Delhi Gangrape Protests

Delhi gangrape: Has the govt ruled out special session of Parliament?

According to sources, the government has rejected the Opposition's demand to convene a special session of Parliament to discuss anti-rape laws which will now be discussed during the Budget session.

Obscenity and Honey Singh: Better to ban or self regulate?

Sexual misogyny has deep roots in a society that has sexual violent content in Honey Singh songs and Bollywood item numbers. But who will draw the line between sensual imagery and objectionable content?

Still under shock, Delhi opts for low-key New Year celebrations

Connaught Place (CP), the hotspot for new year celebrations for years, wore almost a deserted look at midnight as a small crowd turned up to celebrate the occasion.

Decision to send rape victim to Singapore medical, not political: Shinde

Government today maintained that the decision of airlifting the Delhi gangrape victim to Singapore was in the interest of the patient and not a political decision.

Sheila Dikshit to Shinde: Allow protesters to go to India Gate

Dikshit made the request after the Delhi Police closed all the roads leading to India Gate and other sensitive areas of Delhi to prevent protests.

Delhi protests: Gap between govt and people is wider than before

The distance between the home ministry’s forbidding walls at North Block and India Gate is less than two kilometres. But the psychological distance is much, much greater.

'Painted women comment' gets Abhijit Mukherjee trending on Twitter

Abhijit Mukherjee's controversial statement that the women participating in the protests against the Delhi gangrape were “pretty women who were dented and painted” drew some flak on social media.

Did Delhi police detain, assault women during anti-rape protests?

A mother and daughter duo from New Delhi, Usha Saxena and Shambhavi Saxena have alleged that the Delhi Police illegally detained and assaulted them on 25 December while they were part of a protest rally.

Eyewitnesses asked to join probe in constable Tomar death case

A controversy has erupted over the cause of death of Tomar during violent demonstrations last Sunday with eyewitnesses and a government hospital claiming there were no injuries on his person while the post mortem report contradicted these versions.

On a wing and hope: Gangrape survivor flown to Singapore

It’s tragic that a country of a billion people does not have a super speciality hospital and must send this critically injured young woman to Singapore. But then this entire story has been a story of our failings laid bare to us.