The child after returning home on Thursday from her school - G D Birla Centre for Education - kept on crying and complained of severe pain. Her mother spotted blood stains on her clothes, he said. The girl told her mother that the physical training teacher had taken her to the washroom but could not narrate what happened thereafter.
A six-year-old boy, who was locked in a bathroom for several hours allegedly by his school teacher as a punishment for not completing his homework, has died after remaining ill for over 55 days. Pankaj, a kindergarten student of Rajkul Senior School Kamela in Gharonda sub-division, was locked in a bathroom for several hours on December 27 last year by his teacher after he failed to complete his home work.
Friends and family of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad university PhD scholar who committed suicide, on Friday said that they would 'expose the lies' of HRD Minister Smriti Irani .
'In UP, the CM actually announced that his administration would 'take revenge' against rioters.' 'That must have been music to his police force's ears for it substantiated what the police always do: Take revenge on an entire community for the violence of a few,' points out Jyoti Punwani.
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event. Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have changed the Middle Kingdom forever had the Chinese Communist party not traveled on the route of martial law.
'We know how to kill a terrorist, but we do not know how to stop an innocent boy getting radicalised.'
Sarabjit Singh, who was arrested and later released on bail on Monday night for allegedly harassing a 20-year-old Delhi University student in west Delhi's Tilak Nagar area, is now crying foul.
The four death row convicts are Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Singh and Pawan Gupta.
Adopting a zero-tolerance approach towards ragging, Delhi University has put a strict mechanism in place to make breaking the ice with seniors a smooth affair for the freshers.
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The new Gujarat chief minister's no-nonsense attitude and being a tough taskmaster might rub the people up the wrong way, making things difficult for her, observes Arvind J Bosmia.
Police said security has been tightened at Tappal as a precautionary measure.
'It looked as if India had been a major player in science at that time, raising the question when and why things changed,' says distinguished aerospace scientist Professor Roddam Narasimha.
'We don't need to hinge India-UK relations on shared hostility toward China,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday promised to take action against those responsible for the death of a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh and ensure a speedy probe.
On Saturday, posters announcing Rs 11 lakh reward for shooting dead Kumar were seen stuck on a wall near Press Club of India and bus stops and metro stations in New Delhi district.
Vemula's mother Radhika, sister Neelima and brother Raju, who visited the campus, demanded that "those responsible for his death" be brought to book.
The Union home ministry has received a factual report from the Maharashtra government on the prevailing situation in the state in the wake of caste-based violence there, a ministry spokesperson said.
Resident Doctors' Association of the AIIMS in Delhi, which earlier decided not to join the strike, announced withdrawal of all non-essential services from noon after a junior doctor at its trauma centre was assaulted in the early hours of Monday.
An Australian youth, who pleaded guilty to recklessly causing serious injury to an Indian student-cum-cabbie two years ago, has escaped with a light punishment despite the court being told that he "hated" Indians and the attack could have been "racially inspired".
The Bombay high court on Thursday said it would start hearing from December 5 all the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the beef ban legislation in Maharashtra.
A Kolkata court has pronounced its verdict in the 2013 Kamduni gang-rape and murder case. Six accused were found guilty, with the quantum of punishment to be decided on Friday.
Parents of the December 16 gang rape victim participated in a candlelight march at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi demanding justice for their daughter.
'If someone comes out to kill an innocent person and he is challenged by police, then either he or the policemen have to die'
An Indian student, who lost vision in one eye after being brutally bashed up by a teenage gang, is disappointed to see his assailants walk free following a court verdict, but has not lost hope in the Australian judicial system.
Two assailants were nabbed from Goa, one from Pune and the fourth from Shirdi, an official from Shirdi police station told PTI over phone.
The naked body of a girl, who tried to save her father from being beaten by locals for failing to pay for a rented tractor at a village meeting and then refusing to follow a kangaroo court's order of licking spit, was found lying on railway tracks at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district.
Delhi Police on Monday drew flak as a video emerged in which male police constables can be seen purportedly assaulting protesters, including women, demonstrating over the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula near the RSS head office in New Delhi.
Backing the agitating students of the Hyderabad university, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday called the suicide of a Dalit research scholar at the premier institute a "national shame" and accused the Centre of trying to indulge in "casteist politics".
The 32-year-old cabbie, who allegedly raped an executive on Friday night, would not have been behind the wheel of the Uber taxi had the United States-based company run a background check and conducted a police verification, as he had earlier been jailed too in a rape case.
A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to four of the five persons arrested for allegedly beating and molesting two Manipuri girls and hurling racist abuses at them.
''You should never give the impression that the police force is malicious, vindictive and indulging in retribution,' says Dr Vikram Singh, former director general of police of Uttar Pradesh.
'India is the only large nation along with Argentina whose numbers have continuously and without a break risen from March,' observes Aakar Patel.
Sparks flew in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday as the raging Jawaharlal Nehru University row and suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula was taken up for discussion, with opposition accusing the government of muzzling the voice of the youth and "mercilessly crushing" the principles of democracy.
The Delhi high court on Monday issued production warrants for Tuesday to four death row convicts in the December 16 gang rape and murder case on the trial court's reference for confirmation of the capital punishment given to them.
"The need of the hour in Indian education system is to create the awareness around academic integrity" said Prof Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education.
What has not changed in a decade is the character of Rizwan Khan. He is complex, multi-dimensional and lovable. In fact, his character continues to grow on you, notes Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
In a relief to college lecturer T J Joseph, whose hand was chopped off by activists of a radical outfit, a magistrate court in Idukki has exonerated him of the charge of hurting religious sentiments of a community through a question paper he set for his students.
Sujatha Baliga won America's most prestigious fellowship for her work on the journey to forgiveness and restorative justice.
'Government is saying that I will not be responsible for ensuring you get MSP but traders and large corporate will be responsible. 'India now is the only country that is saying such things'
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