LATEST News:
For old news , please click in the sub-menu navigation bar above


First  Prev  33  34  35  36   37   38  39  40  41  Next  Last

Jul 22, 2012 Panchayat strips woman for 'extra-marital affair': "The barbaric punishment was meted out by the Panchayat of Koral village in Udaipur, Rajasthan."
Jul 22, 2012 Shame on nation for crimes against women: "These are a few widespread instances of shameful crimes against women, which also include domestic violence and dowry harassment, that routinely embarrass the nation, whose political leadership would like people to believe in a perverse logic -- that it was nothing but a conspiracy hatched to defame the state governments."
Jul 22, 2012 Govt fails to bring laws to protect women: Karat: "In the aftermath of Guwahati molestation, CPM leader Brinda Karat slammed the NCW for mishandling the case."
Jul 22, 2012 Gujarat: 10 people lose vision after eye check-up: "Further check-ups at the Ravi Shankar Eye Hospital revealed that the patients caught infection during operation."
Jul 22, 2012 Save cows, kill Nilgai, it tastes good: UP minister: "Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother Shivpal Yadav made a pitch to save cows by suggesting that people kill and feast on the Nilgai."
Jul 17, 2012 Higher your education, harder it is getting a job
Jul 16, 2012 Saviour or Sonia's poodle, asks UK paper about PM Manmohan Singh: "British daily, The Independent, critiquing his tenure under a disparaging headline "Manmohan Singh - India's saviour or Sonia's poodle?""
Jul 16, 2012 CNN: India makes arrests in recorded attack: "Indian police arrested four suspects in the beating, stripping and assault of a young woman that was captured on video."
Jul 16, 2012 Akhilesh trivialises Khap horror: "Taliban style dictate"
Jul 16, 2012 After insensitity, shameful defence: "Alka Sharma went against all sense of responsibility, openly named the victim. 38 hours later, comes the shameful defence from Alka who says her name had already been in the public domain."
Jul 16, 2012 Punjab: IG Prisons caught bowing before Jagir Kaur: " Punjab: IG Prisons caught bowing before Jagir Kaur CNN-IBN | Jul 16, 2012 at 01:16pm Ironically, IG Jagjit Singh had been given the task of investigating the alleged VIP treatment being given to the former SGPC chief in jail."
Jul 16, 2012 Couple forced to eat excreta, drink urine by panchayat: "In a throwback to medieval times, an elderly couple were accused of witchcraft by a village panchayat and forced to eat their excreta and drink urine in Jharkhand's Latehar district."
Jul 15, 2012 Coal mafia exploits ex-Army officers: "They have take over the coal transportation companies, alloted to ex-Army officer making huge profits through the resettlement scheme."
Jul 15, 2012 Extortionist on the prowl in Delhi: "This man Vikas Lagarpuria, a wanted criminal in Haryana for more than a dozen crimes, unfearful, unabated, clearly seen in the CCTV footage along with his aides standing outside Tejvir's house demanding a ransom of Rs 50 lakh."
Jul 15, 2012 India limits foreign investment, needs economic reform: Obama
Jul 15, 2012 Disproportionate Logic The court of the land gifts Mayawati some unexpected breathing room: "Out from a hole A win for Mayawati"
Jul 15, 2012 A Call To Order: "Revile not politics. Reform it instead. And the first step towards it? Cast a vote for proportional representation."
Jul 15, 2012 To Cast The First Stone: "Sex, violence, corruption, insider exposes rock the Kerala church "
Jul 15, 2012 Jharkhand: Justice eludes acid attack victim: "Twenty-seven-year-old Sonali Mukherjee has demanded euthanasia as her family cannot meet her medical costs."
Jul 15, 2012 Bihar: Woman sells 4-month-old son for Rs 62: "Shannu, however, said that she took the extreme step because her husband is disabled and she has other children to look after."
Jul 15, 2012 Army jawan molests college girl in Assam, arrested: "The incident occurred while the police are still struggling to nab the seven out of 12 men in the Guwahati molestation case."
Jul 15, 2012 Why is India corrupt?: "No one questions the prevalence of corruption in India. The politicians of the two principal parties may blame each other but the fact of corruption is inescapable."
Jul 15, 2012 Poor woman in Bihar sells child for Rs 62, cops begin probe
Jul 14, 2012 Another 'molestation' case in Assam, this time by Army jawans: "When Naik and his team allegedly tried to molest her in the forest, the girl created a furore which was heard by the nearby local villagers who rushed to the spot and managed to free the girl from the armymen clutches, Dutta said. The Army personnel posted in the Nitaipukhuri camp managed to flee from the spot."
Jul 13, 2012 Girl student stripped, searched by teacher in West Bengal
Jul 13, 2012 Is there total lack of fear of the law in cases of public molestation?: "A group of 20 people molested a teenage girl in Guwahati in full public view."
Jul 13, 2012 Assaulted by a mob, shamed again?: "The footage of this incident has been aired across national channels. But TIMES NOW has consciously chosen not to broadcast the footage of the victim, morphed or otherwise, not wanting to repeat the trauma that the girl has already been through at the hands of these men."
Jul 13, 2012 Khap's open dare, political parties silent: "In Taliban-style diktats, a panchayat has banned love marriages and barred women below 40 from going out for shopping and using mobile phones outside their homes, an action deprecated by the Centre which asked UP government to ensure that such "illegal" orders are not enforced."
Jul 13, 2012 No country for the girl child: "It Friday the 13th and it has been a day of horrors, at least for the women of this country. We share with you the plight of a little newborn that was abandoned by her heartless parents this morning at a railway station in Jaipur."
Jul 13, 2012 New BJP ministry has ministers with tainted record: Governor
Jul 13, 2012 Child sacrifice averted in City: "A two-year-old boy was rescued from a man, who tried to sacrifice him in a bid to gain ‘paranormal powers,’ on Thursday at Kumaraswamy Layout."
Jul 13, 2012 JD (U) leader hammers nails in boy's feet: "A local leader of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Chandramani Prasad Singh has been accused of hammering nails in a 13-year-old boy, Lalu Yadav's feet for allegedly stealing a fan from his shop in Saharsa district of Bihar."
Jul 13, 2012 92% Indians blame govt for economic problems: Survey
Jul 13, 2012 Inmates raped at will by outsiders in Hooghly rehabilitation home: "Shyamal is a close confidante of the secretary of the home, Uday Chand Kumar, and had "free access after sunset", say sources. The inmates have told police that he regularly abused them sexually and tortured anyone who refused to follow his orders."
Jul 13, 2012 Can Khap Panchayats be reigned in?: "A Khap Panchayat in the Baghpat constituency has decided to ban love marriages."
Jul 13, 2012 Guwahati incident India's shame: Brinda Karat: "Brinda Karat says a strong message needs to be sent that there is a strong political will to take very strong action against the culprits."
Jul 13, 2012 Banning love marriages is Panchayat's internal matter: Azam Khan: "A village panchayat in Baghpat, UP, has banned loved marriages and issued a fatwa against women below the age of 40 using mobile phones and shopping."
Jul 13, 2012 Guwahati shocker: Are we just a nation of onlookers?: "A 17-year-old girl beaten, groped and brutalised by 20 men in full public glare outside a bar in Guwahati."
Jul 13, 2012 High court describes dalit woman rape attempt in police station as "horrendous", issues show cause to UP govt: "Awasthi was caught by the locals when he called a dalit woman to the police station on the pretext of settling a dispute she had with her neighbour and tried to rape her."
Jul 12, 2012 Shocking: 20 men molest minor girl in Guwahati
Jul 11, 2012 I was humiliated and treated like an animal, Pinki Pramanik says: "Asiad gold medal winner Pinki Pramanik walked out of jail on Wednesday but said she’d been scarred for life by the way the police behaved with her."
Jul 10, 2012 Congress raises Rs 1,662 crore in 5 years, BJP Rs 852 crore: "Mayawati's party received more than Rs 425 crore, mostly through cash donations", "CPM stood fourth in the list, having collected Rs 335 crore in the five years up to 2011-12. SP made only Rs 200 crore during this period and NCP was far behind with Rs 140 crore."
Jul 9, 2012 Sweepers stitch wounds, ward boys administer injections in Bulandshahr government hospital: "reports of fourth class staff performing work of a surgeon and doctors in the district hospital of Bulandshar."
Jul 9, 2012 Hostel warden arrested in Bengal: "The warden of Patha Bhavan hostel of Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan who allegedly forced a girl student to drink her own urine to 'stop a bad habit' has been arrested"
Jul 9, 2012 Urine shocker: Girl's parents, warden arrested: "The parents of the Class 5 girl have been arrested for entering the girls hostel of the Visva-Bharati university without permission."
Jul 9, 2012 The business-politics nexus: "Money can’t really decide elections. But why does India’s poll finance remain so murky?"
Jul 8, 2012 Delhi: Russian woman alleges she was raped: "The Delhi Police have registered a case of rape following the complaint by the woman."
Jul 8, 2012 Time Magazine flays Manmohan, UPA Govt: "Calling PM Manmohan Singh 'The Underachiever', the magazine criticised him and the UPA for letting the country down when it needed them the most."
Jul 8, 2012 Time magazine dubs Prime Minister as 'underachiever'
Jul 8, 2012 India TV reveals truth behind self proclaimed Kalki Bhagavan: "Vijay Kumar Naidu alias Kalki Bhagavan and Amma Bhagawan were exposed. The allegations of land grabbing, drugs, sexual escapades are making strong rounds in the ashram."
Jul 7, 2012 Story Of An Op Lost A revisit to the night of June 28-29 to see how the CRPF possibly ended up killing innocents : "Shroud of misery Villagers look at the bodies of the alleged ‘Maoists’ at Sakerguda, in the Korseguda panchayat"
Jul 7, 2012 Jethmalani turns the heat on Pranab: "Dubbing Mr. Mukherjee a “wrecker of the Indian Constitution,” Mr. Jethmalani commented he could not be entrusted with the task of preserving it."
Jul 7, 2012 Has the CBI been manipulated to save Mayawati?: "The Supreme Court has given former UP chief minister Mayawati a clean chit in the disproportionate assets case."
Jul 7, 2012 No logic behind the removal of some cartoons: NCERT chief: "A committee set up by the HRD Ministry suggested the removal of 43 cartoons from textbooks saying they were inappropriate."
Jul 7, 2012 Jailed Bihar politician to be awarded Ph.D: "Former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, currently lodged in Siwan jail, was also awarded a doctorate degree on his thesis 'First Coalition Government' from B.R. Ambedkar Bihar University."
Jul 7, 2012 SC colluding with the corrupt: Prashant Bhushan: "Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan has attacked the Supreme Court for providing relief to Mayawati."
Jul 7, 2012 Burundi case: SP's son booked on attempt to murder
Jul 6, 2012 Another life lost, no lessons learnt?: "It's been barely 10 days since the tragic death of Baby Mahi in Haryana but clearly no lessons have been learnt. A 6-year-old boy fell into an open drain carrying toxic industrial waste."
Jul 6, 2012 PM is an overrated economist: Yashwant Sinha: "Yashwant Sinha blamed the UPA government for creating a financial mess in the country."
Jul 6, 2012 Another Manesar shocker: 5-year-old falls into sewer, dies: "The incident comes barely ten days after the tragic death of five-year-old Mahi who died after falling into a 70-feet borewell."
Jul 6, 2012 Manmohan Singh an overrated economist and an underrated politician: BJP: ""The problem with Manmohan Singh has been that he has always acted as a consultant to the government, saying what should be done, what need not be done."
Jul 6, 2012 'Untested drugs being sold freely in markets': "According to a Parliamentary committee report, 33 new drugs were approved between 2008-10 without mandatory trials."
Jul 6, 2012 Toilets are being used for storing food grain: Jairam Ramesh
Jul 5, 2012 Powai land case: FIR filed against Hiranandani: "Niranjan Hiranandani allegedly built luxury apartments on government land meant for EWS and sold them at a premium."
Jul 5, 2012 Is only Ashok Chavan accountable for the Adarsh scam?: "The CBI chargesheets former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and 12 others in the Adarsh Housing scam."
Jul 5, 2012 17 teachers used fake certificates to get government jobs: "Seventeen government school teachers have been found to have allegedly got their jobs using fake documents at Chilkhana in Saharanpur district."
Jul 5, 2012 Rajasthan: Grain rot continues amidst govt apathy: "Nearly Rs 2 crore worth of wheat has been found to be rotting in the open in the state."
Jul 5, 2012 ‘Govt removing history from textbooks not just cartoons: "Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar, feels that the Thorat committee, which recommended the removal of 43 political cartoons, is being used by the government to delete all historical background."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmir moral police against tourists: "The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has asked tourists visiting the Valley to desist from wearing skimpy clothes and warned them of an angry reaction if they failed to do so."
Jul 5, 2012 Adarsh scandal: Why fast-track courts are a must to net big fish: "it brought into glaring light the shady activities people in power, their conniving ways and sheer disregard for rules. A gaggle of politicians, bureaucrats, ex-armymen and otherwise influential people allowed the housing society to come up on a piece of defence land and used the pretext of Kargil war victims to promote their own interest in a brazen display of a combination of political and bureaucratic mite."
Jul 5, 2012 Police lathicharge in Ranchi: "Police lathicarged in the Nagadi area of Ranchi on people who were protesting against the aquistion of a 271-acre land by the Jharkhand government for an educational institution."
Jul 5, 2012 Kerala Sports Min's Olympic 'picnic': "The Kerala Sports Minister is embroiled in a controversy over his travel proposal to London during the London Olympics, when a lot of the atheletes from the states were yet to receive their dues."
Jul 5, 2012 Convicted MLAs attend UP CM's lunch for Pranab: "Two convicted politicians - Mukhtar Ansari and Vijay Mishra - were spotted during the lunch hosted by the UP CM for Pranab Mukherjee."
Jul 5, 2012 पचास से अधिक जिलों में फैला ‘डायन’ वायरस: "देश के पचास से साठ के बीच ऐसे जिले है जहाँ इस कुप्रथा का बड़ा जोर है. कही महिला को डायन, कही डाकन, तेनी या टोनी, पनव्ती ,मनहूस और ऐसे ही नामों से लांछित कर उसे बहिस्कृत किया जाता है""
Jul 5, 2012 Is Akhilesh Yadav guilty of wasting taxpayer's money?: "The UP Chief Minister allowed MLAs to spend Rs 20 lakh each from their fund to buy personal cars."
Jul 5, 2012 Why is India powerless this summer?: "Several parts of India are reeling under a severe power crisis. Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and UP are the worst hit."
Jul 5, 2012 Cartoon row: Panel to remove 43 caricatures: "The committee noted that there are too many caricatures of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in NCERT text books, some of them politically sensitive."
Jul 5, 2012 Naxal killings: Tribal Affairs Minister blames CRPF: "KC Deo openly questioned the CRPF operation, alleging that half of those killed were teenagers."
Jul 5, 2012 'Govt used panel to delete historical background': "The HRD appointed committiee to look into all cartoons in the text books has submitted it's report to the NCERT."
Jul 5, 2012 Kashmiri religious group issues dress code for tourists: "A Kashmiri religious group Jamaat-e-Islami has asked tourists visiting the valley to follow a "proper dress code" and told the tourism department to enforce it."
Jul 5, 2012 Power crisis: India faces a shortage of 17,000 MW: "As summer hits a peak in most parts of India, the demand for power has gone up. It has hit a staggering level of 2,17,000 MW."
Jul 5, 2012 Probe on in Harayana shelter home abuse case: "Police have arrested the warden and the authorities have decided to examine the other inmates of the home to check for cases of abuse."
Jul 5, 2012 Tackling the killer: "The alliance has identified Rajasthan, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh as the ground zero of its fight against malnutrition."
Jul 5, 2012 Mediator received Rs.9.5 crore to arrange bail for Reddy: "A rowdy sheeter arrested in cash-for-bail scam involving former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy received Rs.9.5 crore as advance for a deal between Reddy's relatives and judge T. Pattabhirama Rao, police said Tuesday."
Jul 5, 2012 Girl's leg chopped off to appease deity: "In a macabre incident, a 13-year-old girl was drugged and one of her legs chopped off to propitiate a deity with her blood in Purnia district."
Jul 5, 2012 India should be ashamed of graft: Basu: "An ordinary man is facing "a mountain of bureaucracy and demands for bribes" in the country, Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu said"
Jul 5, 2012 Were innocent villagers killed in the name of Naxals?: "While activists claim innocents were killed, the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and the Home Ministry blame the Naxals."
Jul 4, 2012 UP CM invites 'goons' to Pranab's lunch: "Both Mukhtar and Vijay Misra are at present languishing in jail in connection with separate cases of heinous crime pending against them."
Jul 4, 2012 Can’t afford a car? 67% of UP MLAs are crorepatis: "Among the main parties, the average assets per candidate for SP is Rs 2.52 crore; for BSP it's Rs 4.44 crore; for BJP it's Rs 4.01 crore; and for Congress Rs 4.61 crore."
Jul 2, 2012 Azam suspends 25 officials for corruption, negligence: "Urban development minister and chairman of UP Jal Nigam, Azam Khan on Monday suspended 25 senior officials of UP Jal Nigam on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty."
Jul 2, 2012 Dilip Sanghani is involved in 12 scams worth Rs500 crore': "RTI activist from Amreli, Nathalal Sukhadia, has alleged Amreli BJP MLA and state cooperative minister, Dilip Sanghani’s involvement in Rs500 crore worth scams in the district.", "the BJP-ruled Amreli Municipality has sold a parcel of land to Sanghani’s cousin, Haresh Ramani, at throwaway price of just Rs94,000 only. However, the market value of the land is pegged at around Rs1.35 crore."
Jul 2, 2012 As crops rot, millions go hungry in India: "Lack of storage facilities and inefficient, corrupt public distribution system fails millions of impoverished people."
Jul 2, 2012 CBI to chargesheet former CM?: "Chavan is among the 14 accused in the case in which Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushilkumar Shinde are also under the scanner."
Jul 2, 2012 नक्सली नहीं आम आदिवासी मारे गए: ग्रामीण: "ग्रामीणों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं का दावा है कि 28 जून की रात को छत्तीसगढ़ में हुए कथित मुठभेड़ों में मारे गए ज्यादातर लोग आम आदिवासी थे माओवादी नहीं"
Jul 2, 2012 'RTI Act under threat, may fail in 5 years': "Outgoing Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has warned of threats from the government as well as the judicial system."
Jul 2, 2012 Chhattisgarh anti-Naxal ops: Major botch-up by CRPF?: "A magisterial enquiry and police investigations into the encounter has been ordered."
Jul 2, 2012 NDA recruitment scam: another serving Army Colonel arrested: "the CBI claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore cash and a list of candidates' names and interview letters and also a list of those who had paid bribe."
Jul 1, 2012 ‘Corruption Is Rampant In The Lower Courts’: "Former chief justice of India on corruption in judiciary "
Jul 1, 2012 Cong MP, activists claim CRPF killed civilians in Chhattisgarh: "Activists and Union Minister of State for Agriculture Charandas Mahant have alleged that CRPF killed civilians and not Naxals in an encounter on Friday."
Jul 1, 2012 Another judge figures in bail-for-sale scam: "While Chalapati offered Rs 5 crore for bail to Gali, Prabhakar offered Rs 10 crore. But Pattabhi struck the deal with trusted friend Chalapathi Rao, who retired and settled down in Chilakaluripet of Guntur district."

First  Prev  33  34  35  36   37   38  39  40  41  Next  Last