'Thanks to monetary help from several people, we are comfortable and living with dignity.'
Residents of Phulkaha in Sitamarhi district in Bihar, are performing a 5-day 'yajna' for the speedy recovery and well-being of the five-year-old girl, who was raped and tortured allegedly by her 22-year-old neighbour on April 15. The girl originally hails from this village.
People of the Delhi gang rape victim's ancestral village here lit candles and distributed sweets after hearing that a court has awarded death penalty to her attackers on Friday.
"The power of listening to others is important in every sphere of life. It is enormously liberating to yield that space to others. The problem with our society is that we are not listening to others...we are listening only to ourselves," he said.
'I was very keen to make another film and I was dying to say action and cut and get back into creating characters and creating worlds.' 'But I just didn't have a script I was happy with.' 'I was working every day on the writing and I was struggling with that.'
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A man hanged himself allegedly over the delay by the police in probing the gang-rape of his 15-year-old daughter. A station house officer and another policeman were suspended on Tuesday, the police said.
A large number of members of the minority community are uneasy about returning to their homes in Asthan village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, from where they had to flee 10 days ago following violent communal clashes over the rape of a Dalit girl.
Noting that the young girl belonged to a Dalit migrant family from Bihar, Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman also took a swipe at Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, questioning if he had asked Rahul Gandhi about the issue while holding a joint poll campaign with him in the state.
'There were times when my courage and confidence would fail and I was close to giving up,' says Jyoti Kumari who wanted to bring her father home safely. So she began the cycle ride of her life.
The accident took place at 4.45 am near Repoli village in Raigad, located more than 130 km from Mumbai. The victims, all relatives, were going in the van to Guhagar town in Ratnagiri district, Superintendent of Police Somnath Gharge said.
India has summoned a senior official of the Pakistan high commission and issued a strong demarche over the incident, official sources said.
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Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Kalaroos village of the district following specific intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists in the area, a police official said.
The Madras high court on Friday upheld a trial court order convicting over 200 men, including forest and police officials and sentencing them to various prison terms for atrocities committed against tribals including rape, where the victims included a minor girl and a pregnant woman.
The beheaded body of a teenage girl with her arms chopped off was recovered from a jungle near Songsak road in East Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, police said on Monday.
The girls belonging to three families, were kept in one house by their parents, who had fled from the village following some personal rivalry, Additional Superintendent of Police (Gaya) Ashok Kumar said.
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Two jawans were rounded up as suspects but the real culprit would be identified after identification parade.
Half a century after he left school, A Ganesh Nadar attends a school reunion.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tells the women that "Rahul was naughtier than her, but she got the scolding instead".
The duo, both former students of Sumit Singh, had quarrelled with his brother Tarun over phone when he stopped one of them from talking to a girl, the police said.
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'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
In a suspected case of honour killing, a couple was stoned to death by relatives of an upper caste girl who had eloped with a married man from another caste in Andhra Pradesh's Nizamabad district, police said on Thursday.
The Delhi high court on Thursday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to take down his social media post which revealed the identity of a minor Dalit girl, raped and murdered in 2021, so that the child's identity is protected worldwide.
A Dalit woman from Lakshmisagar village in Chitradurga district, Karnataka, has filed a case against eight men of Nayak community for assaulting her and parading her naked on the village's streets on January 17.
An elderly woman said since the young men have left, there is nobody to arrange for food and open water supply taps that bring water to the village.
A minor Dalit girl was allegedly abducted by three persons and raped by one of them in the Jaito area of the district, police said on Saturday.
Sonam Malik,19, is the youngest Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympic Games.
A 15-year-old girl suffered serious burn injuries after a youth allegedly set her on fire for resisting a rape attempt by him in the Chaurdehara village.
'The others have been looting the people all these years. If you don't do that, you can do a lot for the people,' says Tamil star politician Vijayakanth.
The incident comes days after a 19-year-old college student was allegedly gang-raped in Bhopal, which triggered public outrage against the police.
Ivanka, who is advisor to President Trump on job creation, has visited India twice, most recently in February this year along with her father. In 2017, she led the US delegation at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India.
On November 10, an FIR was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 465 (punishment for forgery) and 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputation) and sections 66C and 66E of the Information Technology Act at the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) Unit of the Delhi Police's Special Cell.
Savita Kanswal, 26, was posthumously awarded the highest adventure award at Rashtrapati Bhavan this month. She died heroically, as she had lived, doing what no woman had done before her.
The police said the woman works as a pilot with a private airline while her husband is deployed with the ground staff in another private airline.
The 16-year-old boy allegedly raped the girl at an isolated place at Talegaon village under Trimbakeshwar taluka in the district on Saturday, Trimbakeshwar police station in-charge Mukund Deshmukh said.
A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Navla village in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh the police said on Monday.
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