Bosnia war witness says paramilitary raped Muslims
September 7th, 2012 - 7:37 am ICT by IANS
The Hague, Sep 7 (IANS/AKI) A prosecution witness in the trial of wartime Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has said she witnessed Serb paramilitary forces raping Muslim women in ... Read more...
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Media spreading canard to hold market: Mamata
August 28th, 2012 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 28 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday continued her tirade against the media, accusing it of propagating "false news" to hold on to the market."The ... Read more...
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Buddhadeb slams centre, West Bengal government
August 26th, 2012 - 7:50 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 26 (IANS) Former West Bengal chief minister and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday blamed the policies of the central government for poverty, unemployment ... Read more...
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Mamata slams media for abetting suicides, rapes
August 25th, 2012 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 25 (IANS) Launching a scathing attack on the media, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday accused it of abetting suicides and rapes and warned that police ... Read more...
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I don’t love to see negative stories: Mamata
August 24th, 2012 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 24 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she does not love to see negative stories."I don't love to see negativity. Even if there is ... Read more...
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Nikhil Tonk wants Shekhar-Adhyayan for Bhanwari Devi movie
August 20th, 2012 - 2:09 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Nikhil Tonk is keen to cast father-son duo - Shekhar Suman and Adhyayan Suman - for his upcoming film, based on Bhanwari Devi murder."We have ... Read more...
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Congress, Left slam Bengal government over rape cases
August 19th, 2012 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) As the West Bengal government termed reports of recent rape cases as a "rotten campaign" against it, the Congress, a junior partner in the ruling alliance, ... Read more...
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Crime reports an anti-government campaign: Bengal minister
August 19th, 2012 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) A West Bengal minister Sunday termed the reports of alleged rapes as a "rotten campaign" against the government and denied that the law and order situation ... Read more...
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Court slams failure to weed out Bangladeshi migrants
August 10th, 2012 - 12:02 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) A Delhi court Thursday expressed concern over the central government's failure to act against nearly three crore illegal Bangladeshi migrants who are staying in the ... Read more...
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400 offenders in Britain raped again after release
July 16th, 2012 - 11:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 16 (IANS) Over 400 sex offenders carried out rapes after being freed from British jails, say official statistics.Of 3,263 rapists convicted in last three years, 409 had previous ... Read more...
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Teenager rapes Class 9 girl in Delhi
July 14th, 2012 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) A 15-year-old Class 9 girl was raped by a 17-year-old boy residing in her neighbour here, police said Saturday. The boy has been arrested.The ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka records rise in rapes of children
July 5th, 2012 - 4:46 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, July 5 (IANS) Sri Lanka has seen a rise in the number of underage children being raped or abused this year, the police said Thursday.Over 700 incidents of rape ... Read more...
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Guatemala busts gang blamed for 18 rapes
June 9th, 2012 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
Guatemala City, June 9 (IANS/EFE) Nine suspected members of a gang blamed for at least 18 rapes were arrested Friday, Guatemalan authorities said.The arrests took place in and around Guatemala ... Read more...
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Soldier rapes, kills girl (Lead, correcting headline)
June 8th, 2012 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
Kanpur, June 8 (IANS) A soldier raped a high school student in an Uttar Pradesh village and then shot her dead when she was about to expose him, police said ... Read more...
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Soldier rapes, shot dead
June 8th, 2012 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kanpur, June 8 (IANS) A soldier raped a high school student in an Uttar Pradesh village and then shot her dead when she was about to expose him, police said ... Read more...
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Soldier rapes, shot dead
June 8th, 2012 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kanpur, June 8 (IANS) A soldier raped a high school student in an Uttar Pradesh village and then shot her dead when she was about to expose him, police said ... Read more...
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British boy rapes to feel ‘grown up’
June 1st, 2012 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 1 (IANS) A 12-year-old boy raped a girl three years younger in Britain after watching hardcore porn on the internet. He said he did it "to feel grown ... Read more...
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Serial killer faces trial in Moscow
May 23rd, 2012 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian man is set to go on trial accused of killing at least eight women in a series of murders and rapes in various ... Read more...
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Father rapes daughter in west Delhi
May 19th, 2012 - 5:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a 14-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her own father in west Delhi, police said Saturday.The girl filed a complaint ... Read more...
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Law and order breakdown in Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati
May 19th, 2012 - 5:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) After a studied silence of two months, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati Saturday came down heavily on the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar ... Read more...
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Mamata rule disappoints many women (One year of Mamata Banerjee)
May 18th, 2012 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) Many women saw themselves in her. Trinamool Congress firebrand Mamata Banerjee, always clad in a simple cotton sari and slippers, gave rise to huge ... Read more...
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Afghan jailed for raping two women in Australia
April 14th, 2012 - 6:48 pm ICT by IANS
Melbourne, April 14 (IANS) An Afghan asylum seeker in Australia, who said he did not understand the concept of consensual sex, has been jailed for nine years for brutally ... Read more...
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7,563 rapes in Jharkhand in 10 years: Report
April 13th, 2012 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, April 13 (IANS) As many as 7,563 rape cases were reported in Jharkhand during the ten-year period since the formation of the state in November 2000, a local NGO ... Read more...
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China farm produce prices fall
April 11th, 2012 - 5:00 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 11 (IANS) The prices of China's farm produce fell for a third straight week on increased supplies, the commerce ministry said Tuesday.The wholesale price of 18 types of ... Read more...
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More than 400 Afghan women jailed for ‘moral crimes’
March 29th, 2012 - 3:37 am ICT by BNO News
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Hundreds of women are currently imprisoned in Afghanistan for so-called 'moral crimes', including running away from forced marriages and extra-marital sex charges after being raped, according to ... Read more...
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Woman ‘breaks into house, rapes man’
March 22nd, 2012 - 8:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 22 (IANS) A woman was Thursday ordered to stand trial in Australia, accused of breaking into a man's home and raping him, the Daily Mail reported.Rebecca Helen Elder, ... Read more...
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Maoists offer swap, no interlocutor for talks (Lead)
March 21st, 2012 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, March 21 (IANS) Uncertainty persisted Wednesday on the fate of the two Italians abducted by Maoists in Odisha, with talks likely to be delayed further as it was not ... Read more...
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Women being treated as chattel: Chidambaram
March 21st, 2012 - 3:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS) Hoping that attitudes would change with education, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Wednesday that women were being treated as chattel and that was one ... Read more...
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Disabled man rapes minor in Delhi, caught
March 10th, 2012 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) A disabled man was caught Thursday in east Delhi after he had raped a minor, police said Saturday.According to police, the accused had abducted the ... Read more...
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Narayanan asks media not to sensationalise rape cases
March 1st, 2012 - 11:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan Thursday asked the media not to sensationalise rape cases and stressed it was everybody's duty to protect the women and ... Read more...
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Crime capital records five rapes in three days
February 28th, 2012 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Delhi's reputation as an unsafe city for women touched a new low as the capital witnessed five rapes in the past three days, including of ... Read more...
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‘Betis’ in Madhya Pradhesh do not feel safe
February 23rd, 2012 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Bhopal, Feb 23 (IANS) The heartland of India Madhya Pradesh is unsafe for women -- figures of rapes and deaths of women in the state during the last three years ... Read more...
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Chinese youth rapes, robs, kills 91-year-old
February 10th, 2012 - 12:06 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 9 (IANS) A 19-year-old youth in a Chinese city has been detained for allegedly raping, robbing and killing a 91-year-old woman.The elderly lady surnamed Wei lived alone in ... Read more...
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Rape victims will be given government jobs: Mulayam
January 29th, 2012 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
Siddharth Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), Jan 29 (IANS) Hitting out at the Mayawati government for rising incidents of rape and murder in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav ... Read more...
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Nobel laureate denounces impunity for crimes against women
January 24th, 2012 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Jan 24 (IANS/EFE) Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams denounced in Mexico the impunity that prevails for crimes against women in this country and the lack of political ... Read more...
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