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Five sentenced to death in Bangladesh for gang rape

15 Oct 2020

A Bangladesh court sentenced five men to death on Thursday for the 2012 gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl, amid growing public anger over rampant sexual violence. The sentence was...

Main suspect in court over Pakistan motorway gang rape

14 Oct 2020

A Pakistani man on Tuesday was charged with being the main suspect in the gang rape of a mother on the side of a motorway, a case which sparked...

Bangladesh weighs death penalty for rapists as protests flare

10 Oct 2020

Protests rocked Bangladesh on Saturday as hundreds of people took to the streets to demand justice after a series of rapes and sexual assaults that have spurred the government...

Indian Home Ministry says mandatory action in crime against women

10 Oct 2020

Taking cognizance of recent crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras and other states, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued an advisory to all states and Union...

National outrage over UP gang rape case

05 Oct 2020

A high-handed attempt to blot out a gang rape case in Uttar Pradesh has sparked nationwide protests, causing acute embarrassment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. The gang...

Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi meet Hathras victim's family

04 Oct 2020

Politics is on the boil over the Hathras gangrape incident in Uttar Pradesh as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrived in Hathras with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to meet the victim's...

Five police officers suspended over India gang-rape

03 Oct 2020

Five senior police officers have been suspended over their handling of an investigation into the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman that has sparked outrage across India and...

Indian low-caste woman dies after gang-rape, second in a week

01 Oct 2020

A woman from India's marginalised Dalit community has died after being gang-raped, police said Thursday, days after the death of a teenager from the same low-caste group at the...

Bollywood celebrities demand justice for Hathras gang-rape victim, Manisha Valmiki

30 Sep 2020

Bollywood celebrities have expressed anger after the death of Hathras gang-rape victim on Tuesday. Several B-Town celebrities condemned the incident, urging for the implementation of stricter laws in the...

Hathras gang rape victim cremated amid tight security

30 Sep 2020

The mortal remains of a 19-year-old Dalit woman from Hathras, who died in a Delhi hospital after sustaining serious injuries during an alleged gang rape, was cremated early Wednesday...

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