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TopicCrimes against women

Topic: Crimes against women

Odisha researcher gangrape: How cop in guise of social worker, footage of ‘700 CCTVs’ led to 3 arrests

A shopkeeper, a beggar and an autorickshaw driver have been charged with the 10 October gangrape of the Odisha researcher, who had been living on the streets of Delhi.  

Bengaluru is fast losing ‘safe for women’ tag—live-in murders, anxious parents, growing fear

Bengaluru was ranked as the best Indian city to live in by a global survey in 2011. Now, its reputation has been taking a hit in the last three years.

Ujjain ‘rape’ happened even as city turned fortress for VIPs. Woman told cops accused ‘promised marriage’

Local shopowners say the tribal woman had been living on the streets for past two decades. According to the accused's mother, he often came home drunk.

‘Crimes against women an unforgivable sin,’ says Modi. Assures strict punishment, swift justice

While addressing Lakhpati Didi Sammelan in Maharashtra's Jalgaon, PM emphasised that people should be held accountable for any negligence in ensuring women's safety.

‘Shows evil meets a bad end’: Ajmer gangrape survivor finds closure 32 yrs on as 6 accused sentenced

Ajmer POCSO court sentences 6 to life imprisonment, fines them Rs 5 lakh each. Former prosecution lawyer says it was 'such a sight to see them being treated like criminals'.

Women doctors ‘resigned’ to gaps in hospital security & why broadcast bill was withdrawn — global media

Global media also discusses Hindenburg Research's latest on Adani & SEBI chair Madhabi Buch, 'stigmatised capitalism' in India, and the possibility of a bubble in the stock market.  

In UP, mother of 3 tied to tree, hair chopped & face blackened after ‘panchayat’ called over ‘affair’

Pratapgarh police say a panchayat was called at the behest of the woman's husband and in-laws, and the punishment was meted out with the tacit approval of the village pradhan, who is now absconding.  

‘Women assaulted, crops razed by JCB’ — another FIR against Jharkhand BJP MP Dhullu Mahto

CM Soren has asked police and administration to take strict action. Matter has sparked anger among Jharkhand's political and social circles in backdrop of Mahto's criminal history.

Situation ‘highly reprehensible’ in Sandeshkhali, Bengal Guv alleges police involvement

Bose further said that the police direct locals to make compromises with miscreants while 'goonda elements disguised as policemen trespass into the victims’ houses at night'.

‘The colour saffron’ & ‘women power? where?’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

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A new Indian foreign policy consensus is emerging. That India isn’t a great power yet

After exuberance, India must now not only take difficult and costly steps toward industrialisation, but also convert growth into geo-economic leverage and military modernisation.

Geoeconomic confrontation top trigger for global crisis, cyber insecurity biggest risk for India—WEF

WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'

The curious case of Pakistan’s JF-17 ‘orders’

Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines. 

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.