One more months wait for endosulfan victims

Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu and National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega will attend two of the funerals.(SABC) The four police officers who were killed in an explosion on the N1 near Mokopane in Limpopo last week are expected to ...

Registration of the victims to be done in a phased manner, says its president The North America Telugu Society (NATS), a non-profit organisation that serves Telugus, will provide rehabilitation to all polio victims in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. NATS ...

Schumi is just the latest. For families of coma victims, it’s an unending wait. jump cut Schumi’s A Champ Not just immense talent, he probably had the most exceptional work ethic Narain Karthikeyan The Blanks, Filled In Toxic-metabolic encephalopathy An ...

On Women's Day, Swarna Rajagopalan examines the upcoming general elections in the context of women who are victims of violence and exploitation, especially in conflict areas.

We want society to be humane to us: acid attack victim Earlier this week, Laxmi, a victim of acid attack, was awarded the International Women of Courage Award by U.S.s First Lady Michelle Obama for successfully leading the campaign against acid attacks on ...

Five-year-old Lakshmi (name changed) hit the headlines in 2009 when she was raped and left bleeding on a mango grove near a construction site at Siruseri, just a few metres away from the site where IT employee Uma Maheswari was sexually assaulted ...

NHRCfixes Rs 5 lakh each for next of kin of the victims The Central government should pay compensation over a 'doubtful' encounter by Delhi Police in which five persons were killed in north-east Delhi's Sonia Vihar in May, 2006, said the National Human Rights ...

In a shocking incident that reflects on the prevailing law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, a gangrape victim in Ferozabad district was kidnapped and gangraped again by the accused, this time while she was under police protection. According to delayed ...

The proposal to set up one-stop crisis centres in hospitals to help victims of gender violence is commendable. Most cases of gender violence are never reported and the ones that get reported are when the victims have sustained major injuries and are ...