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Aug 1, 2012 Doctor rapes 17 year old patient: "A doctor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year old girl who had come for treatment at a private hospital in Madhurai, Tamil Nadum, police said." Aug 1, 2012 Blackout Nation: "Apart from grid discipline and setting up systems that ensure that states do not overdraw power, we will have to change our electricity generation configuration for the stability of the grid." Aug 1, 2012 Dark Night Rises: "The irony could not have been starker, as the power minister is promoted to home minister on a day when more than half the country went powerless under his watch." Aug 1, 2012 Jharkhand acid attack: Justice still eludes victim: "Acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee has approached Jharkhand CM Arjun Munda and authorities of the Bokaro Steel Plant for help." Aug 1, 2012 10% of rural India lives on less than Rs 17 a day: NSSO survey: "In urban areas, it said, 70 per cent of the population live on a daily expenditure of about Rs 43.16." Aug 1, 2012 Has indiscipline led to collapse?: "the world's biggest blackout. Half of India stood powerless - as three grids collapsed - due to massive overdrawing of electricity - causing an imbalance in power injection." Aug 1, 2012 BBC: Hundreds of millions without power in India: ""More than half of India's population has ground to a halt"" Aug 1, 2012 Nurse withdrew treatment for 200?: "The report mentions it was the nurse who let the baby die when the parents failed to pay rupees 200. The girl's family claimed that she died after the life support system was allegedly removed by the government hospital as her father failed to pay a paltry sum of Rs 200 for treatment." Aug 1, 2012 FTN: Are Railways becoming death traps?: "32 passengers were killed after a coach of the Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express caught fire at Nellore in Andhra Pradesh." Aug 1, 2012 CNN: Most power restored after India hit by second, even larger outage Aug 1, 2012 भारत में बिजली: 10 तथ्य: "पूरी दुनिया में औसतन बिजली की खपत 2429 यूनिट है जबकि भारत में यह 734 यूनिट है. आप कह सकते हैं कि भारत में बिजली की खपत नहीं के बराबर है. कनाडा में बिजली की खपत सबसे अधिक 18, 347 यूनिट है जबकि अमरीका में यह 13,647 यूनिट और चीन में 2456 यूनिट है." Aug 1, 2012 World's biggest blackout: 67 crore Indians without power: "About 22 states and UTs have been impacted by the failure of 3 power grids" Jul 31, 2012 Constable recruitment scam: Government hands over probe to vigilance bureau: "the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was earlier requested to probe the recruitment muddle involving several IPS officers" Jul 31, 2012 DTE shielding the powerful in bogus marksheet scam?: "Sources revealed Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) was under tremendous pressure from politicians for not taking action against erring engineering colleges where large-scale irregularities related to the scam were found." Jul 30, 2012 Nagpur University disciplinary commiteee starts enquiry into revaluation, re-totalling scam: "allegedly involving its assistant registrar (Revaluation) Sandhya-Chunodkar-Handa." Jul 30, 2012 Worst crisis in 10 yrs leaves north India powerless for several hours: "In the wee hours of Monday, a massive grid collapse left over 35 crore people without electricity in Delhi and in much of the northern region for several hours in the worst blackout reported in over a decade." Jul 29, 2012 Where is the Rule of Law today?: "Not a day passes when the front pages of newspapers, whether in the capital city of India New Delhi, or the states are not full crime stories, and the fact that the police, or the forces of law and order, are failing the citizens of the country in their basic right of protection and rule of law." Jul 29, 2012 Wearing short skirts cause women harassment: TMC MLA Jul 29, 2012 Mangalore moral policing case: 8 accused arrested: "A 50-member group had raided a private resort alleging a rave party was being held there and assaulted a dozen girls and boys." Jul 29, 2012 B'lore teacher accused of sexually abusing students: "The Hindi teacher who began teaching just a month ago, is accused of passing lewd remarks at class IX students." Jul 28, 2012 For Indian men, a woman is just a sex object: "In a horrific incident in Patna, a young girl was gangraped by her classmates, the crime shot on a camera and circulated on MMS." Jul 28, 2012 ND Tiwari is biological father of Rohit Shekhar: DNA test: "ND Tiwari is the biological father of a Delhi-based youth Rohit Shekhar, the Delhi high court on Friday said while declaring the result of the DNA test of the veteran Congress leader." Jul 25, 2012 Archaic labour law returns to haunt Indian IT sector: ""This is a retrograde step. This law belongs to the 19th century and does not take into account the ground realities of a globalised world,"", ""Originally, the exemption was secured to stop harassment from the labour department and the inspector raj."" Jul 25, 2012 Seven-yr-old girl slips through hole in school bus, crushed: "there was a hole on the floor of the school bus under her seat which had been covered with a wooden plank. When the vehicle hit a pothole, the plank shifted, exposing the hole. Shruti, whose father is an auto-rickshaw driver, fell through the hole and came under the bus." Jul 24, 2012 Girl molested, thrown out of train in Karnataka: "While a 19-year-old girl was being molested in a moving train by four youths, scores of passengers remained mute spectators to the incident." Jul 24, 2012 Eve-teasers in India team raise a stink in China: "Some of the youth delegation, which is supposed to represent the best qualities of Indian youth, made lewd remarks on the dressing style of some Chinese girls" Jul 24, 2012 Maruti violence sign of building social unrest, says Premji: "The recent violence at the Maruti car plant at Manesar in Haryana was a sign “of the social unrest that is building up in the country”, Wipro Ltd chairman Azim Premji said today. " Jul 24, 2012 Kerala: BSF personnel arrested for molesting woman: "The incident, the second such in 24 hours in the state, occurred aboard the Trivandrum Mail." Jul 24, 2012 Netas ‘protecting’ errant Maruti staff: "nearly all the workers fled from their rented accommodations from nearby villages to their native districts. “They knew nobody would touch them in their own villages, including the police”" Jul 23, 2012 Goonda raj in UP: Akhilesh withdraws cases against 'criminal' ministers: "The worst fears of the voters of Uttar Pradesh have come true. It is gradually becoming clear that chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will run the state with active support of criminals. The voters were apprehensive before the assembly elections that Mulayam Singh Yadav's goonda raj days will return if they voted for the SP." Jul 23, 2012 UP cops gang-rape woman in police station: "Policemen in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, about 325 km from here, allegedly gang-raped a woman inside a police station." Jul 23, 2012 बीजिंग गए भारतीय लड़कों की लड़कियों से 'अभद्रता': "दल में शामिल लड़कियों के मुताबिक परेशान करने वाले ज्यादातर लड़के खुद को राजनीतिक दलों से जुड़ा बता रहे थे." Jul 23, 2012 गुड़गाँव बनी अमीरों की झुग्गी?- पार्ट 1: "दत्त परिवार जैसे कितने ही समृद्घ परिवार हैं यहां, जो पानी की ज़रूरत को पूरा करने के लिए हर महीने आठ से दस हज़ार रुपए खर्च करने को मजबूर हैं. कभी-कभी तो आलम ये होता है कि यहां के पढ़े-लिखे समृद्ध लोग भी टैंकरों से पानी लेने के लिए आपस में तू-तू मैं-मैं पर उतर आते हैं." Jul 23, 2012 Alleged rape in CID custody: NRI woman moves Gujarat HC: "A US-based NRI woman, who had alleged that she was raped by the CID officials and others when she was in the police custody in a land grabbing case" Jul 23, 2012 Loan agents whisk away woman in car: "police allegedly took no action for 38 days. The charges slapped against the accused were so weak that all of them surrendered and walked free on bail last Friday." Jul 23, 2012 Now, woman raped inside police station in Kushinagar district: "Yet another woman has accused a police officer and a village chowkidar of raping her inside a police station in Kushinagar." Jul 23, 2012 Cop books judge’s kin, made to work as peon: "On appearing before the judge, Lal said he was instructed to return the challan amount to the traffic offender along with the offender's driving licence. The judge also allegedly threatened that he would 'fix' Lal. While being forced to perform the role of a peon, Lal said he was harassed by a metropolitan magistrate of the traffic court." Jul 23, 2012 Andhra girl loses voice after ragging by seniors: "The girl was sent to a local hospital and later to district hospital in Vijayanagaram, about 700 km from Hyderabad." Jul 23, 2012 Chhagan Bhujbal kin’s company sold shares at 9,800% premium: "From owning mines and vineyards to holding stakes in power, infrastructure and construction companies, the family of NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, who started life in Mumbai as a vegetable vendor, has come a long way.", "Last week TOI had exposed how the public works department (ministry headed by Chhagan Bhujbal) favoured a little-known contractor by awarding him a contract to build the Maharashtra Sadan guesthouse in Delhi and two public buildings in Mumbai without inviting tenders" Jul 23, 2012 Maruti Suzuki workers brutally hunted company brass: "At least 26 executives have sustained fractures, with several having multiple injuries, as the protesters used everything from rods to car parts. General manager, human resources, Awanish Kumar Dev died in the fire after both his legs were fractured in the thrashing by workers and he was left helpless in an office that was set ablaze." Jul 22, 2012 Delhi policemen helped Nitish Katara's killers: "According to AIIMS records, Vikas Yadav was missing from his hospital room on Diwali night in October 2011." Jul 22, 2012 Pharma firms funding foreign trips for doctors: "The government has called a high-level meeting to form a code of conduct for doctors and pharmaceutical companies." Jul 22, 2012 Bangalore: RTE quota students face discrimination: "Some students admitted under the RTE Act say they have been tormented everyday by both school officials and classmates." Jul 22, 2012 People starve as grains rot; UPA unmoved Jul 22, 2012 West Bengal: Woman raped, buried in shelter home: "Four other women are missing from the shelter since May, presumably dead, as their bodies still haven't been found." Jul 22, 2012 Jhansi policeman parades minor girls on camera: "The policeman is seen pulling off the dupatta of two minor girls who were detained on charges of theft." Jul 22, 2012 Manual scavenging is a result of India's caste divide: "In spite of a 1993 law banning the practice, manual scavenging is still continuing in India." Jul 22, 2012 After WB, now TN student forced to drink urine: "The class 9 student was forced to drink urine and severely beaten up by his teachers because he wanted to go to the toilet." Jul 22, 2012 Women across India speak out against harassment: "Have you been eve-teased? Speak out. Be a CJ." Jul 22, 2012 Guwahati: Girls should behave, says MP minister: "In a reference to the Guwahati molestation incident, an MP minister said the safety of women depended on how well they behaved." 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 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 Guwahati case: 5 accused still free, NCW flays police: "A report on the incident by the NCW was slated to be submitted on Monday, but it has not been finalised yet." Jul 16, 2012 SC pulls up MP govt for drug trials on humans: "The court slammed the MP government for treating people like guinea pigs and causing the deaths of almost 2,000 people." Jul 16, 2012 Akhilesh Yadav refuses to slam khap panchayat diktat, says 'nothing wrong': "A khap panchayat in Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh recently issued a diktat banning love marriages and barred women under the age of 40 from going out for shopping and using mobile phones outside their homes." Jul 16, 2012 Delay and negligence by police: NCW on Guwahati: "Meanwhile, a sub-inspector was suspended on Sunday for failing to act swiftly." 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 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 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 Rape bid on mother-to-be in hospital 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 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 JD(U) leader Chandramani Prasad Singh allegedly hammers nails in boy's feet Jul 13, 2012 Ex-DMK MLA arrested for rape-murder of 15-year-old girl: "allegedly raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl from Kerala who worked as a servant in his house" 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 Guwahati molestation incident sparks national outrage: "A 17-year-old girl is beaten, groped and brutalised by about 20 men in full public glare outside a bar in Assam." Jul 13, 2012 Molestation probe will follow due process: Assam DGP: "Speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai, Assam DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhary said he could not afford to get emotional about the Guwahati molestation." 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 8, 2012 Schoolgirl 'forced to drink urine' after she wetted her bed: "a Class V schoolgirl here was allegedly forced to drink her own urine by the hostel warden after she wetted her bed." 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 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 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 Burundi case: SP's son booked on attempt to murder
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