Rapes In India

Crimes against women, children drop in 2020 but disobedience cases up, says NCRB

A total of 3,71,503 cases of crime against women were registered during 2020, showing a decline of 8.3 percent over 2019

Election Commission seeks report from Jharkhand poll officials over Rahul Gandhi's 'rape in India' remark in Godda

Addressing an election rally in Godda, Rahul Gandhi had taken a jibe at the Modi government over rising cases of crimes against women.

Women BJP MPs approach EC over Rahul Gandhi's rape in India remark, seek 'severest possible action' against Congress leader

BJP's women parliamentarians, led by Union minister Smriti Irani, met Election Commission officials and sought "severest possible action" against Rahul Gandhi for his comments made on Thursday.

Not 'Make in India', but 'Rape in India': Rahul Gandhi launches scathing attack on Narendra Modi over crimes against women

Earlier on Thursday while addressing a public rally at Rajmahal, Rahul had lashed out at Modi, saying the latter wants to create an India that is 'scared' where people are 'weak and divided'.

Hyderabad rape and murder: Regressive worldview, acute failure of laws — has anything really changed between 2012 and now?

Has anything at all changed with regard to rape in India between 2012 and now? Would anything change if all of those men had been strung up from the nearest pole?

Hyderabad rape and murder: Need systematic approach, not mob-pleasing reactions to tackle sexual violence against women

The brutal gangrape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in Hyderabad last Thursday has left the nation in a state of shock. As we are made to revisit the trauma of 2012 Delhi gangrape case, this could be an opportune moment to reassess where we are going wrong in tackling sexual violence and why the menace has gotten worse since the gruesome assault on the 23-year-old paramedic despite stringent laws and fast-track courts.

Nation hails 'justice' meted out in Kathua rape and murder case but sexual assaults continue unabated; 13 cases reported in two weeks

The fact that the legal system in India does not deter rapists is evident in the number of reports of rapes that came in even after news of the Kathua verdict spread.

Brutal gang-rape and murder of 16-year-old Gaya girl labelled as honour killing by police; family, activists cry foul

The badly-mutilated body of a 16-year-old resident of Manpur Patwatoli locality of Gaya, was found in the field, barely 700 meters from her house, on 6 January, after which residents of Gaya organised protests to condemn police inaction.

'People's pockets being emptied': Ramdev says not controlling price rise will prove costly for Modi govt

Ramdev also ruled out campaigning for the Narendra Modi-led BJP ahead of the 2019 elections, saying he has "withdrawn politically".

Know what causes rape? Porn: Madhya Pradesh home minister's bizarre notion doesn't surprise us at all

While protests against rape incidents in Jammu's Kathua and Uttar Pradesh's Unnao continue to rage across the country and worldwide, one BJP leader thinks porn causes rape. "We think the reason for rising number of child rape and molestation cases is porn. We are contemplating banning porn in Madhya Pradesh," Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh Bhupendra Singh on Tuesday was quoted as saying.