'I was told to go to the next room and strip -- that's when it really hits you for the first time... that you are a criminal and you are being treated like one.' 'It comes as a shock when, instead of your name, you hear, "Yeh naya Maowadi aaya hai (A new Maoist has arrived)".'
In the wake of angry reactions from the public, Mumbai police chief Rakesh Maria has directed a probe into last week's raids
The wrong of victimising, targeting and persecuting homosexuals on the basis of archaic and prejudiced ideas has gone for long. Time we set it right, says Mohd Asim.
The London high court has ruled that Sir Elton John was not libelled by the Times, London, in a series of articles about tax avoidance. The 65-year-old pop star had complained about two articles on 'The secrets of tax avoiders' published by the British newspaper this June. According to him, they implied that he had been advised to engage in "immoral" schemes, the BBC reported
Manoj Bajpayee looks back at one of his most brilliant career performances.
'India may well be a religious country, but that is precisely why we need to avoid criminalising blasphemy,' argues Mihir S Sharma.
The deal was, however, dismissed by the Democrats as a 'non-starter'.
Senior Police Inspector Arun Borude, who has been accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in suburban Powai in Mumbai, has been dismissed from service, the police said on Wednesday. Borude has been absconding since the case was registered last week. "The state director general of police ordered Borude's dismissal under Article 311 of the Constitution on grounds of immoral conduct," City Police Commissioner Sanjeev Dayal told reporters.
Criticising co-education in schools and colleges, hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday said the Jammu and Kashmir government was promoting 'immoral activities' by keeping girls and boys shoulder to shoulder.
Petitioner R Periakaruppan, a former state minister who is contesting the polls from Tirupattur constituency, filed the suit seeking to restrain Jaya TV.
The decision on anticipatory bail plea of a police inspector accused of raping a minor was put off till Wednesday with a judge transferring the case to another court without assigning any reason.
'The same instinct that thinks that women should remain at home and not be at the workplace, objects to the dance bar.'
Vibhishan was a seeker of justice who risked it all to be on the side of truth, says Sudhir Bisht.
Two days after Amar Singh resigned from all Samajwadi Party posts, a senior leader of the party has questioned the timing of the decision and said making public about SP's functioning was 'most immoral.'
The Rediff Labs team analysed the National Crime Records Bureau data on crime against women for the past decade.
The Congress questioned the Maharashtra governor for the "arbitrary" allotment of time to the Nationalist Congress Party, the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party to prove support for government formation.
Capping a three-week-long high-voltage intense power struggle triggered by a raft of resignations by rebel lawmakers that pushed the government to the brink of collapse, the motion in the Karnataka Assembly was defeated with 99 members voting for the motion and 105 against it.
The Dalai Lama on Thursday condemned media censorship in China, saying the Chinese people have a right to know the truth about happening in Tibet.
Top Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy has been asked by Central Bureau of Investigation to appear before it in the Saradha chit fund scam probe, drawing angry reaction from the party which accused Bharatiya Janata Party of using the agency as a "political tool".
'A government which is so inefficient, what hope of justice can we have from them?' RSS leader Indresh Kumar tells Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore.
The deported Rohingyas would face persecution in Myanmar but also, possibly, elimination.
The study has indicated that people with ample moral self-worth in one aspect of their lives can slip into immorality or opposite behaviour in other areas-their abundant self-esteem somehow pushes them to balance out all that goodness.
Over 400 students from different US universities have expressed solidarity with Jamia and AMU students. The students and scholars at Oxford University staged a protest march against the CAA.
Cases have been registered against at least 100 persons by the police for taking out processions and engaging in unlawful assembly at the Marine Drive ground in Kochi on November 2 when the controversial 'Kiss of Love' programme against moral policing was to be held.
Julius Dorphang, who was wanted in connection with a sex-racket case involving a 14-year old girl, was on Saturday arrested from his hideout in neighbouring Assam.
Nothing much has changed since the first Kamasutra condom commercial aired in 1991.
The Left, the United National Progressive Alliance and the Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday said that they will launch a nation-wide campaign against the United Progressive Alliance government on the Indo-United States nuclear deal, price rise and agrarian issues and described the trust vote win in Lok Sabha as 'immoral'.The campaign will be launched against price rise, inflation, agrarian crisis leading to farmers suicides, Karat said.
The lawsuit, by four industry associations and 34 producers, seeks the court's direction to Republic TV, its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and reporter Pradeep Bhandari, Times Now, its editor-in-chief Rahul Shivshankar and group editor Navika Kumar and unknown defendants as well as social media platforms to refrain from making or publishing allegedly irresponsible, derogatory and defamatory remarks against Bollywood.
"I am on the side of the bishops' conference," Francis said.
The Cupid-struck should better watch out while celebrating Valentine's Day in Assam on Saturday, as volunteers of 'Asom Sena', the moral police wing of All Assam Students' Union is going to keep a close watch on them. "We are not opposed to the celebration of Valentine's Day but will certainly keep a watch so that nothing immoral and vulgar is indulged in by those out on a celebration mood on the day in the state," an official of the Asom Sena said.
Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska is upset and surprised about the negative reaction in her home country after posing nude for ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue."
Accusing the Congress of using money power to win the trust vote, the Communist Party of India-Marxist said on Friday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had 'bettered the record' of his predecessor P V Narasimha Rao for indulging in immoral and shady practices' to remain in power.
A fast track court in Chennai on Thursday sentenced orthosurgeon Dr Prakash to life imprisonment in a case relating to cyber pornography. Prakash allegedly took obscene pictures of his women patients and then uploaded them on the internet. FTC Judge R Radha passed the sentence under Section six of the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act and imposed a fine of Rs 1,25,000 on him. The other three accused -- Saravanan, Vijayan and Asir -- were awarded seven years RI.
Ravi Krishna Reddy, a software engineer who has been in the United States for the past six years, has returned to his home state of Karnataka to fight the elections as an independent candidate from the Jayanagar constituency in Bengaluru. Reddy says that he could make a difference in his own way to the system, if voted to power.
The baby has been rescued and sent to a child home.
A 'kiss of love' protest organised by a group of youngsters on Sunday against vandalism by the Bharatiya Janata Party at a coffee shop in Kozhikode has now drawn the ire of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
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The couple who allegedly bought the infant have been identified and the child will be rescued.
A Delhi court gave relief to Uma Khurana, who a TV channel had alleged had pushed her students into prostitution in a purported expose, on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 5,000.
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