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Thousands protest over rape of 7-year-old girl in India
Thousands protested in the holiday state of Goa on Tuesday after a seven-year-old girl was raped in a school toilet, sparking fresh outrage in India following a deadly gang-rape on a bus. Crowds began gathering outside the Deepvihar High School in the city of Vasco da Gama on Monday night…
India arrests six in new bus gang-rape case
Six men have been arrested over the rape of a passenger on a coach in India, police said Sunday, weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests. The victim had boarded the service to her in-laws’ home in the northern…
Defense attorney alleges police brutality in Delhi gang-rape case
A defence lawyer accused Indian police on Thursday of beating confessions out of five men charged with murdering and gang-raping a student in New Delhi, as they were due to appear in court again. Speaking before a hearing at which a magistrate is expected to transfer the case to a…
Supreme Court: Drug trials in India ‘causing havoc to human life’
India’s Supreme Court said on Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing “havoc” in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests. The comments were made during a hearing on a petition detailing deaths and health problems caused by clinical…
India debates naming new law after gang-rape victim
A call to name a new law targeting sexual violence in India after an anonymous woman who died last weekend following a gang rape has provoked a fierce debate in the country, where new details of the violent assault continue to provoke shock and outrage. The suggestion that the 23-year-old…
Cannibalism suspected in India tea plantation worker uprising
Police in northeast India say they believe workers on a tea plantation who bludgeoned their boss and his wife to death last month also ate parts of their bodies. A crowd of 1000 workers at the privately-owned M.K.B. Tea Estate in the state of Assam surrounded the plantation owner’s bungalow…
India’s government to roll out its cash-to-poor program in new year
India’s government is to roll out Tuesday the first phase of its hugely ambitious plans to hand out cash to welfare claimants in what it considers a “game-changer” policy 18 months ahead of elections. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, speaking before the start of the direct cash transfers on January 1,…
Rape victim dies after inspiring wave of protests in India
The woman who was brutally gang-raped and beaten in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 16 died at a hospital in Singapore where she was being treated, reported the Associated Press. A hospital statement say she “died peacefully.” News of the rape sparked days of demonstrations, which turned violent at times.…
Indian gang-rape student ‘fighting for her life’
An Indian student who was brutally gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi was “fighting for her life” after suffering a significant brain injury, the Singapore hospital treating her said on Friday. “The patient is currently struggling against the odds, and fighting for her life,” Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer…
Emerging China, Brazil and India agree to increased United Nations dues
China, Brazil, India and other emerging powers agreed to major increases in their United Nations payments as the global body hammered out a new budget deal this week to avoid its own fiscal cliff. The boom countries will pay more as economic crisis allows European nations, such as Britain, Germany…
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