Retired judge demands review of anti-rape law

Read our Top Stories AAP is no different from Shiv Sena and MNS In an interview with Hardnews, former diplomat and the founder of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Madhu Bhaduri said the AAP is no different from other parties. Bhaduri recently resigned ...

Family of late Justice J S Verma has refused to accept the Padma Bhushan award conferred on him by the government posthumously, saying accepting it would be against his principles as he never "hankered" for any such honour. In a letter to President Pranab Mukherjee, Verma's wife Pushpa said, "The greatest honour to him remains how he is held in the hearts and minds of his fellow countrymen: as a true friend not just to women or the youth, but to those most in need of one..." "He never hankered ...

More on what the PM said:"We have made some significant changes including passing the anti-rape law last year."Education has been considerably improved. "The biggest success has been that close to 11 crore children are getting mid-day meals."Our aim by 2017 is to ensure that 5 crore youth should be trained with new skill sets."We have also launched new IITs and IIMs as well as various schemes for empowerment of the youth."In the health sector we have has many significant developments. "I can ...

Decision to create Telangana, framing of tough anti-rape law and communal violence in Muzaffarnagar kept the Home Ministry busy in 2013 during which Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was hanged. There was relative calm in Jammu and Kashmir and the ...

Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Monday said that despite the government having brought out a tougher law to fight sexual harassment, nothing much has really changed in the past year and society must rise to ensure the safety of women.Speaking outside parliament ...

By | AFP A Ugandan newspaper listed Tuesday 200 people it accused of being gay, a day after the president called homosexuals 'mercenaries' and signing one of the world's toughest anti-gay laws. "Exposed!" the headline of the Red Pepper tabloid ...

CHENNAI: The rape of a 20-year-old student of Amrita University by her college mates more than a week ago has raised questions about the manner in which the university has handled the issue. Educationists and lawyers say that educational ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer referred the new abortion law in Spain as the toughest one in Europe. She said in Thursday's morning edition that it is the conservative ideology of the ruling party to propose an abortion law that only allows abortion to rape ...

Alec Baldwin, who recently admitted to his hatred for media in the aftermath of the axing of his MSNBC talk show, will be portraying the role of a journalist in an upcoming episode of 'Law and Order: SVU'. The 'My Sister's Keeper' star will play ...