23 November. The victim's brother says that her face was burnt with acid
Shraddha murder case: Physical violence most often committed by individuals with whom women have 'intimate relationship'
Aftab allegedly strangled Shraddha Walkar and sawed her body into 35 pieces, which he kept in a 300-litre fridge for almost three weeks at his residence in south Delhi's Mehrauli before dumping those across the city over several days past midnight
Woman gang-raped in Pakistan's Gujrat, police refuse to arrest suspects
The suspects even tortured the victim’s brothers. Police officials rejected to arrest the suspects and stopped the rape victim from giving statement to the media
Taslima Nasrin writes: Why ‘sane men’ of our patriarchal society are more dangerous than psychopaths
Until the day patriarchy is destabilised, misogyny is vanquished, and discrimination on the basis of gender becomes a thing of the past, women will continue to be tormented, raped and slaughtered
Shraddha Walker’s gruesome murder: The dismal consequences of Hindu reactions to a tragedy
A lot of social media responses about the tragedy of Shraddha Walkar have simply been about venting, not about forming an analysis, opinion, or shared emotional experience
Man booked for molesting minor girl in Delhi mosque
A case under POCSO Act has been registered at Jafrabad Police Station for the alleged molestation of a 10-year-old girl at a mosque in Maujpur
Why India needs a rethink before expanding scope of death penalty
It is crystal clear the graph of number of death sentences dips amazingly as the cases get referred up
Woman found dead on roadside in Faridabad, police suspect rape
Police said the body, spotted Tuesday night by a passer-by on the street next to a park in sector-7, bore several injury marks. It was found with a broom handle inserted in the victim's private parts
Insurance company employee pushed to death from office building by ex-boyfriend in Noida
After pushing the woman on Tuesday evening, the colleague had fled with the body to Ghaziabad and eventually was on way to Meerut when the police nabbed him, an official said