The alleged gang rape at Hathras heat up the political scene with Mamata Banerjee equating the late-night cremation of the victim with Sita's 'Agni Parikasha' and Congress staging state-wide protests
Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to meet the family members of a Dailt gangrape victim, who died in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday
The district administration in Hathras has imposed Section 144 in the area and has banned the entry of all 'outsiders' including media persons, in the Boolgarhi village
Mayawati demanded imposition of President's rule in the state, following the rape and murder of another Dalit woman in Balrampur district
Yet another scheduled caste woman died in Balrampur district of the state while being rushed to a hospital after her rape by two youth
Sonia Gandhi attacked Adityanath government over death of Hathras gangrape victim, saying she "did not die but was murdered by ruthless government" and "her body was consigned to flames forcibly".
The highest number of crimes against foreigners in India in 2019 were recorded in Delhi (30.1 per cent), followed by Maharashtra (11.7 per cent)
A 19-year-old Dalit woman died at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday morning, days after being raped by four men here, a senior police officer said
The NCW received 2,043 complaints of crimes committed against women in June, the highest in the last eight months.
The Delhi Commission for Women received 34,454 complaints during the coronavirus pandemic on its 181 helpline and 'observed a decrease' in the number of calls related to crimes against women
It also asked the Maharashtra police, in a letter, to immediately take action against the person responsible for making the video
The incident was shocking and hearts of everyone from the police probe team were bleeding as more sordid details about the case surfaced one after another, he said.
The families said that there are no sins that cannot be forgiven
A bench of Justices R Banumathi, Ashok Bhushan and A S Bopanna appointed senior advocate Anjana Prakash as amicus curiae on Thursday to represent the convict Pawan Kumar Gupta
Nagaland and Sikkim have reported such a low rate of crimes against women that their contribution to the all-India figure is zero
Days before the year draws to a close, we look back at some of the key events in economy, politics, space and judiciary that defined 2019 for India
Six states and UTs - Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Daman & Diu - have not spent a single rupee from the fund allocated by the Centre
A number of protestors including some local Congress leaders sustained injuries as police used force to disperse the crowd
Besides Rs 25 lakh, the family will be given a government house
Earlier, the Telangana High Court had directed the state government to preserve the bodies of the four acccused till 8:00 PM on December 9