Political leaders are making one controversial remark after another against women even as the country seethes with anger following the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student by six men in Delhi. Now, Abu Azmi, Samajwadi Party MLA in Maharashtra, has blamed the women for rising cases of rape. Azmi said that rapes and [...]
A Parliamentary panel headed by Shri Shantaram Naik M P is in Goa to study Goa’s law on compulsory registration of marriages in the light of the The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012, under which, Parliament proposes to make registration of marriages compulsory all over India. Shantaram Naik, M.P and Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee [...]
On Dec. 16, as the world now knows, a 23-year-old woman and a male friend were returning home after watching the movie “Life of Pi” at a mall in southwest Delhi. After they boarded what seemed to be a passenger bus, the six men inside gang-raped and tortured the woman so brutally that her intestines [...]
Immigration officials at Dabolim airportsent back 33 Russians who had arrived early Sunday morning to celebrate the New Year, as their tour operator failed to carry out the procedure for group landing permit (GLP). An immigration officer said, “The tour operator has to ask for GLP at least three days in advance. In this case the [...]
As scores of Mumbaikars pack their bags to drive off to Goa via the Mumbai-Goa National Highway for the festival season, the highway police have sounded a warning. Given that the road has many narrow and rickety stretches, officers have cautioned motorists not to speed and to use their vehicles’ blinkers in fog. The Mumbai-Goa [...]
