Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known the world over as Nirbhaya.
The incident, which took place on April 15 evening, came to light on Wednesday after local television channels flashed the CCTV footage showing the alleged torture at the 'Shishu Gruha'.
Five acid attack survivors walked for designer Agnimitra Paul's show in Kolkata.
Modi, in his address at the ISRO centre asked the scientists not to get disheartened by the hurdles in the lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 and asserted that there will be a "new dawn".
The juvenile convict in the 'Nirbhaya' gang-rape case of 2012 won't be released from jail and will be under the monitoring of an NGO for a year, sources said.
Budget has provided an additional assistance of Rs. 500 crore to the National Skill Development Fund.
Giving in to demands from Anganwadi workers, the government on Monday said it will double their remuneration while a special development fund for women self-help groups was also announced as part of its initiatives for the fair sex.
Federer's charity foundation had been working in Malawi since 2011 and has already opened 80 pre-schools across the country.
It's called the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Bill 2010, but what it's seeking to do may be a little different from the expectations parents have.
The seven others who Kodnani wanted to be summoned as witnesses are former BJP MLA Amrish Patel, Jagdish Patel, Lakhabhai Rathod, Dhaval Shah, Dhiraj Rathod, M D Lakhiya and Kantibhai Solanki.
She came under the cloud of allegation of clearing contract worth Rs 206 crore for purchase of a host of items under the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
Several Union ministers and chief ministers voluntarily removed the red beacons from their vehicles even before the notification of it came into effect.
The Child Protection Services programme under the Integrated Child Development Services was increased to Rs 1,500 crore from Rs 925 crore.
Kamal Nath said that the Bharatiya Janata Party was perturbed as its "corruption over its 15-year rule is going to be exposed"
The Parliamentary Forum on Children, headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, made the recommendations during a recent meeting of the panel and the report will soon be sent to the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, sources said. During the meeting, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath and senior Biju Janata Dal leader Bhartruhari Mahtab said "child budgeting" should be done on the lines of gender budgeting, which have provisions for women-specific schemes.
Here are the key highlights of the Interim Budget 2019-20 presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
1.46 lakh such consumers have voluntarily given up the subsidy.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states' education ministers on Wednesday trashed Human Resources and Development Minister Kapil Sibal's road map for education, stressing that fiddling with examinations and a single board for 12th class examination cannot reform the education.
The BJP on Sunday said the inclusion of the photograph of a former Pakistan Air Force Chief in a government advertisement was in "consonance" with the thought process of Congress and demanded a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh whether there was any change in the relations with that country.
Distraught with the news of her husband's death in Mosul, Dipali Tikadar now harbours just one wish: a meeting with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to seek a government job.
Sinha had alleged on Monday that her disability was mocked at when she visited the temple recently
If the international community concentrates on empowering women through gender equality, it will actually be promoting the cause of democracy, mitigating poverty and improving general health, joint secretary in the ministry of women and child development Kiran Chadha told the ongoing session of Commission on Status of Women.
In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced that the government is committed to the universalisation of the Integrated Child Development Services scheme in the country. Expressing grave concern at the low level of female literacy in the country, Mukherjee said the aim of the National Mission for Female Literacy would be to reduce the current level of female illiteracy by half in three years.
The Left party had favoured spending six and three per cent of GDP on education and health care sectors.
'If majority of the country's population is sentimental about a certain species, why are we so ashamed to say that we want to give it statutory protection?'
Directing officials to prepare a plan for taking views of Muslim women, the CM asked minister of the department and all women ministers in his cabinet 'to talk to women organisations'.
On display were PM Modi's pet projects like the 'Make in India' scheme and 'Jan Dhan Yojana'.
The Centre on Friday asked the Karnataka government to file cases under stronger laws against Sri Ram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik and the organisation's activists, who were arrested by the police ahead of Valentine's Day. "The accused should be booked under stronger laws. Their bail should be cancelled also," Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury said in a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.
Post elections, the company has been making frequent visits to various ministries, including the IT ministry, commerce ministry, as well as different agencies to get the hang of things in the administration.
Khan said shooting an animal in self-defence was not an offence according to section 11(2) of the Wildlife Protection Act.
Two officials of a children's shelter home in Karjat taluka of Maharashtra's Raigad district were arrested on charges of sexually abusing five minor inmates, police said on Thursday.
Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury on Tuesday claimed that allegations being made against her were part of a "political conspiracy to divert attention from the actual issue of attacks on women by lumpen elements". She was reacting to the criminal case, filed against her before the chief judicial magistrate court in Mangalore on Monday, by a group of people including Mangalore mayor Ganesh Hosabettu.The case was lodged after Chowdhury did not apologise for her statement on M'lore
"A workplace has been defined as any department, organisation, undertaking and establishment or branch which is established, owned or controlled, financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the appropriate government or the local authority or a corporation or a cooperative society," Minister Renuka Chowdhury said. As has ny private sector organisation, institution, unit or service provider carrying on commercial, professional or industrial activities.
The International Women's Day could not have been more special for Indian archer Deepika Kumari as a documentary on her life 'Ladies First' -- was released for worldwide streaming on Thursday.
Coming down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka in the wake of the Mangalore incidents, Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury on Saturday said there was a breakdown of law and order in the state where Talibanisation is happening. "All instruments of democracy will be used to stop such incidents," she told reporters while commenting on Friday night's kidnapping of the daughter of a Kerala Member of Legislative Assembly and friend.
Tigress Avni, who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of 13 people in the past two years, was killed in Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Friday as part of an operation.
India has failed to use a period of high economic growth to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.
A year after being embroiled in a child labour controversy, leading US apparel and footwear brand Gap has embarked on a national initiative for welfare of children and women in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Child Development and various state governments. The company has also started a special rehabilitation centre for women and children in association with Delhi-based NGO Self Employed Women's Association in the national capital.
She said she has not yet thought about joining active politics, but will continue to remain a Bharatiya Janata Party worker.
Noida police personnel are under fire from Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury for the 'insensitive handling' of the Arushi Talwar murder case. "We take strong objection to the language that has been used to describe the murder," she told reporters. "I have strong reservations about Aarushi's character assassination. The police need to be sensitised." The Commission for Protection of Child Rights has also objected to the stigmatisation of the minor.
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