Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday urged the Telangana government to help a Home Guard, who also plies auto-rickshaw, to meet expenses for education of his five children.


Owaisi urges Telangana government to help Home Guard


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A pregnant rape victim on Monday sought compensation from the Bihar government after doctors at AIIMS said in their report that her pregnancy could not be terminated due to its advanced stage.


HIV positive pregnant rape victim seeks compensation


A day after a girl claimed that she had to remove her innerwear before sitting for the NEET exam in Kannur, the Kerala State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) on Monday wrote to the National Human Rights Commission, seeking immediate action against the officials responsible.


NHRC intervention sought into NEET candidate's allegation


Refusing to compare her case with the Nirbhaya gang-rape case where the apex court upheld death penalty for the convicts, Gujarat gang-rape survivor Bilkis Bano on Monday said she was content with the Bombay High Court rejecting the death penalty plea in her case.


Want justice not revenge: Bilkis Bano


Festooned in fairy lights, far from the prying and judging eyes of the public, cafe "Amra Odbhuth" (We are Queer) provides space to the LGBTQ community members here to get together over platters of food and celebrate their identities.


Kolkata cafe celebrates 'queer' identities over food


Gujarat gang-rape survivor Bilkis Bano on Monday said that after 15 years of indescribable struggle she is preparing for a new beginning after last week's court ruling, and urged that the 11 men convicted by the court should not be granted parole.


Ensure no parole for convicts: Bilkis Bano


The founder of Hong Kong's independent music venue Hidden Agenda along with members of a British band and an American musician were arrested following a raid in the club by police and immigration officers, the media reported on Monday.


UK, US musicians arrested in Hong Kong over visas


An Indian woman has sought refuge at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad just two days after her marriage to a Pakistani national, informed sources said.


Indian woman just married to Pakistani seeks refuge in Islamabad mission


Is Feluda, auteur Satyajit Ray's iconic sleuth, bobbing about on a camel amid the urban jungle of the eastern metropolis?


Kolkata gets Feluda theme park


A husband-wife officer couple of Himachal Pradesh who have offered to bear the educational expenses of the school-going daughter of an Indian soldier who was killed and mutilated by the Pakistan Army earlier this week met the family of the slain soldier in Punjab on Saturday.


Himachal husband-wife officer couple meet slain solder's kin; to bear daughter's expenses


A WhatsApp message sent by an alert neighbour to a Mumbai journalist, who in turn alerted the authorities, helped prevent a minor girl's marriage in this tourist city, officials said on Saturday.


WhatsApp helps prevent minor girl's marriage in Maharashtra


Popular singer Sonu Nigam has urged the central government to take action against those who issue death threats in the form of "fatwa".


Government must take action against those who issue fatwa: Sonu Nigam


Around 50,000 people in Germany's Hannover city will be evacuated from their homes on Sunday while experts defuse five Second World War bombs, officials said on Saturday.


50,000 face evacuation in Germany over World War-II bombs


A Unesco advisory body has recommended adding Japan's island of Okinoshima, a men-only ancient religious site in Fukuoka prefecture, to its World Heritage list, cultural authorities announced on Saturday.


Japan's men-only island up for World Heritage status


In a decade to 2016, the incidents of molestation (under Section 354) reported in Bengaluru increased more than four-fold, statistics compiled by the citys Commissioner of Police show. Yet, according to our analysis of police data, of the 4,241 complaints filed between 2006 and 2016, the conviction rate was 0.37 per cent (16 cases).


Over 10 years, Bengaluru molestations rose 417%, conviction rate 0.37%


A law in France which bans featuring extremely thin fashion models has come into effect, the media reported.


France bans extremely thin models


The Nirbhaya gang-rape was a case of "barbaric sexual violence against women" and also against society at large, Supreme Court Justice R. Banumathi observed on Friday, and said that in order to secure social order and security, issues concerning crimes against women need to be tackled on priority basis.


Gender sensitisation needed from school level, observes SC in Nirbhaya case


Akshay, a convict in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student, deserved the death sentence, his family members said after the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for him and three others in the case on Friday.


He deserved death sentence, say Akshay's family members


Nirbhaya and her male friend had just finished watching American survival drama "Life of Pi", little knowing that their own lives will change forever after moving out of the south Delhi theatre on the cold and dark night of December 16, 2012.


Nirbhaya: Flashback to the dark night of Dec 16, 2012


The "brazenness and coldness" with which the men convicted in the Nirbhaya gang-rape picked up the young woman from a public space in the evening hours to carry out their vicious crime reflects the "threat" to which society is posed to in case the convicts are not appropriately punished, the Supreme Court said, while observing that if at all there is a case warranting award of death sentence it is the Nirbhaya gang-rape case.


In Nirbhaya gang-rape human lust was allowed to take demonic form: SC


With Indore and Bhopal declared the top two cleanest cities in the country and as many as 21 cities of Madhya Pradesh featuring in the list of 100 most clean Indian cities, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a happy man.

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