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Thursday, May 28, 2026
TopicSex Crime

Topic: Sex Crime

Indian-origin man gets 33-yr jail term in US for ‘methodically hunting kids as young as six online’

Canadian national Ramanan Pathmanathan posed as a teenage boy from New Jersey and demanded victims engage in sexually explicit conduct in video chats, show court papers.

Sex workers welcome SC order against abuse, but fear of police runs deep

A Supreme Court order has legally empowered India's sex workers, but decades of police and societal abuse means ingrained cynicism and fear aren't going go away overnight.

Seagram heiress jailed for 81 months, fined $6.5 million for luring women to US sex cult

Clare Bronfman, heiress to Seagram Co. liquor fortune, gave at least $100 mn to help bankroll Nxivm sex cult that forced women to engage in sex acts, according to prosecutors.

This is how India will now punish those accused of sex crimes against children

Minimum punishment for gang rape of a girl below 12 years will now be life imprisonment (until a person dies a natural death) or a death sentence.

On Camera

DK Shivakumar—the ‘Rock’ at the door of power. What it means for Karnataka and Congress

Congress leader DK Shivakumar is patient, transactional, fiercely loyal, administratively ambitious, and unafraid of power. Is Karnataka ready for the most complete expression yet of his method?

An Iran deal won’t plug India’s capital or AI gaps

Having failed to emulate East Asia’s success with manufacturing exports, India pays for its chronic trade shortfall by writing IOUs to global investors.

Re-NEET UG 2026: Modi govt may rope in IAF for logistics, transport of question papers

IAF could be tasked with moving the papers from the printing press to wherever they need to go across the country, it is learnt.

2026 is like 1973 Indira-era oil shock plus youth anger. Modi has space, but not immunity

An oil shock, monsoon fears, rampant unemployment, and the seeming inevitability of inflation are common to both eras. Indira Gandhi’s self-destructive responses are instructive today.