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Faridabad cops arrest duo who offered lift, ‘raped’ & pushed woman out of moving van after 3-hr ordeal

Police said victim was pushed out of van after being held for three hours, leaving her injured and in need of 12 stitches. FIR was registered after her sister filed a complaint.

The dead speak in Dharmasthala. Sinister story behind temple town’s mass graves, unearthed

After decades of hushed conversations about rapes, murders, and the frequent washing up of bodies on the banks of the Nethravathi, Karnataka govt has constituted an SIT to conduct a probe.

Chirag targets Nitish over Muzaffarpur case, flags ‘breakdown’ in Bihar law & order, healthcare

Union minister's letter to Bihar CM, both NDA allies, assumes significance at a time when state polls are nearing.

Pakistan police, Maryam Nawaz deny campus rape. Student protests continue

Protests erupted this week demanding justice for the alleged rape survivor. Police and college officials claim that ‘no such incident occurred’, protestors say 'the truth is being hidden’.

Sensational, speculative, insensitive—that’s how TV news is covering Kolkata doctor’s rape

We know what the victims look like because the media revealed their identities. In fact, we know too much.

India’s rape rage risks producing judicial lynchings, not real justice. See 2018 Lodha case

There’s no telling if the suspect held for the Kolkata case is guilty, but the Lodha case reveals the criminal justice system just doesn’t care about the truth.

When ‘good men’ are silent on rape, every Indian woman suffers. So we say ‘yes all men’

In India, victims or survivors of rape have to be truly exceptional to first, get men's attention; and second, be worthy of their outrage.

I’m an Indian woman, I’m tired of outraging. Jharkhand tourist gangrape won’t change a thing

No one is defaming India more than Indian men. The burden of India’s culture of sexual violence lies with Indian men alone.

Rape culture enters metaverse. Are women safe in Mark Zuckerberg’s game?

It’s alarming to think that guidelines for user safety are afterthoughts: minuscule bugs that can be fixed.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.