'Given the current fear that the government is going to appoint judges who were in line with its ideology, there should be full disclosure in Parliament about the details of every judge appointee,' Indira Jaising -- the first woman to be appointed additional solicitor general of India -- tells Geetanjali Krishna.
An office assistant, who was arrested for the sexual assault of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl at a Bangalore school, was on Sunday remanded to six days police custody by a magisterial court.
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill on protection of rights of transgenders after a motion to refer it to a Select Committee of the Upper House was defeated.
A lot of what we are hearing about Indrani is coming from our desire to demonise her and deny her humanity, says Shivam Vij.
'When the world was refining itself, India was going backwards culturally with so many rape cases and other atrocities against women, children and the elderly. The growth of evil forces was very bad in the last 10 years,' says Malayalam movie star Suresh Gopi, who met Narendra Modi recently tells Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier in this exclusive interview.
'The only positive I see are the youth of India who were earlier just after money. The young now want to do something for society.'
'Mobs are entering north Indian homes and threatening families to leave Gujarat or face consequences.'
Hailing the passage of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014, in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said the law comes as a "new regime of safety for potential victims".
In the documentary The World Before Her, a young girl has to submit to the will of her father for a most gut-wrenching reason: 'He let me live... I am a girl... but he let me live.' Is that reason enough, asks Suparn Verma.
Ten days after it came to light that a four-and-a-half-year-old boy inserted his finger and a sharpened pencil in the private parts of his classmate in a Delhi school, the girl's mother says the biggest hurdle in getting justice for her daughter is to battle the disbelief that she faces since the accused is so young.
'These children are wards of the State. They were exploited because the state government and its officials didn't do their jobs.'
'Women are so unsafe in our country... Leaving the country isn't a solution. We need to stand up for ourselves.'
'I have to fight to ensure something like this doesn't happen to any other child, that no other parent faces what we are going through.' 'That is how I will find strength.'
"This is a tribute to our daughter," said Nirbhaya's father, who was present in the RS to watch the proceedings.
Aamir Khan's unsettling revelations on rape contradict the gleaming lines of his introduction speech -- Hindustan badal raha hai, ek laher si chal rahi hai.Sukanya Verma reviews the Episode 1 of Satyamev Jayate's second season
The salient features of the new OTT/social media policy announced by the Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on February 25, 2021.
Akhilesh believes his catchment area is the 4.1 million new voters who are 18 to 19 years old.
The MoS was accused of sexual harassment from his former colleagues during his stint as an editor; allegations which he has termed as "baseless" and "fabricated".
One of the key cases influencing the debate on abortion in Ireland was that of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died of sepsis in a hospital in Galway after being denied an abortion during a protracted miscarriage in 2012.
Perfect occasion for Sukanya Verma to look into all the Woh woes in Hindi cinema.
Life, work and play in Drona's village.
Sukanya Verma looks at the many, many reasons for marital discord reported in Hindi movies.
'The 17-year-old boy, who pulled out Nirbhaya's intestines, should have got the harshest punishment because he was not human at the time.' 'Instead, he was given a sewing machine and some money to have a new beginning!' 'Are we giving out incentives?' 'Are we telling our unemployed youth that if they do something like this, the government will give them jobs?'
The December 16 gang-rape-cum-murder case allegedly involving a minor accused is gruesome but such incident is an "aberration rather than rule", the Supreme Court on Wednesday said.
The judge said the journalists 'collected and obtained confidential documents'.
'We need to understand that the perpetrators are right within us; they are not like the terrorists who come from outside.' 'The four year old who was raped in Bengaluru and the 20 year old who was gang-raped in Hyderabad should be our wake up call.'
Here are edited excerpts from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's Kanimozhi's speech during which she pushed for sending the bill to a Select Committee, arguing that further examination was required to decide whether the age for punitive action should be reduced to 16 years from the current level of 18 years.
From mistreatment, sexual harassment to low wages, domestic workers are in a poor state in India with hardly any legal protections, says Neeta Kolhatkar.
'The government must consider that Modiji's vision of India turning into a $5 trillion economy will happen only when there is rule of law in the country.' 'Investors will not invest if these lynchings keep happening.'
'What we see today is bargaining.' 'The man's family sets a price for him and then they start bargaining.' 'He is sold to the family that offers the highest price.' 'In this market, a woman is just a commodity to be sold because if she remained at home, it is a humiliation for the family.'
Affaq Husain and his wife Saira built a Rs 100 crore empire preying on the most vulnerable people in society.
Enrich a woman and you can enrich a nation. Hurt women, deny women equitable rights, and a nation's death sentence will soon commence, says Dr Krishan Jeyarajasingham.
The NCSS is ready with the 'schematics' that would help government block all porn websites
The Supreme Court today commenced the final hearing on the pleas seeking fresh interpretation of the term 'juvenile' in the statute and leaving it to the criminal court, instead of the Juvenile Justice Board, to determine the juvenility of an offender in heinous crimes.
A look at few gurus who have attracted controversy in recent times.
'Women all over India want a safer atmosphere at the place where they go to pray or meditate.'
'We say we are proud to be Indian. Can we be proud of such an India where its people are hungry and on the streets?'
Those who feel the irresistible need to express strong sentiment for our nation and its contents must consider being pro-Indian, whether this Indian be jawan, cobbler, Kashmiri, lesbian, Dalit, protester, pujari, businessman or child.
This is the story of Kirthi Jayakumar.
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