S.S. Rathi, tasked with digging up data on child sex abuse cases, said NCPCR had not collected any ‘useworthy’ data since POCSO Act took effect in 2012.
Women lawyers had written to the PMO saying chemical castration of child rapists in the rarest of rare cases is the need of the hour besides death penalty.
Five years after he was charged, Asaram has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jodhpur Court for raping a minor. The self-proclaimed 'godman' and his followers have asserted his innocence repeatedly. Last year Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Ram Rahim, was also found guilty of rape. Experts weigh in.
The new political formula is, if you can’t redress a grievance, feed the popular blood-thirst. If you can’t solve a problem, fool the people with yet another law.
With no victim support and protection systems in place, the field is open for the accused to threaten, intimidate, and pressurize the victim to retract.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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