Shocking statistics. Devastating stories. Our dirty national secret. Nishita Jha & Revati Laul bring you a horrifying report on the rampant sexual abuse of children in India
NISHITA JHA
REVATI LAUL
4-05-2013, Issue 18 Volume 10
Illustrations: Anand Naorem
To begin with, hear the story of one child. On 17 December 2012 — just one day after the gangrape of a young paramedic in…
By Nihal Parashar:
I wrote a dissertation titled ‘Building of a Communal State in a Virtual World: Hindu-Muslim relation seen through the lens of YouTube and Facebook’. I was trying to interrogate the role of Social Media platforms in the ongoing ‘war’ between the fascists of the two religions.
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Bhiwani, April 28
The Haryana Police’s sensitivity towards crimes against women has once again come under scanner, after two migrant Dalit women, who were allegedly gang-raped and paraded naked by their employer at a brick kiln in Dhanana village of Bhiwani district, had to approach the Delhi Police through an NGO headed by…
PTI Apr 14, 2013,
(The 24-year-old woman,…)
SALEM, Tamil Nadu: A pregnant woman was allegedly asked to pay a bribe for treatment at a government hospital here today, and unable to pay it, she was forced to deliver the baby at a bus stand.
The 24-year-old woman, a labourer hailing from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, had come to the hospital with her husband and two children, aged five and two years, after she experienced labour pains this morning, but some nursing staff allegedly demanded Rs 1000 for her delivery, Dr Vallinayagam, Hospital dean said.
Lessons To Learn From Mahabharata Characters
Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram will respond to citizens’ questions on the Union Budget 2013-14, at 8 p.m. today by joining the multiparty video conference on Google+ Hangout.
This is for the first time that any Union Cabinet Minister is using this medium to interact with the citizens and to respond to their questions about the Union Budget.
This is a powerful communications platform and is accessible across the world for internet users. Google+ Hangouts allow up to 10 people participating at a point of time. One can later share the hangout on YouTube or live stream it using Hangouts on Air.
Chidambaram will be joined by a group of esteemed panelists on a Google+ Hangout. It includes among others Jahangir Aziz, Senior Asia Economist and India Chief Economist, JP Morgan, Anand Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra and Mahindra, Amit Singhal, Senior Vice President, Google Inc. and Manish Chokhani, MD and CEO, Axis Capital.
The session will be moderated by senior journalist Senthil Chengalvarayan.
Citizens will be able to watch the special budget Google+ Hangout live through the Google India +Page at google.com/+GoogleIndia or on the InConversation YouTube channel.
Before the Hangout, the citizens can submit their questions to P. Chidambaram either by uploading a video or commenting on the YouTube channel, or through the Google India +Page and tagging text or a video with the hashtag #asktheFM.
February 23, 2013
MUMBAI
Shiva Devnath
Two real estate agents raped a 17-year-old minor in a hotel on the pretext of showing her property in Kandivli late on Thursday. After receiving a tip-off about their location, the police arrested the duo from Virar yesterday.
Simon Denyer/The Washington Post - Irom Sharmila arrives for a fortnightly court appearance, flanked by two police officers, in the northeastern Indian city of Imphal on Feb. 7, 2013. Sharmila began a hunger strike in 2000 to protest against a controversial law that grants the Indian army virtual impunity from prosecution.
IMPHAL, India…
SATURDAY, 23 FEBRUARY Pioneer| FARIDABAD
In an apparent case of administration’s negligence, over thousands Aadhaar Card (Aam Admi ka Adhikaar) were found dumped in a drain near a graveyard in Sector -22 of Faridabad.
The cards were found scattered by some children who were playing near the drain on Thursday, some elderly people of the locality informed the police.
During investigation, police found that all the Aadhaar cards belonged to Ward number-6 of Sanjay Colony at Sector-22, 23.
