New Delhi: Faced with criticism over the way in which the Delhi Police lathicharged youngsters protesting the Dec 16 gang-rape, the government today admitted it was not fully prepared to deal with flash mobs. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters: “Flash mob is a new phenomenon… sometimes they gather to dance [...]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha human rights panel will investigate the death of a 24-year-old woman here Sep 20, five days after she was allegedly attacked and molested by a group of goons, an activist said today. Human rights activist Akhanda said he had filed a petition before the National Human Rights Commission [...]

New Delhi:  Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal today cautioned Delhi Police against implicating “innocents” for the attack on Constable Subhash Chand Tomar during protests Monday against the brutal gang-rape of a woman Dec 16. Tomar died early today. Kejriwal said Chaman Singh, who has been associated with activities of the [...]

Beijing: National broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has released a documentary that it said “discloses the truth” about self-immolations in areas inhabited by Tibetans. The documentary titled “Facts About Self-Immolation in Tibetan Areas of Ngapa (Aba)” was shown on CCTV-4, an international channel targeting overseas viewers of Chinese language programmes, Xinhua [...]

New Delh: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s remark that had he met young protestors at India Gate, armed Maoists would also have expected the same, drew sharp criticism from activists. “It is easy to ask the home minister to go to India Gate and talk. Tomorrow, if some other party holds [...]

Agartala: Four more men who stripped and beat a woman in public last week in western Tripura’s Sipahijala district are yet to be arrested, police said Monday. One of the absconding men is the victim’s husband. “Efforts are on to nab the remaining offenders, including the victim’s husband Samir Kar. We [...]

Mumbai: Criticising minister of state for education Fouzia Khan for taking photographs with hunted animals in South Africa, the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) today demanded an apology. Khan, a minister of state for school education and women and child development, came under intense criticism after her photographs [...]

New Delhi: It is time the police and political leadership provided “solutions, not suggestions” in the wake of protests against the gang-rape of a young woman, former police officer Kiran Bedi said Sunday. The “political and administrative leadership” should also pacify the mass of young men and women protesting against the [...]

New Delhi: With curfew imposed in the heart of Delhi to stop protests near the presidential palace, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the government of waging “war” against the people. With prohibitory orders imposed in parts of the city centre following unending protests in the wake of a 23-year-old [...]

New Delhi:  A day before the winter session of parliament is scheduled to end, members in the upper house today questioned the government over tabling of the Lokpal bill. Shortly after the Question Hour, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader K.N. Balagopal asked why has the Lokpal bill not been brought [...]