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BJP stands behind Gadkari, questions Congress stand on Vadra

BJP stood firmly behind its president Nitin Gadkari facing corruption charges, saying the party “endorses” his stand on facing any investigation by competent authority.At the same time, it also lashed out at Congress for being “prejudicial” in demanding probe against him but refusing investigation into corruption charges against the party or against Robert Vadra. “The [...]

October 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Indian rickshaw-puller forced to take baby to work (Help Him)

Offers of help have been coming into BBC Hindi after it reported that an Indian rickshaw-puller is carrying his month-old daughter in a cloth sling around his neck after his wife died. Bablu Jatav’s wife, Shanti, died on 20 September, soon after giving birth to their first child in Rajasthan state. Mr Jatav, 38, says [...]

October 20, 2012No CommentRead More

National Law School student gang-raped on Bangalore University campus

BANGALORE: In yet another shocking act of depraved violence against women, a 21-year-old south Asian student of the country’s premier National Law School of India University was allegedly gang-raped by a group of seven to eight drunk men in the adjoining Jnanabharathi campus of Bangalore University late on Saturday night. The second-year undergraduate student was [...]

October 15, 2012No CommentRead More

Another minor girl raped by 60-year-old man in Haryana

Fatehabad (Haryana), Oct 13: In another addition to the spiralling cases of rapes in Haryana, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an elderly fruit seller in Ratia area here. Police have arrested the vendor Sohan Lal. According to the complaint lodged by mother of the girl, the accused had been raping her daughter during [...]

October 14, 2012No CommentRead More

US President Barack Obama condemns Taliban attack on 14-year-old Pakistani girl

Washington, Oct 11: US President Barack Obama has termed the life threatening attack on 14-year-old Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai by Taliban as reprehensible, disgusting and tragic and has offered assistance to Pakistan in this regard, his spokesman said. “I know that the President found the news reprehensible, disgusting and tragic. We strongly condemn the shooting [...]

October 11, 2012No CommentRead More

Phoolan Devi’s husband Umaid Singh to contest for BSP from Shahjahanpur

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided to field Umaid Singh, husband of slain bandit queen and former MP Phoolan Devi, from Shahjahanpur Lok Sabha seat. She was shot dead in New Delhi in 2001 by one Sher Singh Rana. Singh’s candidature was announced by BSP Rajya Sabha member and zonal coordinator of Western UP, [...]

September 27, 2012No CommentRead More

DO YOU STILL THINK THAT INCREASE IN OIL PRICES ARE JUSTIFIED IN INDIA ???

Also increased the prices of diesel and petroleum are the oil companies are invoking losses. However, the Information obtained through Right to Information (RTI) has shown that the oil companies are making huge profits each year. In 2010-11, he posted net profit of more than Rs 25 thousand crore. This is achieved with the help [...]

September 16, 2012No CommentRead More

Petrol costlier in India than US, Pak and Lanka

Petrol in India costs more than it does in the US as well as neighbouring Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but is cheaper than in Europe. Diesel rates on the other hand are the cheapest in India. Petrol in the national capital costs Rs 68.46 per litre as compared to Rs 53.32 a litre in Pakistan, Rs [...]

September 6, 2012No CommentRead More

Clinton to Push South China Sea Issue in Beijing Talks

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is headed to Beijing, where she has promised to take a strong message to Chinese leaders on the issue of resolving territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Clinton wants China to work with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on a code of conduct for managing the disputes, [...]

September 5, 2012No CommentRead More

Laws against child prostitution

Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act – PITA Amending “The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act” of 1986 or PITA, All India Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act (SITA), was amended to the current law. The laws were imposed on the population for limiting and eventually abolishing prostitution in India by gradually criminalizing various aspects of Sex work. PITA has following provisions [...]

August 28, 2012No CommentRead More